in particular laughing at the idea of a very long sentence lol

one interesting question raised by this thesis btw is whether we the things consider phenomenona of politics in "the internet age" are actually late developments of "the television age"--in which case we may not even really know yet how mode of politics might be affected by the internet

i think this is true, though id add is that everything is becoming “tv” without an FCC or union labor, two key institutional checks on the otherwise maximal corrosiveness of tv. (though of course reality TV and cable has meant that TV has also mostly become TV without an FCC or union labor)

yes!!! it's not even an astro!!

whole other post to be written about the cars in the first 1/2 of obaa--the taurus, the olds wagon, plus smith's '68 mustang (same year as bullitt's), gorgeous and certainly the only pantheon Classic--pta lingers on it, and having smith change it to a swagless 2013 for the chase is a cool choice

This is a really fun and fascinating piece that digs into a reall interesting part of the movie! It got me thinking about other things the vehicle choices communicate. Great piece!

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Adding my voice to the chorus of praise for this Max Read piece on the cars in OBAA. I clocked the visual references in the car chase scene to Sugarland Express, Duel, and Two-lane Blacktop, but missed the more direct connection to Bullitt. Good good stuff.

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this is so good and now I need to go back and watch the final chase again

A+ blog

Hah, yes, I suspect so but still I think making smiths chase car the last Carroll shelby mustang was a nice touch!

The one that smith drives up to the Xmas avengers house, right? Thought it was fascinating that he started with a classic and ended up in a 2013–pretty sure they were close to the same color. Don’t have a bead on what it means really but was interesting

This is such a good write-up, it really opened up some of the things being messaged in the car chase I didn’t quite have the information to understand.

The shot described with the three cars is also one of my favorites in OBAA.

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

yeah, a commenter agrees--5th-gen hilux (88-95)

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I saw the movie last night and I’ve been thinking about this Nissan ever since

the group chat is thinking '80s toyota but remains inconclusive