Haha, I have a very strange, Freaked-style mental image of what they’d look like merged together now! In reality it would probably just be an alcoholic, asshole version of Nielsen…NIELSEN NIELSEN NIELSEN! I can spell!
Freaked? As in, the Alex winters film? My word, that’s a masterpiece, but I rarely meet anyone else who’s seen it.
Of course! Love it so much - even the credits are glorious! Eminently quotable. Cast is stellar. There’s too big a list of what makes it great! Alex Winter’s directorial trajectory is pretty curious too.
The origin story of the hammer!
He’s always getting in and out of scrapes that OJ the cheeky devil!
They were talking about this on Radio 4 this morning. It’s a bit uncomfortable hearing how people talk about the trial now…‘The Trial of the Century’…‘We all know he did it though, right?’
Pretty distasteful really.
It’s very hard to sum up quickly tbf, OJ: Made in America was like six hours long in trying to capture the scale and impact of it.
There was a some guy on there who said “You have to remember, at the time, OJ was an American icon!”
Was he? A former football player who was in the Naked Gun films was an icon? Was he even a good football player?
I get that, but equally there is something a bit off about giving a really wonky trial for double murder the glamour that gets attached to it with phrases like ‘Trial of the century!!’. It’s not the Superbowl.
Yes, he was one of the greatest players of all time.
And he WAS an icon, a guy who’d gone from being a sporting legend to being a Hollywood darling, on dozens of commercials, in the news all the time - all of which was unheard of for a black person.
Yeah, it’s grotesque, like all this explosion in true crime stuff it glamorises the crime at the expense of the victims, but in terms of how the trial was covered and it’s cultural impact… it WAS the trial of the century.
fair enough - I only knew him as Nordberg
I could list all his various stats but they’re kind of incomprehensible unless you follow it. Trust me, dude could run.
dude could get dragged by a bus too!
He was one of the best players (in his position) of his generation, so…yes
Nordberg!
Watch the fucking film!
No.
Man, I’ve just been thinking about it all morning and laughing! Gotta dig out the DVD…Boo dude!
