Klaus Pierre, French-German Action Hero in Training in America: Big Party
Klaus Pierre, a French/German actor-waiter-whatever, aspires against all odds to become America's next great action hero. In today's episode, he attempts to conquer the greatest challenge ever -- his first big Hollywood party. Drinks, hijinks, and embarassing dance moves ensue.
Previous Klaus Pierre episodes on BBtv:
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"Are all French like this?"
I would hazard the guess..yes..err..affirmative.
*sigh* Poor Klaus.
Gys, pls - 86 ths srs.
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David,
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I think someone slipped and used his real name! About 1:53 it sounds like "Collery."
@#4 JDSpeeder1:
Actually, what the dude says there is, "Cologne, Cologne" in reference to a conversation they were having about the city in Germany where Klaus is from.
Nice try though! ;o)
Dana Devonshire
Series Producer, Boing Boing tv
lol - uhhh... why did all of the vowels disappear from my previous post?
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hi Dave. Read the Moderation thread to find your answers.
@5 & 4
Your right, as I am from Cologne this is a common way the conversation runs when 'we' try to tell anybody where were from. (Dont let us get there when we try to explain the german version of the city's name 'Köln' ).
But to promote world-peace: He's NOT the way our french neighbours or we are, allthough he features some trademarks. ;-)
I sincerely hope this is a 'Borat' ripoff, otherwise, feel free to send him back 'freight forward'...
I have a few questions for the producer:
How do you find the people you set him up for a knock down like the asian chick pretending to be all over him only to get him to make a prat of himself?
What's the budget for an episode?
How far down are you going to take him and do you ever think you've gone too far?
@ #9 A_User:
Thanks for the questions!
We actually do not set Klaus up for any of these episodes - we really have been just following him living his new life in America and trying to achieve his goals.
In this episode, Klaus was actually invited to a private party in LA and the host graciously allowed us to bring our cameras to document the evening. All guests in attendance, to the best of my knowledge, were friends of the host.
The only things we've ever done to "set Klaus up" (in a manner of speaking) were to arrange, at Klaus' request, for his swordfighting and Savate lessons to further his training (which we managed to do at no charge to us).
Contrary to some commenters' beliefs, we did not pay for his Botox treatments, or to have his hair done, or really anything. We have, however, bought him lunch on occasion when he was a little down on his luck.
While I'm not at liberty to disclose our budgets for these episodes, I can tell you that it's not much. We hire shooters, use our own equipment, and pay for gas and coffee. That's really it.
So then, in answer to your last question, we truly do not plan out his activities and direction. This is not a reality game show or quest. We are simply following him on his journey. This is not to say that we never feel bad or embarrassed for him! I can tell you honestly that the night he made his red carpet debut was heartbreaking. We all felt really bad, but we try our best to keep a professional distance. We do hope that airing these episodes will somehow help Klaus get some exposure.
We continue to follow his progress and hope to share it with as many viewers as possible!
Thanks for watching!
Best,
Dana Devonshire
Series Producer, Boing Boing tv
@ #9 A_USER:
An amendment to my previous post:
We did actually attempt to use Klaus in the lead role of a scripted action comedy (see Ep #5, Pirate Musical of Epic Fail).
It didn't work out the way we had planned, which is made clear in the episode, and we decided that the outtakes were actually the only usable footage from the shoot. We knew then that it would simply be better for all of us to stick to a Klaus documentary.
There is some pretty great footage of Klaus and I singing the French national anthem that evening, before all hell broke loose, but we decided not to include that to save me from further embarrassment.
Dana Devonshire
Series Producer, Boing Boing tv
WOW! I love this guy. The production value of these videos is too high for this all to be staged. This video showed a new low for Klaus. wow.
I had no idea that it was a documentary. All this time I thought Klaus was playing a character. I'll watch the other episodes with a new insight this time.
Thanks for posting your comments Dana, it's quite refreshing to see the producer following up with the documentary's comments.
I seriously can't believe he's for real. I wish the best of luck for him to be discovered and make it into the super action hero movie world.
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lzygenius,
You must be awfully bored to watch something that doesn't interest you and then find the time to tell the world that you're bored by it. Perhaps you should take up knitting.
Perhaps, but I was really putting out an open request for selective feeds for BBTV and not to be rude or insulting.
Thank you. I'm glad you didn't mean it.
Having been to quite a few parties of that kind in France (since I live there), I have to say that the second half looks much more genuine than the Borat-style beginning. And, seriously, people, can you imagine a French (or Franco-German) guest in California not making a pass at all the nice girls five minutes after arriving? ;-)
I heard somebody s making a movie on this guy