#68 Michel Gondry
February 17, 2008 by clander
In putting together the canon of directors that white people like, we must include Michel Gondry. He directed such white classics as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, and Dave Chappelle’s Block Party. Oh, that’s right Charlie Kaufman, Gael Garcia Bernal, AND Dave Chappelle – could it get any better for white people? Oh yes, it can.
You see, Michel Gondry got famous by directing videos for The White Stripes, Massive Attack and Bjork. These are three bands that, at some point in their lives, all white people have thought were cool.
Between the ages of 16-20, all white people go through a phase where they aspire to become a music video director. This is followed shortly by a phase where they want to become a regular director. But in both cases, they don’t want to produce generic content, they want to create art. As a result, the two directors who have achieved this (Spike Jonez is the other) are universally beloved by
white people.
If you look at the DVD collection of a white person (even those without a TV), it will contain “The Work of Director Michel Gondry” (pictured).
This can be used to help find common ground with white people. Talk about how you wanted to direct music videos after you saw Michel Gondry’s video for “Around the World” by Daft Punk. Then make a joke about how foolish you were at that age and everyone will have a good laugh. But they will also feel your pain about sacrificing your artistic dreams.
The observant among you will probably be aware that the white person wet dream “Be Kind, Rewind” is about to be released. This might be the biggest event in white person film since The Royal Tenenbaums.
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I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on things like Michel Gondry films.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
Love those white people event films!
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
oh and bjork was never cool, except for that time she flipped out at the airport
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who didn’t like block party? come on it was genius and I loved science of sleep.
holy shit… this guy is right… I have that dvd and i am a huge fan of michel gondry… everytime i put it in with someone else we always talk about how cool it would be to make our own music videos… the only difference though is im actually going to college for tv production… helllyeah!
welcome to league of white people
THE league. damn. witty remark ruined.
This is on the money. Haven’t watched ‘Eternal Sunshine’ but had the DVD of ‘Science of Sleep’ last night and wanted to switch it off after 10 mins, but thought it would be unfair to the movie. Finally, after 40 mins of nothing much happening, I saved myself another 40 mins of boredom and removed it from the deck. Science of sleep is right – it would have had me drifting off.
‘Be Kind, Rewind’ was terrible…
But in the end, Gondry got to play Barack Obama and drop a wrecking ball through the hearts of small business owners. But being a liber-…I mean a WHITE PERSON, he had a heart…and he let them watch a movie first.
You know, because that’s what white people do…they’re humanitarian like that…as long as being humanitarian does not involve being kind to a capitalist or a Republican.
you forgot Daft Punk!
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