Word: cowboyism
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...moments is the corny but endearing opening tune. The audience is greeted by García Bernal’s character, Tato, crooning a Spanish cover of Cheap Trick’s “I Want You to Want Me,” complete with an accordion and cowboy outfit against a karaoke green screen. “I read through the script, and I came to a point that [Tato] wasn’t working,” Cuarón said. The script went through multiple revisions to give Tato a more comical desire to use soccer...
...through words draws him to songs from the folk tradition. His poems often go beyond imitating folk rhythms and diction to quoting directly from songs. Pieces of lyrics waft through his poems as they cross the narrator’s consciousness—for example “Rhinestone Cowboy,” the title of a song by Glen Campbell, and “Such a wonderful spot, there’s coffee and bananas and the temperature’s hot,” from a song by Freddy Martin. In a poem entitled “Tuttie...
...sort of wealthy Mexican who's usually in control of his world. "I don't panic or scare easily," says Rojas, a business owner and rancher from the Mexican border city of Jurez. But last year narcos, or drug traffickers, moved into his upscale neighborhood--punks in cowboy attire and sparkling pickup trucks buying expensive homes. Rojas and his neighbors were awakened at night or horrified in broad daylight by assault-rifle fire and the screaming of tires as cars raced away after kidnappings. One afternoon, local children watched as a pickup rammed down the door of a house...
...Take Slasher, for example, Allison Moore's comedy about an Austin, Texas, waitress who gets picked to play the last girl killed in a low-budget slasher film. Moore shows a real feel for the milieu: the Austin independent filmmaking scene, where cowboy film geeks meet up with cheeseball Hollywood wannabes. The encounter in which the film's hack director (a brilliantly smarmy Mark Setlock) discovers his star, Sheena, in a Hooters-style hangout, enlists her for his film and promptly gets rolled by her in contract negotiations, is as sharp and modulated a satire of Hollywood hucksterism as anything...
...recent case in point is the “Get Lucky” poster, advertising a party that was supposed to happen shortly before spring break. The image of a silhouette of a naked, curvaceous woman with a cowboy hat was shocking. We were surprised that our fellow students could portray women in such a demeaning, objectifying way. Who could this naked woman be but a party attendee, just another Harvard student...