Joe, starring Peter Boyle in the title role, is a film about a fat cat business man Bill Compton (played by Dennis Patrick) whose daughter gets caught up in drugs on the Lower East Side. In his rage at the counter culture, he meets an angry, paranoid, reactionary working guy, Joe, and, realizing the Joe is just unhinged enough to commit violence, decides to exploit him to do his dirty work.
I think the ridiculous humping of "Joes" isn't so much about the regular working guy, but about pandering to a particular variety of "regular guy" and for the last chance to avenge the sixties.
Parallels...parallels...
The YouTubeMob: It's one thing to call someone a socialist when you don't know what a socialist actually is, but they have to have a rough idea what a terrorist is. You'd think.
ReplyDeleteYou would, wouldn't you, and yet...
ReplyDeleteAt the end of the day, I suppose, what you have are more playground taunts by people whose best days were in High School.