this was maybe the funniest movie i’ve ever seen. just consistently end to end funny. i can’t wait for the dvd cause they’ve got to have tons more good footage. the scenes are so well thought-out and then they improv on top of that pretty well. i guess if you’ve been playing crazy to this guy for 10+ years it’s basically not even improv. i completely lost it during the post-audition dogpile. and the red bat blue bat. crap. i didn’t get the nazi basketball scene but that’s pretty much the only part i wasn’t psyched on. there are so many quotes ‘ansel adams made me do pushups.’ ‘america deserves this.’ ‘another fuckin day in paradise.’ i think i’m just going to have this on auto-repeat.
so the two things that all reviews of this touch on: is it real? and is it too mean? the first seems defensive - they duped this guy, i don’t want to be duped. to me, who cares? if it’s realistic enough to dupe me, then great. i really don’t think it’s fake though. as for being too mean, well probably, but he’s so dense i never once felt anything would actually hurt him. i never felt uncomfortable watching like i do with some reality comedy (sacha baron cohen’s stuff’s a prime example. i like it but i can’t take it sometimes.)
the main thing it made me ponder was the concept of sad vs. joyful passions, and where this would fall. those concepts are getting muddled to me.
