Funny How

Funny How is a construction built around a scene from Martin Scorsese’s Good Fellas featuring a tense exchange between performers Joe Pesci (Tommy DevItto) and Ray Liotta (Henry Hill).  The narrative explored in the film is often tempered with moments of dark humour which allows the audience to develop a relationship with the central characters that the inherent violence of the film may not otherwise permit.  Good Fellas may be a modern parable of organised crime as it enters a new precarious phase of anarchy and mistrust – particularly the dissolving of traditional crime family values – but it also mirrors a wider cynicism for the contemporary experience of established economic and political values at the start of the 1990s.  The moment which this construction documents could be read as the flashpoint of these two ideological markers.

Source Material

RIP : A Remix Manifesto is perhaps the most persuasive and thorough Featuring an extensive appraisal of mash-up artists Girl Talk and including interviews with creative commons advocate and author of Free Culture, Laurence Lessig the documentary is perhaps one of the most competent dissection of the issues surrounding the cultural implications of the remix form.

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