I'm reading this on a greyhound from Denver to Goodland (Kansas). Need to meet a man there "usted no hablan espagnol" would be the apropriate line. Raindogs on the soundtrack.
You barely mention that, like all Jarmusch, it is mostly about that other, parallel world, that the 17 yr old gen X that we were didn't know, but Jarmusch made you feel it was there. And the Jarmusch characters are strangers (than paradise) in this world, that world, every world. And no, we cannot show the kids, not in 2025. There is no more room for other worlds. Close your eyes son, and this won't hurt a bit... Time.
You're right, of course - I think they're very much of their time also because his world came out of the '80s, when there was a very clearly defined 'mainstream' and so also a very distinct alternative, underground world, which he is rooted in. But that mainstream is so diffuse now, that even the mainstream conservative forces of the right can pose as 'alternative' (fur Deutschland).
Last time I was on the Greyhound, I met a young Mexican in a Union Jack T-shirt, which he said he only worse to annoy the Americans who he said hated the Brits. He then showed me the knife with which he would defend me, his new British friend. But he was more of a Tarantino character than a Jarmusch one, I think.
I'm reading this on a greyhound from Denver to Goodland (Kansas). Need to meet a man there "usted no hablan espagnol" would be the apropriate line. Raindogs on the soundtrack.
You barely mention that, like all Jarmusch, it is mostly about that other, parallel world, that the 17 yr old gen X that we were didn't know, but Jarmusch made you feel it was there. And the Jarmusch characters are strangers (than paradise) in this world, that world, every world. And no, we cannot show the kids, not in 2025. There is no more room for other worlds. Close your eyes son, and this won't hurt a bit... Time.
You're right, of course - I think they're very much of their time also because his world came out of the '80s, when there was a very clearly defined 'mainstream' and so also a very distinct alternative, underground world, which he is rooted in. But that mainstream is so diffuse now, that even the mainstream conservative forces of the right can pose as 'alternative' (fur Deutschland).
Last time I was on the Greyhound, I met a young Mexican in a Union Jack T-shirt, which he said he only worse to annoy the Americans who he said hated the Brits. He then showed me the knife with which he would defend me, his new British friend. But he was more of a Tarantino character than a Jarmusch one, I think.