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Ha! That's genuinely hilarious. I hope you're a screenwriter.
Lord, I wish. Alas, I am but a humble janitor at a preschool.
Just saw that documentary about Janitors stating Peter Dinklage.
The film is, at its core, about the erasure of invisible labor. A man whose name is never spoken on camera, whose body is disposed of like the waste he handled, whose only tool is a mop.
The mutation, the green skin, the mop-wielding violence, that's subtext. It's the film's way of saying: this is what happens when a janitor is finally seen. The corporate villain, the band, the hostage rescue, the serum, all of it is just the set dressing of a workplace where the person on the floor is the only one who actually keeps things running, and the company's answer to that is a waste pit.
(Just kidding, it's a hilarious gorefest)
I saw the old Troma Toxic Avenger years ago. Is the Peter Dinklage one good?
I may have been somewhat inTOXICated myself when watching it, but as a fan of camp / old scifi I found it entertaining, hard to re capture the true raw nonsense of the original, but it's a modern remake...
Schlock and awe.
So, this time, was it a real head under the tire of a Camaro, or just a different kind of melon?
Okay, so now I must insist.
Insist?
Yes. Go write a screenplay. It'll be great!