Comedian, actor, public speaker, general personality and man of excessive hair Russell Brand is something of a polarising figure amongst the public. Whether you quite like his brand of fashionable comedy and recent string of activist rants in the public eye, or whether you’re like me and find his jokes bland and his ideas admittedly solid, if not a shade shortsighted and a bit “first year political science”-ish. He’s a big voice in the world of entertainment, so when does things, people tend to pay attention.
Now it seems we’ll soon be able to get a closer look into his life, after it was revealed that a documentary with the man himself as the subject is in the works. The film, entitled BRAND the film, is being put together by director Ondi Timoner and follows many years of cameras receiving close access to Russell, including bursting on to the American film scene with roles in Get Him to the Greek and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and his relationship, marriage, and subsequent divorce with Katy Perry.
The film’s website contains an expanded, if not vague, blurb about the whole ordeal, has the following actual English paragraph.
Russell Brand is a troubled visionary who embraced the superficial and doped up times in which we live, only to find it was an empty proposition. He started a search for meaning, which lead him to dig out his heroes: Gandhi, Malcolm X, Jesus and Ché Guevara – to look at why they did what they did, how they did what they did, and in what ways he might be a little bit like them.
Such philosophy. Much “Carpe Diem rib tattoo”. Wow.
The film comes out at *some point* via DRM-free (you’d hope) download. You can pre-order it for the princely sum of $10 via
the film’s website right now.
Or, alternatively, you could not do that at all instead.
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