It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to find out that the guy behind Girls Gone Wild is a jerk. It is surprising to find out just how much of a jerk he is: Joe Francis, the founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He’s pushing himself against me, shouting: “This is what they did to me in Panama City!” It’s after 3 a.m. and we’re in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago. Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing. Francis isn’t laughing. He has turned on me, and I don’t know why. He’s going on and on about Panama City Beach, the spring break spot in northern Florida where Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested him three years ago on charges of racketeering, drug trafficking and promoting the sexua...
Now go watch the trailer for the Illusionist and then there will be a quiz where you have to prove you can tell them apart.
ReplyDeleteActually, they look like a similar era, similar production design, and otherwise entirely different stories from each other. I'll happily see both.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise entirely different aside from both stories focusing on a stage magician who may or may not have actual magic powers.
ReplyDeleteThere are some obvious differences to be sure, but I'm still trying to figure out which team saw the others trailer first, and whether there was any effort (or will be in the future) to make their differences more obvious.
A stage magician who might have real powers, in the heyday of magician stageshows (Vegas withstanding) didn't really stand out as coincident as the era and production design did to me, for some reason.
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