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I know that all this time you were thinking that Rebecca Black was our generation’s Rebecca, and that they could stop trying to give our generation a Rebecca because we already have one and she’s perfect thankyouverymuch, but NOPE! You were wrong. Check it out the evidence of how wrong you were, from Variety:
DreamWorks and Working Title Films are embarking on a feature remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic mystery ”Rebecca,” that will be written by ”Eastern Promises” scribe Steven Knight, who will go back to the original book by Daphne DuMaurier.
Story follows a naive young woman who marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, only to find that the memory of the first wife maintains a grip on her husband and the servants.
PERFECT! A remake of Hitchcock’s classic film, Rebecca. Super good idea. If we’re going to make it through the project of rebooting every single movie ever made, it just MAKES SENSE to get the only Hitchcock film to ever win an Academy Award for Best Picture out of the way early on. Definitely needs some work, definitely needs maybe Kristen Stewart and Channing Tatum to star in it this time. Fantastic jobs all around, let’s all drink all the champagne we have under our big Hollywood money desks (24 emergency bottles) and then hire someone expensive to have sex with! #rebeccablack4rebecca
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North by Northwest, set at SxSW. #hitchcock4thekids
Strangers on a train who become total besties #hitchcock4thekids
The Man Who Wiki’ed Too Much. #hitchcock4thekids
Text M for Murder #hitchcock4thekids
Sext M for MILF.
The Birdz #hitchcock4thekids
The Angry Birds #hitchcock4thekids
Psycho starring Vince Vaughan and Ann Heche #hitchcock4thekidswhoops!
Disturbia! #hitchcock4thekids #nailedit
Strangers on a Razor Scooter #hitchcock4thekids
The Lady Deactivates Her FB Account #hitchcock4thekids
N0t0r1us #hitchcock4thekids
Vertigo, but only in the Mission #hitchcock4thekids #valenciast.
Rear Window XP
Psycho Vampires
The Trouble with Vampires
Vamp by Vampires
I’ve never seen the original, but that’s a sweet poster; was it about a woman who has a Dorian Gray-style picture, but it’s one of those Magic Eye things so it looks like her head is popping right out at you? And it’s in the corner, for some reason?
The remake is called Becky
I was VERY concerned when I first noticed the “#rebeccablack4″ hashtag immediately after talking about hiring someone expensive to have sex with.
A preview: http://www.casttv.com/video/6j2we8/that-mitchell-and-webb-look-s-rebecca-video
Betty White as Mrs. Danvers
I have seen and enjoyed the original Hitchcock film Rebecca, however I detect a note of snark and sarcastic scorn inherent in the subtext of this blog post so frankly I don’t know what to believe or who? Dont even know which way reality is at.
Reality is at a place where good posters know that prepositions are unacceptable words to end sentences with.
Grammar fight!
“I don’t even know which way reality is at, ASSHOLE.”
(everybody at the Videogum Dinner Party laughs titters and waves their opera glasses about. Crys of “How droll, encore, etc.”)
Except for Cheddar Fondue, who dropped his monocle in shock at such crass language.
And also shock at the fact that I mixed his name up.
FUCK YOU
I dont understand any of the responses my comment engendered, nor do I care to.
I can’t believe I get to use this gif twice in a week.
facetaco, I’m sorry man. you know I have nothing but love for you. I was just using that insult as a defense mechanism because you’re cooler than the other guys and I was just hopin you’d ask me to the Marine Corps ball.
Sorry, best I can do is ask you to the Merchant Marine Ball. It’s held in barn and catered by Denny’s.
As long as they make her webshooters organic this time, I’m down.
The official song and acompanying youtube mashup gif, is gonna be sung by Lana del Rey, obviously.
Could someone explain her to me — good and bad. I don’t understand why anyone cares. I’m very old.
Dude, you’re better off not knowing. She’s kinda the meh-worst.
she is a girl who sings songs and she had a song called video games about playing crash team racing or something and everybody loved it but then she put out an album and everybody hates her and she was on snl (Saturday Night Live) and it wasn’t very good
But why does anyone care either way? Is it because of her hair? She has very pretty hair. I am jealous of her hair. I would buy a shampoo that she endorsed if it would let my hair look like hers.
And the songs on the Internet sounded fine, but she sounded like a Mongolian throat singer when she was on SNL. So… people are upset there was disconnect? That happens ALL THE TIME. I don’t understand why she’s getting so much attention. Seriously, is it the hair?
People care because she’s the most mediocre person ever BUT some people think she’s the BEST and it’s intriguing to the people who think she’s not very good that anyone would think she’s the BEST. and she’s also not terrible but some people think she’s FUCKING AWFUL which is again, intriguing to people who recognize how vanilla she is that anyone could think she is worth hating so much.
And then to add even more craziness into the mix, she clearly has a rich father contributing to her marketing. She has a very very good/bad publicist that works the story like bonkers (to the point of overkill) which fuels the fire on both ends (of people who love her/hate her.)
It is the Pop-standard thing in a nutshell – mediocre person is controversial despite being not-very-good-not-very-bad-not-very-noteworthy-at-all – AND YET, the cherry on top of the big pizza-pie-sundae is that her music isn’t exactly pop…it is the made up genre we like to call “Indie Music” (short once for ‘independent music except we know that few of these artists belong to independent labels or self-release, so this title is misleading at a minimum…now ‘indie’ just is a synonym for ‘alternative’ for dummies. I digress.) So fans of Indie music are all in an uproar about her credibility (Which is insane because of the aforementioned parenthesized information about what ‘indie’ means: absolutely nothing.)
So it IS about the hair?
In a nutshell. It’s purdy.
But Lady Gaga comes from a rich family too and is totally marketed — LIKE EVERYONE EVER — and no one faults her for that. Or anyone else who has the exact same story. Unless you’re self-published and self-promoting and self-touring and basically broke and/or with a day job, isn’t everyone in the same boat?
Her music isn’t that bad, but it’s not good either. I guess I really just don’t understand why she’s considered controversial. Nothing about her is controversial.
So basically it’s publicist overkill and she’ll be boring in a month?
No – absolutely Lady Gaga is the worst most mediocre garbage pop act. Maybe I’m the only one that faults her for it? I don’t at all see why Lady Gaga is impressive to anyone in the first place.
BUT the reason that she’s not getting the same backlash LDR is getting is because LDR is being marketed to the Indie market…not the Pop consuming market. That’s really the difference. Lay people don’t give a care if Lady Gaga steals her fashion from Grace Jones or Bowie, and if her songs are barely more intelligent than Bieber (sometimes less.)
Hipsters take it personally though, when LDR rips off Dusty Springfield and pretends to be a cool guy. That’s the difference. Sell a mediocre person to mediocre people = $$$$$$$. Sell a mediocre person to Snobs/Enthusiasts = AngerhatemixedemotionsBloggingVloggingGoobleGobble.
When I say “That’s the difference” more often, then it has more impact. That’s the difference.
This is very helpful, thank you. I don’t dislike Gaga when I’m working out, but my running mix is basically the most loathsome assortment of mainstream crap from the past 40 years. Angry jeans = excellent runner jeans.
Followup: Why would young snobs listen to something being marketed to them in the first place? In my day, we found musicians on our own. That NYT piece today was hilariously bad and seems, if anything, like it will be her death rattle. Isn’t that how it works? Something is cool until the NYT reports on it? And wow, that was impressively bad reporting.
Actually that’s a really really good analogy. Because I was going to cite all the other types that followed the same arc, but they all really are marketed to people who basically say they don’t like music that much or carry around Jock Jams 28 as something to actually listen to.
I can’t judge, I run to “Beat It” on repeat. When Lady Gaga hires Eddie Van to do her solos, maybe I’ll change my mind.
There are many many reasons the new generation is easily marketed to. I hate to use the term “hipster” here so I’ll go with Poser. There is a subset of people who aren’t actual snobs, but who want desperately to be snobs because it’s cool. Sort of the same way there’s this weird notion that being a nerd is cool (as long as you’re an attractive nerd) so people try to “nerd up” even though the reality is they are just not very smart. So the new snob is just a poser. And posers don’t have time to actually alphabetize their record collection or know the difference between a Korg and a Moog or who plays bass on what record…or what a bass even is. And it’s so goddamn easy to sell to these people because they are so much more desperate to be a part of what’s in then they are to genuinely use their ears to discern what is interesting or original, and what is “music that sounds a little cooler than Michael Buble.”
Anyways, these people generally use the internet as a means of discovering. And the internet IS a genuinely amazing tool for discovering new cool music. But it is also easy for the internet to be a big fat liar.
And the non-posers can use their ears to go “heeyyyyyyy wwaitasecond, these losers are just ripping off Dinosaur Jr.” or “Heyyyyyyyy wwwaitasecond, this supposed big new punk band can’t even play in time” or “Heyyyyyyyy wwwaitasecond, this Times New Viking record sounds like it was recorded through a dictaphone underwater and it hurts my ears, this is the worst what the hell is wrong with you people”
while the fakers are always like “Hey, have you heard this retro-1995-underwater-lo-fi faux-amateur punk band? They’re terrific!”
Also, Jock Jams 28 was garbage. That series peaked at #3. How do you follow up a compilation that has both No Diggety AND Cotton Eyed Joe? You don’t. You don’t even try.
Ok, that actually makes perfect sense. And it would be exactly that kind of person who is not confident enough in their own tastes that when they find out what they thought was one thing is something else, would be incredibly upset instead of just saying “well I liked that song because I found it enjoyable.” My guess these are also the same people who are wasting their best years in neon Wayfarers and L.A. Gear-inspired shoes. Goddamn that’s an awful look and I was my cutest in the 90s so I have little-to-no right to talk.
We had a term for them when I was young… mall punks. The ones that got their alternative (what it was called when I was young) music from the corporate-run alternative station and not the much cooler college radio station (that was harder to get, but I messed w/my antennae so I could get it because I’m sneaky like that).
I guess their outrage over LDR is even funnier if you factor in that she dresses and looks AWESOME. Seriously, she is just gorgeous. She looks like a red-head Sharon Tate. And she does rip off Dusty Springfield, but people in the 60s were saying that about Springfield and jazz/blues singers.
Bang on with the “corporate-alternative-radio”. That’s what’s so fascinating about LDR – she polarizes because the half that think she’s great don’t care at all about whether it’s corporate. At all. And the half that think she’s just really terrible care SO much about whether she’s corporate or not.
In the 90s I had long hair, flannel shirts, Doc Martins, braces, and a Spin Doctor cassette on my walk-man. I was pretty much the least awkward teenager in the world. But really…kids can be outraged/love this kind of thing all they want. I think that’s fine and so very appropriate. It’s just really weird when grown-ups invest themselves in someone THIS average. C’mon, adults. Surely you know what real talent sounds like by now.
So you came off the other side as a Lana del Reyer? (: