• The Princess Bride of Chernobyl

  • Jan 14 2022
  • Length: 52 mins
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The Princess Bride of Chernobyl

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  • In typical VHS Glow fashion, the four hosts discuss their nostalgia-relationship to The Princess Bride, including first viewing context, family & school screenings, & what their younger selves felt about the movie. 

    Joe gives a queer interpretation but then veers left and talks about Chernobyl. 

    Further topics include:

    • GenX vs millennials
    • the definition of "feel good" movies & why the Simmons family disprefers them
    • Blue Velvet (1986) hermeneutics, or what's inside the lawn of S. Morgenstern's seemingly picture-perfect narrative
    • the life sucks yet true love prevails narrative
    • Chernobyl & 80s catastrophes
    • comedy and Americanization
    • Chernobyl & Cheetos (specifically, fluorescent cheese dust coating as boron & sand mixture dumped on reactor 4)
    • Chernobyl & Cheez Whiz
    • film culture & the desire to return to simple/idyllic narratives during (& after) times of existential crisis
    • the first sensational national headline story each host remembers
    • wtf is up with that grandfather/grandson dynamic?
    • a discursive shift in 1990s best picture academy award winners
    • & much more!

    Additional Resources:

    Wallace Shawn on Woody Allen

    Princess Bride: Home Movie

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    Royalty-free music: 

    Music Produced by Aries Beats

    Promoted by CFC
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