(Elijah Robinson) Digital Media Review #2

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.

(Elijah Robinson) Stabby stabby is not nice to art!

I completely disagree of course. Art has a much deeper meaning, even the artist who creates it does not understand fully. When an artist creates something so wonderful and all the people say how amazing it is, you can be sure that most artist are as dumbfounded as all the rest. Because indeed I believe true art is something that God creates and the artist we can see with our eyes is only a pencil wielded by God. That being said, to believe is to stir and to create is to be stirred. The same can be said for plays, even if what is being performed does not have direct insight or easily found meaning. One who has watched such a play may indeed forget all about it but thoughts are the way we shape our beliefs and if a thought or saying gets stuck in your mind and makes you change a certain aspect of a thought or belief then the play has done more than simply be an entertaining knife.