Mashup of clips from Fame and Robocop featuring Paul McCrane, set to his song “Is it Okay if I Call You Mine” from the Fame soundtrack. It’s a funny juxtaposition of graphic violence and sweet sentimentality.
Paul McCrane played Emil Antonowsky in RoboCop and Montgomery MacNeil in Fame. You may also know him as Dr. Robert “Rocket” Romano on ER, who died from a helicopter falling on him – not as bad as getting soaked in toxic waste and hit by a car, but still pretty unlucky.
Some might say all art is a reflection of the times we live in.
If back in the day comics and movies were pretty naive and faced only as pure escapism, today’s fiction has to evoke reality to create something truly meaningful… and frightening.
This series is an experiment where a dictator, a psycho, a murderer (sometimes they are the whole package) or even a suspicious figure from real life is mashed with a comics bad guy – strangely related some way or the other with his counterpart.
The depressing thing? Realising that if the comic book supervillains were actually the ones threatening real life, the world wouldn’t be such a bad place.
Astoria Studio got their hands on some original 35mm RoboCop footage giving us a behind the scenes look at the making of this classic 1987 film. It was edited together and screened at a special RoboCop event organized by the Institut Lumiere in France.
Christoph Waltz – Jesus Christ Brad Pitt (Taran Killam) – St. Peter Ving Rhames (Kenan Thompson) – Pontius Pilate Samuel L. Jackson (Jay Pharoah) – Judas Iscariot
These are animated gifs that have been corrupted, usually through datamoshing, resulting in trippy, sometimes disturbing, glitches. A lot of these will start out normal, then a person will suddenly distort or melt away.