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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Now I Want to Do My Own Video Dating Video, Just to Remake This Thing Shot-For-Shot, Gus Van Sant Style

After talking all brash in one post, I like to follow it up in the next with some crappy re-post of a years-old You-Tube video. It's all about the juxtaposition.



Now, everybody wants to say this is fake, and maybe so. But if that's the case, then this guy is a better actor than Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon put together.

5 comments:

Lunarchick said...

Laughing...laughing a lot..a whole lot....

Steven, Steven Morris you are a God.

dogimo said...

Well, yeah! I'd say he is either way, right?

I'm kind of pulling for it to be fake. Because I have to say, it's a very raw performance there. Touches something very painful in the universal nerve. Now that's true whether he is living it out through his experience, or creating it through his art! Those emotions being depicted are real either way, and tons of us can relate. BIG-TIME, in my case, because I used to have a jean jacket JUST LIKE that one.

So yeah. The way I look at it, this is a document whose power is undeniable whether it was crafted via documentary techniques or via consummate craft and performance. Art can nail the center truth, sometimes even where mere truth itself shoots wide!

But in this case, where clearly the end result hits the mark, I'd rather believe that the dude we see is a giver of a beautiful performance, rather then the recipient of an excruciating life.

dogimo said...

...of course, "recipient" isn't really accurate. It isn't like someone hands you your life, hands you who you are, and you have no blame and no say. No.

Each of us creates the self we are from the life that we choose to lead. We're born with the raw material, into a certain place and time, but the self and the life we create from those given elements is entirely an original work, where the title and the author are one: "I".

Lunarchick said...

I am a God. I create my own reality.

Hm, but then why didn't I choose something much more comfortable or easy? I guess I like the struggle. I am hard core like that.

dogimo said...

The problem is billions of others of comparable creative power, all crowded into your tiny sphere of influence.

It is a pretty sweet sphere, though. I think the trick is to appreciate the sphere, and the others if you can, and not worry so much about the influence.