The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70230   Message #1197955
Posted By: Bill Hahn//\\
31-May-04 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: a mighty wind - the film
Subject: RE: a mighty wind - the fim
Humor (Humour) is, surely, always in the eye of the beholder. This eye --or ear-- beheld nothing humorous in "Wind". Perhaps I did find it a fairly good send-up of PBS fundraising efforts with their tired and cliche and bad toupee wearing old alleged folk singers. Levy, in the film, was, to me , the only saving grace in it.

The other films mentioned are really not comparible since they are serious efforts at chronicling folk music---and well done I say.

An interesting point is that I interviewed someone recently for my discussion program and he made an unasked for comment about the film (Wind) and it was quite negative. Well, it did go to Video rental rapidly.

By the way---if you want to hear a great parody of 1960s folk music---the group Modern Man has a song called "Like A River". In 3 or so minutes it encapsulates the entire parody of the era. Strangely it was rejected by the producers who said they write all their own material.

But, again, humor is a personal taste and quite subjective.

Bill Hahn