I saved this weeks ago and thought I had posted it, but when
I looked it was a draft and not only that but it would not allow me to open it
so I deleted it and now have posted my luckily saved media review.
I am analyzing "Shia LaBeouf" Live by Rob Cantor.
The scene open with what appears to be a play or show by a small group. Which
eventually reveals itself to be a musical number in which at the very end we
see the only audience member is the subject himself. This is comedy for the
sake of comedy, right? Wrong! The meaning behind it may seem far-fetched, but
the general feeling you get when watching the end is that of unabashed
attention grabbing. Meaning the message being portrayed is that our very own
Shia LaBeouf has financed and possibly wrote this play to have his name in
lights. Attention regardless of whether it is negative or not is better than no
attention at all. However I recently (at that time) got interested in Lon
Chaney, and upon watching a documentary saw something very familiar.
This idea of making a production about an actor in this way
was done all the way back in 1929. However in the documentary it was said that
Lon Chaney wanted to keep his public image pretty scary. Not for himself but to
boost the believability of the film he was in. so the production was put to use
more for the film makers than to Lon Chaney's success, even if he became more famous
from it.
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