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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
2013 · Film · documentary · 88 min
Directed by Michel Gondry
A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.
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I typed out a lot about how I've never compared my nose or leg to an elephant's trunk, but it seemed beside the point. The general idea was it's interesting to think of how we identify things, and this comment reminded me of Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?[0][1] and the idea of psychic continuity.
[0]: https://youtu.be/cv66xFD7s7g
[1]: side note: this documentary was pretty influential to my interest in compilers (specifically lexing and parsing), and is an interesting watch.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chomsky+on+postmodernism
The results are a good start. I read all this a long time ago so I don’t have a list of links. I’d stay on his work and opinions before 2000.
The Documentary “Is the man who is tall happy” is easy to watch. His academic material is borderline incomprehensible. There was a Chomsky generator somewhere.
>> Someone with so little exposure on US airwaves over the decades is not a celebrity.
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0159008/ 165 credits as himself on different programs. 155 in the last 20 years.
Well this makes my point. Let me look at the earliest ten.
Third from bottom is UK. Fourth from the bottom is a Canadian documentary. Sixth and seventh from the bottom are Canadian. Eighth from bottom is Australian. Ninth from bottom is the UK. Tenth from bottom is UK.
Second and fifth from bottom appear to be musical programs, not sure of the country.
Which leaves the earliest, Chomsky's 1969 discussion with William F. Buckley. So 1969 to 1996 that's one credit.
If you look at the other credits, many of them are for non-American programs, or very independently made films (not on the US airwaves as I said).
More recent documentaries like "Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?" are made by Europeans.
Neil deGrasse Tyson has been on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN etc. much more than Chomsky has in the past decade. He is much more of a US celebrity.
Has anyone seem "Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?" by the same author?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1817287