{"id":542,"date":"2007-04-02T14:33:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T14:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/02\/a-short-film-by-joseph-gordon-levitt\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T14:33:30","slug":"a-short-film-by-joseph-gordon-levitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/04\/02\/a-short-film-by-joseph-gordon-levitt\/","title":{"rendered":"A short film by Joseph Gordon-Levitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0330687\/\">Joseph Gordon-Levitt<\/a> recently filmed some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paparazzi\">paparazzi<\/a> in New York and posted the footage on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitrecord.org\/picturesofassholes.html\">his own website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called <strong>Pictures of Assholes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]BzX36AW9Fhs[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>The actor writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It doesn\u2019t normally happen that paparazzi photographers pay me any attention when I\u2019m not working.\u00a0 In fact, it only ever happened once (thank god) that I can think of.\u00a0 Luckily I had my video camera on me when it did.<\/p>\n<p>A friend and I were just walking down the street in Manhattan when we passed these two photographers who were sitting outside the entrance of some hotel, presumably waiting to photograph somebody who was staying there. I didn\u2019t think much of them until, a block or so later, they came running up and started to take my picture. I tried to be nice and politely ask them not to. They were neither nice nor polite. And that\u2019s when I remembered I had my camera in my bag.\u00a0 So that\u2019s where the movie starts.<\/p>\n<p>The only other thing I\u2019ll say is (and I had trouble deciding whether or not to be so blunt with my opinion, but here goes) I do believe that the myth of \u201cCelebrity\u201d is not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a powerful and fundamental part of a larger movement revolving around greed, apathy and hierarchy that is currently dragging us down, down, down, lower and scarier, and perhaps weaker than we\u2019ve ever, ever been. Smile!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is an interesting little snapshot into how this branch of the media reacts when they have the tables turned on them.<\/p>\n<p>[Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nervepop.com\/nerveblog\/screengrabblog.aspx?id=107e10205#10205\">ScreenGrab<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitrecord.org\/home.html\">Joseph Gordon-Levitt&#8217;s site<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0330687\/\">IMDb entry for the actor<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/nervepop.com\/filmlounge\/interview\/josephgordonlevitt\/index.aspx\">An interview with the actor at NervePop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt recently filmed some paparazzi in New York and posted the footage on his own website. It&#8217;s called Pictures of Assholes: [youtube]BzX36AW9Fhs[\/youtube] The actor writes: It doesn\u2019t normally happen that paparazzi photographers pay me any attention when I\u2019m not working.\u00a0 In fact, it only ever happened once (thank god) that I can think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}