PopTodd (scary enough?) Wrote:
This looks hysterically offensive.
What I want to know is whether or not the satellite performers (animal shelter woman/police) were in on it while filming was going on.
Reactions appear pretty damn genuine.
I think it's a mix. I heard an interview on NPR with the original director Todd Phillips (Old School, School for Scoundrels, Starsky & Hutch). He said they tried to do the straight documentary style & the camera crew takes away from it because the people can look at the crew & go "what is wrong with this guy?" & it breaks it. It gives them an out. I don't know how Larry Charles approached it but I know Sacha wanted to keep the documentary style & not script it, but I gotta believe some of it is acted. And I'm not talking about the parts with Pam Anderson. I think some of the man on the street stuff might be scripted.
The
Todd Phillips interview is actually pretty interesting. He did a documentary on Frats for HBO years ago. It was never shown because so many of the participants said they signed the release either stoned or drunk & had parents who were lawyers or could afford good lawyers. He's really anti frat in that he doesn't understand why when you're finally free & considered an adult you run out & join a organisation where everyone is the same. So he talks about the reaction he gets from frat boys from the moment they findout he directed "Old School", to when they findout he wasn't in a frat & looks down on them.
