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Wonder Cabinet

This Will Shock You

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The virtues of transgressive, subversive, rule-breaking art, both as an aesthetic and as a way of life. A Matter of (Bad) Taste; Two Tape Recorders and Twenty Knives; Classical Doesn't Have To Mean Dead; Hiding Yourself Behind Characters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Jams.

0:04.6

Remember the first time you saw a piece of art that shocked you?

0:12.5

I grew up in Baltimore watching movies like Maniac and Olga's House of Shame and the Rex Theater.

0:19.7

That's kind of how I grew up.

0:21.9

And then underground movies at the same time,

0:23.7

which I would run away to New York and see,

0:25.5

and lofts, and police would raid it

0:27.7

and bust the projectionists and take half the audience away.

0:30.7

I mean, that's when you go to the movies and something happens.

0:34.1

Film director, John Waters.

0:36.5

I'm William Castle. I feel obligated to warn you about the next attraction. I'm William Castle.

0:38.1

I feel obligated to warn you about the next attraction.

0:41.1

You will see at this theater.

0:42.8

The picture is the tingler.

0:44.5

The tingler was a thing that lived inside you

0:46.7

and it got bigger and bigger when you were frightened,

0:49.0

and the only way to kill it was to scream.

0:50.9

Ladies and gentlemen, please do not panic.

0:54.4

And in the movie, the tingler gets loose

0:56.2

in a movie theater, and then they stop.

0:57.8

He said,

0:58.2

The tingler is loose in this theater.

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