Storyline
Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.
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Plot
Pepe the Frog, a character created by Matt Furie and first featured in a comic on MySpace called Boy's Club, is one of four twentysomething postcollegiate slacker friends who live together. In one installment, Pepe is caught by one of his housemates with his pants around his ankles, urinating. Asked why, he replies, "Feels good man".
Development
Feels Good Man is the directorial debut of Arthur Jones. Jones described the film as:
Release
As of early February 2020 the film was seeking distribution. It also appeared as part of PBS 's Independent Lens. In October 2020, it was broadcast by the BBC as part of its Storyville series
Critical response
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Awards and nominations
Feels Good Man won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the Sundance Film Festival. It was also nominated in the festival's U.S. Documentary Competition.
Plot
Pepe is a hired hand, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director, Mr. Holt, buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to go to Hollywood.
Production
George Sidney later recalled "there were problems dealing with the logistics of making a picture in two countries with a writer's strike going on at the same time. It was difficult trying to schedule around this person and that person and getting all of the people together. Shooting in Mexico with two sets of crew down there posed problems.
Reception
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was not impressed.
Soundtrack album
The soundtrack was issued in 1960 by Colpix Records in the U.S. (CP 507) and Pye International Records in the UK (NPL 28015). The tracks were:
Origin: Boy's Club
"My Pepe philosophy is simple: 'Feels good man.' It is based on the meaning of the word Pepe: 'To go Pepe'. I find complete joy in physically, emotionally, and spiritually serving Pepe and his friends through comics. Each comic is sacred, and the compassion of my readers transcends any differences, the pain, and fear of 'feeling good'."
As a meme
Pepe was used in blog posts on Myspace and became an in-joke on Internet forums. In 2008, the page containing Pepe and the catchphrase was scanned and uploaded to 4chan's /b/ board, which has been described as the meme's "permanent home".
Appropriation by the alt-right
During the 2016 United States presidential election, the meme was connected to Donald Trump's campaign. In October 2015, Trump retweeted a Pepe representation of himself, associated with a video called "You Can't Stump the Trump (Volume 4)". Later in the election, Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr.
Use in Hong Kong protests
Pepe the Frog became a symbol of resistance during the 2019 Hong Kong protests.
Use in Cryptocurrency
In a further iteration Pepe has in the cryptocurrency field been brought back to his roots as a protean (albeit explicately non-racist) meme on Twitter and elsewhere, even being featured on a Fortune magazine cover amongst other icons.
Documentary
A 2020 documentary, Feels Good Man, relates the story of Pepe's origins and co-option by the alt-right, and Furie's attempts to regain control over his creation.
Further reading
Furie, Matt (October 13, 2016). "Pepe the Frog Creator: I'm Reclaiming Him. He Was Never About Hate". Time.
Storyline
In Mexico, Pepe is the good-natured ranch foreman of Sr. Rodriguez. Pepe's pride and joy is Don Juan, a magnificent white stud stallion that he raised from a colt for Sr. Rodriguez and that he refers to as his "son". As Sr.
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Final film appearance of both Billie Burke and Charles Coburn who appear together in the same sequence.
Premiered October 19, 2020
Chronicles the surreal story of Pepe the Frog’s journey from laid-back cartoon character to registered hate symbol.
About the Documentary
Feels Good Man is the story of how artist Matt Furie, creator of a trippy, once-benign comic character named Pepe the Frog, fought an uphill battle to reclaim his iconic creation from those who turned it into a symbol of hate.
The Filmmakers
Feels Good Man is Arthur Jones ’s directorial debut, but he’s uniquely suited to tell the story. He’s a cartoonist who came up in the same indie comics scene as the film’s subject, Matt Furie. Jones published a book of his illustrations in 2011: Post-it Note Diaries.
Overview
Feels Good Man is a 2020 American documentary film about the Internet meme Pepe the Frog. Marking the directorial debut of Arthur Jones, the film stars artist Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe. The film follows Furie as he struggles to reclaim control of Pepe from members of the alt-right who have co-opted the image for their own purposes. The film premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival an…
Plot
Pepe the Frog, a character created by Matt Furie and first featured in a comic on MySpace called Boy's Club, is one of four twentysomething postcollegiate slacker friends who live together. In one installment, Pepe is caught by one of his housemates with his pants around his ankles, urinating. Asked why, he replies, "Feels good man". The image becomes a viral Internet meme and is co-opted by the alt-right.
Development
Feels Good Man is the directorial debut of Arthur Jones. Jones described the film as:
The movie is really about him negotiating that uncomfortable reality for himself, [...] Matt’s personal journey really makes the movie really unique that I hope a lot of people find satisfying for a lot of reasons.
Jones, who was also film editor, finished the edit two days prior to the premiere at the Sundanc…
Release
As of early February 2020 the film was seeking distribution. It also appeared as part of PBS's Independent Lens. In October 2020, it was broadcast by the BBC as part of its Storyville series.
Critical response
The film has earned critical acclaim.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95%, based on 81 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The website's consensus reads, "A cautionary tale on internet culture, Feels Good Man is a compelling look at an artist's journey to salvage his creation." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 18 criti…
External links
• Feels Good Man at IMDb
• Trailer
• Official website