Slumdog Millionaire Is Like Mousercize But With Poor People
Gross.
Apparently, there's nothing Slumdog Millionaire cannot do. It can outperform heavyweight films at the box office, win eight Oscars out of nine nominations -- and even help Americans lose weight!Dancing to the tunes of Slumdog Millionaire has become a craze at many fitness and dance schools -- as for example Kumud Mathur's Dance 2 Health in Potomac, Maryland, where students meet every Tuesday to dance to Jai Ho and O Saya.
(Via Rediff.com)
There's nothing Slumdog Millionaire can't do! It can aestheticize abject poverty to make rotting in the shadows look like a funtimes music video, and beat you over the head with its After-School-Special-caliber fantasy about fate to the point where it all just falls apart at the end because seriously?, and it can even help Americans lose weight. Check out these fun guys:
They're lovin' it. Swimsuit season is coming up!
Posted by Gabe at 11:15 AM in Behind The Scenes
Tags: Exercise | Slumdog Millionaire
I want to do Revolutionary Road aerobics.
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I love the irony of one of the wealthiest communities in America dancing to the soundtrack of poor people's suffering.
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But it's not like they're dancing to the sounds of poor people suffering.
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Thank you. And I would add that anyone who thinks the movie was wall-to-wall suffering probably didn't see it.
All this white guilt cloaked as righteous indignation is a real drag, and completely out of place on a site that expects us to care what Chet did last night on The Real World.
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Chillax dude! Slumdog Millonaire wasn't a documentary, it was a (sometimes very crude) piece of entertainment. Thinking someone can't enjoy a set of very upbeat and happy songs just because it was featured in a movie about poverty, is very close-minded. And before someone starts all "oh, you must be a rich lady from The Hamptons" or something, I can tell yoy that I live in Mexico, so I've seen poverty. What I've learned seeing and sometimes trying to help the poorest is that most of the time the poorest people is the most optimistic.
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Cynical much? In a free market economy people can make money off of whatever they want, almost. This individual is trying to make money off of the spirit/fun nature of the music. Can we use anything India-related without hearing this backlash from people who want to guilt everyone out of liking anything about its culture?
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Is Videogum going to change it's name to "Gabeissoselfconsciousaboutgrowingupwhiteanduppeclassgum" anytime soon, because that is essentially what it is becoming. Take it easy with self righteous sympathetic first world-er posts, Gabe. It's unbecoming, corny, and unbearably self righteous.
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When Gabe isn't posting stories about James Franco getting high, he's flying around the world donating blood to needy orphans. So he absolutely has the right to be constantly indignant.
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See, now I think that's Gabe white guilt is something of a performance piece. I think he's making fun of white guilt. It's very modern. Very now.
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I didn't think Slumdog was an "After-School-Special-caliber fantasy" at all. Structurally, it was a fairy tale. The movie made this very clear from the beginning. I do not get people who "just didn't buy the ending" -- what did they grow up reading, Kafka?
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Gabe, were you really surprised that Americans would just take the most crassly commerical road they could in regards to Slumdog instead of learning anything? You know we're not better than that!
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Man, the Wrestler was good.
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This is my favorite post ever.
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