{"id":620,"date":"2011-02-07T12:12:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=620"},"modified":"2011-02-09T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:08:25","slug":"are-you-for-surreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/02\/07\/are-you-for-surreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you for surreal?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Putney_Swope\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-621 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/02\/putney_swope_1969-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"putney_swope_1969\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/02\/putney_swope_1969-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/02\/putney_swope_1969.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><strong>Mr. Victrola Cola:<\/strong> I got this great window cleaner. Cleans good and doesn&#8217;t streak. Smells bad, though. Cleans good, but smells bad.<br \/>\n<strong>Putney Swope: <\/strong>As a window cleaner, forget it. Put soybeans in it and market it as a soft drink in the ghetto. We&#8217;ll put a picture of a rhythm and blues singer on the front and call it Victrola Cola.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This snippet of dialogue comes from the 1969 satirical film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064855\/\"><em>Putney Swope<\/em><\/a>, as does the title of this post, another quote from the title character. In the film, the only black man on the executive board of an  advertising firm &#8212; Putney Swope &#8212;\u00a0 is put in charge after the unexpected  death of the chairman of the board. When voting for the replacement of the chairman, each board member votes for the person he thought no one else would vote for: Swope.\u00a0 Renaming the business &#8220;Truth and Soul, Inc.&#8221;, the new chairman replaces all but one  of the white employees, and insists they no longer accept business from  companies that produce alcohol, war toys, or tobacco. The success of the business draws unwanted attention from the government, which considers it &#8220;a threat to the national security.&#8221; Through comic satire, the film criticizes and plays  with black militant rhetoric, the portrayal of race in Hollywood films,  the white power structure, and nature of corruption in any struggle for  power.<\/p>\n<p>This film is being screened for the students of <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/cc204\">CC204<\/a>, this Thursday February 10th at 6 PM in CAS 424, to complement their study of race and inequality in that course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Victrola Cola: I got this great window cleaner. Cleans good and doesn&#8217;t streak. Smells bad, though. Cleans good, but smells bad. Putney Swope: As a window cleaner, forget it. Put soybeans in it and market it as a soft drink in the ghetto. We&#8217;ll put a picture of a rhythm and blues singer on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[189,441,1],"tags":[4716,198,3923,4780,4779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}