Here’s the shot-for-shot spoof of Kanye West’s much-discussed “Bound 2” video starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, who apparently had a lot of downtime on the set of their forthcoming movie The Interview. You’re welcome. If you want to get all intellectual about Kanye’s video, see New York magazine’s art critic Jerry Saltz’s take on what Bound 2 represents here.
An excerpt; ‘Bound 2’ is certainly a piece of work — a freakish act of creation and destruction by appropriation. It stars Kanye and his fiancée, Kim Kardashian, and we see (along with the two of them) wild horses running in rivers, eagles flying to the sky, sunsets, purple mountain majesties, redwood forests, and gulfstream waters. It’s a teenage girl’s bedroom’s idea of romance crossed with Richard Prince’s Cowboy photographs, American Romanticism, Celestial Seasonings packages, shampoo commercials, Iranian music videos, Thomas Kinkaid, beer ads, Jeff Koons, The Onion, Lars von Trier, the House of Fendi, and Jeffrey Deitch and his own uncanny 1992 prophecy ‘The Freudian model of the psychological person is dissolving … freed of the constraints of one’s past.’ The New Uncanny is un-self-consciousness filtered through hyper-self-consciousness, unprocessed absurdity, grandiosity of desire, and fantastic self-regard.” That – and it’s ripe for parody, and pretty funny too.