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Jacqueline Novak Is Giving Audiences “Everything She’s Got”

2024/2/13
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Jacqueline Novak: Novak的Netflix特辑《Get On Your Knees》并非简单的段子串联，而是一场关于性、权力、女性困境和男性虚荣的快速、充满隐喻和政治讽刺的“咆哮”。她以独特的视角探讨了口交这一主题，并将其与更广泛的社会文化议题联系起来。她并不回避尴尬和羞耻，反而将其作为喜剧创作的素材。她快速密集的表演风格是出于对观众注意力的掌控和对自身表达的追求，力求在有限的时间内传达尽可能多的信息和观点。她对语言和隐喻的运用方式感到不满，认为其被过度简化和误解，并试图通过自己的作品来挑战和颠覆这些刻板印象。她并不担心“取消文化”，认为艺术家有权创作，无需顾虑是否会冒犯他人。她也不愿对其他喜剧演员的作品进行评论，认为这会影响她作为艺术家的独立性。她认为作品中的“男性脆弱性”主题并非刻意为之，而是自然而然地流露出来，她希望观众能够通过观看作品来体会其中的张力与矛盾。 David Remnick: Remnick作为访谈者，引导Novak阐述其作品的创作理念、表演风格以及对社会议题的思考。他肯定了Novak作品的独创性和艺术性，并就其表演风格、主题选择以及对“取消文化”的看法等方面进行了深入探讨。他指出Novak的作品快速、充满隐喻和政治讽刺，并探讨了其表演风格背后的原因和意图。他帮助观众理解Novak作品中所体现的复杂性和多层次性，并引导Novak对作品中涉及的社会文化议题进行更深入的探讨。

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The comedian Jacqueline Novak wasn’t well known before her Netflix début “Get on Your Knees.” The show was a big swing in her career, an ambitious attempt to establish her singular voice, and it worked. A fast-paced and raucous examination of her personal journey with oral sex, Novak tosses out so many tangents—philosophical, psychological, anatomical, linguistic—that you’re liable to miss many of her allusions. Novak knows that her hectic delivery is an acquired taste. “We’ve got to get through this, because I’ve got a lot to say,” she tells David Remnick. Although she relentlessly probes the power dynamics between men and women, she doesn’t “want to come out here and say ‘male fragility.’ I’m really not trying to do that. But it happens, sort of.” The show could make a lot of people uncomfortable, but she’s not worried about cancellation, as many male comedians have been. “Choosing to make art of any kind is sort of this self-appointment. No one’s asking you to do it. So it’s sort of weird for me to get into a mind-set as though you're owed any comfort.”