BBtv: Klaus Pierre, French-German Action Hero, works out.
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 heads to the hills above Hollywood, where scrub brush and aspiring starlets bask in the sun, to work out with a really mean personal trainer. Warning: episode contains cucumber
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I'm sorry, but I find Klaus fake and annoying. I've never met the guy, but this is how I imagine all of Los Angeles.
Russel Porter is more my kind of guy.
Keep up the good work otherwise. Chocolate, steam, coffee and clocks are lovely.
Klaus makes me laugh. Non est disputandum, and all that.
Love it. For a long time I thought Klaus was just irritating and peurile, then I began to think maybe he was a sly genius, and now I think maybe he is basically the ultimate actor. I went looking so I could finally find that link I could post here and scream "FAKE!"....and found a big, fat, nothing. Really, I simply can't imagine how committed you'd have to be to just...BECOME Klaus for years on end. To mask every trace of your old life. To be Borat (as others have said) without the grand exit, the wink and the nod.
So congrats, BoingBoing...you've converted me. I still think he may have been someone else to start with, but I totally buy that he's just Klaus now!
No one here thinks that this series on Klaus is a bit... exploitative?
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In Soviet Russia, children walk barefoot uphill in the snow for the honor of wearing cucumber masques on internet television. Just check wikipedia, it's all in there.
Klaus is self-exploitative, if anything, and gave his full, enthusiastic consent to our following him around in his daily life with our cameras. We prefer to think of these webisodes as less of a "reality show," and more of an "observational documentary series."
Jeez, I hope he changes his underwear more than the average German man.
Falcon Seven,
I congratulate you on your intimate knowledge of the crotch habits of German men, but aren't you making a rather sweeping statement?
@ Falcon Seven -
My husband is from Germany and I am proud to say, though I probably disclose this to his horror, that he is the most fastidiously well-groomed man I have ever known. And his habits include changing his underwear, daily.
But thanks for the article - that was...neat?
Dana Devonshire
Series Producer, Boing Boing tv
So Falcon, you watch this video with some guy who's apparently German, at least in part...
...and then what? You google 'germans' and come back with underwear statistics? I see a bright future in anthropology.
This guy is Austrian, definitely. But he is also definitely wrong in what he was saying about the strengths of Austrians in case of sports.
Does he not have TV? When he had watched the European Cup he would know better. They are maybe better at yodel ;-)
Regards,
Dirty Underwear
You're just saying that because the Austrians were forced to strip in Vilnius after a big loss. Sadly, this is the censored version. The uncensored version showed that Austrians have plenty to brag about.
Well Hbumbs/Dirty Underwear, what do you have to say in response to Antinous and his specific claims of Austrian superiority?
Dana Devonshire
Series Producer, Boing Boing tv
("Xeni FTW," she said weakly, while recovering from a severe attack of cataplexy.)
OK, Antinous - I think we should close this discussion. Nevertheless, the trainer of Klaus was wrong with his statement... - does someone know the medallion level of the Olympic Games?
BoingBoing: Please show more Germans - this seems partisan.
Just kidding ;-)
"I'm sorry, but I find Klaus fake and annoying". I agree. Being European, I would object to a fine American gentleman being asked to act like a moron and to humiliate himself even slightly (in France, for example). These short films could have been enormously funny if they had contained fewer strange clichés and if they had not consisted in making a guy look like a depressed student under Prozac. As for the party scenes, for example, I would have bought the story a lot more if Klaus had turned up already a bit drunk, if he had held the Latino boy at bay with slightly homophobic/racist hints and if he had tried to chat up the beautiful girl immediately. But I'm afraid such a short film would be very hard to shoot in the US today, due to political correctness...