By now most of you have seen the controversial comedy “The Interview.”
Let me start by saying that this article is not to summarize the film or talk about the number of times that Katy Perry’s hit “Fireworks” was played during dramatic scenes. (I think it was three.) And similarly, this article is not an attempt to answer one of the questions regarding whether the movie should have been pulled from theaters due to North Korean hackers who gained access to Sony emails and freaked some people out.
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Instead, I just want to throw it out there that Franco and Rogan achieved what they were aiming for, and I’m not talking about a profit. You can see what that goal is, and all the parallels that come with it, just by watching the movie.
In the film, the characters, Aaron Rappaport and Dave Skylark, are in the entertainment business and are extremely successful. But after Anders from “Workaholics” makes fun of Rappaport for the crappy content of his show, they realize they’ve had enough of throwing shit at the audience’s faces, and instead wish to produce real news. So that’s how they come up with the plan of interviewing North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un. They get the entire world’s attention by interviewing him and exposing him for the mere mortal that he is… And they also end up killing him, but that’s unrelated to my argument.
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In real life, Franco and Rogan are both extremely successful in the entertainment business, but obviously wanted to create a funny movie that would appeal to even the least politically in-tuned Americans. They found a way to create a big-time movie that would bring real issues into the mix and maybe stir up some international controversy. Safe to say, it worked.
When I first saw the previews for “The Interview,” I was pumped to see it, and of course it was mostly for the fact that it pushed boundaries and went places that only Franco and Rogan would dare to go.
After the whole Internet-hacking potential war scare, I was more interested in the message than the actual film. Since it became so readily available on YouTube and On Demand, I let most of my friends see it first, with responses that “it was good but not their best.”
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Well, I disagree.
It wasn’t the best film I’ve ever seen, and it definitely wasn’t that great. But Franco and Rogan found a satirical way to get through to me (and hopefully some other people) to re-notice what’s going on in North Korea.
Who knows, maybe they weren’t really intentionally trying to send a message at all, and maybe they are just hilarious idiots. But either way, I thank them for it.
Feature photo courtesy of: MTL Blog
