Documentary about Tom Wolfe. | dG1fUVQ3N2dvZ0JJcFk
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00:02 >> Controversial.
00:03 >> Cynical.
00:03 >> Devastating.
00:04 >> Outlandish.
00:05 >> Masterpiece.
00:06 >> Witty.
00:06 >> Powerful.
00:07 >> Complex.
00:07 >> Absolutely fascinating.
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00:12 >> Bestseller from his first book.
00:14 >> Lines around the block.
00:16 >> The most famous writer in the United States.
00:18 >> He completely changed the way people saw the astronauts.
00:21 >> Many New Yorkers say his novel has defined their city as no other has.
00:25 >> His books captured the moment.
00:29 >> Better than anything else.
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00:34 >> At that point, the newspaper does not encourage distinctive voice.
00:38 >> Here's today's front page story.
00:40 >> Who, what, when, where, why?
00:41 Everything had to be in the first paragraph.
00:44 No sense of style.
00:45 >> There was a so-called objective voice, and I had frankly found it absolutely
00:50 boring.
00:50 >> He tried to represent the sounds of what he was hearing.
00:55 >> The ellipses and the double colons.
00:58 >> The titles of things.
00:59 >> Tom Wolf book title.
01:02 What is.
01:02 >> Radical chic.
01:03 >> The bonfire of the vanities.
01:05 >> Masters of the universe.
01:06 >> The right stuff.
01:07 >> Wolf creates this sort of pseudo movement.
01:10 >> Hunter S.
01:10 Thompson going to the Kentucky Derby.
01:12 >> Oh my God.
01:13 >> Joan Didion going to San Francisco.
01:15 >> New journalism.
01:16 What is it?
01:17 >> The use of every technique known to prose in non-fiction.
01:22 >> He's creating a mythology of the country as he's writing.
01:26 >> Tom was just letting us see what he was feeling as he experienced it.
01:31 >> I belong to the party of the opposition.
01:36 >> He was a contradicted character.
01:38 You would never know such a polite person with a pen in his hand could be a
01:42 terrorist.
01:43 >> We just don't have journalists that huge anymore.
01:46 >> Is it correct that you lack compassion?
01:52 >> It's not having or not having compassion.
01:54 >> My role is to discover the truth is always revolutionary.
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