Psychobros

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🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We revisit "Fight Club" on the 20th anniversary of its release, and consider how the trope of the "psychobro" is showing up onscreen — in the new blockbuster “Joker” and HBO’s critically acclaimed series “Succession” — and off. Discussed this week: "The Unbearable Bradness of Being" (Chris Heath, Rolling Stone, Oct. 28, 1999)"Fight Club" (directed by David Fincher, 1999)"Joker" (directed by Todd Phillips, 2019)"Succession" (HBO, 2019)"Whistleblower Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. 'Insurgency'" (Fresh Air, Oct. 8, 2019)

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0:00.0	20 years ago, I was just out of college and I was getting mail to my house.
0:06.0	The most adult feeling in the world.
0:07.5	And I got a copy of this Rolling Stone from October of 1999.
0:18.2	And it is ostensibly a profile of Brad Pitt, conducted by the great profile writer, Chris
0:23.7	Heath.
0:24.7	He's just following Brad around Europe, asking him a bunch of annoying questions like whether
0:30.7	he's smart, his relationship with Jennifer Aniston, how he feels about fame trying to get
0:36.1	to the heart and the soul of Brad Pitt is.
0:40.3	That interview in Rolling Stone came with some very appealing packaging.
0:49.4	And what I'm talking about is in the cover photography by Mark Celiger.
0:54.3	And it is essentially Brad Pitt reclining on one of those like in the middle of the house
0:59.8	fireplaces.
1:04.7	And he's just reclining there and looking up at the camera.
1:08.9	A-K-A, you and me.
1:13.1	His hair is short.
1:15.0	He's got one hand up near his mouth holding cigarette.
1:18.6	And the other is just sort of by his side.
1:21.6	His legs are apart.
1:23.2	And the reason to bring that up is because Brad Pitt isn't wearing a pair of shorts or pants.
1:30.0	The man is in a mini dress.
1:32.8	Stop.
1:33.8	Yes!
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