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From [url=http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/06/tribeca-louis-theroux-scientology]Entertainment Weekly[/url]
Pretty hyped for this, the Church of Scientology is well known for being extremely confrontational and intimidatory, and for straight-up bullying people who try to poke around and investigate them too much - their behaviour in this video is a textbook response for them. They want to piss people off, get a rise out of them, and then record them going apeshit and use it to discredit them and hopefully scare them away. Sometimes [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxqR5NPhtLI]it works[/url].
But Louis Theroux is a man of extraordinary patience and calm, and if you've seen any of his documentaries you'll know that it's basically impossible to make him angry that way. He does not give a shit and will just continue to calmly ask you questions and there is nothing you can do about it. So (as seen in this video) their shit is not going to work and it's going to be great seeing what kind of effect that has on them.
It's doing festivals at the moment and I don't think there's a general release date but I'm hoping maybe autumn or something? Could be cool
"Are you making a documentary as well?"
Hahaha.
I'm pretty stoked myself I love documentaries about Scientology and having Louis at the helm is going to be fantastic.
I wanted to rate winner, but that bit at the end had me in a fit of laughter. Louis is a rock.
are the other good scientology documentaries? the one HBO did recently was very good. More in the vein of that would be great.
[QUOTE=Fish Muffin;50083902]are the other good scientology documentaries? the one HBO did recently was very good. More in the vein of that would be great.[/QUOTE]
Do you have the name of it, I have been looking for good material on the subject for a while.
Mainly something on Scientology in the UK but it's not on the scale of it in the United States.
This clip is kind of like a battle between Louis and the Scientologists, which Louis wins just by remaining calm and polite. The woman is ranting and belittling him and threatening to call the police but she is forced to give up and hide in her car, while the man is left silently backing away while Louis just asks 'wut r u doin' over and over. He crushes them by not giving in to their tactics.
I noticed Louis was falling for the bait in their confrontation, like rising his voice and pulling out his phone to mimic recording.
Welp, Louie is my new role model. I have a pretty bad anger management issue, and there were a few points in the video where I just had to stop watching because that woman made me so mad. God what a great guy.
Louis is literally a fucking rock, if you've ever watched his episode on Nazis you'll remember when they asked him if he was Jewish himself but he said he won't have give an answer (even though he wasn't he just wanted to test their reaction) , and they all got super pissed.
[video=youtube;Xo_DuXWJgRM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo_DuXWJgRM[/video]
His patience is very good. Good on him.
[QUOTE=smurfy;50083942]This clip is kind of like a battle between Louis and the Scientologists, which Louis wins just by remaining calm and polite. The woman is ranting and belittling him and threatening to call the police but she is forced to give up and hide in her car, while the man is left silently backing away while Louis just asks 'wut r u doin' over and over. He crushes them by not giving in to their tactics.[/QUOTE]
that's how you interact with them, they're lives are flipped backwards where they hate people who are more calm and collective then they are and feel satisfaction when you're upset.
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;50083923]Do you have the name of it, I have been looking for good material on the subject for a while.
Mainly something on Scientology in the UK but it's not on the scale of it in the United States.[/QUOTE]
The HBO doucmentary is called [url=http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/going-clear]Going Clear[/url].
god i love louis theroux
like i have a literal erection for him, he's fucking awesome
Louis Theroux is fucking great, always glad to see him working on new stuff
I fucking love Louis, makes the best docs
Louis is the man. The end of that clip was amazing, I'm really looking forward to the full doc.
This thread makes me feel good, thanks guys.
i hate it when people try and talk over their opponent to try and 'win' an argument
[QUOTE=geogzm;50086166]i hate it when people try and talk over their opponent to try and 'win' an argument[/QUOTE]
That hate is exactly what they want to provoke and it's a technique the Church of Scientology successfully uses again and again. Somehow I don't think its going to work on Louis though.
Is there any legal way to watch his previous documentaries? BBC IPlayer might have them but I can't check at the moment.
he's coming to my city to speak and im going to buy tickets for it bc i fucking love this dude so much
[editline]8th April 2016[/editline]
worth the $100
[editline]8th April 2016[/editline]
nvm all the tickets sold out, another time hopefully
[QUOTE=Holt!;50086445]Is there any legal way to watch his previous documentaries? BBC IPlayer might have them but I can't check at the moment.[/QUOTE]
Most of them are on Netflix if you have that
scientology is one of the scummiest intitutions ever, I hope his documentary gets popular and gives them a good kick in the teeth.
[QUOTE=Holt!;50086445]Is there any legal way to watch his previous documentaries? BBC IPlayer might have them but I can't check at the moment.[/QUOTE]
iPlayer only have Extreme Love: Autism at the minute - Netflix do have a fair few as the other poster said and Amazon have some to buy digitally.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;50084196]His patience is very good. Good on him.[/QUOTE]
[quote]Theroux teamed with director John Dower and the pair set about detailing the story of the church using [b]re-enactments of real events.[/b][/quote]
Considering it's an acted scene, I'd hope so.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;50089664]Considering it's an acted scene, I'd hope so.[/QUOTE]
From what I can tell the film is about Louis creating reenactments of things that ex-Scientologists say happened to them, and while he's doing that he gets followed by the Church. I don't think the clip in the OP is a reenactment.
[quote=Wikipedia synopsis]After the Church of Scientology refuses to cooperate in making a documentary, Louis Theroux teams up with former senior church official Mark Rathbun to create dramatic reconstructions of incidents within the church witnessed by Rathbun and other ex-Scientologists. They focus in particular on alleged violent behaviour by the church's leader David Miscavige at its secretive Gold Base facility in California, which Theroux visits. The church retaliates by putting Theroux and his film crew under surveillance, leading to camera-wielding confrontations with a Scientology "squirrel buster" team and with church officials outside Gold Base. Theroux raises questions about Rathbun's own former complicity in the church's "terroristic" activities, leading to tensions between the two men.[/quote]
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/louis-theroux-my-scientology-movie-i-felt-like-id-been-blooded[/url]
[quote=Louis Theroux]In essence, the documentary became a film about me trying to make the re-enactments. If you think that sounds a little odd, I don’t blame you. It did to me to begin with. And it was only after shooting a first scene, in which I attempt to cast the role of church leader David Miscavige – with the help of one of Scientology’s most prominent defectors, Marty Rathbun – that I realised how it could work.
...
he Scientologists’ strikeback started about two months into filming. I had begun worrying that the church might have given up counter-investigating. I’ve never been so relieved to have an unidentified pair of people show up and start filming me in a random creepy way from across the road. After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I’d been blooded.[/quote]
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