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Pussytown: Denis Villeneuve punks out on Blade Runner 2049

Posted in Film, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 25, 2025 by Jarrod Boyle

‘You’ll love the new Blade Runner – unless you’re a woman.’

  • Sara Stewart, New York Post, Oct 4, 2017

There was much ‘feminist’ criticism of Blade Runner 2049. I found it almost as astonishing as the pissweak rejoinder from its director, Denis Villeneuve in Vanity Fair, November 25, 2017:

“Blade Runner is not about tomorrow; it’s about today. And I’m sorry, but the world is not kind on women.”

My question is: what the fuck kind of film did Sara watch? And why doesn’t Villeneuve have the balls to stand up and defend the film he made? 

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Freedom, Sunshine and a Little Flower

Posted in Observation with tags , , on May 22, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle

I recently read a story from the Washington Post via Facebook, about an experiment conducted in a U.S. railway tunnel.

http://www.socaltrailriders.org/forum/pub/30004-violin-player-experiment-true-story-worthwhile-read.html

One of the world’s most gifted musicians, Joshua Bell, stood and played a succession of classical masterpieces on a $3.5 million dollar violin and was ignored by everyone, except a small child. Continue reading →

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