Spike Jonze and Kanye West: 'We Were Once a Fairytale'
What Jonze's new short film reveals about the hip-hop star
Spike Jonze, left, and Kanye West
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Kanye West "didn't keep a low profile long," said Christopher Farley in The Wall Street Journal. The hip-hop star has been under the radar since interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards last month, but reemerged online Sunday night in a short film directed by Spike Jonze called We Were Once a Fairytale (watch here). The "surreal" 11-minute video stars Kanye as himself, and follows the rapper as he "attends a party and acts obnoxiously—cursing, stumbling around, and throwing up in a bathroom."
"If this is what a night out is like for Kanye," said Simon Vozick-Levinson in Entertainment Weekly, "I feel bad for the guy." Was this video some kind of premonition? It was shot in January, and "certainly his experiences after this film was completed make for a provocative context." But I'm not sure I'd call We Were Once a Fairytale a great video—it's just hard to "look away" from.
But Spike Jonze achieves "the impossible with this short—he makes Kanye West seem almost human," said Jessica Barnes in Cinematical. We Were Once a Fairytale reminds "us that there's probably more going on underneath Kanye's surface than we give him credit for." And this video takes a "very strange (and somewhat disturbing) turn," proving once again that nobody “makes movies like Jonze."
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Posted by Mark, Monday, October 19, 2009, 10:49 pm What a friggin loser.
Posted by Orly, Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 9:33 am Mark Kanye's sunglasses are worth more than your entire life.
Posted by Mark, Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 10:05 am The sadness of that statement is that he has fans that condone his behavior, even idolize his stupity, ignorance and greed. Sad that someone thinks more of an idiot's sunglasses than intelligence.
Posted by Styx, Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 11:41 am Truer words haven't been said in a long time, Mark. Nice to know I'm not the only one who finds Kanye a waste. Yo yo Orly, I'm gonna let you finish, but Mark had the best statement of all time!
Posted by bernard, Thursday, October 22, 2009, 8:54 pm This film has balls. It's common for most people to dog this video because it's out of the ordinary. Most of the people that are criticising this film rather watch a soilder boy video. I don't think Kanye west should pull this video. I love the cinematography, the metaphors. Favorite shot is when he is having sex and then the scene fades to him on top of the couch as if he's been fucking the couch instead of the beutiful girl he encountered. I like the mood that the film shows. Kanye is in a world of his own being beligerent.
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