The Jonze/Kaufman team crystallizes what will become many of their trademarks with ironic confidence, given how much the film is centered on a pathological lack of confidence in its main character, aspiring puppeteer Craig Schwartz ( John Cusack, excellent). The breakout, debut film for Jonze and screenwriter extraordinaire Charlie Kaufman (and in some way, for the prolific John Malkovich), Being John Malkovichremains a wild blast of imagination, humor, unmerciful psychological examination, and raw bravado - though many elements age strangely, or do not age well at all, upon modern viewing.
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Here, Jonze overworks every element of the frame, stuffing it with quick-cut archive footage, brief snippets of tunes, and these truly embarrassing direct addresses from the Beasties in a matter that feels less like "one of our great filmmakers" and more like "an average VH1 music doc." If you want to watch a great exploration of a great musician from a director named "Spike," this one might do you better. Jonze tends to give his unusual, interesting subjects an amply simple base reality to pop off and shine.
Watching Ad Rock and Mike D deliver obviously scripted, rose-colored crafted, cheesily communicated summaries of their lives to a group of applauding superfans felt inauthentic, cornball, self-congratulatory, and unnecessary - all qualities I would never in a million years never assign to either Jonze's nor the Beastie Boys' other works. And it should be a perfect object for me, who's been a fan of the Beastie Boys since the beginning, and purchased "The Work of Director Spike Jonze" DVD in part to acquire all his Beastie videos.Īnd yet, I couldn't stand Beastie Boys Story on a granular, minute-to-minute level. All of this should coalesce to a perfect fusion of boundary-breaking styles and muckraking sensibilities, especially given Jonze and the Beastie Boys' stunning track record of previous collaborations (The one-two of "Sabotage" and "Sure Shot"? C'mon). Beastie Boys Storyis a curious hybrid film, a mixture of documentary, storytelling, and one-man show (er, two-man show), all cut with rampant meta-textual "what are we doing?" interjections from Jonze, who speaks over his subjects, Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz and Mike "Mike D" Diamond ( Adam "MCA" Yauch, the third Beastie Boy, died in 2012 of cancer), via god mic. Jonze's only misfire, and it's a downright shame if you ask me.
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