^^ Same with Ed Wood. But I think I understand his approach,
and his popularity in Germany.
I saw a German film over here about a bunch of cute young girls
in a women's prison who decide to start a rock 'n' roll band. The
film was clearly made in the 1990s, when rock was on life support.
(The Germans are trying to make hip young Hollywood films that
young Americans will like, not introspective films about drunks
that commit suicide in bus depots after their chauffeurs reject
their advances.)
There is a scene where the girls, in a traffic jam, set up their
equipment and jam -- and all the young people in traffic
get out of their cars and started to "rock out." They were
dancing, doin' the air-guitar thing and "cutting loose" -- and
it was embarrassing. It was painful to watch. It is painful
to watch the people who gave us Wagner and Nietzsche
trying to party down like it was a high school dance. There must
be some dark streak in the German soul that just makes their
efforts to be frivolous fall short.
But Hasselhoff, being American, can genuinely be silly on screen
unreservedly, and they can admire him for it. He has no
subconscious inhibitor that prevents him from making a fool
of himself, and they eat it up.
Now...look into the picture...clear your mind...
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