Plot
The Stevie Wondershow is a dark comedy about Stevie, a lonely, strange, and quiet middle manager. To his employees he's spineless but in his apartment he's the star of the craziest, most off-the-wall TV show imaginable. Stevie keeps his show all to himself, but when the office show-boat, King, finds out about Stevie's show, he sees it as a chance to re-establish himself as the center of attention with his friends. King convinces Stevie to put his show on at a local bar in hopes that Stevie's bizarre antics will put attention on himself. His plans backfire though, and Stevie quickly becomes a local celebrity. Soon a charismatic television producer approaches Stevie about creating a reality show. Stevie takes the offer and soon The Stevie Wondershow is the hottest thing on TV. Nationwide Stevie and his show are beloved. King goes crazy with jealousy. With Andy, who idolizes King, as his sidekick, King becomes obsessed with Stevie's success and will stop at nothing to take back the spotlight. The Stevie Wondershow is a satirical look at the power of reality TV and the fine line it creates between fame and infamy.
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Plot
1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti hypothesizes the possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy. 2002: One of the directors of the film comes across a manuscript in Montecatini (Italy) which may have belonged to the American writer. This journal, dated 1926, describes travels in Italy through the Po Delta in search of inspiration in the form of local folk stories: the Filò Tales. 2004: A small, tough crew of international filmmakers is put together with the help of David, a New York actor, to make a documentary on the finding of the journal and on the links between Lovecraft and the Po Delta. If the manuscript really did belong to Lovecraft, it would be an extraordinary discovery. As soon as they begin, however, the filmmakers find that Andrea Roberti disappeared in mysterious circumstances many years before, his car found abandoned on the banks of the Po. The crew sets up its base in the town of Loreo - referred to simply as L. in the manuscript - as the author of the journal did. During their investigations the atmosphere of animosity and foreboding rises and they soon discover that strange and disturbing things have been happening in the area. Events that the locals are eager to keep secret. The film "Road to L." is the true account of what took place behind the scenes of the 11 day shoot, reporting how the failures and revelations experienced in L. came to resemble ever more a journey to... Hell. Did Lovecraft really come into contact with something sinister? Did Andrea Roberti stumble across something he wasn't meant to find? The documentary makers are stepping too far into the unknown...
Keywords: h.p.-lovecraft
Woman in Changing Room: Miss! That's my dress!::Mrs. Ma: You want me to call someone to rape you, bitch?::[to Bart]::Mrs. Ma: Hey, do you rape?::Bart: Um... I don't do rape, illegal gang bang or anal sex. I just kill.::Mrs. Ma: You'll make a lot less money that way, you know.
Ling's mother: [angry] Our neighbor Mrs. Cheung's son-in-law is a car salesman. Once, she complained about the public transport... He immediately bought her a Mercedes Benz! I am not asking him to get me a luxury car... I am just asking him to kill someone for me, while he's at it.
Not your average life-and-death adventure
Coach: Worst case scenario? We all die.
A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the word camera obscura (Latin for "dark chamber"), an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern camera evolved from the camera obscura.
Cameras may work with the light of the visible spectrum or with other portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. A camera generally consists of an enclosed hollow with an opening (aperture) at one end for light to enter, and a recording or viewing surface for capturing the light at the other end. A majority of cameras have a lens positioned in front of the camera's opening to gather the incoming light and focus all or part of the image on the recording surface. The diameter of the aperture is often controlled by a diaphragm mechanism, but some cameras have a fixed-size aperture. Most cameras use an electronic image sensor to store photographs on Flash memory. Other cameras including the majority from the 20th century use photographic film.
From the inside room
When the front room greeting
Becomes your special book
It was simple then
When the party lulls
If we fall by the side
Will you be remembered?
Will she be remembered?
Alone in a crowd
A bartered lantern borrowed
If I'm to be your camera
Then who will be your face?
I fell by your bed once
I didn't want to tell you
I should keep myself
In between the pages
Of the green light room
If we fall by the side
Will you be remembered?
Will she be remembered?
Alone in a crowd
A bartered lantern borrowed
If I'm to be your camera
Then who will be your face?
From the inside room
When the front room greeting
Becomes your special book
It was simple then
When the party lulls
If we fall by the side
I still like you, can you remember?
Alone in a crowd
A bartered lantern borrowed
If I'm to be your camera
Then who will be your face?
Alone in a crowd
A bartered lantern borrowed
If I'm to be your camera
Then who will be your face?
Come back, come on
You got it
In the mood
(4:20)
Music: David Crosby, Stephen Stills;
Lyrics David Crosby (c) 1994 Stay Straight Music,
all rights adm by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI
I rode my bike to town today
Wobbling down the path
I knew the kids would see me
I love it when they laugh
And I wish I were a camera
And I could slice time like a knife
Seeing stories in the faces
And crystallizing life
Wish I were a camera
I wish it all the time
It gives my eyes a reason
It gives my life a rhyme
I'd be a lens that could see souls
A shutter that never shuts
I'd have film that lasts forever
And I would live in huts
In the jungles of South America
Like my father before the war
I'd find out where we came from
And what this life is for
And I wish I were a camera
I wish it all the time
It gives my eyes a reason
It gives my life a rhyme
And I wish I were a camera
I wish it all the time
It gives my eyes a reason
It gives my life a rhyme
I would climb right off this planet
On the clearest night of all
And photograph the future
When it finally comes to call
I would save up all these images
These instants in a box
And when I am old and lonely
They could cover up the clocks
And I wish I were a camera
I wish it all the time
It gives my eyes a reason
It gives my life a rhyme
I wish that I could shoot at night
And leave without a trace
And catch my lover's sleeping smile
By the starlight on her face
But I think mostly that l'd see children
'Cause they haven't learned to hide
And they watch me on my bicycle
And laugh with me as I ride
Bass: Alex Sklarevski
Drums Tristan Imboden
Percussion: Rafael Padilla
Acoustic Guitars Stephen Stills
Lead Vocal: David Crosby
Producer and Engineer: Glyn Johns
Engineer: Paul Dieter
Assistant Engineer: Bran Swain
Mixed by Glyn Johns
Recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios
Okay this is very simple...
I come in you take your clothes off and I take pictures
Hmmk?
She gets up and takes a shower
Now she is in the mirror for hours
By the way she is a model of course
Hair all made up and makeup powered up
Walkin on a runway
But she don't know where she goin
Shes just hopin'
That she keeps rollin'
Childhood broken
10 years later now shes a hoe and
Everybody wonder why does she act so cold
Cause that attitude ain't natural
Leave that drama
On that there door
Because I'm really not into that there for
Watch her take off her bra
Closing like a stall
Smiling for the camera (camera)
Ahhh shes a movie star
With that runway walk
Jus smilin for that camera (camera)
(Get work get work get)
She from my town far away
Then she moves to the A
To go to Georgia State
Then she got turned out
Then she dropped out
Now she is a actress to balls
To sang but ain't that pretty
She just trying to mimic the life in the city
Trying to keep up with that lime like livin
Just wishin for one audition and video position
But that ain't how she used to be and 2 or 3
But no she is a hoochie freak so
Now they wonder if you will see
A little ole cutie with a booty booty
Darling, why the long face? why the long face?
Everybody loves you girl. Everyone loves you.
You know your gunna be legendary one day.
Watch her take off her bra
Closing like a stall
Smiling for the camera (camera)
Ahhh shes a movie star
With that runway walk
Jus smilin for that camera (camera)
(Get work get work get)
She dropped out of school at 16 anti-abortion
And dad is mixin
Then she got her a job at wendys
2 years later shes in there strippin
Twurkin that Money
Just to make her some daycare money
And to pay for the rent bill monthly
Her son is sayin that ain't my mommy
But but 15 years down the line
She ain't the same as shes past her prime
Now it's all goin down the drain
Say goodbye to all the fame
On behalf of WorldWide Inc.
I'm sorry to inform you that we will no longer
Be needing your modeling services darling
That's the way the cookie crumbles
Stiff up the upper lip? hmm?
Watch her take off her bra
Closing like a stall
Smiling for the camera (camera)
Ahhh shes a movie star
With that runway walk
Jus smilin for that camera (camera)
Watch her take off her bra
Closing like a stall
Smiling for the camera (camera)
Ahhh shes a movie star
With that runway walk
[Verse 1:]
Ice Cold. I Found A Pot Of Gold.
Shawty What Yo Name Is? (Shawty What Yo Name Is?)
Lookin' At You Make Me Feel Nervous A Little Bit.
Shawty Who You Came With? (Shawty Who You Came With?) (Oh-Oh Oh-Oh)
[Chorus:]
Girl You Make My Eyes Pop Out Like A Camera Lens.
You Ain't Even Gotta Get Closer, I'm Zoomin' In.
Baby Girl, I Can't Look Away For A Little Bit.
Think I Might Miss Somethin' I Need To See: Eye Candy.
Oh-Ooh. Baby Girl, I'm Losing Control.
And I Can't Help It, NO!
My Eyes Are Like Camera Lenses.
As Soon As I Blink: "Click, Click".
Girl, That's It.
And I Can't Focus.
[Verse 2:]
Wait! Slow Down A Little Bit.
Baby, Let Me Take You In.(Baby, Let Me Take You In.)
Let Me Take My Camera Lens, Point It At Your Frame And Then... "Click, Click, Click".
Got Your Body Right Where I Want It.
[Chorus:]
Girl, You Make My Eyes Pop Out Like A Camera Lens.
You Ain't Even Gotta Get Closer, I'm Zoomin' In.
Baby Girl, I Can't Look Away For A Little Bit.
Think I Might Miss Somethin' I Need To See: Eye Candy.
[Bridge:]
You're A Visual Spectical.
Got A Mental Picture... In My Mind.
Me And You Gettin' Physical.
Don't Make It Difficult.
Cause I Can Only See Ya... Easily.
Girl, Ya Got Me Losin' My Focus.
Pigs, they tend to wiggle when they walk
The infrastructure rots
And the owners hate the jocks
With their agents and their dates
If the signatures are checked
You'll just have to wait
And we're counting up the instants that we save
Tired nation so depraved
From the cheap seats see us
Wave to the camera
It took a giant ramrod
To raze the demon settlement
But high-ho Silver, ride
High-ho Silver, ride
Take another ride to see me home
Listen to me! I'm on the stereo, stereo
Oh my baby, baby, baby, baby, babe
Gave me malaria, hysteria
What about the voice of Geddy Lee
How did it get so high?
I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?
(I know him and he does!)
And you're my fact-checkin' 'cause
(Aww )
Well focus on the quasar in the mist
The kaiser has a cyst
And I'm a blank want list
The qualms you have and if they stick
They will drown you in a crick
In the neck of a woods
That was populated by
Tired nation on the fly
Everybody knows advice
That was give out for free
Lots of details to discern
Lots of details
But high-ho Silver, ride
High-ho Silver, ride
Takes another ride to make me
Oh, get off the air
I'm on the stereo, stereo
Oh, my baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, babe
Be close to me now
I'll be your guide
Once we have black hearts
then love dies
Look at us
Through the lens of a camera
Does it remove
All of our pain?
If we run
To look in the back room
Where we hide
All of our feelings
I just close my eyes as you walk out
I'll keep your eyes wide open tonight
Keep the car on the road now
feel the fight
Look at us
Through the lens of a camera
Does it remove
All of our pain?
If we run
To look in the back room
Where we hide
All of our feelings
I just close my eyes as you walk out
You fall from grace
The fall with such grace
You fall from grace
The fall with such grace
You fall from grace
The fall with such grace
You fall from grace
The fall with such grace
Look at us
Through the lens of a camera
Does it remove
All of our pain?
If we run
To look in the back room
Where we hide
All of our secrets
I just close my eyes as you walk
I just close my eyes as you walk
I just close my eyes as you walk
I just close my eyes as you walk
I just close my eyes as you walk
Oh camera, take your pictures of the scene
Oh camera, take your eyes off of me
Cause I know I'll be forgotten in time yes I know I'll be in time
Just like I was, oh camera
Oh camera, take your pictures of the scene
Oh camera, take your eyes off of me
Cause I know I'll be forgotten in time yes I know I'll be in time
Just like I was, oh camera
Light reflect onto the lens refract onto our eyes
Mirror flip and flip again project 1/8th the size
Plastic retina, what do you see?
Light reflect onto the lens refract onto our eyes
Mirror flip and flip again project 1/8th the size
Plastic retina, what do you see?
Oh camera, take your pictures of the scene
Oh camera, take your eyes off of me
Cause I know I'll be forgotten in time
Yes I know I'll be in time
Just like I was, oh camera
Oh camera, take your pictures of the scene
Oh camera, take your eyes off of me
Cause I know, I'll be forgotten in time
Yes I know I'll be in time
I get the feeling
I'm watching something
I've seen too many times before. Catching my way up to
feelings
I could never pay them off.
Provisional record my violence becoming red before
teaching myself and thinking I could never do it wrong.
Camera camera camera camera.
Hold still.
Keep on riding too far.
You ride it round in circles.
When people get tired they go ride it round in circles.
People go away again.
Now I'm feeling 'In Situ',
it's something I could never work before.
Working my way back to sane -
this I could never be again.
Follow what I never knew.
I could direct a film or guard all that is sacred to me.