TMC
06-30-2016, 04:55 AM
http://splitsider.com/2016/06/the-i-love-lucy-chocolates-scene-is-the-most-apt-possible-metaphor-for-the-modern-human-condition/
In college I took this class about Charlie Chaplin and learned that Modern Times (1936) is the classic definitive take on the struggle of humanity to cope with the shift to industrialization and impersonal factory work. Summed up in this image of Chaplin getting literally sucked into the gears of a factory:
Isn’t that pretty profound? A pretty accurate representation of what it’s like to work with these big weird machines all the time?
Yeah, sure. But if that’s the classic take on the industrial revolution, another iconic scene more than any other sums up the information age. The I Love Lucy chocolates scene. In case you’re a millennial and haven’t see the full thing:
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This is without a doubt the most famous scene from that show, and an iconic scene in TV/comedy history, we all know this. Some basic context: it’s from an episode called “Job Switching” (1952), wherein “Ricky and Fred get upset about the girls’ spending, and Lucy and Ethel go work in a candy factory while the boys do the housework.” So kind of problematic politics there, but it’s worth noting that the script was written by Jess Oppenheimer (the deceptively-named man who created the show) and the male-female writing team of Madelyn Davis (then Madelyn Pugh) & Bob Carroll Jr. You can hear/watch a good Writers Guild interview with them here:
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In college I took this class about Charlie Chaplin and learned that Modern Times (1936) is the classic definitive take on the struggle of humanity to cope with the shift to industrialization and impersonal factory work. Summed up in this image of Chaplin getting literally sucked into the gears of a factory:
Isn’t that pretty profound? A pretty accurate representation of what it’s like to work with these big weird machines all the time?
Yeah, sure. But if that’s the classic take on the industrial revolution, another iconic scene more than any other sums up the information age. The I Love Lucy chocolates scene. In case you’re a millennial and haven’t see the full thing:
8NPzLBSBzPI
This is without a doubt the most famous scene from that show, and an iconic scene in TV/comedy history, we all know this. Some basic context: it’s from an episode called “Job Switching” (1952), wherein “Ricky and Fred get upset about the girls’ spending, and Lucy and Ethel go work in a candy factory while the boys do the housework.” So kind of problematic politics there, but it’s worth noting that the script was written by Jess Oppenheimer (the deceptively-named man who created the show) and the male-female writing team of Madelyn Davis (then Madelyn Pugh) & Bob Carroll Jr. You can hear/watch a good Writers Guild interview with them here:
-4falE-WVQY