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Seth Godin: belief

31 May 2023 Conversations with Tyler Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear

“I think I need it to be jittery 1936 footage for me to suspend disbelief and to imagine I’m just watching a perfectly timed cartoon.”

— Seth Godin

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Speaker
Seth Godin
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
31 May 2023
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Conversations with Tyler

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…What is the complicated thing they did? How do you think about it? It’s a cartoon come to life. We know they don’t hate each other, and we know they’re not actually being injured. In later iterations of slapstick, particularly in Hollywood in the ’80s or ’90s, they lost both of those things. They either made it too personal, or they made it too real. As a result, they got into an uncanny valley where it didn’t feel like a cartoon anymore. I think I need it to be jittery 1936 footage for me to suspend disbelief and to imagine I’m just watching a perfectly timed cartoon. There’s a Thai restaurant you mentioned in one of your books. Forgive my pronunciation, but I think it’s SriPraPhai. Is that correct?…

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