Edgar Wright, Carrie Brownstein + Sparks - Q&A | Film Independent Presents

Guest moderator Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia) joins director Edgar Wright and subjects Ron and Russel Mael to discuss the new indie rockumentary THE SPARKS BROTHERS, out now.
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[@babettewitt3978]

What for an WONDERFUL LOVEABLE EMOTIONAL Interview! !! ESPECIALLY i love the scenes where Russell is speaking so emotional over his Mother "There's MY BOYS " and I love it when he and Edgar so loveable with each other talked about that they have the same study movie have done Their Laughing with EACH OTHER is so CUTE to SEE! !

[@Andy.Moore.AndysTreasureTrove]

One of the best recent Sparks Bros. interviews.

[@billsmith1359]

I’m so happy to be able to share Sparks with my 20 something siblings in Seattle 3-14-22 . I can’t wait to see them have their minds BLOWN! Great music Ron and Russel , love it all !!!

[@Stressjaw]

This really needs more views. Fantastic watch, so excited to buy the Blu-ray when it comes out!

[@lisalizana212]

The film is currently streaming on Netflix for those that haven't seen it yet. It's fantastic!

[@phillipradcliffe8037]

I was introduced to Sparks in 1973 while still in high school by a friend/classmate who had "A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing" album. So I immediately went to the record store to buy it. I couldn't find it under "S" but found it in the discount bin (sorry). The first album was also there (the repackaged Half Nelson as Sparks version), so I bought that, too. I loved their lyrics, music and humor (and still do). I always wondered what or who "A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing" was a reference to. Some of the songs seem to be about WWII ("Girl from Germany," "Underground," "The Louvre," and maybe "Nothing Is Sacred"). I don't know if that was intentional or not, but I assume it was.

[@annabackman3028]

I believe you are right. Late 60s - the 70s was a period when Europe was almost rebuilt, physically so to speak, but not by far mentally. As the same time as the humiliated new country West Germany tried to shake the dust off and become friends to the rest of the world again to make their international business run, so their economy could recover. Ron and Russell (and the Mankey brothers and Harley Feinstein) were the first generation post war born. Ron and Russell were (of course are) of Jewish ancestry, so the war must have affected their family hard. This generation were the first to "welcome" Germany back, and this was rebellian against older people. I think it's a statement saying "It's new times now, time to bury the past", which I remember was a sensitive issue in the middle of the 70s in Sweden, which wasn't even in war. Effected, affected and indirectly forced to actions in the favor to both sides, at different occasions. I was born 1961, so I'm old enough to remember the tension about Germany, been told first hand stories from the war in Finland and Norway as well as of course what happened in Sweden during those years, and that was years of fear that "the Germans" OR the Russians would come. It wasn't like Sweden had a six years party, laughing, during that period. Not that anyone say that we suffered, because that would be a horrible insult to everybody who actually was suffering in the real war, or not to forget, "camps". I think it was a very provocative thing to record and perform with especially 'Girl From Germany'. And it was meant to be so. All the background told so younger viewers and readers (hopefully) will have an idea of the situation, as long as 27 years after the war was blown off. I mean, it was still trials where war crimes were addressed into the sixties. The war was very close, even though it ended over 20 years earlier.

[@annabackman3028]

Also, the somewhat scary facts about how "time goes by"; now, the early twenties of the 2000s it's as far back to the eighties, as it was from the eighties to the fourties. Just a reminder about how fast time is. We who were young in the eighties can think back on things that happened in the eighties, feeling it was two months ago, having the bizarre feeling that the last fourty years was a dream. How the heck can I be fifty, sixty, seventy or eighty years old!? And all you, who were born in the eighties, feeling the middle ages creepy creepy crawly crawly* nibble on your heels... Time goes by, fast. Put that in perspective, when you consider the early seventies was only thirty years after being in the middle of war. People were scarred and still scared. The infamous Berlin wall wasn't built until August 1961, the area was closed at the evening-night August 12 (Ron's 16th birthday, btw), the preparations begun the 13th, and the actual building soon after (dates from Wikipedia and seemingly trustworthy historical articles). The November 9, 1989, the wall was opened, due to a misunderstanding. A quote from a high positioned politician was misinterpreted, and a guard opened a gate. People stormed the gate, they started to tear down parts of the wall, soldiers layed down their weapons, and there was no return. The third of October 1990 all paperwork was signed, East and West Germany ceased to exist, Germany was reborn. It's not further back in time, even though younger people look at that as past history, it's still living memories to people born just a few years earlier. I can compare that to the reactions IN SWEDEN when Soviet invaded Czechoslovakia August 1968, when it was a chill sweeping over the people, some crying. I can barely imagine how people in Europe, of course especially in Czechoslovakia, must have felt. (That came after the Czechoslovakia had begun, politically, open up to West. That was the kind of situation West contra East, Soviet dominating East, the other countries on the side of the "Iron curtain" were merely counties of the Soviet republic. This was the situation Sparks and everyone else, on both sides, had to relate to. Can help explain a lot of lyrics written those years.) *Listen to The Who's song 'Boris the spider', it's awesome! Ron and Russell produced Christi Haydon, a promotion EP, where she covers it, remarkable good!

[@annabackman3028]

@Michael .Witheford Or about seduction. In bed, or an attempt to get there, so to speak. That would make some sense. I don't know if "subterfusion" even is a word, but the essence of it should be 'a hidden fusion'. "The shrubbery", soldiers camouflaged in leaves, moving in on the target. As if someone subtly is seducing, but you can't really tell if it is invitations or randomly comments. The whole song is a pun, and can be interpreted either way, but I vote for LOVE. The stage after 'Amateur Hour' 😉

[@annabackman3028]

@Lawrence Windrush That was my book 🤣, but I can't promise I won't write more "books", on various subjects, in the comments a little all over the place😅, and I know that some earlier "books" still exists here and there. Some are gone, since the comments closed on Sparks's videos not being an official VIDEO per se. C'est la vie, but I can imagine some people took a deep breath in pure satisfaction.😄

[@annabackman3028]

@Lawrence Windrush ☺️Oh, you charmer... Thank you 💗😃

[@phillipradcliffe8037]

What's with the shoes Ron?

[@annabackman3028]

He used to collect Air Jordans, kept the collection but not actively hunting for more. He also has a snow globe collection and (!) hand sanitizer collection 😂!

[@annabackman3028]

@Michael .Witheford 😅Yeah, but but he is actually a sports nerd, or correctly, both brothers are. What is hard to grip is Ron in the line, together with a bunch of die hard Jordan fans kids, waiting for the store to open at the "release" of a new collection...🤣🤣🤣 What a sight! He has told that story when asked how much fan he really was. Also that he felt a little awkward there, but it was worth it.

[@lauriegiemza4570]

Benedict Cumberbatch could work!