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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHilariously awkward interview of Shouty Spice by Breitbart following court ruling.
http://www.avclub.com/article/sean-spicers-breitbart-interview-avant-garde-trium-250098
Sean Spicers Breitbart interview is an avant-garde triumph of trash cinema
By Clayton Purdom@claytonpurdom
Feb 10, 2017 9:07 AM
Yesterday the Trump administrations Muslim ban was delivered a heavy blow as a federal appeals panel unanimously rejected its reinstatement. This inspired the inevitable stupid tweet from the Commander in Chief, and which sets the stage for the sort of climactic battle that is the reason he applied for this stupid job in the first place. (It is also a moment for which the ACLU has been duly prepared.)
The crucial first interview after this ruling with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was given to the glorious official news outlet of the Trump administration, Breitbart News. Conducted by a boy in a suit named Charlie Spiering, it is a glorious two-minute comedy of errors, with production qualities rivaling the cringe-inducing crap cinema of Fateful Findings, A Talking Cat!?!, and even The Room. It is worth discussing in its entirety.
The film begins with several seconds of dead air. Spierings got some jittersthats fine, it happensand he fumbles the first question, which is this hardball: Sean, what can you tell us about this. Spicer proceeds to answer in his usual tone of your friends dad with the stressful job, but the immediate star is the cameraman. The interview is shot first with a fish-eye GoPro seemingly set 15 feet from the table at which theyre sitting. The focus is as much on the empty chairs and the window drapes as it is Spicer and Spiering.
There is a second camera set up to capture both of them for close-ups, but it appears to have been split in two to give each reaction shots. Theyre too close together to pull this off, though, so even when its Spierings close-up, Spicer appears in frame, creating a hallucinatory doubling of his face.
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https://www.facebook.com/Breitbart/videos/10158592546820354/
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Hilariously awkward interview of Shouty Spice by Breitbart following court ruling. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Feb 2017
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bighart
(1,565 posts)1. OMG Shouty Spice
I laughed out loud at that.
underpants
(182,788 posts)2. Top flight operation Breitbart has going there
That looked like a parody. Between Two Ferns has better production than that.
I was expecting "and BOOM goes the dynamite" at one point.
JudyM
(29,233 posts)3. Shouty Spice asserts it was just procedural, but the court made some important substantive
points, as well, dealing with Constitutionality.