At Cinematical, Jeffrey M. Anderson filed this bit on what Wim Wenders considers as the future of cinema.

Have any recent movies or filmmakers captured Wenders’ attention? “...The New World, Terrence Malick’s movie. That was one monster movie, and it was so good that nobody could even grasp it.

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In ten years it will be a classic and everybody will say, ‘That was the movie that mattered in 2005. …’”

It reminded me of this exchange between Werner Herzog and Harmony Korine on the subject of Korine’s Gummo, which I’ve always liked to think of as the proof of the following mathematical equation: “Werner Herzog + Harmony Korine = What The Fuck?”

wh: What I like about Gummo are the details that one might not notice at first. There’s the scene where the kid in the bathtub drops his chocolate bar into the dirty water and just behind him there’s a piece of fried bacon stuck to the wall with Scotch tape. This is the entertainment of the future.

hk: It’s the greatest entertainment. Seriously, all I want to see is pieces of fried bacon taped on walls, because most films just don’t do that.

I don’t know what it is about crazy German filmmakers always foreseeing the future of entertainment but if the future of cinematic entertainment is more Malick, then as his bitch boy, I guess I’d have to say I’d be a happy man. If it’s a whole lot of bacon scotch taped to walls and kids dropping their Whatchamacallits into dirty ass water, I might have to get out of this industry and kill myself.

Unless of course it’s Malick shooting the bacon, kid, Whatchamacallit, and dirty water with a voice over as the kid dunks his head into the water looking for his chocolate:

KID (V.O.):  Hershey, in this sea of dirt and grime, soothe me. I feel the crunch of your wafer chocolate goodness. I wonder about the nature of caramel sticking like molasses to my teeth. Each second I search is like one of the barbed arrows that pierced Saint Sebastian, piercing my heart as well. Bacon taped to the wall, be my salvation.

Now that’s the future of entertainment.

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