
This month, Darren Aronofsky will be heading the jury at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, judging seven documentary filmmakers vying for the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award. He recently sat down for an interview the New York Times’ Arts Beat, and of course he talked about art and going to Harvard and the state of documentary today, but the important thing is that I cherry-picked some out-of-context quotes to fit the fictional persona I’ve created for him based on the banner picture: DARREN ARONOFSKY: Tribeca’s gabbyest soccer mom.
ARONOFSKY: Reality television is an extension of documentary as well, and that’s taken over TV. From “Cops” to “Storage Wars,” it’s basically that. It’s hard to make narrative that rings really truthful. And now dramatic, independent films are really disappearing and dying, and most narrative films are these real high-end fantasy superhero films that don’t exist. There’s something amazing about seeing real people in real, dramatic situations. And that can be “I Used to Be Fat,” [laughs] which is a great, great, great show.
NYT: I’m sure MTV will be thrilled to have your endorsement.
I’m a big fan of it. They have all these shows on MTV now, you can’t keep your eyes off them. It just all comes out of that. [...] I saw the George Harrison film [directed by Martin Scorsese] which was fantastic, but I’m not interested in the found-footage, talking-head type of documentary. My taste was always with the vérité. The Kardashian form of documentary.
“Oh em gee, girl! I’m totes all about I Used to be Fat and Keeping Up with the Kardashians! Sometimes I’ll just be so wiped from pilates that all I want to do is just, like, VEG OUT in front the Real Housewives and eat like a billion pounds of Pink Berry. That Camille is such. a bitch. Ooh, I’m so bad! ANYWAYS, gotta go, girl, love your body (*kiss sound*).”



On his way to select duvet covers for the rebel base on Hoth.
Escaping from maximum insecurity prison.
/when he takes off the glasses, the nose and mustache come off too.
Loves rehearsal.
That outfit looks like it belongs on Heigl. Probably not what he was going for.
Is there a bet amongst directors to see who can become the biggest douchebag in a week’s time? Don’t be surprised if he has a few Ratner-esque quotess in the next couple days. I like his films but if he’s going to endorse the one style of TV that’s destroying TV itself, not to mention making politics even worse (The entire GOP is a live scripted reality show) than I’m not watching his shit anymore.
Relax, he didn’t mean he literally watched the Kardashians, he was making a joke. Like I said, I just cherry picked a couple out-of-context quotes to go with the picture.
Yo, V-Man… what does it mean if a comment I try to post gets a “-1″ symbol instead of actually being published?
Is this an another one of your anti-Southern Hemisphere rants?
duh… an another one.
spaz.
I… have no idea. I’ve actually never experienced or heard of that before. It didn’t show up in my filtered comments either.
The Kardashian form of documentary.
Those types of documentaries can be really drab and depressing. You can only watch Holocaust-like footage of the Bajorans being occupied and decimated for so many hours before it stops being funny. Well, unless the commanding officer is really loaded on kanar and takes funny pictures of resistance fighters and their little pierced Bajoran pee-wees! (Hint: Their ears aren’t the only place you’ll find them dangly little earrings! Dor sho gha!)
Wow, ugh…shoulda stretched before that one…yeesh…*puff puff*
I think if Tribeca’s gabbyest soccer mom and C-Tates met up for a latte, this website would explode.
Sorry. Reality TV talk gives me whiskey brain.