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The <em>Pitch Perfect</em> 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
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Jen Carlson
Published Nov 24, 2014
Modified Nov 24, 2014
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The below video, in perfect Room 237 styling (Kubrick, Kendrick, Kubrick, Kendrick!), picks apart the seemingly lighthearted movie Pitch Perfect and determines that it's really “about, and in protest against, 9/11."
The creators went to such impressive lengths to pull every detail from Pitch Perfect to relate it to September 11th, at times it's dizzying. The narrator of the parody has a steady, convincing tone, while declaring things like: "What Kendrick's doing here is telling us to literally turn the beat around? Turn beat around and you get taeb. So what does this 'taeb' mean? One Google search and the first result is Hossein Taeb, head of the intelligence bureau of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Kendrick is waving her arms at us, telling us we have it wrong, 9/11 was not perpetrated by the CIA. If anything, it seems like 9/11 was a carefully coordinated attack by Muslim extremists known as Al Qaeda." You can watch the full thing here:
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Jen Carlson
Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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