Over the last couple weeks, Corporate Whoredom has gone into great detail to discuss how the Boondock Saints franchise didn’t focus on art so much as it focused on community.

Troy Duffy wasn’t trying to accomplish critical acclaim with his movies. No teary-eyed award receptions and trophy-clinching thank-you speeches. No “good job” thumbs-up from Jack Nicholson.

Like Billy Shakespeare, Troy was probably motivated by money because paying rent is such a selfish motivator. But Troy got to put what he love together into a vision. He forgo a template that would have allowed him to walk the primrose path of domesticated, “visionary”, filmmaking and instead went ahead and put moments on film that he felt would have made him jump out of his seat, time and time again, screaming, “F*ck Yeah.”

As Troy Duffy said in an interview on cinematical.com:

“the fans found this thing and made it. It was beyond criticism at the time because there was no big f*cking red carpet and advertising campaign…They made it their own thing, and they didn’t really give a sh*t what critics said. And they started protecting the film on the Internet.”

And because of that, people who shared his interests found this movie as well. Lucky for him, there’s a target market in family, larger than life characters, violence, and fraternity.

You can make a movie to achieve artistic feets. You can make a movie to tell people a story. Or in Troy Duffy’s case, you can make a film to relate to people. If you can create characters people wish they could be, even just for a moment, then you have something.

All that matters is that in the end, Troy knew that his fans get the feeling to be Saints, to be motivated to clean up the evil around them, and could put themselves in the Saints shoes. In the end, Troy knew the answer to the following question:

Civility aside, have you ever wanted to be a Boondock Saint – even for a moment?

F*ckin’-a right you did.

(photo credit: 1) Eli Rutten via Flickr 2) Shasta Fox via Flickr)

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Because what Troy Duffy did was technically whoredom, and because he was shamlessly aware of it, Corporate Whoredom levies no punishment as it stands alongside the millions of fans who have embraced the MacMannus brothers…

And shepherds we shall be,
For Thee, my Lord, for Thee.

But here’s the part you have to remember: this bailout does not get us out of our economic jam. This bailout does not create as many jobs as advertised. If they are, they’re lazy government jobs (so, a government job) that further takes us away from a democracy and closer to a liberal social hierarchy. Do I sound cynical? Well, it’ll depends.

What you have to remember is that when you’re running a bailout to “prime a pump”, that one prime never works. Ever try to prime a pump before? Even priming a lawnmower engine? Does the motor ever work on one try? No.

Eventually, harder issues will have to be addressed. Obama n Congress will have to work on not only shoring up the credit issues of the finance institution, but work on policing the industry. It’s still the wild west on Wall St. Always has been. How couldn’t they operate as cowboys? Why do you think Europeans can call us cowboys this many years after the death of John Wayne? You make enough money for enough people and a blind eye can afforded to be turned.

The industry’s accountability – like all business accountability – is based on a near-400-year-old formula designed by a sickly French academic who couldn’t get up before noon and who was too afraid of the Man to speak his peace.Then again, if I’m Rene Descartes n I’m workin’ in 17th Century France, I’m probably presenting an image instead of my essence. Some things never change.

Anyway, an industry as greedy as the finance industry probably had a few people over the course of 400 years figure out how to make A=SE+L work to their advantage. Especially when billions of dollars are to be had.

I’ll continue to dance along why A=SE+L needs to be monitored a little more closely and why the perversion of this formula has helped lead us to our current crisis. And, a couple of 200-level accounting principles will be introduced to better explain the A=SE+L tricks.

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