![]() The brainchild of Spike Jonze and series producer Jeff Tremaine, Jackass has become a blockbuster series that has somewhat served to define Spike's career. Related: Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: Explaining the Kanye West Controversy The rap video is somehow both divergent for Spike's career while remaining directly in line with his classic tropes car destruction and pyrotechnics. Jay and Ye just want to flex their status, thus the casual and deliberate devaluing of a luxury car and a nice display of fireworks to boot. The pair proceeds to roughly customize the luxury vehicle and drive it around doing drifts and donuts with a crew of models in the backseat.įeaturing a very random and uneventful cameo from comedian Aziz Ansari, the Otis video seems to serve the same purpose as the lyrics of the song. The video begins with rappers Jay Z and Kanye West approaching a glistening new Chrysler Maybach 57 with a blow torch and circular saw in hand. Named music video of the year at the 2012 BET awards, as well as Billboard's fourth-best music video of the 2010s, Otis may be Spike Jonze's most critically successful venture as a music video director. ![]() Related: The 20 Best International Shakespeare Adaptations, Ranked On working on the skit, Wilson recalls it was like learning Shakespeare to have to repeat all the skateboarding jargon in the script. Spike cleverly used a stunt double for Owen Wilson to make the scene come to fruition. In the film, Wilson is talking with some real pro skaters and egging them on to get more and better footage for the video before jumping on a skateboard and grinding down a handrail himself. Yeah Right! also famously features a cameo from actor Owen Wilson. Nothing of the sort has been done before or since. ![]() This made the skateboarders appear to be left floating on air above the ground where their skateboards would usually be. ![]() Using the power of green screen and chroma key, Spike painted skateboards and ramps green to later key them out. More than just a feature on the 2003 Girl skateboards team, Yeah Right! contained a cinematic introduction with special effects that had never been seen before. Another one of Spike's feature length skateboarding videos that took skyrocketed the expectations of what the genre should be. ![]()
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