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This is the kind of thing that makes America great, and this is the kind of material that Robert Downey has incorporated into his new film, Putney Swope...
...case the word hasn't reached you yet, this film (now at the Paris Cinema) is the story of what happens when a bunch of black militants take over an ad agency. But the film isn't really about advertising or blacks. Putney Swope is rather a monument to chaos, a plea for insanity, an adversisement for anarchy...
...hasn't happened and we must survive. Putney Swope -a film literally bursting at the seams with irrelevancies, obscenities, improvisations and illogical editing-tells us how. To avoid systems, we must act as if they don't exist; we must see how funny all that supposed logic is. We should wear lampshades on our heads, urinate in the kitchen, say "Fuck you" to any system that tries to encroach on our humanity. James Thurber would understand this kind of approach to life. And so would acid heads, people with good peripheral vision, and Lenny Bruce...
...Putney Swope is the black guy who starts the "T and S" agency Swope hates the system: he will not write ads for cigarettes and war toys and liquor. But the system wins...
...might ask: Is Putney Swope any way to make a movie? You bet your sweet...