POP ART, WHERE WE FIND THE POP CULTURE IN ART AND THE ART IN POP CULTURE.

 

REBELS WITH AND WITHOUT A CAUSE: Join me and filmmaker Derek Nguyen (The
Housemaid, now available on Amazon) as we talk Hair and No Regrets for Our
Youth, two films about young people protesting a war.

 

“It’s the age of Aquarius.”
War. What is it good for. Absolutely nothing, except maybe munitions manufacturers,
politicians, war contractors, oh, and of course movies, can’t forget movies…Sounds
like it’s time for Episode 98 of Pop Art, where we find the pop culture in art
and the art in pop culture. It’s the podcast where my guest chooses a movie
from popular culture, and I’ll select a film from the more art/classic/indie
side of cinema with a connection to it. For this episode, I am happy to welcome
as my guest, writer, director, producer Derek Nguyen,
who has chosen as his film the Milos Foreman musical Hair, while I have chosen an
early Akira Kurosawa film, No Regrets for Our Youth, both films about young
people protesting war.

 

And in this episode we answer such questions: Why is there such a dearth of
war protest films? What great songs did they leave out of Hair? What is the
real history behind the events in No Regrets…? What did the authors of the
original Broadway version of Hair think of the movie? Is Henry David Thoreau
full of it? What musical pieces are played on piano in No Regrets…? Where is
the lyric The Rest is Silence from? What doesn’t quite compute about the ending
of Hair? Where does Nicholas Ray appear in Hair?

 

Check out Nguyen’s IMDB profile at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1532529/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_q_dereke%2520nguyen.
The Housemaid can be seen on Amazon Prime.

 

Check out my blog at https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/

 

My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader,
The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One True
Religion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

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