RE: Hip to Be Square

Matt Edwards SmashCut Talk

SmashCut Talk thumbnailIn response to Elisabeth, (who I now imagine as the fictional writer Joan Wilder from the movie Romancing the Stone. A film any self-respecting hipster should love,)  and the question of “what’s wrong with liking good things?”  As Lincoln driving Matthew McConaughey has reminded us, sometime we do things not to be cool or to make a statement, but just because we like it.

Matt Edwards

Matt Edwards is a filmmaker in his native Los Angeles. He is an alumnus of the 2011 Taliesin Nexus Filmmakers Workshop, a 2014 Liberty Lab Fellow and the current editor of SCC. Matt is also host of the The Rear View film podcast. Follow @TRVpodcast and @mattchrised on Twitter.

  • Elisabeth Wolfe

    I rest my case (and haven’t ever seen Romancing the Stone…). :D