Hi-ResTrailer
Director David J. Markey’s camera peers unflinchingly into the exploits and misadventures of film character impersonators and celebrity look-a-likes on Hollywood Boulevard over the span of a year. Recognizable characters and stars of movies are portrayed by anyone who chooses to buy the costume and brave the mean streets of Hollyweird. These self-employed rouges forge a living one-dollar at a time, posing for photos with tourists in front of Graumen's Chinese Theater. Freddy Krueger works alongside Superman, Marylyn Monroe, Shrek, Batman, Borat and Lucy Ricardo. Competing Chewbacca’s, Spiderman and Captain Jack Sparrows vie for a spot on the limited real estate of The Walk Of Fame. These street characters have big dreams of breaking into the big-time, and most see this as a viable way. Some see themselves as undiscovered stars, while others are just struggling to make ends meet.
One-by-one, these reinactors find themselves at odds with the Hollywood they so want in on. We come to realize these characters are born of the indigenous psychotropic nature of Hollywood itself. These characters are literally right out of the movies, yet the unforeseen drama of the people underneath the make-up threatens to eclipse the bizarre array of Hollywood film icons they appropriate. It’s a surreal story, in fact it does not seem at all like a documentary. David Markey says, ''’The Reinactors’ plays like a great-depression era Hollywood classic retold for the new millennium. It's also a film about the cutthroat nature backstage and behind the scenes of show business. A profound statement on where we are at culturally in America at the moment. An 'American Idol' on crack, if you will.â€
Myspace Layouts - Image Hosting - Forums