This movie convinced me that anyone who said Kill Bill was violent was a pussy. It was so damned violent that in the final scene when he was beating Malkovich's character's head into pudding everyone who hadn't walked out just sat there giggling...

It seems redundant for me to even mention how much he shamed Gere in this film. An established Hollywood star on screen with a kid picked out from thousands of auditions and the kid absolutely steals the show. Granted it's Gere, so it's not that difficult but still, hell of an introduction. For scene stealing it's up there with Kelly's Heroes (Don Sutherland shaming Clint Eastwood) and Line of Fire (John Malkovich shaming Eastwood again), although they win out because they steal the film from a damn good actor, not Richard "look down, hand on forehead, shake head gently, pick up $15m cheque"* Gere.

* Okay, you got me, that's not really his middle name. His real middle name is Tiffany. Yes, Tiffany. Really. Really!

Why on earth does John Malkovich's ugly mis-shapen head appear in the preview shot for this video?

fatlip is a cool rapper from a little while back.

this is shot by spike jonze, who filmed a music video promo for fatlip (and has gone on to direct such movies as Adaptation and Being John Malkovich).

spike jonze also did a lot with Jackass on MTV, which aired this clip.

Looks like something from "Being John Malkovich".

Stellar, absolutely stellar.

The commentary is great - turns out this is the "special" version - "Hall of the Mountain King" wasn't the version they ran on TV, but it's so much better.

Two interesting comments from that slate article:

1.
"Side note: I was thinking about the fact that Monica Lewinsky's famous blue dress came from the Gap. That was back in the mid-1990s—rosier days for the company. Can you imagine a White House intern now—a well-off woman from Beverly Hills who considers herself fashion-forward—buying a dress from the Gap? I can't. Maybe Banana Republic. … It's just a sign of how badly things have gone for the brand: They can't even get world leaders to ejaculate on their clothes anymore."

2.
"Instead of running the "Dust" spot in just a couple of markets, and tying it exclusively to the remodeling effort, Gap should have used this ad as the centerpiece of a national campaign. Directed by Spike Jonze (the man behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation), the spot is hilariously funny. I love the way it takes its time at first, allowing the petty transgressions to mount. Only after a woman snaps a hanger, with an explosion of plastic shards, does the camera zoom in frenetically and signal that all hell is about to break loose. From here, it's a wild romp, wonderfully executed.

The spot has been linked to all over the Web—evidence of how entertaining it is. And it would have been the perfect solution to the Gap's brand problem: Some self-deprecating humor, mixed with an ingenious visual metaphor. They wouldn't need to change a single word in that tag line. Alas, a spokesperson says they have no plans to run the spot in the future.

I just can't understand spending all that money on a big-name director, and a big-budget shoot, and then frittering the results away on such a limited purpose. Did Gap not see the possibilities? Were they too scared to go for broke? Or are they waiting on designs for some more appealing clothes before they brag about a new beginning? (I suppose they might not feel comfortable selling a revamped brand before they revamp the brand.)"

quote from archibaldtuttle --
During the 2000 Presidential campaign, Al Gore, a movie fan in general and a fan of Being John Malkovich in particular, asked Spike Jonze to come down to his house for a day to follow him and his family around with a camera. Spike brought his tiny handheld video camera and came up with a portrait so real, so humanizing, and so powerful that of course Gore's advisors had to bury it.