August 2010
08/31/2010
'Machete' Director Robert Rodriguez Reveals Trick To Onscreen Nudity
'Machete' Director Robert Rodriguez Reveals Trick To Onscreen Nudity
He front-loads his movies with nakedness, then 'in your mind, everyone is naked the rest of the movie.'
By Kara Warner
Robert Rodriguez
Photo: MTV News
"Machete" was originally conceived as a fake trailer in "Grindhouse," but fan demand convinced director Robert Rodriguez to make the story into a full-length feature, which opens Friday. The film, which revolves around the titular character and his attempt to clear his sullied name, is full of blood, action, crazy weaponry and beautiful naked and half-naked women.
When we caught up with the "Sin City" and "Spy Kids" filmmaker recently, we asked how he decides when to play the naked card and when to avoid it.
"Ask my sister. She tells me, 'You need to have more hot chicks in this movie!' " Rodriguez said, playfully deferring to his co-editor and co-writer, Alvaro Rodriguez.
"I have a trick," he admitted. "I did this in 'Sin City' too. People say, 'There's so much nudity in "Sin City." ' I say, 'No, if you look close, there's only [some] at the very beginning.' "
Rodriguez said showing a lot of skin from the get-go makes people think they're seeing more than they do. "If you do it at the beginning of the movie, in your mind, everyone is naked the rest of the movie if they're scantily clad — because that's how the comics are drawn," he said. "['Machete'] was the same way."
Rodriguez cited a particular scene at the beginning of the film, in which Machete tries to save a beautiful (and naked) woman, as his prime example. He said the decision to have the actress appear sans clothing throughout the entire scene helps enable extra tricks in the plot that wouldn't work otherwise.
"That was the first scene I wrote. There's got to be a girl that he goes to save and she's naked and he's having to run out with this naked girl over his shoulder, but then you put a twist on it," Rodriguez explained, continuing with a pseudo-spoiler. "She ends up working for the other side and tricking him by being nude. That way he doesn't see it coming. Everything else, he'd be able to see a trick coming," he said, adding that there isn't much more skin in the rest of the film (save for a topless scene in a pool). "It's really just that trick."
"Machete," starring Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro and Don Johnson, opens Friday.
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Black Metal Goes Surfing Emperor Style
Black Metal Goes Surfing Emperor Style
A YouTube user who calls himself MrMeddled has posted an outrageously amazing surf rock version of Emperor's black metal song 'I am the Black Wizard.' Almost as entertaining as the interpretation/transformation is the accompanying text, which reads in part: "In 1959, Chip Ihsahn and Rocky Samoth met on the beach in California. They shared a love [...]
A YouTube user who calls himself MrMeddled has posted an outrageously amazing surf rock version of Emperor's black metal song 'I am the Black Wizard.' Almost as entertaining as the interpretation/transformation is the accompanying text, which reads in part:
"In 1959, Chip Ihsahn and Rocky Samoth met on the beach in California. They shared a love of crude reverb units, surfing, smoking illicit substances and driving cars with fake wood on the sides. They soon formed a surf band [that] evolved into the now well-known The Thou Shalt Suffers. Soon, however, Rocky Samoth began to write surf music music outside of The Thou Shalt Suffers, and together with Chip Ihsahn and a new bass player called Woody Mortiis (later of his own eponymous band The Mortiises), The Emperors was formed."
First, check out the black metal song surf style, then watch Emperor play their original at the 2006 Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany:
The Emperors 'I Am the Black Wizards'
The original Emperor song 'I am the Black Wizard'
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Meet Lala
Meet Lala
My sister had a baby girl yesterday and named her Lila. My stepfather misunderstood the name and told everyone at work her name was "Lala." When corrected, he was like, "I was wondering what kind of name that was..."
Jack and Lila
Nora and Lila
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Celebrate Wendy O. Williams' Birthday With Bobblehead Doll
Celebrate Wendy O. Williams' Birthday With Bobblehead Doll
What better way to celebrate Wendy O. Williams' 61st birthday on May 28 (if she hadn't blown her head off at age 48) than with a cute, scantily clad bobblehead doll. Yes, Aggronautix, the company that, in 2009, presented a bobblehead of GG Allin -- the lovable now-deceased counter culture character who beat up audience members, [...]
What better way to celebrate Wendy O. Williams' 61st birthday on May 28 (if she hadn't blown her head off at age 48) than with a cute, scantily clad bobblehead doll.
Yes, Aggronautix, the company that, in 2009, presented a bobblehead of GG Allin -- the lovable now-deceased counter culture character who beat up audience members, pooped onstage and threw his feces at the crowd -- is about to launch their limited edition line (2,000 in total) of W.O.W. dolls and to promote the item, anyone who pre-orders the "Throbblehead" through the end of May has the chance to win a prize pack that includes a Plasmatics Coup d'Etat: Revolutionary Rock 'N' Roll T-Shirt, The Plasmatics Wendy O Williams 'Beyond The Valley Of 1984' on vinyl and "Wendy O. Williams The Plasmatics The DVD: 10 Years Of Revolutionary Rock & Roll."
The Wendy O. Williams bobblehead is modeled after the punk icon circa 1982 -- replete with blonde mohawk, spiked arm bands and tattered threads -- stands at seven inches tall and is made of a lightweight polyresin and costs $16.95. The doll comes encased in a tri-window box and if she could talk, she'd surely shout, "Let me out of here you f---ing sh-- eating scumbag!"
To place your order, check out the Aggronautix Web site.
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TV Ad For Norwegian Deaf Metal
TV Ad For Norwegian Deaf Metal
This image, which nicely compliments the video below, is for a 1993 metal comp that featured some pretty ripping bands, including Eucharist, Dissection, Impaler, At the Gates, Pitchshifter and Therion, along with a bunch of groups we've never heard of. Good luck tracking it down. But before you try, check out this Norwegian TV ad [...]
This image, which nicely compliments the video below, is for a 1993 metal comp that featured some pretty ripping bands, including Eucharist, Dissection, Impaler, At the Gates, Pitchshifter and Therion, along with a bunch of groups we've never heard of. Good luck tracking it down. But before you try, check out this Norwegian TV ad for some sort of information service like a Scandinavian AskJeeves.com or something.
The commercial reminds us of a story Lemmy Kilmister once told us about a friend who was getting tattooed with the sentence "Born to Lose," and the bassist told us that right before it was too late he stopped the artist from tattooing an extra "o" on the second word - a phrase that would have been fine for, Say Pamela Des Barres or Cynthia Plaster Caster - but wasn't what Lemmy's pal was looking for: "Born Too Lose." Now, check out the clip.
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Mariah Carey Is 'Spiritual' About Pregnancy, Nick Cannon Says
Mariah Carey Is 'Spiritual' About Pregnancy, Nick Cannon Says
Couple hasn't confirmed or denied rumors Mariah is expecting their first child.
By Jocelyn Vena
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon
Photo: Kevork Djansezian/ Getty Images
Is she or isn't she? While many of Nick Cannon's and Mariah Carey's recent comments would lead fans to believe that the singer is indeed expecting a baby, it seems that no one will own up to anything until the singer is good and ready to make an announcement herself.
"I think 'superstitious' might be the wrong word," Cannon explained to Usweekly.com about all the speculation surrounding whether or not his wife is pregnant. "I think it's more of a spiritual thing, like trying to stay true and stay private for as long as you possibly can. She wants to keep as much privacy as she possibly can."
"She'll talk when she's ready to talk," he explained, adding that she is feeling "good" and currently hard at work on a new album in Los Angeles. He joked, "I love kids, I'm all about kids. I'm a big kid! Octomom. Nine kids at once. Whatever happens, whatever life God blesses you with, you have to take it and appreciate it."
While the couple has neither confirmed nor denied anything regarding the speculation, Carey did coyly address rumors last week in a blog post to her fans. "I appreciate everyone's well wishes. But I am very superstitious," she wrote on her website on Wednesday. "When the time is right, everyone will know — even Cindi Berger [my publicist]."
Despite his wife appearing at a recent concert in maternity clothes, Cannon continues to dodge the subject, even when addressing the rumors on his radio show earlier this month. "I've said it before and I'll say it time and time again — when my wife feels like talking about whatever she wants to talk about, you will hear it directly from her," he said. "We all know it's extremely personal, and it is for a woman to deal with things with her body, and especially when dealing with the idea of childbirth and all that stuff.
"That's something you want to keep near and dear and as close to you as you possibly can, until you're 100 percent sure, in any situation," he continued. "There's a certain time limit you're supposed to wait before you can actually officially say that you are and all that stuff. You don't want to mislead anybody."
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