Clever. Before the ‘Thunder’ comes the ‘Madness,’ “Rain of Madness” that is, a viral meta-mockumentary about “Tropic Thunder,” in the same tradition as Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” and Eleanor Coppola’s accompanying documentary, “Hearts Of Darkness.” (though it’s actually directed by directed by Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper with assistance by Eleanor, but perception is always nine-tenths of the bragging-rights law, right?)
Only instead of a female filmmaker married to the lenser, the documentary is “directed” by German born filmmaker Jan Jürgen (Justin Theroux, ‘Thunder’s co-writer with Ben Stiller). Writes fake Jurgen on the “Rain of Madness” website:
“Like all of you, I have for many year been fascinated by that most magicalest of all places; ‘Hollywood.’ As a boy, I would go to the cinema, and marvel at the people on the silver screen. I remember thinking; “There must be a darker, more forbidding and more sinister side to the glittering facade of Hollywood. More sinister than what the public sees, one with a putrid and rotten core. What is it that makes thousands of people, year after year, travel to this land of Oz, in search of fame, fortune and celebrity, only to be torn to shreds in the shrieking jaws of the Hollywood system?”
The documentary as Jurgen says will follow a “raw, unedited glimpse behind the corrosive, fetid, curtain of flesh, known to you and I as simply; Hollywood’. ” You gotta love the Doors-like shaman-esque music in the background and the knowing narration spoof of ‘Apocalypse’s legendary travails, “After only 5 days of shooting, the film was two months behind schedule and $100 million dollars over budget.” [via Vulture]
