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Coltan Scrivner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Definitely.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

The first thing that I found when I started looking into the literature on this, okay, nobody has really studied this, but surely people have talked about this.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

So one of the examples I found was Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, who are two of the most famous film critics of all time.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And they had a TV show in the 80s where they would essentially review movies.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Yeah, Sneak Previews was on for, I don't know, a couple seasons at least.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And they had dedicated one entire episode to what they called women in danger films.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

They did that because both of them

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

hated slasher films they liked halloween which i think is actually more of a thriller and i think that's probably why they liked it the original halloween they liked and then everything that came out after the slasher they just absolutely hated and so they dedicated this entire episode called women in danger films to all of these like spade of slashers that came out after and in particular friday the 13th is the one they were targeting the most because they had the widest reach or the broadest reach

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And like Gene Siskel, for example, so he wrote for, I think the Tribune, Ebert wrote for the Sun Times, both in Chicago.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And in Siskel's official review of Friday the 13th in the Tribune, which a million or more people at that time read, he spoiled the endings to dissuade people from watching it.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And then he did like an OG version of cancellation where he docks the chairman of, I think it was Paramount that put that out.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

He published the address of the chairman and encouraged people to send hate mail.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And then he published the address of the main actress.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Her name was Betsy Palm

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

I think was her name.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Yes.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And like the address of the chairman and said, send them hate mail, encourage them not to do things like this again.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And in this TV show, they talk about this.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

And both of them, what I found really interesting was, sure, it's a film critic's job to hate movies.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

There's going to be movies they hate.