Reefer Madness with Patrick Aiken
from Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know
This week we chat with Patrick Aiken about which of life's truths can be learned from the propaganda-parody musical - Reefer Madness! "Viewed through eyes blurred by no substance stronger than cough syrup, the film is still mildly diverting, with its censorious, bespectacled narrator and its scenes showing wholesome high-school students transformed into monsters by a single puff. It even has a weird, sort of Expressionist power in its mad, jerky party scenes. But its humor, especially for head-movie fans, has always been in its somber, tabloid-style hyperbole." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness_(musical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Murphy_(screenwriter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness_(2005_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_tale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_J._Gasnier Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon! Email us: [email protected] Visit our home on the web thatsnotcanon.com Our theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith.
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