What Art Of the 20th Century Has Given You the Most Joy?

So so much! But the first thing that comes to is my all-time favorite band!

Then again there is my all-time favorite movie

I think I would take Chaplin's City Lights, my favorite film of all time.

I clearly remember my first time in a movie theater, and I think fondly of my dad cranking up the projector to us Mickey Mouse cartoons.

I think those early experiences set me on a track I would follow. I guess my love for film was fairly well known, even among classmates I didn't know well. In eighth grade we were given an assignment to write about what our classmates would do in the future. I was predicted to be a movie producer.

0n to City Lights. Chaplin conveys what it means to be human better than anyone. Chaplin was so much more than a comic. He was all of us.

City Lights is his masterpiece. James Agee said the final shot of City Lights is enough to shrivel the heart. That shot breaks my heart every time. The Tramp seems to ask the flower girl to accept him as he is. And it's also the question we ask. Can you accept me for who I am, despite my flaws, because I'm human just like you? Can you?

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Then again? There is my all-time favorite TV character. On Black Friday I bought an Eddie Haskell Fan Club t-shirt. I will wear it with pride 😀 Eddie knew back then what what you need to know today!

Jim Henson

It's already one of my favorite shirts!

Favorire band? Check!
Favorite movie? Check!
Favorite TV character? Check!

How about favorite movie actor! Too easy 😀

"I'm shootin pool Fats when I miss you can shoot."

South Park, more specifically Trey and Matt as a whole - Even to this day, South Park is the most consistently funny thing I’ve ever seen. I’m not a very “out loud laugher” but they’ll get me to do it. From their first episode to their latest! Everything those 2 make is amazing! The South Park film is a masterpiece, TA:WPnis a masterpiece. Book of Mormon is a masterpiece!

Joe Satriani - My main guitar/musical hero. The “Big 4” of my youth and guitar playing come-up was Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson and John Petrucci. I mostly stopped listening to guitar centered music in the early to mid 2k’s and when recently revisiting a lot of what I missed, Eric Johnson hasn’t really put out a whole lot, Vai has had a big here and there but it’s mostly just “cool” and I have no clue how to listen to Dream Theater anymore. But Joe Satriani has never let me down!

More recently:

Letterkenny - I never needed a show at a certain time as much as I did this one. Started it fairly early into the pandemic, and it’s probably the main that helped me through it. I was working a very dark writing project at the time and I had LK on repeat in the background to keep me from going too deep. Shoresy is phenomenal as well.

Hamilton - I’ve worked in music for over 20 years and theater for over 10 and due to the nature of my performance space, I’ve worked on some absolute dogshit shows. Far more than actual good shows. So to see and exquisitely crafted and performed piece was a godsend. One of the best things I’ve ever seen, ever. If I had good breath control and could sing, I could do the whole thing beginning to end with almost no mistakes lol

[QUOTE=DC11GTR;58824294]South Park, more specifically Trey and Matt as a whole - Even to this day, South Park is the most consistently funny thing I’ve ever seen. I’m not a very “out loud laugher” but they’ll get me to do it. From their first episode to their latest! Everything those 2 make is amazing! The South Park film is a masterpiece, TA:WPnis a masterpiece. Book of Mormon is a masterpiece! [QUOTE]

I never watched South Park until this year and I have to admit is was pure genius and spectacular. Why did I wait so long to watch it? I'm ignorant! I found Baseketball to be absolutely hilarious and Team America as well. But for some reason I just never watched South Park until this year and pretty damn soon I am gonna commit to a full rewatch since I am sure I I missed a lot the first time through.

It’s not a show I’ve spoken in depth about to anyone, because for the most part, there’s very little reason to. But the South Park film is exceptional in so many ways. One of the big things about it was “the kids in SP cuss?!? Awesome!!” Which was actually the point of the satire. Most people I know who watched it when it came out were the types that that whole concept flies over their heads because it so damn hysterical. I tend to feel that way about a lot of their work.

Lol love these choices!

John, your City Lights post reminded me of something else:

The Music Box

Laurel & Hardy's most famous short.

My Dad had an old 8mm projector and would pull it out on some especially hot summer night, hang a sheet between two trees in the backyard, and there'd be a small block party where he would show that one and some Three Stooges to all the neighborhood kids. The movies, lightning bugs, ice pops, kids laughing. It was magical.

Bill Watterson

I had the Salinger phase. I even applied for special access to the British Museum library, which involved getting a photo ID, just so I could read Hapworth 16, 1924 in an original copy of a 1965 New Yorker, which was the only possible way you could read it then, and I sat in the British Museum and read it. He'd lost it by then, whatever it is. Seymour: An Introduction might be what I'd choose to reread on my deathbed.

I'm not really much of a TV guy, I swear, but this is the best TV show of all time:

Despite being a show known for its surprise twist endings, it's still endlessly rewatchable. Though it made 60 years ago, before I was even born, it rarely feels outdated and is almost always still relevant. It often features non-human entities, but offers a brilliant study of human nature. A few episodes aren't quite up to the highest standards, but at its worst it's still entertaining. If you somehow haven't watched every episode, make it a point to do so.

I'm with mr baseball on this one.

I agree. Why do sad films bring us joy? A great film is a great film, no matter the subject matter.

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^ Hear Hear...

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This series of Cityscape Paintings by Puerto Rican artist Antonio Lopez brings me great joy. Lopez was a compatriot and collaborator of Andy Warhol in New York and Karl Lagerfeld in Paris.

Lopez has been credited with discovering several prominent women that are in the modern zeitgeist... these include Jerry Hall, Jessica Lange and Grace Jones who were models for him before they became famous.

the very subtle use of tonal colors in the sky are so rich and naturalistic... including the barely visible Smoke that rises from the unnatural Cityscape below.
Magnificence.

Art? Probably 1930s to 1950s cartoons

😒

Salvador Dali.

Bad Santa, but not the sequel.

Wait, I forget what century this is.

Final Answer!

My favorite Christmas movie.

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