The Wedding Video (MTV Real World folks)
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The Wedding Video (MTV Real World folks)
Ryn | Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 08:33 am     Ok, since I set up my own site I am suddenly getting 1 or 2 e-mails a day from people promoting their stuff. 1st it was National Geographic (a new show - see "casting" in other reality shows), then VH1 yesterday (the diva thing - again listed in other reality shows), and now this morning I got this in the mail about a new movie coming out on DVD. I am just gonna paste the content of the e-mail. Hi... I'm reaching out to all the reality websites to raise awareness of a film I co-directed with Norman Korpi (Real World, NY) called The Wedding Video. It's coming out on DVD May 27th. If you'd like to link-up, or do a story, please let us know! I'll include a brief synopsis below. http://www.weddingvideomovie.com Thanks for your time-- (your site looks great by the way). Clint Cowen You're invited to the wackiest wedding since Robert Altman last threw the rice, where no one is polite and everyone "acts" real. What is truth, and what is fiction? How does one discern reality from pretense? These are serious questions, but if you¹re looking for answers à la Japanese abstraction, German expressionism or Swedish nihilism, keep looking, because The Wedding Video has the answer, "REAL WORLD" style. In the first film to come out of the MTV phenomenon, Norman Korpi (the gay guy from "Real World-New York") and creative partner Clint Cowen have made a deliciously wicked satire that skewers all the clichés and conventions of the reality show. Norm plays "Norm" who hires "Clint" to film his gay wedding. He invites his best friends - all popular "Real World" alums - and has Clint tape them as they arrive for the bachelor party and ceremony. The cast members have great fun parodying the on-air personas that MTV created for them through its editing: San Francisco's Rachel is now the ultimate self-centered , London's Lars has his nose stuck up so high he might die from asphyxiation, and New York¹s Heather B. becomes a walking-talking hip-hop video. And in the "true" manner of such shows, every backstab, every catfight, and every shocking revelation is caught on videotape for our tawdry entertainment. As the reality genre pushes the envelope - and strains credibility - it becomes ripe for parody; who better to do it than the people who created it in the first place? --Andrew Preis |
Ryn | Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 12:17 pm     I just checked out the site - it actually looks kinda cool There is also a 3 or 4 minute trailer there you can download and updates on the former Real World folks involved (there aare several). |
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