- With over 23.3 million subscribers, Shane Dawson is one of
YouTube's most successful and famous creators. Some people think he can do no wrong, while others are starting to feel that his videos are a little
too long, overproduced, and that Shane himself sometimes fails to take the feedback that
his audience is giving him to make his work more appealing. I was leaning more towards
the latter opinion, but I wanted to get more. So I found this 2014
series called "The Chair." It's a documentary show
that aired on STARZ which Shane featured heavily in. They documented his process
of making the film "Not Cool," which he directed and starred in. I saw almost nobody on YouTube
talking about this series, so I went and watched every
episode, all 10 hours, and what it revealed to
me is that Shane Dawson, at least in 2014, was immature. - [Shane] Mm, mm. Mm. (laughing) (Shane grunts) - Hard to work with. - I'm not taking anything out of the movie to please a bunch of
(beep) out of work actors who should be lucky to get an
audition for a feature film. - This show did not paint
him in a good light, but moreover, 'cause I'm
sure he's matured since then, he expressed a lot of
opinions that make me believe he might still have the
same kind of aversion to getting creative feedback. Today we're going to
recap the entire season of 2014s "The Chair," and I'll point out some
areas where I think Shane showed some of these signs that he might be better off working as an independent creator because working as part of
a team, it ain't it for him, at least not from what I've seen. - I don't either. Okay.
- Just- - Let's get to acting notes. - I watched this whole
series so you don't have to. Let's get into it. (Nick snaps) (upbeat music) Hello television viewers, my name is Nick. Thank you so much for joining
me once again on my channel for another clip breakdown of reality TV, one of my favorite types of videos to do. This time, however,
it's even more relevant because this reality show
starred Shane Dawson, the most famous YouTuber. If I express any negative
opinions about him, it might be bad for some
people on the internet who really like him. So I'm gonna try to be as
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just my general opinion. So turn on those notifications and you'll always be up to date. Ah, Shane Dawson. I learned so much about him
by watching this series. Like for one, I don't think I would have liked being friends with him in 2014. And I get it, everybody,
this was shot six years ago, so a lot of the stuff
we're gonna see today probably doesn't apply to the
type of person Shane is now. I totally get that. I think where I'm really focusing on here is areas where Shane is
like gaslighting everybody. He's like, "I've been really
open and collaborative," but then he shuts down
anybody who has any note that's gonna make this movie
even somewhat watchable. - [Crew Member] You don't
wanna hear what people say? - No. I don't need to. - If you guys haven't
seen the movie "Not Cool" directed by Shane Dawson,
you should be grateful. It's so cringey and bad. I think watching this series
and then watching that movie, it literally made me sick. I finished and I had strep throat and I haven't shot this
video for like a whole month 'cause I had to like
build up the nerve for it, and Shane is totally
preoccupied the whole time with how he's coming off on the show. So he's more focused on that
than making a good movie. There's a lot to unpack. We're gonna get into it. So the basic premise of this
reality show "The Chair" is that two directors, they've got Shane, because he's an up and
coming YouTube celebrity at the time with about
2 million subscribers, and then they have another filmmaker who is more traditionally
trained from NYU film, and her name is Anna Martemucci. They're both given the same source script and they have to adapt it into a movie. They're both given $850,000 to do this, which is a big budget for
a first time filmmaker. That's like, it's a low
budget feature film, but that's a lot of money to
be in control of a movie with. They both have to shoot it in Pittsburgh. It's this whole thing. Zachary Quinto is the producer, and he's in the show as well, and he does not like Shane Dawson. That's how I came upon all of this was through Shane's Reddit where people kind of pointed out that Shane does not act in
a flattering way in this and he really wanted
to bury it right after. The movie was so bad that Zach Quinto took his name off of it midway through before it was released, - Took his name off it,
he called me garbage, he said I was the worst director ever. - And I don't blame him. It's so embarrassing. I felt so bad watching it. I was like the fact that
anyone had to be in this, it was crazy. So anyway, I'm gonna talk
through some of the episodes to contextualize these clips for you, because, well, we'll just
have to watch and see. Let me know what you guys
think in the comments. I'm gonna try not to say anything that I don't truly
believe about Shane Dawson and I certainly don't want
to editorialize too much, 'cause again, I don't
watch Shane's videos. I used to because when I
was first starting YouTube, it was like, that's
obviously the gold standard. So real quick, just to catch you up to
where we are in this clip, throughout the entire series, Shane is like acting weird. I think he's in over his head a lot. But for example, the script comes out and he has to give notes on the script to make it how he likes it. He has like one revision that
the screenwriter does for him. So he does it, the screenwriter fixes it, makes it more... Like it was a serious movie before that the screenwriter had written, but Shane wanted it to be a broad comedy with all these raunchy jokes, and the screenwriter
kind of got it right away and was like, "Okay, I can
make it wacky and gross." Right after that, Shane is like, "Why don't I have a
co-writing credit then? Because I basically came up
with all of these ideas." And they're like, "Well because of the Writers
Guild and you're the director, he's the one who took your notes and made it into the script." He's like, "Well, like whatever, I wrote the whole thing, but whatever." So it's like already he's
trying to skirt the union rules that are designed to
protect the screenwriter from just this, a greedy director coming in and stealing screenwriting credit 'cause they said, "Well I changed that
character's whole arc." Doesn't matter. You didn't write the script. That's not who's being
credited for the script. Meanwhile, the jokes are so raunchy in this new version of the script, and I'm telling you, I can't even repeat a
single one of them on here. They're foul, they're disgusting. There's like plenty of scatological humor, there's plenty of racial jokes
and just homophobic jokes. Like he just went after every
2014 cringe joke you could, which I guess was really popular
on his channel at the time. But he says many times throughout this, "I'm tired of just being
an internet person. I want to be a real filmmaker." - I have been on this whole
YouTube grind for eight years. I'm ready to do something
bigger than just the internet. - So then make this movie appeal to more than just your
15 year old audience. But then right after he starts, anytime someone says, "Maybe we tone down the raunchiness, 'cause people don't even want to audition. The location owners don't
want you to shoot there because your movie's too gross." He's like, "Well I'm not making a
movie for a bunch of adults. I'm making it for my 15 year old audience who love these jokes." Okay, well you just kind of went back on what your original goal was. Like anyway. This conversation is with his producers who are telling him basically, "People don't want to be in your movie because of the content." - The script is not that raunchy. If somebody out there is a (beep) rat, and they're going around saying this is the raunchiest movie ever made, and it's me pissing me the (beep) off. - [Producer] And he says, "Look, I'm gonna be honest with you. I've had clients that have gone online, watched Shane's stuff, and said, 'I don't wanna
be a part of that.'" - When I was an actor, I was
auditioning for everything. I don't quite understand
the logic of being picky when you have no (beep) job. - Well no, but that's the
problem. They do have jobs. And one woman in particular who's a professor who's up for tenure. - [Shane] Well then am
I seeing professors? Where are the (beep) actors? - It's a smaller more limited talent pool than out of New York or LA. - Can't find actors,
if we can't find crew, then how are we gonna fix this to make Pittsburgh look great? 'Cause Zach Quinto ain't
doing (beep) anything. - Whew. So that was his first
tantrum where I was like, "Okay, he's really ready
to let people have it." The problem here is people
read the audition lines that they're given and they're like, "Oh, no thanks, I don't
want to be in this." Remember this is like
Pittsburgh, not LA or New York, and they're not paying
these actors hardly anything 'cause their budget is so low. - It's so hard to act like
I care about these actors. - [Lauren] You're not doing
that great of a job of it. - Shane's getting mad because real actors don't want to audition. You've got people with day
jobs that don't wanna audition because being in a movie
like this is damaging. And instead of taking that and being like, "All right, maybe this is indicative of the problems I'm gonna
have with this movie for the rest of it, like if people don't
even want to be in it, what is the audience gonna think?" But instead of even
remotely going on to that, he blames everyone. You can see, he's like, he's blaming the casting director, this poor woman who does not deserve it, doing her best. He blames his producers, he blames Zach Quinto, the
executive producer of this show, and it's just like, no bro, it's you. And he always is like, "Well
'Superbad' is so raunchy." It's like well "Superbad" was funny. If people aren't thinking
your jokes are funny, like everyone's being a
little too nice to him, and they're not saying, "If the jokes were funny I would
fight for you to keep them. It would be worth keeping a raunchy joke, but they don't add anything." I dare you to watch this movie, you guys. You won't make it through a few seconds. Also, Shane decides to star in this film, which is beyond me. You're a first time
director of a feature film and you think you're
gonna star in this movie? Like it's really hard to direct anything, a feature film, especially, with all of those people
asking you questions, but then you have to be
the star of your movie. He's the romantic lead trying to play a really bro-y straight guy is what's in the script, but it doesn't come through
in his performance at all 'cause he's so demure and shy
and insecure about his body. He's talking about trying
not to appear overweight. So it's a lot to watch someone struggle with their own insecurities and then trying to be in their own movie and direct themselves. But again, everyone just sits back. His producers, they're like, "We gotta let him do it because people are gonna
watch the movie if he's in it. It's gonna be hard to get an
audience to come sit down. His fans won't watch
it if he's not in it." So I see why he's doing it. And frankly, it's a little
unfair to the other filmmaker, and spoiler alert, Shane
wins the whole series, 'cause the people who vote for
him are obviously his fans, although he denies it. - Like my fans didn't vote because you had to take
like 10 questionnaires about her movie and my movie, and I know I won because
my movie was entertaining. - Right.
- And nobody gives me credit. - Here's an example of Laurie,
who is Shane's producer, also a close friend of his at the time who is just suggesting they
make some changes to the script so that people will audition. - It's been mentioned many, many times the (beep) is a problem for people. So if we just like lose
that, I'm just saying. - I'm not taking anything out of the movie to please a bunch of (beep) out
of work actors in Pittsburgh who should be lucky to get an
audition for a feature film. No director has ever taken
anything out of a movie to get somebody to watch-
- Shane. - I'm angry that we're
finding out about this two days before we (beep)-
- I agree. I 100. - I don't know, I'm gonna go. - Shane, stop it, you can't go! We have too much (beep) to do! - I'm gonna go and I'm gonna
do this in my (beep) hotel. - [Lauren] Shane! - Ugh, that was really
frustrating to watch 'cause he's like disparaging the people who are coming to audition for his movie, saying that everyone he's
seen so far is garbage, and then he's yelling
at people being like, "No one has ever taken
anything out of a movie ever." Yes, directors take
things out of their movies to please people all the time. It's like you have to
look at the greater good. Do you want the piece to be made? What story are you trying to tell here? Shane doesn't seem to care about the story or the characters or
anything through all of this. He just really seems like
he wants to get his own way. And I'm sorry, to walk out of a meeting two
days before you start shooting, three days before you start shooting, it's just so unproductive. Like that's not gonna solve anything. You need to hire actors and they still can't fill key roles because of the gross poop jokes. (laughs) Also some actors are like, "I don't want to be in it if Shane's in it 'cause I went online and
saw his YouTube videos and they're racially insensitive
and they're inappropriate." - Watched his videos?
- Of course, I hired him. - He's a racist, homophobic awful human. Jokes are not even funny
or done well, is the thing. That's why I was just like don't
have my shop name in there. Make it look different. Don't put anything in the credits. - Note for everyone who doesn't
watch Shane Dawson's videos. Back in 2014, his videos were
a lot more skit-oriented. Like a lot of him playing
multiple characters. - You guys should shoot porno here! - Unfortunately somebody already does. - Yee-haw! (Shane shudders) - Saying really shocking
things in order to be funny. Like that was sort of
his brand at the time, and he had to make a
really deliberate change at a certain point to where he apologized for painting his face
to be like other races and doing really negative
stereotypes of other cultures. And then he made an effort
to improve his content, which a lot of people
credited Shane for a long time as like, "He's changed. Like he had this racist moment but then he apologized and he moved on." So his success always
continued to skyrocket. People really saw him as someone who's willing to change his content. That's not how people feel. Most recently with the release of his long form documentary series, he did like a six episode thing called "The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star" where he made his own makeup
palette with Jeffree Star and then in the trailer, it's kind of misrepresented
what was gonna be in there. It's hard. It's a lot to get into. You probably already know
a little bit about it if not following the
whole thing like I do. Here's a little more of him going to town on his producer Laurie. This is right on set with his actors. So now we're actually shooting the movie. So he's got like too
many characters in it. I don't know what's going on. One of the supporting
characters is Drew Monson. Yeah, he looks like that. He was in a lot of Shane's
videos in those early days and Shane basically
discovered him off YouTube, and in this show he's like, "This guy's gonna be the next
McLovin from 'Superbad.'" So he puts him into this role. It's his first movie role. He actually wasn't that bad
of an actor in the movie. Drew was a better actor and his character was more
watchable than Shane's character. - I like you! As a friend. - Oh, perfect! - So Shane's directing a scene with Drew and his romantic interest in the movie and he starts bickering. Watch. - [Shane] Think there's
a chance that you guys might actually get together again. - It's fine that you're saying Facebook, I just don't wanna say it too many times. - [Shane] Oh, but she also
said, "You Facebook stalked me." - I know, so we can use it, but say if the opening
montage doesn't have Facebook and it's like generic whatever. - Do you don't understand what I'm saying? - I do.
- She says Facebook. - [Lauren] No, I do. It's okay, it's okay, I just- - Then why are you saying
it's not okay if we say it? - Because she's saying it
so many times that it's- - So we can only say it once? - So-
- So then we either can say it or we can't.
- No that's not. - Do you understand what she's saying? - It's-
- No, I don't either. - Just the second one-
- Let's get to acting notes and not like word notes. (Nick sighs) - So if you can't tell, Laurie's just making a note that if you say Facebook too many times and they don't get the rights to show Facebook on the computer screen, they're gonna have a hard
time editing that dialogue. Shane decides to be so rude about it and dismissive and
condescending to Laurie, like and sends her away and is just right in front of the actor. If you see the girl who's
sitting at this dinner scene, she looks miserable. Nobody who's in this movie looks like they wanna be in this
movie because Shane's, he's being really kind
of mean to everybody and he doesn't know what he's doing. It's clear he's a first time director and it would've been nice to
watch him try to direct this without also having the
added pressure of being in it and being worried if his costume was hiding his body the right way. And I'm only saying that 'cause he mentioned in another interview that that's what he was
worried about the whole time is how he looked on camera. - Ugh.
- And then in between takes, I was like is my double chin out? Can you see my extra skin? What's happening?
(interviewer laughing) It's the only teen comedy
with fully clothed sex scenes. Just jackets and and fanny packs and anything to cover me up. - And it's like obviously
you're too insecure to be on camera and be
an insecure director. It just, that insecurity comes through in the final cut of the
movie as you'll see. They finally finish shooting the movie after 20 days of shooting. So like a full month of shooting and they do a test screening which is like a great opportunity for Shane to actually show a
cut of his movie to an audience and get notes while there's
still time to fix it. And up until this point, Shane's like, "Oh yeah, I wanna
see what everybody thinks. Like I'm really excited
to hear what they think." And then we get to the
test screening itself and suddenly that's not the case. - [Lauren] You like that? Did you buy that they could have been in a relationship before? - Sorry to bother you. You're gonna come back in to talk, right? I think you should. You don't
want to hear what people say? - No. I don't want to hear like specifics. - She's such a cartoon. I just, I'm never gonna buy any version that he cares that she's gone. - So really, what do
you think's gonna happen if you go in and listen?
- I don't need to. I don't need to hear
the pick apart-y stuff. - Right.
- All that's fine. - But to actually hear
it, like, I don't need to. - (laughs) Okay. - So that guy is the executive producer of the reality show itself, and he is like, "Are you sure? Like people are saying some
helpful stuff in there." And for whatever reason, Shane has decided that, "No, I actually don't need those notes." They're all like kind of
filling out an opinion card. So he's saying, "Oh I'll get the gist of it from what you tell me is
written on the cards." But I mean there's a
lot of good information going around there. The other director, who it's hard not to compare his movie to that of the other director, where yeah, they had their
challenges on that shoot, but people loved the script. People loved the movie, they
wanted to be a part of it. The costume designer had an interview with both Shane and
then the other director. - I only read this one. - And that's Shane's.
- Yeah. - Shane did hire us, but we told him no. - We're talking about a
subtle character development as opposed to a caricature. - Guys, I'm so excited
that you wanna do this! - Now I can put this in the dumpster, and I feel so much better. - "Can I throw this one in the garbage?" People are much happier on the other shoe, and the the test audience. Anna, the director, sat
in there and just listened and she did have moments where she looked like she was gonna cry, but she still made a
better movie because of it. I actually really relate
to Shane in so many ways 'cause I feel like I acted a lot like this in my job when I was 24, but I wasn't on a reality show and I wasn't in charge of a whole film. So, and that being said, there are people who have directed successful films at his age. So it's just about experience
and professionalism, I think. It's like he's dug himself
too far in to take any notes 'cause he's always been like, "Oh no, I took your notes." Anytime he doesn't take someone's note, he has like every answer as
to why that note is invalid and he doesn't need to do it. In fact, back when they
were editing this movie, people had, like Laurie came to LA to watch his cut of the
movie and just was like, okay, maybe consider cutting this, and he was instantly defensive about it and started getting all caught up in what it was gonna
look like on the show. - How long is it if you go from the top 'til we get to Scott and Tori? - [Crew Member] 24 minutes. - I think if we do a cut,
just take that scene out, I honestly don't even
think you're gonna miss it. - We can try.
- We can try it. - [Shane] I don't wanna do that right now. - [Lauren] Why can't we do it right now? - [Shane] 'Cause that's why
you're here for a couple days, and I just felt like after we watched it, I'd rather like be excited
and talk about the movie. Like just jumping into it being like, "This is the problem." - No! But can't not say anything. I'm not gonna sit here
and just tell you like, "It's done, it's ready to go." It's really-
- But we've been working our (beep) off on this (beep), (beep).
- Well, you're- - And it's awesome. I think it's really good. - I feel like it just escalates so quickly because Shane didn't want her to start giving notes right away. They wanted to celebrate the
video first, or the movie. But it's like that's what
she flew out there to do was to fix it. And her note, which was about the first
25 minutes being too long because we didn't meet
the main character yet, was actually a note that one of the executive producers brought up in an early script meeting
before they even shot. He was like, "It's kind of like 23 minutes before we're gonna see
the main character," and Shane dismissed that too. He was like, "No, no, we
really like these 23 minutes. We need them." So the note is true, like it remains true that
the beginning is too long and that's when we start to really see like Shane does not want to appear the way he can tell he's appearing. - Your note. They're gonna roll the tape back. It's gonna go back to him saying that the first 25 minutes doesn't work 'cause Tori's not in it enough, then go to me saying I think
that I wanna do it this way. That was the first note you went into was the one that you
knew they were gonna use. - No, I don't, Shane, because I'm not thinking
about the TV show! Like I haven't even thought
about that since that day. - You know when you know
you're being difficult and you still can't stop it but you're mad because
everyone's gonna think you're difficult now even
though you're difficult? That's what's happening here. He's so caught up in how he's gonna look in the final cut of this TV show, which nobody saw, by the way. Also, why when they get mad
does everyone talk like? (Nick imitates chattering) Does Shane know that he talks so fast I can't understand him? I think he does. I think that's a common joke people make. But back to the test screening. He flat out tells them, "I
don't want any of these notes." Oh and also he tells them
that the notes don't matter 'cause he was there listening, like, "Oh I was listening
to the laughter in the room so I know what worked and what didn't. I don't need to read their thoughts." - Literally I was sitting here listening to every single laugh. I could tell you the level
from one to 10 of each joke. - Was there any that didn't play? - Not really. I mean the things I was
nervous about worked. - Which, to me, is crazy. Like people are watching and laughing 'cause they feel weird. Like I've seen this movie. If I was in a theater with the
known filmmaker of the movie, I would be laughing 'cause
I'd be so uncomfortable. I'd be like I can't believe
they put money into this. Like I can't believe anyone wanted this to ever be seen in the light of day. The movie is so bad, I don't know how he shows it to people without being embarrassed that he's in it and that his name is on it and
that it came from his mind. Like if I were him, I'd be taking everybody's notes to make it look like none of
this ever came out of my brain. It's so bad. And I try to keep saying I
know it was six years ago and he was 24. Okay, but I get it. In 2014, I was 23. Are we the same age? Shane Dawson's a little older than me. I was 23 in 2014, and I would never have
made any of these jokes. Never would've even
thought they were funny. Knew that being racist was not good. Knew that blackface was bad. Knew that scatological
jokes or body jokes, like all of this really toilet humor, like nobody wants to watch that. But he's so indebted to
these 15 year old girls who apparently love it. I mean, even then, I think he should have
challenged himself more, right? What I see in all of this
Shane Dawson series here is like he feels trapped. He's trapped in his YouTube world that he wants to break out
of and be a real movie maker, but he's trapped because
he doesn't want to change the content of his work because he doesn't want to mess up the success he has with his audience now. And it's like you've gotta be a little more secure in yourself. Like people are watching the
videos for you, your brand. Whatever you do, they're gonna watch it. It can be good. It doesn't have to be bad. Don't paint yourself into
a corner of being bad. So here he is telling them that he knows what was
funny and what wasn't. - Driver got more bigger laughs, mom got bigger laughs. So for me, that's why these things are always kind of like grain of salt, 'cause I'm like, hmm. The last half of the movie got way more laughs than I thought. I don't know. I was happy. - [Lauren] I'm, if
nothing else, kind of sad, because as it seems right now, Shane's not really interested
in hearing the notes. - Everyone knows it. He literally told them, "Oh no, I thought every joke worked. I heard a sufficient laugh
at every single joke." There are so many jokes in this movie, it's really pushing the limits. So he straight up tells them that he doesn't wanna hear the notes. And then a week later they're like, okay, so what are we gonna do? - We have a movie that
can still be better. In the way that you envision it. Not about changing your vision. Do you see it as something
that you still want to work on and make better?
- Of course. You guys, I'm really (beep) annoyed because I feel like I have not come across any less than a collaborative person. If you guys told me like, "Hey, I think there's
a lot of work to it," I'd be like, "Okay great, let's do it." - You won't read the notes. - I want to see all the notes. - You said the opposite to me. You specifically told me that night, "You guys are gonna send me the notes and I'm never gonna read 'em."
- I mean, as a joke. - But it's been a week and you
haven't read them either, so. - I don't know where the (beep) they are! Because I knew you guys
were gonna come and say, "Hey listen, this is the
consensus from the cards." - That's different than reading them. - [Shane] I'm supposed to
read every single card? - I read every single one. - I'm interested to hear
like specific things. - The one note from over half the people that wrote it on the cards was, "The movie was too long, I
had issues with the pacing." - Shane is backpedaling
and forward pedaling so much in this conversation, you should call him Mr. Bicycle. It's crazy. He's like, "I told you
I wanna read the notes but I don't know where they are." "Well, they're right here." "I told you that I didn't
wanna read the notes." "Well, you should read the notes." "Well I'm gonna read the notes. Why'd you tell me not to
read the notes?" Like, ugh. So defensive. So many layers of insecurity
that they have to work through. Everyone's like telling
him the movie is too long, you have two jokes before this scene ends and you could just go with one of them. Every scene is pointless. Every scene feels disgusting. You guys should really watch
this movie, it's so bad. I could do a recap of
that movie too, probably. And he always turns it
around on the other people. He is like, "I never said that." And they're like, "You did say that. That's exactly what you said." And he's like, "Well I was clearly joking. Why are you joking and acting
completely serious about it and then doing what you're joking about? It's so frustrating, 'cause I just feel like all of these people are professionals trying to do their jobs
and he's just like some kid that they're trying to
wrangle in and be like, "Why did we give him all
this money to do this movie?" But then they all still
do this Hollywood thing where they're like,
"But hey, that's Shane. You know, he knows his audience. He's got these millions
of people watching him so clearly we're idiots." You're not the idiots. (laughs) In fact, it's like he always
has to choose a chance to be like self-righteous about it, and I think that's his way of trying to control the narrative of how he comes off on this show. He's trying to like revise history and be like, "Guys, I feel like I just owe
myself this one thing." Here's an example of that. They finally convince him to
let another editor come in and tighten up his cut, which I can't even
imagine what it was like before a professional touched it because I've seen what resulted,
and it's garbage, mama. It's garbage. So here's his notes after
that final professional edit. Oops. - It's just like what changes, if any? - Two little things. I wanted him to add a beat of
the party bus with silence. - I agree. - So that's it?
- Listen. - That's fine.
- I've compromised a lot in this movie. But like if I want one
extra (beep) second, just let me have it. - No one's not letting you have it. - You shouldn't feel
like I've compromised. I feel like you've learned
and you've gotten notes. - There's certain things that I don't like that are still there. Like I have definitely compromised. - You have final cut on. - I feel like I've been
very open to every note, every suggestion, everything. I've never like yelled at you guys, and (imitates chattering). Like if I just want an
extra beat somewhere, like I feel like I
deserve it at this point. - I've been yelled at. For the record. - I'm so glad Laurie gets that in because he's been yelling at them nonstop. Every time they have a note,
he's anything but open to it, and then he just goes ahead and calls himself really open to the note. He's like, "I've been
so open to everything. Don't you dare give me a note. I swear I'll punch you." And then afterwards he'll be like, "Why didn't anyone tell me?" Girl, they're trying
to tell you right now. And all they said was, "Great, we can give
you that extra minute." He's like, "Listen, I just
want one extra second. I should be given this." Ugh, it's exhausting. It's like having a significant other that you constantly have to care for 'cause they're so insecure. That word keeps coming up. Huh. So finally, both movies are released, and as part of the reality show, both are put into a
theater for like five days, like a week of limited theater release. So that's where the bias
starts to really become clear for how these two movies
are gonna be treated based off the fact that Shane
Dawson created one of them and some nobody named Anna
Martemucci created the second. So every single showing that Shane Dawson shows
up to of his own film, it sells out, 'cause it's a lot of his
fans coming to meet him. So he of course goes to
as many of them as he can, 'cause the more people
who watch the movies, the more people will vote for it. Anna's is basically empty. The theaters are empty most of the time except for the premier. And it's just clear
people wanna see Shane's because he's in it. However, the one or two times he doesn't show up to a screening, nobody goes to see the
movie because it's bad. And Shane just seems so insecure. Like after every show he's like, "Oh, I'm so glad you guys didn't hate it." It's like they hated it. Trust me. I hate it. They hated it. You hate it. It's hateable. It's so bad, it's so bad. I've never seen a movie so bad. And I don't think I say that that often. It's like, it's so bad. And actually there's one part where they're making a
joke about "Degrassi" that I thought was funny because I loved "Degrassi" growing up, but I guess it's like a joke
for my generation, right? Like Shane and I are about the same age. However, the critics, the
film critics don't lie. They said that Anna clearly had a deep love for her characters, and on Shane's film,
here's what they said. - "Not Cool" got a lot of
really negative reviews. - Shane's movie got eviscerated
in the critical landscape. I mean absolutely destroyed. - One review said that
if you enjoy my movie, you must be a (beep) sociopath. - That was in the Los Angeles Times. - For me, reviews don't really
mean whether a movie is good. To have five middle-aged white
dudes to judge your movie, especially a teen comedy, not really the tell-all
for how the movie is. - I love that. Everyone's like, "We got
destroyed by the reviews. Everyone hated it." And then Shane's like, "Oh, I don't actually think
that that matters at all. It didn't play into my opinion." It's like he has to put up such
a wall against these things. He has an answer for the reason why everything is negatively received. Here he's saying, "Oh, a regular movie gets
like 200 critical reviews. "Not Cool" got only five, so if five middle-aged white
guys didn't like it, whatever." Those are movie critics. So, I mean, they know what
they're talking about. Also, like movie critics, whatever age or race they are, they have also reviewed
other children's movies, other teen comedies. They've seen "Superbad." They're not missing the point. They're giving their
professional opinion on the story and the execution of your film, and both were lacking. Like it's so bad. And I'm sorry, I don't blame
the reviewers for being like, "Who gave this guy the money to do this?" Because that's all I could
think when watching it. Like knowing how much
work goes into a movie and how many awesome
stories there are to tell from underrepresented
filmmakers out there, like they could have given that
$850,000 to a woman of color or to any person of color, really, and have a story told. Like let me see this story being told through the eyes of a Black
filmmaker or something, not a stupid filmmaker, you know? So I don't blame these critics for hating that this movie was made. It is kind of embarrassing
that so many resources and so much money and so much of the
world's carbon footprint went into making this movie. Like Shane had blood effects,
he had vomit effects. People were spending a
lot of time and money trying to make this thing what it is, which is garbage. And it still comes back
to Shane being like, "Whatever, they don't
understand teen comedy. The audiences, they either
loved it or hated it, and those are the people
that I want to know." And it's like most of the
people did not like it and saw maybe one or two
redeeming qualities of it. I think Drew Monson's performance
was a redeeming quality. I think the girl who played
opposite him, she was wonderful. And any scene that didn't
have Shane in it, I was like, "All right, I can watch this." But he's in most of them
with his flat-ironed hair, which is another thing
he talks about in this. He's like, "I hate my hair. I just did this when I was
younger and everyone loved it." And he talks about how he
used to be overweight a lot. It's like you are overweight as a teenager and you seem to really still carry the shame around with you, and it just comes through
in everything he says. So it's like I should be more focused on the movie he's trying to make, the story he's trying to tell, than like the clear issues he has with his own self-perception. Again, I feel like this
is still happening today. He started editing "The
Beautiful World of Jeffree Star" and changing around how that
narrative was gonna look once he thought the tides were turning and people wouldn't wanna see the drama. Once people said, "No,
we actually wanna see the drama of what you're doing here," he was like, "Well, I think everybody just wants to see the business part, so I'm just gonna do
the business side of it. When I did a Facebook poll, everyone said they wanted
to see the business part." It's like when I first heard that, I said you're using that as an excuse. People are telling you straight up they wanna see the drama as well 'cause they just wanna see
what you showed in the trailer. But regardless, he kind
of has to double down and make everybody think that this is what they wanted to see or this is what they asked for. And I just think people are
kind of not buying it anymore. All of that is to say I think Shane's videos
can be entertaining. I don't usually watch
them all the way through. Like I've seen some of
the Jeffree Star series, never a full episode. I've seen some of his more recent videos. I've seen full videos of his before. I used to love like the food video ones. Anyway, he had no business
making a feature length film and at least not this way. I wish he had given
himself a better chance if he really wanted to break
out of the YouTube world and become a studio
filmmaker or a director, which he still seems to
fancy himself, you know? He's like, "Oh, I edited this all myself. I shot this all myself. So much work goes into this." It's like, well try putting some more work into the story or the
structure of what you're doing and less into just making it flashy with all of these like
presets from Final Cut Pro. What do you guys think of
his behavior in this series? Were you intrigued? Did you ever know that this
movie or this show was made? I would love to hear
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