Word: grisliest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam years, there was not much to laugh at, and comedy was ripe for revolution. The first generation of kids raised on TV, which gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum, had reached their majority just as the evening news was topping their grisliest nightmare jokes. To be an angry young comic was, it seemed then, to engage psychotic adults on their own terms. The only answer was to drop out of the comic's traditional adversary relationship to power and, instead, parade an anarchic childishness. Their banner might have read HELL...
...what his audience wants and how to go about the hard and profitable business of giving it to them; the gentle, slightly self-mocking teen-ager in Thriller ("I've got somethin' I want to tell ya...I'm not like other guys") who turns into one of the grisliest werewolves in screen history and enjoys the transformation the way another adolescent might heat up on a first heavy date...
This essentially true tale of a village's resistance is told by the present-day Cecilia to her own child on another night of shooting stars. It may seem the grisliest of bedtime stories, an unholy mixture of Disney and The Disasters of War. But it allows this event to be seen through the wide clear eyes of a child, and to exist both in the recent historical past and in the storybook realm of once-upon-a-time...