@deanduncan63Saw #TheFatalGlassofBeer. We don’t know W.C. Fields anymore, do we? I fear that most of what comes down to us is pale, uninformed caricature …
… made up of equal parts shiftlessness, alcoholism, & child-hating misanthropy. An unfortunate reduction. A libel, in fact! …
… Suggests that in the matter of reputations, what they say should almost always give way to what you study & find out for yourself.
#TheFatalGlassofBeer. This prodigious short production reveals the facts, which are that Fields was an actor, a writer/conceptualist, a ringleader …
… & general provocateur of palpable, incontrovertible, out-&-out genius.
#TheFatalGlassofBeer. Scornful of verisimilitude, of narrative & theatrical convention, of acceptable film production values, …
… scornful of the Unities & the Verities, goes so far as to be scornful of musical pitch! So bold in all that negation …
… so confident in the alternatives it explores & perfects that it actually registers as a Revolution. Really funny/so much more!
#TheFatalGlassofBeer. “And it ain’t a fit night out for man or beast!”