Blade's Edge: The Gabe And Max Story
So, sometimes, my friend Max Silvestri and I make videos. This is completely separate from Videogum, and I am happy to keep it that way. Never mix business and video projects you make with your friends. In the past, if a Gabe and Max video was posted on this site, it was posted by my former co-editor, Lindsay Robertson, because I guess she liked them or something. I never had anything to do with it. Anyway, today we put up our seventh and possibly final installment in the Gabe and Max Guide to Man Style series for Details magazine, and while I am not sure if I would ever post another of our videos here (it's called a conflict of interest, and it's what ruined Judge Dredd) the rest of the series has already been posted on Videogum, and Max and I are both really proud of this one, and I think it provides a nice ending to the series, and it features some other really talented people in it, and so I'm putting it up, and I'm in charge, and you can call my lawyer.
If you didn't like that video, though, here is a video of Big Boi from Outkast hanging out with penguins (via TheAwl):
Now everyone is happy!
Posted by Gabe at 6:00 PM in WebJunk
Tags: Fashion | Gabe And Max | Jenny Slate | Larry Murphy | Patrick Borelli
Gabe is the champion of my heart.
))<>((
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I'll send in money to get your YOU CAN MAKE IT UP script produced, but i want my nephew to get a speaking role.
Score = 14
WAIT WAIT WAIT
Is Little Max in the beginning the same kid who played Little Voldemort in Harry Potter? Because if it is, I think that is the real story from this video.
Score = 6
Upon further review, it is obviously not. I swear that little kid looks familiar though.
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I think he looks like Little Dick Whitman from Mad Men.
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Spoiler alert.
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i smell Oscar(z)!
Score = 5
I look forward to funding the sequel, 2 Gabe 2 Max, Blade's Edge of Reason
Score = 20
Personally, I can't wait for the prequel that shows how Gabe macramed his mesh shirt out of angel kisses and mermaid hair.
Score = 11
Harder
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I gotta be honest, that movie looks terrible. The acting is par, the lighting is non-existent and the mise en scene is incompatible with the supposed themes. I can only give it 3 out of seven thumbs up. That being said, I have instructed my butler Roderic to release $10 million from my trust fund as an investment. Shoot this in BE: TGAMS in Toronto and that should be enough.
YOUR WELCOME
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I gotta be honest, that movie looks terrible. The acting is par, the lighting is non-existent and the mise en scene is incompatible with the supposed themes. I can only give it 3 out of seven thumbs up. That being said, I have instructed my butler Roderic to release $10 million from my trust fund as an investment. Shoot BE: TGAMS in Toronto and that should be enough.
YOUR WELCOME
Score = -11
Blades2Edge: Occams Razor: The Sequel
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I was going to fund your movie, really, but I forgot and instead funding Katherine Heigl's movie about her as a NASA space science grand master who's also a LADY! And all of her co-workers see HER doing SCIENCE work, and they're like, 'I don't get it; is this a kitchen?'
And she's like, "No, stupid, it's feminism."
And it's rough until her handsome NASA astronaut space scientist co-worker is like, "I get it." And they fall in love and she has babies but continues her career because TR Knight can just look after them. IT'S NOT LIKE ANYBODY ELSE IS GOING TO GIVE HIM KIDS LOL
With the economy and joblessness and homelessness and lacknessness of good meaty roles for beautiful, young, blonde women, I decided to go with a different project. Anyway, better luck next time. Hey, maybe I can score you guys some tickets to "2011: A Space Lady, Yeah Right!?"
Score = 15
Gabe implicates the viewer in what's happening on the screen and a lot of people take offense to that, feeling that he's somehow acting superior to them. The first time I saw it, that was my exact reaction. How could Gabe be calling me out when he's the one who wrote and shot the fucking thing? I felt dirty, tricked. The idea at its simplest is "If you don't like this, why are you watching it?"
Then I decided to watch it again for whatever reason, and I found much more going on there that I didn't bother to see the first time. Now, I don't read the film as a comment on our thirst for violence as much as an acknowledgment of the naturally occurring dialogue between storyteller and listener. If there is no audience, then there is no story. If there is no story, there is no audience. Gabe knows this, and manipulates it to devastating effect, and while the films not perfect, I applaud the effort.
I'm trying to keep this brief, but I don't think Gabe's indicting his audience so much as asking some fundamental questions about the nature of story, and furthermore, its reliance on an audience in order to exist.
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Let it go.
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Yeah, yeah, l saw Synecdoche NY too, buddy. Now go make my Americano.
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Holy shit, buddy. "Whoa" is right.
p.s. Please don't kill me.
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On a more serious note, Gabe, does the "it's our threesome's baby" gesture have a name? It's so great.
Score = 7
I think the baby will look like Thomas Lennon.
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Gabe writing a blog post about a video about Fake Gabe about his fake movie about his real (fake) show is kind of like the LA Candy movie circle of references except it's hilarious and awesome and not at all stupid.
Score = 12
I like the age-blind casting in Blade's Edge. Seriously, if the real Gabe is 53, the guy playing Gabe is at least 112.
Score = 6
Very stylishly done, as always. I'm predicting Boat Keys Guy will be THE breakout star of the summer.
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Now I'm curious as to how Gabe and Max really did get this gig, because if it was seriously by standing on the street, yelling insults about people's looks,then I'm already on the right track.
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First Lindsay, and now no more Man Style? You are tearing me apart, Videogum!!!
Score = 18
The real magic of Blade's Edge: The Gabe And Max Story is the energy that's in the air. Nothing can match that energy. The second you watch it, you can feel it. It's pure, utter magic in the air, unlike anywhere else on the planet. The Gabe And Max, the feeling in the air, the camaraderie between each other, the feeling of family love...Gabe and Max is where the whole word family came from...that's what it means, it's the best way to describe that feeling in the air. It's sorta like what I imagine it's like for the Muslims, that this movie is the Holy Land or Mecca. That's what I imagine it to feel like...what it feels like for a GabeAndMaxello to watch Blade's Edge: The Gabe and Max Story.
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I was a camp counselor earlier this summer (an experience that would have been made a lot more tolerable with a few Gabetinis), and one of the little girls in my cabin told me that her rich aunt hired Outkast to perform at her wedding. I kind of lost respect for Outkast after that, but Big Boi just earned it back by having penguin buddies.
Score = 10
I am from films and I have some millions of dollars to fund your movie or film, Gabe.
Where do I sign so that I can give you this money and not have it lying around not making movies and films about. epics about two men, and make films. i recently made a film. myself and it was called you may have heard about it haha it was transformers; revenge of the fallen and it gave me money which i will invest in your film and make. style.
xoxo Michal Bay. the b is for Bay.
Score = 7
I liked the part with the penguins.
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Gabe, the red macrame shirt really ruined the realism for me, if I fund this project I expect you to be less stingy and let other people wear the white one. You can't keep your baby stain free forever.
Score = 12
Great casting. Chest hair thru mesh man-top was uncanny. One(1) thumb UP!
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I would love to see outtakes of these videos, I bet they're hilarious
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And I would like to see more fake outtakes with lots of yelling and slapping.
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"For Gabe and Max fans, this movie must be like what it feels like for Muslims to visit the holy land of Mecca."--Violent J
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I love penguins! :)
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That people like Gabe and Max exist, and that they consistently produce such excellent work, makes me a little more optmistic about the future of this country.
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I will send my millions to this address if the film delved way deeper into the Jenny's polyamory/pregnancy storyline.
And why are you ending the series? You haven't yet given men your style tips on careers/ surviving the economy (timely).
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i see how when you actually had to be out in public in your man style outfits you conviently found a way to get other dudes to play you. and you got to wear the stylish black exec suits.
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We've paid our dues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZXPE9he7IE
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"I have some news to tell you, and it's not about a war, or politics."
Just how I learned my sister was my mother.
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Do you accept internet checks?
"PAY TO THE ORDER OF: $6 Million dollars and five"
(the extra five goes toward production costs for that infomercial)
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no personal business on company pond
j.kidding, very funny. larry murphy!
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man style is an international enterprise. let's paint, exercise, and get this film funded already!
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