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"content": "\u003cp>There’s a consensus among critics that the present moment is a “golden age” for documentaries. Theatrical releases are commonplace, to the point that docs are squeezing out foreign-language films. The pervasive home-based platforms (especially Netflix) actively back and promote current-events docs to the masses. On Oscar Night, an ever-increasing chunk of the viewing audience has heard of (if not seen) at least one of the doc nominees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of viewers, a sizable segment recognizes that broadcast and cable television news divisions have abandoned investigative journalism altogether, and that doc filmmakers are the only ones stepping into the void. 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"content": "\u003cp>Last week, the woman sexually assaulted by former “Stanford swimmer” \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Turner\u003c/a>, whose 2016 victim impact statement shook the nation, revealed her identity and announced the imminent release of her memoir. Her name is Chanel Miller, and the timing of her book, aptly titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553663/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/9780735223707/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Know My Name\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, could not be better, coming in the middle of an intensifying backlash against the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tide has been turning for months. Just last week, Scarlett Johansson asserted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/scarlett-johansson-talks-woody-allen-elizabeth-warren-black-widow-1235618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that she “loves” and “believes” accused \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/98603/as-woody-allen-falls-where-is-roman-polanskis-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">child-molester Woody Allen\u003c/a> and would “work with him anytime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billy Bush is about to return to television as host of \u003cem>Extra\u003c/em>, after being fired from NBC’s \u003cem>Today\u003c/em> for giggling his way through a backstage recording of Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault. “I got taken out,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/billy-bush-says-trump-access-hollywood-video-was-weaponized-1238226?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he just told Gayle King\u003c/a> on \u003cem>CBS This Morning\u003c/em>, “but I wasn’t the target.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Netflix premiered \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81140577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a special\u003c/a> by self-identified “victim blamer” Dave Chapelle, in which he declared “I got a f-cking Me Too headache” and defended Louis C.K. He also attempted to draw a direct correlation between women speaking up and the attack on reproductive rights currently unfolding nationally. “What the f-ck is your agenda, ladies?” he asked. “Is sexism dead? No, in fact, the opposite happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI19NamI_OE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a> ran a sympathetic profile of disgraced senator Al Franken, with Jane Mayer writing that Franken “told me that his therapist had likened his experience to ‘what happens when primates are shunned and humiliated by the rest of the other primates.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same month, Uma Thurman’s revelations about shocking \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working conditions under director Quentin Tarantino\u003c/a> were effectively wiped from the public consciousness with the release of his latest movie, \u003cem>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood\u003c/em>—a film currently rated 85-percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']‘This recent cacophony of voices coalesce into one message: an attempt to bully women back into good old-fashioned silence.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inevitable for a story featuring a fictionalized Sharon Tate, the press tour for Tarantino’s movie also put Roman Polanski back in the spotlight. Not for being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/98603/as-woody-allen-falls-where-is-roman-polanskis-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fugitive\u003c/a>, or a statutory rapist; rather because Tarantino is a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-quentin-tarantino-roman-polanski-1202143803/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fan of Roman Polanski\u003c/a>’s work, but particularly \u003cem>Rosemary’s Baby\u003c/em>.” Then, despite his 2018 expulsion from the Motion Picture Academy, Polanski then got himself a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/roman-polanski-venice-jaccuse-standing-ovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">standing ovation\u003c/a> and the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival for his latest film, \u003cem>J’Accuse\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, several research papers have emerged suggesting women will be punished for speaking up about sexual harassment and assault. In May, the \u003ca href=\"https://leanin.org/sexual-harassment-backlash-survey-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lean In Institute reported\u003c/a> “60 percent of managers who are men are uncomfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, such as mentoring, working alone, or socializing together. That’s a 32 percent jump from a year ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a \u003cem>Harvard Business Review\u003c/em> story titled “\u003ca href=\"https://hbr.org/2019/09/the-metoo-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The #MeToo Backlash\u003c/a>,” described how both male and female professionals from “a wide range of industries” have changed their behavior towards women in the workplace in a negative way, post-#MeToo. The report primarily focused on the fact that 41 percent of men and 57 percent of women agreed that “men in general will be more reluctant to have one-on-one meetings with women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This recent cacophony of voices coalesce into one message: an attempt to bully women back into good old-fashioned silence. It’s a collective suggestion that #MeToo had its moment, but the movement’s gone too far now. It’s an indirect request for women to go back to their corners and leave all of these poor, frightened men alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13865782\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 243px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13865782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-2.31.13-PM.png\" alt=\"Chanel Miller, appearing on '60 Minutes.'\" width=\"243\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-2.31.13-PM.png 243w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-2.31.13-PM-160x227.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chanel Miller, appearing on ’60 Minutes.’ \u003ccite>(CBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chanel Miller—known only as Emily Doe until now—had the distinction of being one of the first to speak out loudly enough to be heard internationally. Her case predated #MeToo, but her \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searing victim impact statement\u003c/a>, first published by Buzzfeed, arguably provided the first spark for the incendiary movement that would explode a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because so much has happened between her case and now, it’s easy to forget that it was she alone who ultimately inspired the campaigns that successfully \u003ca href=\"https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/02/california-judge-recalled-for-sentence-in-sexual-assault-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unseated Judge Aaron Persky\u003c/a> (the man responsible for giving Turner a sentence that allowed him to get out of county jail after only three months), \u003cem>and\u003c/em> got a bill signed into California law that imposes \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/30/stanford-sexual-assault-case-california-rape-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mandatory minimum sentences\u003c/a> for sexual assault cases. It was the first case this century to so prominently highlight the issues of white male privilege and a legal system that is prone to disregarding the suffering of sexual assault survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller reportedly began writing \u003cem>Know My Name\u003c/em> in 2017, using the book to piece together exactly what had happened to her, and heal from it. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/books/chanel-miller-brock-turner-assault-stanford.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the focus of Miller’s writing expanded “as conversations about sexual violence moved increasingly to the fore” of the national consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has been obvious in the last few months is that a sizable swath of America has lost sight of the deeply personal, private and systemic nature of sexual assault and harassment that started #MeToo in the first place. Over time—and thanks to the sheer number of famous men brought down by the movement—the focus has shifted disproportionately to the most prominent celebrity cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that men like Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein (whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/04/26/harvey-weinstein-sex-crimes-case-public-media-court-high-stakes/3542755002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trial starts this week\u003c/a>) have contended with the legal consequences of their actions, there has been an increasing sense that the biggest monsters have been brought down and the hardest work has already been done. Miller’s return is well-timed to drag the spotlight off the most grotesque men brought down by #MeToo and back onto ordinary, everyday survivors. It gives the nation a much-needed reminder that this was never really only about bad behavior within celebrity circles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13865848\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13865848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9780735223707.jpg\" alt=\"'Know My Name' by Chanel Miller. \" width=\"298\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9780735223707.jpg 298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9780735223707-160x242.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Know My Name’ by Chanel Miller. \u003ccite>(Penguin Random House)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Miller’s book is also bound to do—and what Hulu’s excellent new Harvey Weinstein documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hulu.com/movie/untouchable-0204d474-dcce-44f3-af25-d1cca05aba3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Untouchable\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, just did—is to explain once more that the lasting trauma sexual assault survivors endure goes on long after trials end, the media attention dissipates and the conversations move elsewhere. It will reemphasize the importance of pushing women’s voices to the forefront and the good things that happen when we make space for that. It will also be an essential reminder of the injustices that women have historically faced, and continue to face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things that has been consistently buried in the reports about the negative workplace consequences of #MeToo is the undoubtedly \u003ca href=\"https://hbr.org/2019/09/the-metoo-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">positive news\u003c/a> that: “74 percent of women said they thought they would be more willing now to speak out against harassment, and 77 percent of men anticipated being more careful about potentially inappropriate behavior.” That is exactly the kind of progress that we must not lose sight of if #MeToo is to continue to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/05/197938/ashley-judd-healing-sexual-assault-times-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashley Judd made plain\u003c/a> at a #TimesUp event last year: “We use our voices, we weather retaliation—and we act up anyway.” Chanel Miller is a perfect example of how to do all of the above, and it is an honor to finally meet her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Know My Name’ by Chanel Miller is out Sept. 24, 2019 from Viking. \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553663/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/9780735223707/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week, the woman sexually assaulted by former “Stanford swimmer” \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Turner\u003c/a>, whose 2016 victim impact statement shook the nation, revealed her identity and announced the imminent release of her memoir. Her name is Chanel Miller, and the timing of her book, aptly titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553663/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/9780735223707/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Know My Name\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, could not be better, coming in the middle of an intensifying backlash against the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tide has been turning for months. Just last week, Scarlett Johansson asserted in \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/scarlett-johansson-talks-woody-allen-elizabeth-warren-black-widow-1235618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that she “loves” and “believes” accused \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/98603/as-woody-allen-falls-where-is-roman-polanskis-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">child-molester Woody Allen\u003c/a> and would “work with him anytime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billy Bush is about to return to television as host of \u003cem>Extra\u003c/em>, after being fired from NBC’s \u003cem>Today\u003c/em> for giggling his way through a backstage recording of Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault. “I got taken out,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/billy-bush-says-trump-access-hollywood-video-was-weaponized-1238226?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he just told Gayle King\u003c/a> on \u003cem>CBS This Morning\u003c/em>, “but I wasn’t the target.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Netflix premiered \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81140577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a special\u003c/a> by self-identified “victim blamer” Dave Chapelle, in which he declared “I got a f-cking Me Too headache” and defended Louis C.K. He also attempted to draw a direct correlation between women speaking up and the attack on reproductive rights currently unfolding nationally. “What the f-ck is your agenda, ladies?” he asked. “Is sexism dead? No, in fact, the opposite happened.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vI19NamI_OE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vI19NamI_OE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a> ran a sympathetic profile of disgraced senator Al Franken, with Jane Mayer writing that Franken “told me that his therapist had likened his experience to ‘what happens when primates are shunned and humiliated by the rest of the other primates.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same month, Uma Thurman’s revelations about shocking \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working conditions under director Quentin Tarantino\u003c/a> were effectively wiped from the public consciousness with the release of his latest movie, \u003cem>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood\u003c/em>—a film currently rated 85-percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inevitable for a story featuring a fictionalized Sharon Tate, the press tour for Tarantino’s movie also put Roman Polanski back in the spotlight. Not for being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/98603/as-woody-allen-falls-where-is-roman-polanskis-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fugitive\u003c/a>, or a statutory rapist; rather because Tarantino is a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-quentin-tarantino-roman-polanski-1202143803/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fan of Roman Polanski\u003c/a>’s work, but particularly \u003cem>Rosemary’s Baby\u003c/em>.” Then, despite his 2018 expulsion from the Motion Picture Academy, Polanski then got himself a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/roman-polanski-venice-jaccuse-standing-ovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">standing ovation\u003c/a> and the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival for his latest film, \u003cem>J’Accuse\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, several research papers have emerged suggesting women will be punished for speaking up about sexual harassment and assault. In May, the \u003ca href=\"https://leanin.org/sexual-harassment-backlash-survey-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lean In Institute reported\u003c/a> “60 percent of managers who are men are uncomfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, such as mentoring, working alone, or socializing together. That’s a 32 percent jump from a year ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a \u003cem>Harvard Business Review\u003c/em> story titled “\u003ca href=\"https://hbr.org/2019/09/the-metoo-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The #MeToo Backlash\u003c/a>,” described how both male and female professionals from “a wide range of industries” have changed their behavior towards women in the workplace in a negative way, post-#MeToo. The report primarily focused on the fact that 41 percent of men and 57 percent of women agreed that “men in general will be more reluctant to have one-on-one meetings with women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This recent cacophony of voices coalesce into one message: an attempt to bully women back into good old-fashioned silence. It’s a collective suggestion that #MeToo had its moment, but the movement’s gone too far now. It’s an indirect request for women to go back to their corners and leave all of these poor, frightened men alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13865782\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 243px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13865782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-2.31.13-PM.png\" alt=\"Chanel Miller, appearing on '60 Minutes.'\" width=\"243\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-2.31.13-PM.png 243w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-2.31.13-PM-160x227.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chanel Miller, appearing on ’60 Minutes.’ \u003ccite>(CBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chanel Miller—known only as Emily Doe until now—had the distinction of being one of the first to speak out loudly enough to be heard internationally. Her case predated #MeToo, but her \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searing victim impact statement\u003c/a>, first published by Buzzfeed, arguably provided the first spark for the incendiary movement that would explode a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because so much has happened between her case and now, it’s easy to forget that it was she alone who ultimately inspired the campaigns that successfully \u003ca href=\"https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/02/california-judge-recalled-for-sentence-in-sexual-assault-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unseated Judge Aaron Persky\u003c/a> (the man responsible for giving Turner a sentence that allowed him to get out of county jail after only three months), \u003cem>and\u003c/em> got a bill signed into California law that imposes \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/30/stanford-sexual-assault-case-california-rape-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mandatory minimum sentences\u003c/a> for sexual assault cases. It was the first case this century to so prominently highlight the issues of white male privilege and a legal system that is prone to disregarding the suffering of sexual assault survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller reportedly began writing \u003cem>Know My Name\u003c/em> in 2017, using the book to piece together exactly what had happened to her, and heal from it. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/books/chanel-miller-brock-turner-assault-stanford.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the focus of Miller’s writing expanded “as conversations about sexual violence moved increasingly to the fore” of the national consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has been obvious in the last few months is that a sizable swath of America has lost sight of the deeply personal, private and systemic nature of sexual assault and harassment that started #MeToo in the first place. Over time—and thanks to the sheer number of famous men brought down by the movement—the focus has shifted disproportionately to the most prominent celebrity cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that men like Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein (whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/04/26/harvey-weinstein-sex-crimes-case-public-media-court-high-stakes/3542755002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trial starts this week\u003c/a>) have contended with the legal consequences of their actions, there has been an increasing sense that the biggest monsters have been brought down and the hardest work has already been done. Miller’s return is well-timed to drag the spotlight off the most grotesque men brought down by #MeToo and back onto ordinary, everyday survivors. It gives the nation a much-needed reminder that this was never really only about bad behavior within celebrity circles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13865848\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13865848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9780735223707.jpg\" alt=\"'Know My Name' by Chanel Miller. \" width=\"298\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9780735223707.jpg 298w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/9780735223707-160x242.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Know My Name’ by Chanel Miller. \u003ccite>(Penguin Random House)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What Miller’s book is also bound to do—and what Hulu’s excellent new Harvey Weinstein documentary, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hulu.com/movie/untouchable-0204d474-dcce-44f3-af25-d1cca05aba3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Untouchable\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, just did—is to explain once more that the lasting trauma sexual assault survivors endure goes on long after trials end, the media attention dissipates and the conversations move elsewhere. It will reemphasize the importance of pushing women’s voices to the forefront and the good things that happen when we make space for that. It will also be an essential reminder of the injustices that women have historically faced, and continue to face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the things that has been consistently buried in the reports about the negative workplace consequences of #MeToo is the undoubtedly \u003ca href=\"https://hbr.org/2019/09/the-metoo-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">positive news\u003c/a> that: “74 percent of women said they thought they would be more willing now to speak out against harassment, and 77 percent of men anticipated being more careful about potentially inappropriate behavior.” That is exactly the kind of progress that we must not lose sight of if #MeToo is to continue to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/05/197938/ashley-judd-healing-sexual-assault-times-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashley Judd made plain\u003c/a> at a #TimesUp event last year: “We use our voices, we weather retaliation—and we act up anyway.” Chanel Miller is a perfect example of how to do all of the above, and it is an honor to finally meet her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Know My Name’ by Chanel Miller is out Sept. 24, 2019 from Viking. \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553663/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/9780735223707/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a collection of children’s stories so brutal, it almost outdoes the Brothers Grimm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tales of \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> by Heinrich Hoffman are short, sharp, shocking, and they’ve left a surprisingly deep mark on culture, even though most living Americans have never read them. Today, the astonishing content of \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> hasn’t only irreversibly impacted children’s literature—its influence can still be seen in movies, cartoons, TV shows, and a wealth of parodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863801\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 132px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/harriet.three_.thm_.jpg\" alt='\"The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches.\"' width=\"132\" height=\"186\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To give you some idea of the savagery of the 10 stories in the 1845 collection, consider “The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches,” about a little girl who accidentally sets herself on fire and burns to death while her pet cats watch. Then there’s “The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb,” about a boy named Conrad who refuses to stop sucking his thumbs and subsequently watches them both severed by a creepy, long-legged home-invader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between are tales of comeuppance for characters committing surprisingly graphic animal cruelty (“Cruel Frederick”), racist harassment (“The Story of the Inky Boys” is definitely not woke by 2019 standards, but was considered progressive at the time), and the apparent dastardly sin of not watching where you’re going (“The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air”). In others, one little boy refuses to eat soup for a few days and subsequently starves to death, and another insists on going out for a walk in the rain and flies away in a storm, never to be seen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the smörgåsbord of searing imagery in the book, the one that seems to stick most with people is that of “Shock-Headed Peter”—the \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> of the book’s title. Peter is a little boy publicly humiliated by his own slovenliness. He is depicted as crying and alone “with his nasty hair and hands.” Peter, especially out of context, is pretty damn scary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/cf153154-d80c-11e6-8f8f-b8b9aedb36b4.jpg\" alt=\"Shock-Headed Peter, of 'Der Struwwelpeter'.\" width=\"450\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/cf153154-d80c-11e6-8f8f-b8b9aedb36b4.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/cf153154-d80c-11e6-8f8f-b8b9aedb36b4-160x167.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shock-Headed Peter, of ‘Der Struwwelpeter’.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My introduction to\u003cem> Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> occurred purely because of this image, which I recently encountered on the sixth floor of the San Francisco Public Library, hanging in the SF History room. The panel featuring Peter’s image was created for the library’s 100th anniversary last year, and still regularly causes a stir. One librarian informed me that a woman recently walked into the room, saw Peter, screamed, then shouted “Get that thing out of here!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a response that might have appalled Heinrich Hoffman. Not only did the German physician originally write the collection for his 3-year-old son, he did so because he wanted his child to have something more light-hearted and humorous than anything else that was available at the time. (Hoffman originally titled the book \u003cem>Funny Stories and Droll Pictures… For Children Ages 3–6\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Struwwelpeter-Humor-Horror-Years-Later/dp/0739116649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Struwwelpeter: Humor or Horror?\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Barbara Smith Chalou explains:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Prior to the 1866 publication of Lewis Carroll’s landmark ‘\u003cem>Alice in Wonderland’ \u003c/em>… most Western children’s books were limited to instruction manuals, Bible passages, moral fables or cautionary tales … In ‘\u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em>,’ we find an intriguing mix of traditional elements with … certain components that were dramatically different than anything previously seen in children’s books. For example, [Hoffman’s] … brightly colored pictures… Nothing resembling this had existed on the market prior to 1845, the date of publication.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter, \u003c/em>then, was one of the world’s first picture books, which is why it quickly warranted \u003ca href=\"https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/05/15/influence-struwwelpeter\">35 translations\u003c/a>—one of which was done \u003ca href=\"https://germanstories.vcu.edu/struwwel/twpete.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by Mark Twain\u003c/a> in 1891—and helped to permanently transform how children’s entertainment was presented and enjoyed. What’s more, despite the inherent horror, its visuals have proved timeless. Without \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter’\u003c/em>s “The Story of the Man That Went Out Shooting,” in which a hapless hunter has his gun turned on him by a wily hare, there is a good chance that Looney Toons might never have thought to give us a war between Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible not to see the parallels:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/014-1.jpg\" alt=\""The Story of the Man That Went Out Shooting" from 'Der Struwwelpeter.'\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/014-1.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/014-1-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The Story of the Man That Went Out Shooting” from ‘Der Struwwelpeter.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 374px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/elmer_fudd_bugs_bunny.jpg\" alt=\"Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny in a battle of wits.\" width=\"374\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/elmer_fudd_bugs_bunny.jpg 374w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/elmer_fudd_bugs_bunny-160x121.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny in a battle of wits. \u003ccite>(Looney Tunes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dark humor inherent in \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> is also credited with directly influencing the work of beloved children’s authors including Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket and Maurice Sendak—who once called \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> “one of the most beautiful books in the world.” When illustrator Bob Staake\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/138353746/bob-staake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> created his own version\u003c/a> in 2006, he said: “When I was given the book as a kid, I didn’t know if it was a joke or not, but my German parents weren’t laughing. The illustrations and stories just \u003ca href=\"https://bobstaake.com/struwwelpeter/artist.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creeped me out\u003c/a> beyond words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staake isn’t the only one—gothic artists Edward Gorey and Tim Burton are said to be heavily influenced too\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/138353746/bob-staake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.\u003c/a> When The Tiger Lillies toured their \u003ca href=\"https://observer.com/1999/11/your-thumbs-during-shockheaded-peter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“junk opera,” \u003cem>Shockheaded Peter,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in the ’90s, it was the aesthetics of Tim Burton that critics most commonly referenced in order to paint a picture for readers. Is it any wonder when Burton’s Edward Scissorhands bears such a striking resemblance to Shock-Headed Peter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13863857 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Scissorhands bears a striking resemblance to Shock-Headed Peter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-800x743.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-768x713.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-1200x1114.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-1920x1782.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Scissorhands bears a striking resemblance to Shock-Headed Peter.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The macabre elements of the book have also been repeatedly referenced in both music—Rammstein’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ButQO2fi4I\">“Hilf Mir”\u003c/a> is based on “Harriet and the Matches,” and the XTC track \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA28wFRvHA\">“Scissor Man”\u003c/a> is a direct reference to the thumb-severer—and in TV comedy, most notably with references to “The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb” showing up \u003cem>Doctor Who\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIi4ni1LvY\">\u003cem>The Office\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and, most hilariously, \u003cem>Family Guy\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOIOHcw4PI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em>‘s historical influence runs even deeper. During World War II, the allies used the book to make fun of the Third Reich repeatedly, with one \u003ca href=\"http://parridigit.istitutoparri.eu/public/multimediale/1/Monografie/multimedia_source/STR/UW/STRUWWELHITLER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">version by Robert and Peter Spence\u003c/a> transforming “Struwwelpeter” into “Struwwelhitler,” and “Cruel Frederick” into “Cruel Adolph.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another piece of historical satire came in 1975 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Tricky-Dick-his-pals-Struwwelpeter/dp/0812904451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Tricky Dick and His Pals\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, designed to pointedly make a mockery of the Nixon administration. It opens with the lines “Look at this child, so clean and slick. He’s called Obnoxious Tricky Dick! He’d lie and cheat and hit and steal, and wouldn’t care how bad you’d feel,” and stories within the collection see Nixon getting bitten by a dog and shooting himself with his own gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13863813 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"L: Robert and Philip Spence's war-time parody. R: 1974's 'Tricky Dick and his pals: Comical stories, all in the manner of Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann's Der Struwwelpeter' by Joseph Wortis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L: Robert and Philip Spence’s war-time parody. R: 1974’s ‘Tricky Dick and his pals: Comical stories, all in the manner of Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann’s Der Struwwelpeter’ by Joseph Wortis.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> is still incredibly easy to find today, whether that be in the form of the original book, updated \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3QyMA-Pmk4\">animations\u003c/a> that tell the traditional stories, or in the influence it has left behind on other people’s creations. Whether or not it remains appropriate reading for modern-day children remains to be seen, but those that grew up with it are left with vivid memories. “My grandparents had a copy when I was a kid,” KQED’s Senior Social Media Strategist, Carly Severn, recently told me, smile quickly turning to a grimace. “It scared the everloving \u003cem>scheisse\u003c/em> out of me.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s a collection of children’s stories so brutal, it almost outdoes the Brothers Grimm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tales of \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> by Heinrich Hoffman are short, sharp, shocking, and they’ve left a surprisingly deep mark on culture, even though most living Americans have never read them. Today, the astonishing content of \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> hasn’t only irreversibly impacted children’s literature—its influence can still be seen in movies, cartoons, TV shows, and a wealth of parodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863801\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 132px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/harriet.three_.thm_.jpg\" alt='\"The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches.\"' width=\"132\" height=\"186\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To give you some idea of the savagery of the 10 stories in the 1845 collection, consider “The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches,” about a little girl who accidentally sets herself on fire and burns to death while her pet cats watch. Then there’s “The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb,” about a boy named Conrad who refuses to stop sucking his thumbs and subsequently watches them both severed by a creepy, long-legged home-invader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between are tales of comeuppance for characters committing surprisingly graphic animal cruelty (“Cruel Frederick”), racist harassment (“The Story of the Inky Boys” is definitely not woke by 2019 standards, but was considered progressive at the time), and the apparent dastardly sin of not watching where you’re going (“The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air”). In others, one little boy refuses to eat soup for a few days and subsequently starves to death, and another insists on going out for a walk in the rain and flies away in a storm, never to be seen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the smörgåsbord of searing imagery in the book, the one that seems to stick most with people is that of “Shock-Headed Peter”—the \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> of the book’s title. Peter is a little boy publicly humiliated by his own slovenliness. He is depicted as crying and alone “with his nasty hair and hands.” Peter, especially out of context, is pretty damn scary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863713\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/cf153154-d80c-11e6-8f8f-b8b9aedb36b4.jpg\" alt=\"Shock-Headed Peter, of 'Der Struwwelpeter'.\" width=\"450\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/cf153154-d80c-11e6-8f8f-b8b9aedb36b4.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/cf153154-d80c-11e6-8f8f-b8b9aedb36b4-160x167.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shock-Headed Peter, of ‘Der Struwwelpeter’.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My introduction to\u003cem> Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> occurred purely because of this image, which I recently encountered on the sixth floor of the San Francisco Public Library, hanging in the SF History room. The panel featuring Peter’s image was created for the library’s 100th anniversary last year, and still regularly causes a stir. One librarian informed me that a woman recently walked into the room, saw Peter, screamed, then shouted “Get that thing out of here!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a response that might have appalled Heinrich Hoffman. Not only did the German physician originally write the collection for his 3-year-old son, he did so because he wanted his child to have something more light-hearted and humorous than anything else that was available at the time. (Hoffman originally titled the book \u003cem>Funny Stories and Droll Pictures… For Children Ages 3–6\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Struwwelpeter-Humor-Horror-Years-Later/dp/0739116649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Struwwelpeter: Humor or Horror?\u003c/em>\u003c/a> Barbara Smith Chalou explains:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Prior to the 1866 publication of Lewis Carroll’s landmark ‘\u003cem>Alice in Wonderland’ \u003c/em>… most Western children’s books were limited to instruction manuals, Bible passages, moral fables or cautionary tales … In ‘\u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em>,’ we find an intriguing mix of traditional elements with … certain components that were dramatically different than anything previously seen in children’s books. For example, [Hoffman’s] … brightly colored pictures… Nothing resembling this had existed on the market prior to 1845, the date of publication.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter, \u003c/em>then, was one of the world’s first picture books, which is why it quickly warranted \u003ca href=\"https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/05/15/influence-struwwelpeter\">35 translations\u003c/a>—one of which was done \u003ca href=\"https://germanstories.vcu.edu/struwwel/twpete.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by Mark Twain\u003c/a> in 1891—and helped to permanently transform how children’s entertainment was presented and enjoyed. What’s more, despite the inherent horror, its visuals have proved timeless. Without \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter’\u003c/em>s “The Story of the Man That Went Out Shooting,” in which a hapless hunter has his gun turned on him by a wily hare, there is a good chance that Looney Toons might never have thought to give us a war between Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible not to see the parallels:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/014-1.jpg\" alt=\""The Story of the Man That Went Out Shooting" from 'Der Struwwelpeter.'\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/014-1.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/014-1-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The Story of the Man That Went Out Shooting” from ‘Der Struwwelpeter.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 374px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/elmer_fudd_bugs_bunny.jpg\" alt=\"Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny in a battle of wits.\" width=\"374\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/elmer_fudd_bugs_bunny.jpg 374w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/elmer_fudd_bugs_bunny-160x121.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny in a battle of wits. \u003ccite>(Looney Tunes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dark humor inherent in \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> is also credited with directly influencing the work of beloved children’s authors including Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket and Maurice Sendak—who once called \u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> “one of the most beautiful books in the world.” When illustrator Bob Staake\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/138353746/bob-staake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> created his own version\u003c/a> in 2006, he said: “When I was given the book as a kid, I didn’t know if it was a joke or not, but my German parents weren’t laughing. The illustrations and stories just \u003ca href=\"https://bobstaake.com/struwwelpeter/artist.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creeped me out\u003c/a> beyond words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staake isn’t the only one—gothic artists Edward Gorey and Tim Burton are said to be heavily influenced too\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/138353746/bob-staake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.\u003c/a> When The Tiger Lillies toured their \u003ca href=\"https://observer.com/1999/11/your-thumbs-during-shockheaded-peter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“junk opera,” \u003cem>Shockheaded Peter,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in the ’90s, it was the aesthetics of Tim Burton that critics most commonly referenced in order to paint a picture for readers. Is it any wonder when Burton’s Edward Scissorhands bears such a striking resemblance to Shock-Headed Peter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13863857 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Scissorhands bears a striking resemblance to Shock-Headed Peter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-800x743.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-768x713.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-1200x1114.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands-1920x1782.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/scissorhands.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Scissorhands bears a striking resemblance to Shock-Headed Peter.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The macabre elements of the book have also been repeatedly referenced in both music—Rammstein’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ButQO2fi4I\">“Hilf Mir”\u003c/a> is based on “Harriet and the Matches,” and the XTC track \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA28wFRvHA\">“Scissor Man”\u003c/a> is a direct reference to the thumb-severer—and in TV comedy, most notably with references to “The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb” showing up \u003cem>Doctor Who\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIi4ni1LvY\">\u003cem>The Office\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and, most hilariously, \u003cem>Family Guy\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/khOIOHcw4PI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/khOIOHcw4PI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em>‘s historical influence runs even deeper. During World War II, the allies used the book to make fun of the Third Reich repeatedly, with one \u003ca href=\"http://parridigit.istitutoparri.eu/public/multimediale/1/Monografie/multimedia_source/STR/UW/STRUWWELHITLER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">version by Robert and Peter Spence\u003c/a> transforming “Struwwelpeter” into “Struwwelhitler,” and “Cruel Frederick” into “Cruel Adolph.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another piece of historical satire came in 1975 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Tricky-Dick-his-pals-Struwwelpeter/dp/0812904451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Tricky Dick and His Pals\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, designed to pointedly make a mockery of the Nixon administration. It opens with the lines “Look at this child, so clean and slick. He’s called Obnoxious Tricky Dick! He’d lie and cheat and hit and steal, and wouldn’t care how bad you’d feel,” and stories within the collection see Nixon getting bitten by a dog and shooting himself with his own gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13863813 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"L: Robert and Philip Spence's war-time parody. R: 1974's 'Tricky Dick and his pals: Comical stories, all in the manner of Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann's Der Struwwelpeter' by Joseph Wortis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/hitler-dick.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L: Robert and Philip Spence’s war-time parody. R: 1974’s ‘Tricky Dick and his pals: Comical stories, all in the manner of Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann’s Der Struwwelpeter’ by Joseph Wortis.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Der Struwwelpeter\u003c/em> is still incredibly easy to find today, whether that be in the form of the original book, updated \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3QyMA-Pmk4\">animations\u003c/a> that tell the traditional stories, or in the influence it has left behind on other people’s creations. Whether or not it remains appropriate reading for modern-day children remains to be seen, but those that grew up with it are left with vivid memories. “My grandparents had a copy when I was a kid,” KQED’s Senior Social Media Strategist, Carly Severn, recently told me, smile quickly turning to a grimace. “It scared the everloving \u003cem>scheisse\u003c/em> out of me.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The first time I stuck my head into the mouth of a great white shark, I did not flinch. In fairness to the shark, named Bruce, he was old. And made of fiberglass, with chipped wooden teeth. That was nine years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I found him in a Sun Valley, Calif., junk yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, I did it all again. Same shark. Only this time, I broke a sweat and closed my eyes. Bruce had gotten a makeover. He now has row after row of razor-sharp teeth and a hauntingly deep, fleshy gullet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"They're fake, right?\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They’re fake, right? \u003ccite>(Troy Harvey/Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This isn’t just any fake shark. Bruce is a star: the last of his kind from the 1975 classic, \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>, with a devoted fanbase and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Bruce-the-mechanical-shark-from-Jaws-56452762396/\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. And, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opens its much-anticipated movie museum in Los Angeles next year, Bruce will hang in a place of honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just when you thought it was safe to go near a museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of this fearsome 25-foot shark, his restoration, and how he made his way from movie royalty to a junkyard and, finally, to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is quite a fish tale. Only it’s all true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I hope it works’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> opened in the summer of 1975, audiences weren’t just terrified by its star shark. They were fascinated. Because the shark was, in reality, a remarkable feat of human engineering. A mechanical, man-made man-eater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Bruce’s help, the movie chewed through box office records. It became the highest-grossing film of all time and created the tentpole template—releasing big, high-concept films in hundreds of theaters during the summer—that studios use to this day. \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> was also a critical hit, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and winning Oscars for its score, editing and sound. It’s difficult to overstate the movie’s stamp on 1975 America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Nicotero, now a movie effects and make-up icon, remembers seeing \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> as a 12-year-old, with his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom tried to cover my eyes,” he says of the climactic scene when the shark devours the shark-hunter Quint, played by Robert Shaw. “She didn’t want me to see it because she was afraid it would traumatize me, and it did. In a good way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/undefined_custom-128321a7075a9b88c01e0c046e33c8aa5ca712a1.jpe\" alt=\"A 13-year-old Greg Nicotero, second from right, completes his pilgrimage to Universal Studios to see the last surviving Bruce.\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/undefined_custom-128321a7075a9b88c01e0c046e33c8aa5ca712a1.jpe 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/undefined_custom-128321a7075a9b88c01e0c046e33c8aa5ca712a1-160x213.jpe 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 13-year-old Greg Nicotero, second from right, completes his pilgrimage to Universal Studios to see the last surviving Bruce. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Greg Nicotero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For young Nicotero, \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> was a revelation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It] was the movie that made me want to do special effects, because I was fascinated that there was a bunch of dudes hanging out that built this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This” wasn’t just one shark but three, collectively nicknamed Bruce, after director Steven Spielberg’s lawyer, Bruce Ramer. And these “dudes” were a small crew of special effects craftsmen that began with production designer Joe Alves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spielberg and Alves had agreed: To shock audiences, the movie needed a full-size, monster shark that could swim, eat (people, of course) and survive filming in the saltwater off Martha’s Vineyard. But how to build it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, there were no digital effects in 1975. Scares didn’t come from a computer; they were built in a warehouse, out of rubber, plastic and wood. And, it turns out, lots of pneumatic hoses. Alves first took the job to Universal’s in-house effects team. But, he remembers, “when we talked to the effects people, they said, ‘We can’t do that. It’ll take a year, year-and-a-half.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alves didn’t have that kind of time and turned to a special effects legend: the man behind the giant squid from \u003cem>20,000 Leagues Under The Sea\u003c/em>, Bob Mattey. Alves and Mattey had no time to waste. When \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>, the novel, became a best-seller, the studio rushed the film into production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we went to Martha’s Vineyard, it was like, ‘I hope it works,’ ” remembers Roy Arbogast, who worked on the shark team and developed the sharks’ skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film’s trio of man-made sharks worked well enough to terrify generations and break box office records. But they also broke down so often that the film spiraled over schedule and over budget. Studio executives were furious and feared the movie would flop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in deep trouble,” Alves told me. “The studio was reluctant to make the movie; they had no confidence in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, when filming finally ended, with no sign of the film’s future success, the Bruces were abandoned, Alves said. “When we came back, they just dumped the sharks in the back lot, and they just rotted away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The last Bruce\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863682\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers “sling” the last remaining shark cast from the original Jaws mold and lift it, by crane, to a nearby crate. After spending more than 25 years at a Los Angeles junkyard, “Bruce” is headed for a museum. \u003ccite>(Todd Wawrychuk/Courtesy of AMPAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a boy, Greg Nicotero was one of many fans who clamored to see the \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> sharks. But, even by the film’s release, the three original Bruces were beyond repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The studio had not, however, thrown away the mold that Alves, Mattey and their effects team had used to create the Bruces. So the studio quickly made an identical \u003cem>fourth\u003c/em> shark, out of fiberglass, and hung him by his tail for visitors to see at Universal Studios. The next year, 1976, Nicotero was one of countless tourists who posed for a photo next to this last Bruce. Little did he know their paths would cross again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce hung there at Universal Studios for 15 years, until he, like the film franchise he started, had begun to show his age. Around 1990, just a few years after Universal released the fourth installment, the forgettable \u003cem>Jaws: The Revenge\u003c/em>, the studio cut Bruce down, bundled him with a pile of wrecked stunt cars, and shipped him off to a nearby junkyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junkyard owner, Sam Adlen, did not consider the shark junk. He knew immediately what he had, and mounted Bruce onto two tall, metal poles, in the middle of a small clutch of palm trees. And there Bruce would stay, for more than two decades, menacing a sea of scrap metal. One man’s private shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Academy Museum has accepted into its collection the sole surviving full-scale model of the 1975 'Jaws' shark, donated by Nathan Adlen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Academy Museum has accepted into its collection the sole surviving full-scale model of the 1975 ‘Jaws’ shark, donated by Nathan Adlen. \u003ccite>(Michael Palma/Courtesy of AMPAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Greg Nicotero, I too was enthralled with the \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> sharks as a kid. I spent summers in the library, looking for old newspaper and magazine clippings about the Bruces. As a journalist, in 2010, I set out to find them, or what was left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went straight to director Steven Spielberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The original Bruce—or Bruces—were all destroyed,” Spielberg’s spokesman, Marvin Levy, told me back then. “So there is no Bruce existing anywhere, nor any parts thereof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t hesitate. The Bruces, all of them, were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, hardly anyone, including Spielberg, knew the story of Sam Adlen and that one last, fiberglass Bruce. But word had spread among the film’s most devoted fans, that a fourth shark was out there, somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a junkyard, legend had it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After scouring the San Fernando Valley, that’s where I finally found him. With the help of Sam’s son, Nathan, I climbed a ladder and first stuck my head inside Bruce’s mouth. He was in terrible shape after 35 years in the California sun. His gills were chipped, his skin cracked, his wooden teeth rotting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was still, undoubtedly, Bruce. The massive dorsal. The tail as tall as a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127370664\">reported all of this\u003c/a> in the summer of 2010, some \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> fans began making pilgrimages to the junkyard, hoping to catch a glimpse of the shark. Then, in 2016, when Nathan Adlen decided to close the business, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/10/465462317/from-junkyard-to-museum-the-journey-of-a-jaws-shark\">he donated his father’s shark\u003c/a> to the forthcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was just one problem: Bruce was in desperate need of repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce, meet Greg Nicotero\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Nicotero risks his safety to sculpt a new mouth for the museum-bound Bruce. Notice the army of zombie heads on the floor to Nicotero's left, awaiting use for an episode of 'The Walking Dead'.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Nicotero risks his safety to sculpt a new mouth for the museum-bound Bruce. Notice the army of zombie heads on the floor to Nicotero’s left, awaiting use for an episode of ‘The Walking Dead’. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Greg Nicotero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the years since Greg Nicotero’s mother covered his eyes during the terrifying climax of \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>, her son has become one of Hollywood’s go-to special effects and make-up artists and co-founded the award-winning KNB EFX Group. He is perhaps best known for his work breathing life into the dead on the hit television show, \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Nicotero heard that the last Bruce was being donated, he eagerly reached out to the Academy Museum and volunteered to restore the shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I was kind of born to do this,” Nicotero says of the restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce was driven on a flat-bed to Nicotero’s sprawling workshop in Chatsworth, Calif. For six months, Nicotero and his team worked tirelessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While hanging at Universal, Bruce had been painted repeatedly. “So we peeled all that [paint] off,” Nicotero says. “But then there were a billion little stress fractures in the whole thing. So we had to Dremel all the stress fractures out and then patch everything. It was a mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recreate Bruce’s spine-tingling jaws, Nicotero and his team taped huge photos of the original sharks to the workshop’s walls and used them for reference. Nicotero sculpted new gums and a gullet while studying a blown-up still of the originals. New teeth were created using the original molds. Even their placement is faithful to the earlier sharks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mocked up where all the teeth went using all the reference photos,” Nicotero says. “How the teeth are angled—it’s very specific in terms of the ones that are laying back, the ones that are pointing straight up, the ones that are out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, day by day, he says, “it would get closer and closer to looking like the shark that I remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 698px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/jaws08_custom-bf33a5c65436db6dfed48e99eea31b659828538b.jpg\" alt=\"One of the original Bruces, staying dry above just some of the equipment needed to bring it to life.\" width=\"698\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/jaws08_custom-bf33a5c65436db6dfed48e99eea31b659828538b.jpg 698w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/jaws08_custom-bf33a5c65436db6dfed48e99eea31b659828538b-160x152.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the original Bruces, staying dry above just some of the equipment needed to bring it to life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jim Beller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once finished, Greg Nicotero and the Academy Museum invited me to the workshop for a look, before Bruce heads to the museum. Joining us were some of Bruce’s oldest friends, Joe Alves, the film’s production designer, and Roy Arbogast, the now-retired effects artist who created the original sharks’ skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got goosebumps. I’m not kidding,” Arbogast says after going eye-to-eye with the newly restored Bruce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where’s Roger? Did he hear that?” Nicotero says, practically giddy. He cranes his head, looking for the leader of his restoration team, Roger Baena. “Roy Arbogast has goosebumps!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This project, Nicotero admits, was “a labor of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I peer into Bruce’s mouth, and close my eyes, Arbogast and I study the old photos on the wall. In one, I point to a young man who appears to be using a heater on the shark’s gums. They’re wet with glue. Or saltwater. Or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is that you?” I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s me,” Arbogast says, shaking his head. “I’ll be darned. That’s me. I was such a young, handsome guy then.” He laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Kramer, Greg Nicotero, Bruce the Shark, Roger Baena, author Dennis Prince, Joe Alves and Roy Arbogast.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Kramer, Greg Nicotero, Bruce the Shark, Roger Baena, author Dennis Prince, Joe Alves and Roy Arbogast. \u003ccite>(Troy Harvey/Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Actor Jeffrey Kramer also drops by. He played the deputy to Roy Scheider’s police chief in \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Jaws 2\u003c/em>. Kramer remembers production began with him discovering the remains of the shark’s first victim on the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so nervous I could have thrown up on the beach,” Kramer says. “But what an experience. I mean, who knew, Joe?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kramer looks at Alves, then Arbogast. They all stare quietly at the shark that, after more than four decades, suddenly—once again—looks like those sharks of 1974, when these men were all much younger, their careers still ahead of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before production fell behind schedule and the budget doubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4\"> the famous music\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the blockbuster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who knew?” Kramer says, wistfully. “Who knew?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Jaws%27+Shark+Gets+His+Bite+Back%3A+A+Love+Story&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The first time I stuck my head into the mouth of a great white shark, I did not flinch. In fairness to the shark, named Bruce, he was old. And made of fiberglass, with chipped wooden teeth. That was nine years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I found him in a Sun Valley, Calif., junk yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, I did it all again. Same shark. Only this time, I broke a sweat and closed my eyes. Bruce had gotten a makeover. He now has row after row of razor-sharp teeth and a hauntingly deep, fleshy gullet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"They're fake, right?\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_145_slide-9bcae1171354f4ffc61d9ad1349660e65c1e8937.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They’re fake, right? \u003ccite>(Troy Harvey/Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This isn’t just any fake shark. Bruce is a star: the last of his kind from the 1975 classic, \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>, with a devoted fanbase and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Bruce-the-mechanical-shark-from-Jaws-56452762396/\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. And, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opens its much-anticipated movie museum in Los Angeles next year, Bruce will hang in a place of honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just when you thought it was safe to go near a museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of this fearsome 25-foot shark, his restoration, and how he made his way from movie royalty to a junkyard and, finally, to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is quite a fish tale. Only it’s all true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I hope it works’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> opened in the summer of 1975, audiences weren’t just terrified by its star shark. They were fascinated. Because the shark was, in reality, a remarkable feat of human engineering. A mechanical, man-made man-eater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Bruce’s help, the movie chewed through box office records. It became the highest-grossing film of all time and created the tentpole template—releasing big, high-concept films in hundreds of theaters during the summer—that studios use to this day. \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> was also a critical hit, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and winning Oscars for its score, editing and sound. It’s difficult to overstate the movie’s stamp on 1975 America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Nicotero, now a movie effects and make-up icon, remembers seeing \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> as a 12-year-old, with his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom tried to cover my eyes,” he says of the climactic scene when the shark devours the shark-hunter Quint, played by Robert Shaw. “She didn’t want me to see it because she was afraid it would traumatize me, and it did. In a good way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/undefined_custom-128321a7075a9b88c01e0c046e33c8aa5ca712a1.jpe\" alt=\"A 13-year-old Greg Nicotero, second from right, completes his pilgrimage to Universal Studios to see the last surviving Bruce.\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/undefined_custom-128321a7075a9b88c01e0c046e33c8aa5ca712a1.jpe 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/undefined_custom-128321a7075a9b88c01e0c046e33c8aa5ca712a1-160x213.jpe 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 13-year-old Greg Nicotero, second from right, completes his pilgrimage to Universal Studios to see the last surviving Bruce. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Greg Nicotero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For young Nicotero, \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> was a revelation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It] was the movie that made me want to do special effects, because I was fascinated that there was a bunch of dudes hanging out that built this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This” wasn’t just one shark but three, collectively nicknamed Bruce, after director Steven Spielberg’s lawyer, Bruce Ramer. And these “dudes” were a small crew of special effects craftsmen that began with production designer Joe Alves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spielberg and Alves had agreed: To shock audiences, the movie needed a full-size, monster shark that could swim, eat (people, of course) and survive filming in the saltwater off Martha’s Vineyard. But how to build it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, there were no digital effects in 1975. Scares didn’t come from a computer; they were built in a warehouse, out of rubber, plastic and wood. And, it turns out, lots of pneumatic hoses. Alves first took the job to Universal’s in-house effects team. But, he remembers, “when we talked to the effects people, they said, ‘We can’t do that. It’ll take a year, year-and-a-half.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alves didn’t have that kind of time and turned to a special effects legend: the man behind the giant squid from \u003cem>20,000 Leagues Under The Sea\u003c/em>, Bob Mattey. Alves and Mattey had no time to waste. When \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>, the novel, became a best-seller, the studio rushed the film into production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we went to Martha’s Vineyard, it was like, ‘I hope it works,’ ” remembers Roy Arbogast, who worked on the shark team and developed the sharks’ skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film’s trio of man-made sharks worked well enough to terrify generations and break box office records. But they also broke down so often that the film spiraled over schedule and over budget. Studio executives were furious and feared the movie would flop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in deep trouble,” Alves told me. “The studio was reluctant to make the movie; they had no confidence in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, when filming finally ended, with no sign of the film’s future success, the Bruces were abandoned, Alves said. “When we came back, they just dumped the sharks in the back lot, and they just rotted away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The last Bruce\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863682\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/tw1_8414_slide-87c298dee3b12b6217a5d7c22c3faffd75f144e9.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers “sling” the last remaining shark cast from the original Jaws mold and lift it, by crane, to a nearby crate. After spending more than 25 years at a Los Angeles junkyard, “Bruce” is headed for a museum. \u003ccite>(Todd Wawrychuk/Courtesy of AMPAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a boy, Greg Nicotero was one of many fans who clamored to see the \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> sharks. But, even by the film’s release, the three original Bruces were beyond repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The studio had not, however, thrown away the mold that Alves, Mattey and their effects team had used to create the Bruces. So the studio quickly made an identical \u003cem>fourth\u003c/em> shark, out of fiberglass, and hung him by his tail for visitors to see at Universal Studios. The next year, 1976, Nicotero was one of countless tourists who posed for a photo next to this last Bruce. Little did he know their paths would cross again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce hung there at Universal Studios for 15 years, until he, like the film franchise he started, had begun to show his age. Around 1990, just a few years after Universal released the fourth installment, the forgettable \u003cem>Jaws: The Revenge\u003c/em>, the studio cut Bruce down, bundled him with a pile of wrecked stunt cars, and shipped him off to a nearby junkyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junkyard owner, Sam Adlen, did not consider the shark junk. He knew immediately what he had, and mounted Bruce onto two tall, metal poles, in the middle of a small clutch of palm trees. And there Bruce would stay, for more than two decades, menacing a sea of scrap metal. One man’s private shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863683\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Academy Museum has accepted into its collection the sole surviving full-scale model of the 1975 'Jaws' shark, donated by Nathan Adlen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/bruce_slide-8710c90f1e0c2ab638d7ff1ee2f222a43742c61f.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Academy Museum has accepted into its collection the sole surviving full-scale model of the 1975 ‘Jaws’ shark, donated by Nathan Adlen. \u003ccite>(Michael Palma/Courtesy of AMPAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Greg Nicotero, I too was enthralled with the \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> sharks as a kid. I spent summers in the library, looking for old newspaper and magazine clippings about the Bruces. As a journalist, in 2010, I set out to find them, or what was left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went straight to director Steven Spielberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The original Bruce—or Bruces—were all destroyed,” Spielberg’s spokesman, Marvin Levy, told me back then. “So there is no Bruce existing anywhere, nor any parts thereof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t hesitate. The Bruces, all of them, were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out, hardly anyone, including Spielberg, knew the story of Sam Adlen and that one last, fiberglass Bruce. But word had spread among the film’s most devoted fans, that a fourth shark was out there, somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a junkyard, legend had it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After scouring the San Fernando Valley, that’s where I finally found him. With the help of Sam’s son, Nathan, I climbed a ladder and first stuck my head inside Bruce’s mouth. He was in terrible shape after 35 years in the California sun. His gills were chipped, his skin cracked, his wooden teeth rotting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was still, undoubtedly, Bruce. The massive dorsal. The tail as tall as a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127370664\">reported all of this\u003c/a> in the summer of 2010, some \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> fans began making pilgrimages to the junkyard, hoping to catch a glimpse of the shark. Then, in 2016, when Nathan Adlen decided to close the business, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/10/465462317/from-junkyard-to-museum-the-journey-of-a-jaws-shark\">he donated his father’s shark\u003c/a> to the forthcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was just one problem: Bruce was in desperate need of repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bruce, meet Greg Nicotero\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Greg Nicotero risks his safety to sculpt a new mouth for the museum-bound Bruce. Notice the army of zombie heads on the floor to Nicotero's left, awaiting use for an episode of 'The Walking Dead'.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85-1200x899.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/img_8972_custom-604511e6b520f7792d2fe3e85b35613b2c3c95f6-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg Nicotero risks his safety to sculpt a new mouth for the museum-bound Bruce. Notice the army of zombie heads on the floor to Nicotero’s left, awaiting use for an episode of ‘The Walking Dead’. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Greg Nicotero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the years since Greg Nicotero’s mother covered his eyes during the terrifying climax of \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>, her son has become one of Hollywood’s go-to special effects and make-up artists and co-founded the award-winning KNB EFX Group. He is perhaps best known for his work breathing life into the dead on the hit television show, \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Nicotero heard that the last Bruce was being donated, he eagerly reached out to the Academy Museum and volunteered to restore the shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I was kind of born to do this,” Nicotero says of the restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruce was driven on a flat-bed to Nicotero’s sprawling workshop in Chatsworth, Calif. For six months, Nicotero and his team worked tirelessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While hanging at Universal, Bruce had been painted repeatedly. “So we peeled all that [paint] off,” Nicotero says. “But then there were a billion little stress fractures in the whole thing. So we had to Dremel all the stress fractures out and then patch everything. It was a mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To recreate Bruce’s spine-tingling jaws, Nicotero and his team taped huge photos of the original sharks to the workshop’s walls and used them for reference. Nicotero sculpted new gums and a gullet while studying a blown-up still of the originals. New teeth were created using the original molds. Even their placement is faithful to the earlier sharks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mocked up where all the teeth went using all the reference photos,” Nicotero says. “How the teeth are angled—it’s very specific in terms of the ones that are laying back, the ones that are pointing straight up, the ones that are out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, day by day, he says, “it would get closer and closer to looking like the shark that I remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 698px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/jaws08_custom-bf33a5c65436db6dfed48e99eea31b659828538b.jpg\" alt=\"One of the original Bruces, staying dry above just some of the equipment needed to bring it to life.\" width=\"698\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/jaws08_custom-bf33a5c65436db6dfed48e99eea31b659828538b.jpg 698w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/jaws08_custom-bf33a5c65436db6dfed48e99eea31b659828538b-160x152.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the original Bruces, staying dry above just some of the equipment needed to bring it to life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jim Beller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once finished, Greg Nicotero and the Academy Museum invited me to the workshop for a look, before Bruce heads to the museum. Joining us were some of Bruce’s oldest friends, Joe Alves, the film’s production designer, and Roy Arbogast, the now-retired effects artist who created the original sharks’ skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got goosebumps. I’m not kidding,” Arbogast says after going eye-to-eye with the newly restored Bruce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where’s Roger? Did he hear that?” Nicotero says, practically giddy. He cranes his head, looking for the leader of his restoration team, Roger Baena. “Roy Arbogast has goosebumps!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This project, Nicotero admits, was “a labor of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I peer into Bruce’s mouth, and close my eyes, Arbogast and I study the old photos on the wall. In one, I point to a young man who appears to be using a heater on the shark’s gums. They’re wet with glue. Or saltwater. Or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is that you?” I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s me,” Arbogast says, shaking his head. “I’ll be darned. That’s me. I was such a young, handsome guy then.” He laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13863698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Kramer, Greg Nicotero, Bruce the Shark, Roger Baena, author Dennis Prince, Joe Alves and Roy Arbogast.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/190722b_056_slide-8e4d44afd423e820b2d2482279fc63ab5c72503d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Kramer, Greg Nicotero, Bruce the Shark, Roger Baena, author Dennis Prince, Joe Alves and Roy Arbogast. \u003ccite>(Troy Harvey/Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Actor Jeffrey Kramer also drops by. He played the deputy to Roy Scheider’s police chief in \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Jaws 2\u003c/em>. Kramer remembers production began with him discovering the remains of the shark’s first victim on the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so nervous I could have thrown up on the beach,” Kramer says. “But what an experience. I mean, who knew, Joe?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kramer looks at Alves, then Arbogast. They all stare quietly at the shark that, after more than four decades, suddenly—once again—looks like those sharks of 1974, when these men were all much younger, their careers still ahead of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before production fell behind schedule and the budget doubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4\"> the famous music\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the blockbuster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After nearly a century and a quarter as a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico is beset by economic crisis and political chaos. Much of the havoc can be blamed on Hurricane Maria, but the U.S. government wasn’t especially mindful of its citizens—who don’t vote in federal elections and have no elected representative in D.C.—even before the 2018 storm left a trail of death and devastation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Moving in Place\u003c/em>, the finale of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/blog/caribbean-in-motion-a-film-series/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean in Motion film series\u003c/a> playing at MoAD for the last five weeks, gives voice to several twentysomething Puerto Ricans on the island, in New York and Florida. Perennially cheerful yet palpably concerned, they grapple with a complicated present and an uncertain future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Hurricane-Relief-Rally-in-Union-Square-NYC_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Still from 'Moving in Place,' a hurricane relief rally in Union Square, New York City.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"638\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863189\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Hurricane-Relief-Rally-in-Union-Square-NYC_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Hurricane-Relief-Rally-in-Union-Square-NYC_1200-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Hurricane-Relief-Rally-in-Union-Square-NYC_1200-800x425.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Hurricane-Relief-Rally-in-Union-Square-NYC_1200-768x408.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Hurricane-Relief-Rally-in-Union-Square-NYC_1200-1020x542.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Moving in Place,’ a hurricane relief rally in Union Square, New York City. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the filmmakers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A current of injustice runs just below the surface of their testimonies; it’s neither fair nor right that these educated, generous people should encounter so many hurdles contributing to Puerto Rico’s recovery. \u003cem>Moving in Place\u003c/em>, which screens Wednesday, Aug. 7, evokes the inequitable power relationship between the U.S. and the tiny territory, and asks us to hear the lingering echoes of colonialism and exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmmakers Lyka Sethi and Geoffrey Iwata would have better served their subjects—and their talking-head documentary—by editing their interviews with greater rigor. As it is, \u003cem>Moving in Place\u003c/em> is like eavesdropping on a series of conversations: heartfelt, earnest and in the moment. \u003ci>—Michael Fox\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The marks \u003cem>The Sixth Sense\u003c/em> left on pop culture weren’t just immediate, they’ve since proved impossible to erase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXO0he1WjYw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against all the odds—and despite the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKA27kJWmE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endless spoofs\u003c/a> it’s spawned over the last two decades—watching \u003cem>The Sixth Sense\u003c/em> today is just as affecting as it was in 1999. That timelessness is thanks in part to its universal themes around life and death, but ultimately the movie’s enduring watchability has far more to do with what Cole’s character really represents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the movie, Cole is a nine-year-old medium, isolated and bullied by peers because of a general inability to fit in. Cole isn’t picked on because other kids know he’s psychic, he’s picked on simply for being perceptibly different—a predicament painfully familiar to anyone who has suffered through a similarly miserable adolescence. Even when Cole tries his best—as when he recreates a magic trick shown to him by Dr. Malcolm for another child at a birthday party—he is out of step, through no fault of his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its darkest moments, \u003cem>The Sixth Sense\u003c/em> allows Cole to represent not just misfits and minorities, but individuals in the process of surviving abuse. Though he has a loving mother (played stirringly by Toni Collette), Cole is dealing with abuse—both physical and mental—from disturbed spirits. Through his sixth sense he is also exposed to the horrors of domestic violence (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TLLJJllf_Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ghost\u003c/a> of a bruised and suicidal housewife appears in his kitchen), and the gory and tragic results of households that don’t keep their \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK8CrMtyTdk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weapons and children separate\u003c/a>. Witnessing these scenes, Cole isn’t just one single kind of abuse survivor—he embodies all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forced to bear witness to these traumas, it’s impossible for him to interact on the same level as his unencumbered peers, and he suffers in silence, as so many real-life survivors do. In his second session with Dr. Malcolm, Cole confesses that after he drew a picture of a man attacking another man, his school held a meeting about it. “Mom started crying,” he says. “I don’t draw like that anymore … They don’t have meetings about rainbows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cole stays quiet to save his mother from getting hurt, to avoid causing disruption in school, and to prevent embarrassing personal scrutiny, he still has moments where the details can’t help but spill out. And he is often punished for this honesty. When he tells his mom he’s not the person who keeps moving a brooch that belonged to his grandmother, she shouts at him and sends him away from the dinner table. When he tells a teacher that their school, originally a courthouse, used to contain a gallows, his teacher tells him in no uncertain terms that it’s not true—despite the fact that Cole has seen otherwise with his own eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these scenes, \u003cem>The Sixth Sense\u003c/em> offers understanding to survivors who are hesitant to speak up, but much of the rest of the film is spent encouraging them to try anyway. Cole’s relationship with Dr. Malcolm—a symbol of rescue, redemption and recovery—is meticulously designed to demonstrate a specific message to abuse survivors: While not everyone will believe or understand what has happened to you, seeking assistance from outside sources remains worthwhile. One person who believes you, \u003cem>The Sixth Sense\u003c/em> tells us, is all it takes to get on the road to healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, the movie also tells viewers, in explicit terms, to believe survivors—a concept that has only found mainstream, widespread acceptance in the age of #MeToo. (“How can you help me if you don’t believe me?” Cole asks at one point.) The tragic figure of Vincent Grey—the psychic man who shoots Dr. Malcolm and himself at the start of the movie—also acts as a stark warning about the damage wrought when survivors are not taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, \u003cem>The Sixth Sense\u003c/em> is about gaining control and ownership over whatever hand you have been dealt. Dr. Malcolm finds personal healing while helping Cole, which, in turn, enables Cole to pay it forward. By accepting assistance, and learning to trust another person with his secrets, Cole stops running away from the things that scare him the most, and figures out how to turn them into a force for good. In the end, \u003cem>The Sixth Sense\u003c/em> is a guidebook on how to transform darkness into light, pain into healing, and trauma into love. Its impact was seismic in 1999, but, 20 years on, we need its lessons more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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