Spike Jonze, the director behind "Where the Wild Things Are," has been working on a short film with Kanye West, called "We Were Once a Fairytale." It was supposed to debut on iTunes on September 8th, but has only now appeared online.
The eleven minute film shows a drunk/high Kanye at a nightclub. He can't control his emotions and thus flops around between different women, who wants nothing to do with him.
The entire thing ends with a bizarre hallucination that includes a knife and a demon-like rodent. Check out the film below and stay tuned for another Jonze short that features robots.
dandythelionwrites: on October 19th, 2009 at 7:41:22 AM
actually really great. Jonze is amazing.
i just want to crawl around in his brain
dandythelionwrites: on October 19th, 2009 at 7:47:54 AM
just keep making films man. anyhting he puts out is great. bang up job on Where the Wild Things Are. it's firmly planted in my top 5 now. and that's coming from a massive fan of the book
Jonze is a f*cked up dude, brilliant, but f*cked up. Kanye West actually not bad here, still a douche, but watchable nonetheless
dandythelionwrites: on October 19th, 2009 at 9:51:07 AM
i think this is Kanye's attempt at redemption here hes obviously parodying himself here and the bathroom scene seems simmilar to the noble suicides by samurais. maybe im looking to deep. but i still can't figure out what the f*cking mouse dude means.
manichispanicwrites: on October 19th, 2009 at 10:22:39 AM
i like spike jonz, but i hate kanye, so i will not be watching this
TH3D4RKKN1GH7writes: on October 19th, 2009 at 10:26:27 AM
Hmmm looks like it was filmed on a DSLR. Yeah I'm not the huge Jonze fan some of you are, its not that I don't like him or anything just haven't seen all the stuff he's done. He's mostly a music video director right? Or that's what he used to do a lot?
Zubostlwrites: on October 19th, 2009 at 10:30:16 AM
Kanye likes fish sticks
Johnny Neatwrites: on October 19th, 2009 at 12:31:21 PM
I felt it was good in some ways but overall blah. I dunno, I think Jonze & West can do better than this. It needs work, I think. I wonder what the point was.
Video is down but you can see it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MikdIcnViJk
I'm a fan of both these guys.
Spike Jonez is a visionary and Kanye West is the black Andy Kaufman. Seriously, that setup he pulled on those Mtv awards was marketing genius.
LastActionHerowrites: on October 19th, 2009 at 3:54:13 PM
Too bad his "setup" has cost him money. Not exactly a genius. (If it were true.)
doneehowardwrites: on October 19th, 2009 at 7:10:34 PM
Was the mouse the evil inside him or something?
vaodsiwrites: on October 19th, 2009 at 11:58:29 PM
"was the mouse the evil inside of him"
no... it represented aids that he had got from zack efron's leopard skin pillow....
i was actually impressed with kanye here.
and jonze is brilliant.
How'd it cost him money. His album sales went up, just like those for Beyonce and Taylor. That one act cemented their images. It made Taylor look innocent, Beyonce like a gentlelady, and Kanye like a lunatic. It was a brilliant PR stunt that got everyone involved free global publicity for a month.
entropyMUSEwrites: on October 21st, 2009 at 3:55:54 AM
Yo yo yo ... I really dig Rabid's point and imma let him finish but ... Janet Jackson's nipple slip is still the greatest publicity stunt of all time !
