14 DAY TRIAL // “Avatar” has entered its second week of release and critics continue to sing the praise of this revolutionary film. As James Cameron’s long-gestating project is on its path of totalling $1 billion at the box office, from what the most optimistic predictions say, a spoof documentary on the making of the bootleg of “Avatar” is making the rounds, as Gawker can confirm.
Possible thanks to comedy group Free Love Forum and diffused via Internet (YouTube in particular), the video is shot in a manner similar to Cameron’s interviews prior to the official release of “Avatar,” in which he talked mostly of the technology he invented in order to be able to make the film. However, in Cameron’s place is now Tim Carson who, with the help of two other staffers, take the viewer behind the scenes the making of a bootleg version of “Avatar.”
“Yeah, all you […] paid good money to see ‘Avatar; this weekend, but what about the people who toil to bootleg the movie so other can see it for cheap. Will you give them your money? Or your thanks? Well, you can at least check out ‘Avatar: The Making of the Bootleg’ a funny parody of the movie and ‘making of’ documentary as a whole by the New York sketch comedy group Free Love Forum. And after you watch it, you should rush down to Canal Street to buy the purloined fruit of their labor. OK, maybe just laugh at the video, but either way, this is good stuff,” Gawker writes.
The video shows Carson and his two acolytes even developing a new technology to capture the perfect bootleg version of the blockbuster film, consisting of a camera phone strapped to a hat. Moreover, if regular moviegoers pay good money to see “Avatar” in 3D at an IMAX theater, Carson is also thinking of the fans at home who are not willing to pay the extra buck and would like to see the film at home, for less the money. With this in mind, the bootleg director uses two camera phones for his version, placed strategically in the theater, for a maximum effect.
All in all, a brilliant spoof of what it would take to make a bootleg of “Avatar.” Many media outlets have already pointed out that the “documentary” is even funnier because, in many respects, it happens to be true. You be the judge whether that is truly the case. Below is “Avatar: The Making of the Bootleg.” Enjoy.