Murray-embodied ennui
A new Illustration for kitchen sink magazine # 13, first one with their new AD, Nicole Neditch. The illustration goes with a piece by Jessica Hoffmann titled 'Indie Auteurs, Depressed Middle-Aged Murrays, and the Girl' - Not exactly a review as an essay their depictions of relations between depressed middle aged men and 'girls' in the films Rushmore, Lost in Translation, and Broken Flowers. All staring Bill Murray.Opening words....
Herman Blume, Bob Harris, Don Johnston: Murray-embodied ennui underscored by a hip soundtrack. Surely it says something about this cultural moment that three prominent indie auteurs have chosen to centre a very similar character, and that he is a depressed, middle-aged, wealthy American man in search of meaning and preoccupied by his relationship/s to one or several beautiful women. (And surely it
also says something that they all seemed to feel only one actor was right for the job.) Yet they do him—and his ladies—more differently than a glance at the similarly slump-shouldered Murray in the ads might suggest. While Wes, Sofia and Jim look at depressed upper-class American masculinity, mid-midlife crisis, I want to redirect the focus and take a look at what they—and their Murray-men—are seeing in their respective ladyfriends.
posted by max at Friday, January 06, 2006
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