Yesterday Andras and I were talking about various and sundry pop cultural subjects, and the topic came around to cool slacker characters. I said “You know, like Rispoli.”<\/p>\n
Andras said “you mean Jeff Spicoli.”<\/p>\n
“Exactly!” said I. Mr. Hand’s nemesis in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, played so perfectly by a young Sean Penn, is such an iconic cultural touchstone that to invoke his image you don’t even need to get his name right.<\/p>\n
Marveling at how quickly “Rispoli” had been understood to mean “Spicoli”, we went on to posit the creation of a story or play or movie in which every single cultural reference would be similarly fractured, but in such a way that the audience would always know exactly who or what was being invoked. Needless to say, to create such a work it would be useful to amass a file of great examples.<\/p>\n
Today I was describing an idea for a gestural computer interface, and Andras said “You mean like in ‘Blah blah blah Authority’.”<\/p>\n
“You mean,” I said, “‘Minority Report’.”<\/p>\n
“Exactly!” said Andras, and then we just looked at each other, pleased that we had snagged another example for our files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday Andras and I were talking about various and sundry pop cultural subjects, and the topic came around to cool slacker characters. I said “You know, like Rispoli.” Andras said “you mean Jeff Spicoli.” “Exactly!” said I. Mr. Hand’s nemesis in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, played so perfectly by a young Sean Penn, is … Continue reading “Rispoli”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9161,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}