Television technology now ensures that you can see action on the football field from every possible vantage point, but you’ve never seen the Super Bowl from the fresh auteurist angles proposed in this delightful new short from Slate’s video site, SlateV.com. Written, produced, and edited by Andrew Bouvé, the video muses, “What would it look like if famous filmmakers ‘directed’ the Super Bowl?” The possibilities are endless, but the five directors imitated here are Quentin Tarantino (a visceral study of life in cartoon motion), David Lynch (think disembodied cackling and images running in reverse), Wes Anderson (yellow-tinged storybook flourish, set to the Kinks), Jean-Luc Godard (black-and-white, vaguely New Wave–y, starring . . . Kirk Douglas?), and, our favorite, Werner Herzog, whose Grizzly Man narration turns the sport into nature footage, with such commentary as “In all the faces of all the Bears I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy” and “What looks playful could be desperation.” Check it out, play by play, below.
1960
90 min
Black and White
1.33:1
1982
95 min
Color
1.33:1
Categories: Video
6 Comments
Fri 05 Feb at 07:07 PM
John
My favorite was Godard. Kirk Douglas checking out the players…classic.
Fri 05 Feb at 10:38 PM
Aric
Was that John Malkovich doing a Herzog impression?
Sun 07 Feb at 03:49 PM
Cinema Mishmash
The Herzog segment is a riot. And I think I’d actually want to watch a Wes Anderson Super Bowl.
Mon 08 Feb at 07:15 PM
danny
i think i like the herzog one best, especially because that clip from grizzly man works so well, but the godard one was also brilliant.
Tue 09 Feb at 07:09 AM
Mark
The Herzog segment is genius.
Thu 11 Feb at 11:01 AM
John
OK, others? What would a Scorsese Super Bowl look like? Or a Kurosawa or Bergman? Or for that matter an Oliver Stone? Oh wait, he already did one.
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