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Only 80s Kids Will Remember That Arseface Is Based On A Real Person
For some of us, PREACHER's memorable supporting character is a more authentic glimpse into the decade than your favorite Amblin homage. (NSFW)
When Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg announced they were adapting Vertigo Comics' Preacher for AMC, comic fans had a lot of questions near how the 2 would pull off the material on cablevision TV. Source fidelity, the restrictions of a basic cablevision budget, and what Rogen & Goldberg could and couldn't get away with on AMC were all popular conversation topics. But i topic had me more curious than the others: how were they going to portray the comic's supporting character Arseface?
Considering Arseface is based on a real person.
The 1980s was the height of "Satanic panic," a truly bizarre menstruum in 20th century pop culture history. For much of the decade, parents' groups and news outlets engaged in some highly visible manus-wringing over the demonic threat posed to the nation'southward children past heavy metallic music, horror movies, and fantasy role-playing games. Suburban gossip about Satanic cults conducting ritual rape and murder prompted more a few law enforcement witch hunts. At school, kids traded stories nigh playing records backwards to look for subliminal letters.
At the height of this era, the hysteria coalesced into a high-profile court instance in which the heavy metal band Judas Priest were actually sued for driving two teens to suicide with subconscious messages in their music. On December 23, 1985, afterwards listening to Judas Priest's "Improve By You, Better Than Me," Ray Belknap and James Vance both shot themselves with a .12 estimate shotgun. Belknap died at the scene; Vance, who put the gun under his mentum, survived:
In the wake of the incident, Vance told his family (and their attorney) that subsequently a night of drinking and drugs, he and Belknap heard a message inside Judas Priest's Stained Form album. "…Of a sudden we got a suicide bulletin, and nosotros got tired of life." In a bulletin to Belknap'southward mother, Vance doubled down. "I believe that alcohol and heavy metal music such as Judas Priest led us to be mesmerized."
The instance was huge news. Judas Priest were dragged into a Reno courtroom for a six-week trial to answer for their declared role in the death of i male child and the horrible maiming of another. The ring listened to Vance's testimony and watched their own albums beingness picked apart by attorneys and experts looking for hidden messages. Singer Rob Halford was ordered to sing on the witness stand.
Ultimately a judge ruled that while there might have been subliminal messages in Judas Priest'due south record, they were buried too deep in the mix to be discerned by a normal listener. (The band's manager somewhat cynically retorted, "If we were going to do that, I'd be saying, 'Buy seven copies,' non telling a couple of screwed-up kids to kill themselves.") Just the crux of the guess'due south ruling was that music can't brand you impale yourself, and the example was dismissed.
Music would continue to come under fire by the regime for much of the decade, charged with corrupting America's youth in one fashion or another. Vance died two years later of a medication overdose while hospitalized for depression. Vii years later, "Arseface" turned up in Preacher #ii, and the similarities (in appearance and backstory) between him and Vance are undeniable. At least Garth Ennis gave the character a happier, if much weirder, 2d act than James Vance always got.
For some of us, Preacher 'south resurrection of Vance's mangled visage brings back memories of this horrible period in a surprising way. If you saw James Vance's face during the coverage of that trial, you lot didn't forget it. And it'southward a weird irony indeed to run into folks online jubilant the magic and wonder of a decade (ane for which many of them weren't notwithstanding alive) while over on AMC, Preacher has been stealthily spotlighting the bleak, disfigured, heavy metallic dirtball face up of the 80snosotros recall.
Dream Deceivers , the great 1992 documentary most James Vance vs Judas Priest, is available to lookout on Amazon Prime.
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Source: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/08/05/preachers-arseface-was-a-real-person-graphic
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