by Robert Scocchi
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When Tommy Wiseau The room After its release in 2003, it didn't take long for audiences and critics alike to consider it “the movie” Citizen Kane is a bad movie.Wiseau, who wrote, directed, produced, edited, personally financed and starred in the film, decided to step back and say that the film was always meant to be a black comedy rather than the serious drama he originally intended to create. However, there is one movie that confuses me even more The roomwhich is Neil Breen Double down.
double down, Prine's 2005 debut features a setup similar to Wiseau's work, but he plays it so straight that I'm actually not sure if he's being honest and disingenuous, or our generation's Andy Kaufman, in the sense that he's been preying on his audience for two decades for the love of it. The game.
Suspense or satire?
Double down It's supposed to be a suspense thriller about shadow operations, computer hacking, bioterrorism, grief, and revenge. The movie's IMDB synopsis states that it's “the controversial story of a lone genius who shut down the Las Vegas Strip…and the government can't stop him.” While he meets his dead girlfriend every night.
On paper, at face value, Double down It looks like a cross between Pirates and John Wick movies, but what appears on screen couldn't be further from the movie's description. I can't help but surmise that this synopsis was also written by Neil Breen, who, like Wiseau, personally wrote, directed, produced, edited, financed, and starred in his own film.
Terror with a side of tuna
Neil Breen portrays Aaron Brand in Double downHe is a jack and master of all trades. He's a genius with remote access to every government satellite, and his list of accomplishments is as ridiculous as his jean jacket adorning his various Medals of Honor (of which there are many). After Aaron becomes “digitally and electronically powerful,” the secret Strategic Support Branch of the Defense Intelligence Agency that has worked closely with him in the past feels threatened by his abilities and assassinates his girlfriend.
Via a flashback sequence, Aaron floats face down, completely naked, in the pool next to his dead girlfriend after screaming “uggghhh!” When she was hit by a sniper bullet hiding in the distance.
After receiving a directive from another state to close the Las Vegas Strip for two months, Aaron got to work with his “simple, brilliant setup,” five laptops, a few flip phones, and a couple of Dish Network satellites. Taped to the trunk of his Mercedes.
Aaron lives a secluded life in the desert in order to secretly carry out many of his terrorist acts, driving around while eating dried tuna straight from the can despite the fact that he is also a millionaire. Although many of Brienne's expositions suggest that Aaron Brand is a skilled mercenary of the highest order, the biggest threat to humanity he poses is his attempt to drive and eat at the same time, which undermines the film's entire premise.
Lack of self-awareness or in-joke?
It may sound like I'm making all this up, but… Double down Full of inconsistencies and surprises that make me wonder if Brienne is in on the joke.
Double down Featuring strawberries injected with anthrax, botched assassinations of newlyweds, secret government meetings held in grocery store parking lots in broad daylight, breaking into a Ferrari with a flip phone, treating brain cancer with a mysterious pebble, and Neil Prine sitting in the back of his house. The car while frantically clicking on several laptops that never seemed to turn on.
If you're a “Breeniac” like me, you'll notice the kind of technical expertise demonstrated in it Double down It is a line through all six of Neil Breen's films, as Fateful resultswhich are equally twisted.
Double down on double down
Tommy Wiseau may have recreated it The room As a dark comedy, Neil Breen constantly “emphasizes” the fact that he is a legitimate filmmaker, and that he is the real deal. Whether he's in on the joke or not, I'm grateful for the fact that I was born into a world with Neil Breen because I found so much pleasure in ripping off his filmography that I might as well be certifiably crazy.
While you can't find Double down Anywhere on the broadcast, you can listen to GenreVision If you're willing to fall into the same Breen hole I'm currently trying to escape from.
