Feels Good Man
- 2020
- 1h 32m
Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.
- Awards
- 9 wins & 10 nominations
- Self - Psychologist and Memetist, Author, The Meme Machine
- (as Dr. Susan Blackmore)
- Self - Psychologist & Journalist, Author, Untangling thes Web
- (as Dr. Aleks Krotoski)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirectorial debut of Arthur Jones.
- Quotes
Self - Psychologist and Memetist: The whole idea of memes comes from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book, "The Selfish Gene." Most of the book is about what he called "universal Darwinism," which said, "All of biology is driven by genes, but culture is driven by memes." He said, "Look around you and you'll see, floating about in the primeval soup of culture, is information copied by imitation from person to person." So that would include chairs... trousers... hairstyles. All of these things are only here because humans have copied them, and the ones around us are the winners in an evolutionary battle. And then, gradually, came the concept of Internet memes. And people can easily see that process happening with Pepe. Pepe is a wonderful example of a meme that escaped out there into the meme-osphere and suffered all the things you'd expect of a meme.
- ConnectionsFeatures Dr. Phil (2002)
- SoundtracksLiving In Hell
Written by Andy Harry and Sarah Rayne
Performed by Cobra Man
And I still finished it thinking it was so much better than a film about Pepe the frog has any right to be. It's a film about symbolism, psychology, the internet, the death of the author, meme culture, all while maintaining a sense of grim disgust but still being funny, optimistic by the end, an interesting character study about a modern day tortured artist, AND never once feels the least bit cringey even though it's about meme culture, which is an extreme rarity in a world where most films centering around the internet are produced by out of touch 60 year old boomers.
Not a word of the script feels wasted, the choice to animate Pepe in various ways illustrating the voice over was genius, and every one of the people it looks at are all really interesting.
The few things I could maybe complain about are that the soundtrack wasn't all that great to me and the last 20 minutes or so feel a bit slower than the rest of the film, and not really in a good way. However, if you have even a passing presence or space of your own on the internet, this is an absolute must-see.
Even if it is a documentary about Pepe the bloody frog.
- TheCorniestLemur
- Feb 12, 2021
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- Pepe the Frog: Feels Good Man
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- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.89 : 1