Nashville: Diegetic Musicals

Years from now, when historians and cultural anthropologists analyze the vital impact of Sub Titles, they’ll look to this episode for the self-evident truth of Tim’s proselytizing for Nashville as well as the origins of our then world famous band Musie and the Beef. It’s all business as usual, I guess I’m saying, to the point that here comes the lit crit terminology too as Tim discusses Diegetic Musicals. The Faustian insanity of Brian de Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise runs into the muted melancholy (and John Goodman) of the Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis.