Wednesday, August 13, 2008

A Piece of the Mask



This April 2008 Cornfeld/Steinhoff videoclip, which I will be updating once the Cornfeld- produced "Tropic Thunder" can be edited through it being broadcast on television, can already be seen in relation to "Tropic Thunder":
  1. In this April 2008 videoclip, a Steinhoff-related work shows a man with a gorilla mask complaining that his mask/costume doesn't come off. In "Tropic Thunder", the Robert Downey, Jr. character undergoes a special treatment to make a change to his face/skin (he is made African American) something that cannot (easily) be altered (the special treatment is portrayed as a first that transcends the concept of theatrical makeup);
  2. In the April 2008 videoclip, Jack Black in "Tenacious D" is shown beaten up and lying on the ground, opening his eyes to see Kyle standing over him - which the I correlate in the videoclip to an incident in 1975 on an AFI film shoot when I was knocked unconscious by an exposed live wire, opening my eyes to see Cornfeld standing over me. In "Tropic Thunder", we again see Jack Black's character lying on the ground, opening his eyes to several of the other characters standing over him.
Though other things that surface in "Tropic Thunder" might deserve being correlated to material in relation to me, included deliberately in that movie for that reason, I would be putting myself and my credibility exceptionally far out on a limb to do so. Perhaps someday, when we're all on the same page.

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