The Long Hangover of the Roaring Eighties
By TOM DEIGNAN
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It takes a brave movie to open with a voice-over clarifying “the difference between a failure and a fiasco.” As Drew Baylor explains at the beginning of “Elizabethtown,” any fool can achieve failure; it takes a special genius to create a fiasco. The distinction is of interest to Drew, a clever young sneaker-designer at a company mischievously patterned after Nike, because the shoe he has spent eight years designing, the “Spasmotica,” turns out to be so unpopular that it loses the company $972 million. That, needless to say, is a fiasco.
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|It takes a brave movie to open with a voice-over clarifying “the difference between a failure and a fiasco.” As Drew Baylor explains at the beginning of “Elizabethtown,” any fool can achieve failure; it takes a special genius to create a fiasco. The distinction is of interest to Drew, a clever young sneaker-designer at a company mischievously patterned after Nike, because the shoe he has spent eight years designing, the “Spasmotica,” turns out to be so unpopular that it loses the company $972 million. That, needless to say, is a fiasco.
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