Showing the 60s B&W Addams Family show to my youngest, trying to convey the context
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Showing the 60s B&W Addams Family show to my youngest, trying to convey the context:
"No a lot of the laughs is because they're inherently funny because they're weirdos. We're laughing at them, it's 'lol look at the weird goths' comedy. But what you have to keep in mind is, who do you think is *making* these things? Who writes, directs, acts for TV and movies, who gets into dunno costume design or music? Like it's not usually the jocks and preppers from school, it's the weirdos, the gay theatre kids, the nerds. Pay attention to the subtext in these old series, we had to portray ourselves through the straight gaze so it's always monstrous or ridiculous, but at a deeper level the camera always sides with the weirdos. No matter how caricatural are the nerds are in high school movies, the writing never leads you to empathise with the jocks and bullies. And here too"—fast-forward to a straight man acting as a sounding board for the delightfully young Wednesday talking about death and gore—"would anybody watch this and want to be like this guy? Because the thing with the Addams is that they're incredibly accepting and they love one another so much all the time, and they're always having so much *fun*, and no one is really a normie in real life, people are just repressed, so anyone watching this, you will see some trait of yourself in Gomez or Morticia or Fester and you probably had to hide that quirk to avoid ostracism, but the Addams own it and by doing that they're just thriving, it's a vicarious pleasure, like Kitarō which we were discussing before..."
I am elilla&'s slow realisation that when setting up the anarcofamília, I kinda had the Addams Family as an unconscious role model all along
