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Everything is Everything is just that and a bag of chips. Well, take away the chips and it's really just a mocumentary, but a mocumentary on a grand scale. Produced by Studio 8 Entertainment, Everything is Everything is documentary about three clueless individuals from Baton Rouge Louisiana who fight evil, rewrite the national anthem, and make a documentary about Abraham Lincoln. Yea, you read right.
Justin Justice is Baton Rouge's number one crime fighter and schoolyard equipment examiner. He keeps the city, and playground children, safe from harm's way. Criminals might just stay clear and keep straight if they new this "crime-fighting superhero" even existed. Actually, they probably wouldn't care, but that isn't the point. His heart is in the right place, and his sights are set on President Bush. Oh, we're not talking assassination; we're talking protective services with baggy pants and a bitchin' superhero costume, cape included.
Dale Kernie believes he's composed the next great national anthem, along with other songs recanting the grandeur of Thanksgiving for example. Dale doesn't let little things like his lack of talent get in his way. His enthusiasm and optimistic determination could take him far, or at least he thinks so. As long as he can get his music heard he feels he's bound for fame and fortune. When you break it down, Dale is really just a pumped up version of Richard Simons, but a little more pathetic.
Russell Cagle has a vision to create great cinema. You know the type of cinema that really hits you hard and pulls all your emotions to a festering stew. Like when Jaws attacks that helicopter in Jaws 2. Such great cinema deserves this mans struggle to produce his documentary. Knowing something about Lincoln would help, along with having equipment and crew. Russell is an almost homeless country-bumpkin moocher who belittles his companions and takes advantage of women for tens of dollars. This of course is OK, because he's got vision. Abraham Lincoln didn't quit; he got right back in his tank and kept on fighting the Nazi's. Russell carries that same go-getter attitude with him in pursuit of his documentary.
Now although this isn't as great a mocumentary as "Best in Show" or "A Mighty Wind", it's defiantly a contender. Everything is Everything has its flaws. It's poorly lit at times, and has a home made feel to it. It's story is loose and ragged, and some of the timing is off or weird and some performances are awful. Additionally, the reason for the documentary is never established, and the eventual meeting in DC leaves something to be desired. But what Everything is Everything does have is some great original humor and at points the good really outweigh the bad. The main lead characters transform themselves into their characters and deliver line after line of seriousness that's often pure genius. Everything is Everything is defiantly worth the watch, especially if you're into mocumentary film-making. And even if your not, you can laugh at it instead of with it.
Factoid: one good mocumentary is worth at least 500 bad films.
Justin Justice is Baton Rouge's number one crime fighter and schoolyard equipment examiner. He keeps the city, and playground children, safe from harm's way. Criminals might just stay clear and keep straight if they new this "crime-fighting superhero" even existed. Actually, they probably wouldn't care, but that isn't the point. His heart is in the right place, and his sights are set on President Bush. Oh, we're not talking assassination; we're talking protective services with baggy pants and a bitchin' superhero costume, cape included.
Dale Kernie believes he's composed the next great national anthem, along with other songs recanting the grandeur of Thanksgiving for example. Dale doesn't let little things like his lack of talent get in his way. His enthusiasm and optimistic determination could take him far, or at least he thinks so. As long as he can get his music heard he feels he's bound for fame and fortune. When you break it down, Dale is really just a pumped up version of Richard Simons, but a little more pathetic.
Russell Cagle has a vision to create great cinema. You know the type of cinema that really hits you hard and pulls all your emotions to a festering stew. Like when Jaws attacks that helicopter in Jaws 2. Such great cinema deserves this mans struggle to produce his documentary. Knowing something about Lincoln would help, along with having equipment and crew. Russell is an almost homeless country-bumpkin moocher who belittles his companions and takes advantage of women for tens of dollars. This of course is OK, because he's got vision. Abraham Lincoln didn't quit; he got right back in his tank and kept on fighting the Nazi's. Russell carries that same go-getter attitude with him in pursuit of his documentary.
Now although this isn't as great a mocumentary as "Best in Show" or "A Mighty Wind", it's defiantly a contender. Everything is Everything has its flaws. It's poorly lit at times, and has a home made feel to it. It's story is loose and ragged, and some of the timing is off or weird and some performances are awful. Additionally, the reason for the documentary is never established, and the eventual meeting in DC leaves something to be desired. But what Everything is Everything does have is some great original humor and at points the good really outweigh the bad. The main lead characters transform themselves into their characters and deliver line after line of seriousness that's often pure genius. Everything is Everything is defiantly worth the watch, especially if you're into mocumentary film-making. And even if your not, you can laugh at it instead of with it.
Factoid: one good mocumentary is worth at least 500 bad films.
- 3.5/5 Little Guys -
Each film on this compilation was technically superb. The lighting, the sound, the editing, everything. The entire compilation was nearly flawless. There was only one exception; it was quite possibly the most boring thing I have ever witnessed. Now don't get me wrong. I love a good art film as much as the next guy. Give me an experimental stream of consciousness any day. Give me Dziga Vertov , give me Rene' Clair, I can take them, I like them. Just don't give me another art school film about how life is really boring and routine.
The second film on this compilation probably best describes the entire group. The film, A Shadow Before Sunrise, follows the day to day routine of a mortician as he talks to clients, smokes, drives home, smokes, watches TV, smokes, goes back to work and smokes again. There is a great special feature on the DVD where the filmmaker, Jacob Strunk, talks about his craft and takes a minute to explain this particular film. In it, he says people always, (I'm paraphrasing here) people always try to formalize events in their lives. Weddings, birth, death, etc, we all try to formalize them and we miss the deeper meaning in our lives. So this film follows one man throughout his routine life. But something happens in this man's life. He meets a woman and, as Strunk explains, his routine deteriorates. He has made a connection with another living being and breaks out of his formalized life, but unable to handle the change, he crumbles.
That's great. I buy that as a concept and I'm sure many others do as well. And maybe to get the point across that his life is boring and routine we must watch him smoke countless cigarettes (I recently quit smoking so this was hard for me) and we must watch him stare at nothing everyday. I have only 2 problems with the concept, first there was no perceived connection between these people. He stared at her and later fantasized about being with her naked. They had a brief disjointed conversation and he almost touched her, but that was all. I never would have known there was a connection if I hadn't watched the extra features. The second problem was that in order for a film to work (in my opinion) you must get the audience to feel what the characters are feeling. If you want the audience to feel your character's boredom, well that's easy, and you don't even need good lighting. The problem however, is that you end up with a bored audience that concentrates on that rather than the point of the film.
That being said, I would recommend this film. If you want to see an artist at work. If you want to see how a skilled filmmaker can meticulously create a scene and create a mood using the bare essentials of light and shadow. If you want to see skilled actors actually work at feeling and becoming their characters. If you want to hear the background, hear the actors move, squeak and ruffle their clothes. If want no musical score. If you want to see single takes that can last 5 minutes or more. If you want any of these things, then see these films. They are really quite good. And there is also a music video that kind of peps things up a little.
The second film on this compilation probably best describes the entire group. The film, A Shadow Before Sunrise, follows the day to day routine of a mortician as he talks to clients, smokes, drives home, smokes, watches TV, smokes, goes back to work and smokes again. There is a great special feature on the DVD where the filmmaker, Jacob Strunk, talks about his craft and takes a minute to explain this particular film. In it, he says people always, (I'm paraphrasing here) people always try to formalize events in their lives. Weddings, birth, death, etc, we all try to formalize them and we miss the deeper meaning in our lives. So this film follows one man throughout his routine life. But something happens in this man's life. He meets a woman and, as Strunk explains, his routine deteriorates. He has made a connection with another living being and breaks out of his formalized life, but unable to handle the change, he crumbles.
That's great. I buy that as a concept and I'm sure many others do as well. And maybe to get the point across that his life is boring and routine we must watch him smoke countless cigarettes (I recently quit smoking so this was hard for me) and we must watch him stare at nothing everyday. I have only 2 problems with the concept, first there was no perceived connection between these people. He stared at her and later fantasized about being with her naked. They had a brief disjointed conversation and he almost touched her, but that was all. I never would have known there was a connection if I hadn't watched the extra features. The second problem was that in order for a film to work (in my opinion) you must get the audience to feel what the characters are feeling. If you want the audience to feel your character's boredom, well that's easy, and you don't even need good lighting. The problem however, is that you end up with a bored audience that concentrates on that rather than the point of the film.
That being said, I would recommend this film. If you want to see an artist at work. If you want to see how a skilled filmmaker can meticulously create a scene and create a mood using the bare essentials of light and shadow. If you want to see skilled actors actually work at feeling and becoming their characters. If you want to hear the background, hear the actors move, squeak and ruffle their clothes. If want no musical score. If you want to see single takes that can last 5 minutes or more. If you want any of these things, then see these films. They are really quite good. And there is also a music video that kind of peps things up a little.
- 3/5 Little Guys -
Each film on this compilation was technically superb. The lighting, the sound, the editing, everything. The entire compilation was nearly flawless. There was only one exception; it was quite possibly the most boring thing I have ever witnessed. Now don't get me wrong. I love a good art film as much as the next guy. Give me an experimental stream of consciousness any day. Give me Dziga Vertov , give me Rene' Clair, I can take them, I like them. Just don't give me another art school film about how life is really boring and routine.
The second film on this compilation probably best describes the entire group. The film, A Shadow Before Sunrise, follows the day to day routine of a mortician as he talks to clients, smokes, drives home, smokes, watches TV, smokes, goes back to work and smokes again. There is a great special feature on the DVD where the filmmaker, Jacob Strunk, talks about his craft and takes a minute to explain this particular film. In it, he says people always, (I'm paraphrasing here) people always try to formalize events in their lives. Weddings, birth, death, etc, we all try to formalize them and we miss the deeper meaning in our lives. So this film follows one man throughout his routine life. But something happens in this man's life. He meets a woman and, as Strunk explains, his routine deteriorates. He has made a connection with another living being and breaks out of his formalized life, but unable to handle the change, he crumbles.
That's great. I buy that as a concept and I'm sure many others do as well. And maybe to get the point across that his life is boring and routine we must watch him smoke countless cigarettes (I recently quit smoking so this was hard for me) and we must watch him stare at nothing everyday. I have only 2 problems with the concept, first there was no perceived connection between these people. He stared at her and later fantasized about being with her naked. They had a brief disjointed conversation and he almost touched her, but that was all. I never would have known there was a connection if I hadn't watched the extra features. The second problem was that in order for a film to work (in my opinion) you must get the audience to feel what the characters are feeling. If you want the audience to feel your character's boredom, well that's easy, and you don't even need good lighting. The problem however, is that you end up with a bored audience that concentrates on that rather than the point of the film.
That being said, I would recommend this film. If you want to see an artist at work. If you want to see how a skilled filmmaker can meticulously create a scene and create a mood using the bare essentials of light and shadow. If you want to see skilled actors actually work at feeling and becoming their characters. If you want to hear the background, hear the actors move, squeak and ruffle their clothes. If want no musical score. If you want to see single takes that can last 5 minutes or more. If you want any of these things, then see these films. They are really quite good. And there is also a music video that kind of peps things up a little.
The second film on this compilation probably best describes the entire group. The film, A Shadow Before Sunrise, follows the day to day routine of a mortician as he talks to clients, smokes, drives home, smokes, watches TV, smokes, goes back to work and smokes again. There is a great special feature on the DVD where the filmmaker, Jacob Strunk, talks about his craft and takes a minute to explain this particular film. In it, he says people always, (I'm paraphrasing here) people always try to formalize events in their lives. Weddings, birth, death, etc, we all try to formalize them and we miss the deeper meaning in our lives. So this film follows one man throughout his routine life. But something happens in this man's life. He meets a woman and, as Strunk explains, his routine deteriorates. He has made a connection with another living being and breaks out of his formalized life, but unable to handle the change, he crumbles.
That's great. I buy that as a concept and I'm sure many others do as well. And maybe to get the point across that his life is boring and routine we must watch him smoke countless cigarettes (I recently quit smoking so this was hard for me) and we must watch him stare at nothing everyday. I have only 2 problems with the concept, first there was no perceived connection between these people. He stared at her and later fantasized about being with her naked. They had a brief disjointed conversation and he almost touched her, but that was all. I never would have known there was a connection if I hadn't watched the extra features. The second problem was that in order for a film to work (in my opinion) you must get the audience to feel what the characters are feeling. If you want the audience to feel your character's boredom, well that's easy, and you don't even need good lighting. The problem however, is that you end up with a bored audience that concentrates on that rather than the point of the film.
That being said, I would recommend this film. If you want to see an artist at work. If you want to see how a skilled filmmaker can meticulously create a scene and create a mood using the bare essentials of light and shadow. If you want to see skilled actors actually work at feeling and becoming their characters. If you want to hear the background, hear the actors move, squeak and ruffle their clothes. If want no musical score. If you want to see single takes that can last 5 minutes or more. If you want any of these things, then see these films. They are really quite good. And there is also a music video that kind of peps things up a little.
- 3/5 Little Guys -