True Stories Mall Scene
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The mall scene from "True Stories" (1986)
SHOPPING IS A FEELING
I didn't put the ad at the beginning, Warner Bros. did. I don't blame them but I just want you to know I'm not profiting from this video.
"The Shopping Mall have replaced the town center of many American Cities. Shopping itself has become the activity that brings people together. In here musics always playing. What time is it? No time to look back"
InAtl Wasn’t this flimed at North Park Mall in Dallas?
@@joegutzz4630 yesssss, this scene makes more awesome since ive actually visited this mall recently!!!!!!!
Now the shopping mall is becoming extinct. The last indoor mall built in the US was built in 2006.
And now the Internet replaced the Shopping Mall. Music always playing here too...
Northpark Mall in Dallas where this was filmed is one of the nicest and oldest malls around. It's full of Ray Nasher's collection of modern sculpture. None of the stores in this video are still there. The place is very high end now and still extremely popular.
We used to go there to hit on girls during this time period.
And super-packed on the weekends. I'm not sure "plenty of parking" is accurate anymore.
After I learned how many twins they used as extras I always look for them in the background in scenes like this.
"I don't know that one." < After Goodman quotes a Talking Heads song :)
he doesn't know that one because in the song it doesn't go " its a scientific lifestyle" it actually goes "its scientific"
jdw99 ha, which song? I figured that was probably a Talking Head lyric.
It's a multi-purpose movie.
Mall, is where I want to be. Pick me up and turn me round....
This movie is pure concentrated David Byrne. I love it
I watched this film for umpteenth time last night (twice - back to back). It is one of my all-time favorites. I was born & raised in South Texas, and there are many subtle points made in this film that go unnoticed by a lot of people. I was a teenager in the 80's and got sucked into the mass consumerism. This movie is very prophetic in a sad way, but the many many laughs help lighten it up. I never noticed the mall scene with the 2 groups of females until this time (elderly women & Black women). I came here to see if others noticed it and what folks think. Being raised in Texas and every man I grew up with being just like Louis, I feel pretty sure that this is David Byrne's way of subtly highlighting the mindset of that time regarding race. A Black woman would not be considered an option for Louis. She wouldn't even be on his radar. He's somewhat innocent that way. It's a reflection of how he was raised. I am White/Caucasian, and my grandmother told me when I was a young teen that if I married a Black man, she would disown me. So, yeah. That little chuckle that Louis & David share after Louis' comment about the women being too old, that's a little joke/recognition between them of the racial sentiment & social environment. The racism is still present. It was more innocent back then. Now it's entirely inexcusable.
No the joke is that he’s a pedo
"see I told you" ha ha, love this man and his music
"In here, the music's always playing." -- David Byrne or David Lynch?
I know this is David Byrne, but it feels more like a Jello Biafra sarcastic commentary on malls and their vapid and destructive existence.
JimmyJazz332 Finally someone who gets it.
@@spinflux actually David Said that was not ironic, That's why people dont get It.
0h! the 80's, how I miss you ;(
Did you just use a zero instead of an O?
Lone Developer n0 I d0nt think s0!
True Stories is a movie about the synthetic subversion of America, to borrow from the title of my friend Gatewood 's autobiography. RIP, G!
i work in this mall. it looks pretty much the same, except the stores are different, of course. except through this clip i'm now realizing the gap store has been in the same spot for over 30 years now.
Wow, this actually makes me kind of miss the mall.
'Driving, not only driving, but parking'
2:26 John Goodman as a metro-sexual... because, as you know, he is "very aware of his appearance"
I've never seen this,and I love it. John Goodman and David Byrne,who knew.Goodman here reminds me of EL-P.
I'm a frequent blood donor who's not in a financially lofty situation due to the prevalent hatred of people with disabilities in my country and the way that impacts on my attempts to break into the job market;
I'd really like to know where I can find those cashed-up Vampires and if they accept A+ blood.
David Byrne is very funny in this movie, whether he is aware of it or not.
This film looks like it was a crystal ball; almost everything is relevant today. I feel like I seen it before🤔. Think I need to seek it out as it has quite a few relevant messages
Guys, I'm watching this at North Park Center rn and I'm literally shaking
i want those Micropacer Adidas so bad
See! I told ya!
Do triplets count as 1 or 3 twins?
Neither, they count as three triplets! I should know, I am one.
Have you ever compared public shopping malls' atmosphere to public elementary schools atmosphere?
see the waldenbooks blooper?
And now, we buy online and never go out.
What movie is this called
true stories
This is so weird and unsettling....
...that's the point :)
It's a scientific lifestyle
6 feet lol
If only I could see this whole movie! It looks kind of pointless, but David Byrne's in it, so hey...
Hope you’ve gained taste in those 10 years
Ha! Taste is subjective, but I do adore this movie. It’s right up my alley.
kinda boring
Thank god he decided to stick to music...
I feel like I'm playing Earthbound.
Earthbound if it were narrated by David byrne
This will always be a film that will forever be unfairly maligned. People didn't get it in the 80's; they thought it too smug, or they couldn't get the concept. These days, the film loses its original context, which was the mid-Reagan era 80's. The points this film makes about shopping malls and televangelists and Texas and commercialism were all in the context of a post-Koyaanisqatsi 80's in which they represented a creeping conformity and loss of individualism that has largely come to pass. I think it is a generational thing; if you weren't alive in the 80's, it is hard to get what the film is trying to do. If you were, the film was mildly sinister and ultimately prescient. Parts of it are brilliant, and most of it is funny. It isn't a flawless movie, but it is a very good one, and definitely worth watching in its entirety. It works well baked, too.
No truer words spoken.
I don't think it will worked after baking it.
Yes, this is one of my favorite films. It occupies an odd space of being a film with virtually no conflict driving the story, making it one of my go-to films in times of hardship. It is mildly sinister, but not unkind. Or, to quote Byrne's character, "Look at this. Who can say it isn't beautiful?"
one of the best comments on all of youtube. thank you.
Seederman almost prophetic how his underlining sarcasm and dubiousness came to become reality with mall culture dying in America.
Filmed at Northpark mall in Dallas. Still looks the same today. The outside was shot at a separate mall in Mesquite.
The first outside scenes were shot at the now defunct Big Town Mall in Mesquite..
Same as it ever was
@@HectorTGomez I was about to say. "That doesn't look like Town East"
*"I send signals....up."*
Oh, to satellites, and things like that?
Capturing the essence of vaporwave before the malls even started closing.
I contend that "Dream Operator" is Ur-vaporwave
"says Margie Otise"
that line always gets me xD
Said Margie Ortiz :)
This is about the best movie ever lol. Not really, but it is fun.
Laura Bennett always ingratiating yourself to minorities what a good little brainwashed useless eater
he's like a character out of Twin Peaks
This film is freaking brilliant!!! You have to see the whole thing to put it into context, great movie!
True Stories is my Favorite Movie of ALL time.
those shoes were pretty cool
They're called Adidas Micropacers. You can get them in the resell market or get a more comfortable version of it called the micropacerxr1.
The r1 one is cheaper.
the celebration of specialness...
"Since this mall opened C R Anthony, J C Penny and even Duke and Ayers have all pulled out of downtown Virgil. Shoppers go where ever the bargains are where ever its convenient to shop they don't care if they shop in a funky old building downtown or in a clean modern place like this." Going to see David Byrne with St. Vincent on the 6th so watched True Stories last night - love this clip - David Byrne makes some great observations relative to development.
Also, I think anyone who likes this movie would be shrewd to listen to the Modest Mouse album, The Lonesome Crowded West and then watch Pitchfork Media's video about it.
I can't believe zaddy David Byrne walked so that not just bikes and Adam something could run❤️❤️
I miss the early days of “computers”, we really thought we could do shit like that because Hollywood sold us on the idea that you can make a hot babe that has super powers with a “computer”.
best film ever made.
And now malls are dying, thanks Amazon
Reitz86 tru I’m at fault but it’s just so much more productive and efficient at buying certain products and the selection is better.
Malls were on their way out before Amazon was even a thing.
Internet shopping existed before Amazon. Bezos just decided to slash the throats of anyone who tried to sell stuff online so he could earn more money - people happily supported his business model and now he's one of the most powerful people on the planet.
IT wasn't Online Shopping that caused malls to die. It may have been the final nail in the coffin, but as early as the 90s, people were preferring the one stop shopping of Walmart, which tended to be in open air plazas.
The interior mall is North Park. The outside is Bigtown mall. They tore BT down in 2006. Northpark is pretty much still thriving.
Driving, but not only driving... Parking.
Everything is a wink, a nod and a smile.
Why does the old guy at 1:03 look like he's abducting those kids from the mall?
Because you're socially conditioned to view old men as probable threats around children.
they showed him again with the kids calling him "grandpa" at 2:17
We really love how David Byrne breaks the fourth wall!😅😂❤️
Hm! I don't know that one.
I saw this movie when I was in my teens. Nobody I know has ever seen it. It's a very good film. Laid back, fun to watch. Thx for posting this part.
The Mall Them All
Where are the bargains?
He’ll Tell y’a later
hi twins
If "pointless" is code for "amazing".
He actually fired the original screenwriters because they put too much plot in it. Or so he said at the time. He may be one of the last living fans of the Dada movement of the 1920s.
@@charlesperigord1599 he didn't fire them, he just reworked the entirety of the original draft that was made from an outline he created with his buddy Stephen Tobolowsky aka Ned Ryerson from Groundhog Day, who had drummed up the original draft with his screenwriting friend Beth Henley. Byrne didn't want to completely discredit either of them because of the increments left from the original draft and how far back Tobolowsky had been in the scriptwriting process
"Y'Know, I'm very aware of my appearance." I could hear Randy Quaid as Cousin Eddie saying that by throwing a "Clark" in there!
Trivia question: Where did Hank Hill work before Strickland Propane?
Jeans west
It has that uncomfortable, clunky Napoleon Dynamite vibe. So perfect.
Not really a big fan of the film overall. If it were scenes of wide open spaces and malls I’d rate it much higher.
Is that Northpark Mall in Dallas? i go there all the time
The parking lot is Big Town Mall. I'm not sure what the interior is from, because at times it looks like Big Town, and at others NorthPark. The more I look at it though, the more it looks like the entirety of the mall is Big Town. You'll notice you never see a second floor on any of the shots, which definitely means it's not NorthPark. Also, I think NorthPark tended to have a narrower walkway, and had a number of twists and turns, whereas Big Town was basically L-shaped. From what I remember, the floors of NorthPark are darker as well, though I can't say for sure what they were back in '86.
Wasn't Big Town Mall torn down in 2006?
@@charles2241 Nope, it's Northpark. I grew up in University Park in the 90s, and Northpark was just a small mall with a Neiman Marcus as its only really nice store and no second floor except for a small cluster of stores at one end. It doubled in size with a huge expansion project by the original architects in the mid 2000s, where they added the second floor, connected the two ends, put in that green space, and so on. Might have even narrowed the walkway for more retail space. Definitely Northpark.
@@fletchermaxwell Well thanks for the response. I must had come in after they did the connection. I used to go to Baggage's on the second floor quite frequently, which I'm pretty sure was before 2000 anyway.
I need to see this film.
The celebration of specialness is the best part!
This is amazing. Love this movie
I so love this movie.
Yep like the song says it's a scientific lifestyle.
Hmm I don't think I know that one.
😂😂😂😂
“And I think it’ll be something you just love KARA EASTMAN RADICAL SOCIALIST”
what comment does The Big Brown Bag carried by the black women mean to you? I think the symbolism is MULTIPURPOSE
2:10 there’s Hank Hills Jeans West
Why was this film not brought out properly the first time round?
David, I always understood you... ~♡PEACE♡~
DEDICATED TO JAMES ADAMS! FROM GILBERT MENCHACA! HI JIMMY
we use to have bb gun fights in there after it closed down
and these malls are all dead now
David Byrne isn't a good actor but John Goodman makes this enjoyable. I applaud Byrne for making a movie though!
BIG TOWN MALL BABY
"stores here are pretty clean"
Alright then, it looks kind of amazing. :)
Subversion at its most sweet.
Talking Heads?!?!?!?!?!
Have always loved this film-still do!
hi twins
So it’s the outside of big town mall and the inside of northpark mall?
No. I'm pretty sure the interior is Big Town too. I cannot remember any part of NorthPark that had such a long stretch straightaway, plus it seems like even back then Northpark's floors were darker. Also notice there's not a single shot of an upper floor, something which NorthPark has in abundance.
I'll correct myself. When you see the fashion show towards the end, that clearly isn't Big Town, because you do see how high the roof is, while an upper floor can be seen. I'm surprised they don't have any Town East Mall shots. I think also when you see the women at the large plants, that may be NorthPark too, but it obviously don't have an upper level. The problem I have with all of this is I pretty much stuck to only one side of both of those malls, and I'm not sure I ever went through the entire NorthPark before, but it did seem every cranny had an upper floor. I seem to recall somewhere, besides now I mean, that it was NorthPark interiors, but it with so no upper floor in their long straight walk I have difficulty seeing it as NorthPark.
It seems from so many comments I have seen on here though, that the thinking is that the interior is NorthPark. I can't for the life of me recall northpark having such a long boring straightaway.
This shit is wild
hi twin!
2:41 Is this David Byrne's subtle commentary on racism? Byrne's narrator points out a group of people to Louis the Bear that includes several young black women and several older white women. Louis says, "Too old for me," suggesting that he only notices the white women.
good catch
I think that perhaps you're being just a tad cynical/paranoid. Considering that all of the Black people in the movie are characterized as fundamentally no different from the White characters, it's unlikely that they're making a racial statement here. Those Black girls were just teenagers.
this has nothing to do with racism. you are reading a little to closely into this.
Despite everyone going "nuhuh!" to you I totally see your point and find it interesting. I don't think Louis is being characterized as racist per say, but definitely as narrowminded in what he's looking for (basically, someone like him). I think that juxtaposition was intentional. When I first saw the movie, I completely missed the old ladies entirely and was confused by Louis' reaction!