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The Fantasy Behind The Real World'
Real World” junkies unite and
acknowledge our weakness for
real-life soap operas.
What’s Eric from New York doing
these days? Or Julie from Alabama?
Does David have more patience for
Caucasians? Did Heather B. get a rap
deal? How did Reign Dance break up?
Here’s how it started: One day back
in middle school, I wanted my MTV.
Instead of switching on to find
music videos, I discovered a show
crafted so well that it not only hooked
me the entire afternoon - yes, it was a
“Real World” marathon -but has done
so now for almost a decade.
Recently it became evident how
much a nation can obsess themselves
with other peoples’ lives, when the
concept of the real-life soap opera pen
etrated prime-time television. Note all
the suckers to the largely cheesy hype
surrounding the gimmicky “Survivor”
and tedious “Big Brother.”
This national hoopla, however,
came too little, too late. Most Gen X
ers were in on “Real World”-mania
years ago. And to think it all started
with a group of seven people living in
The Average Joe Turns Don Juan in 'Tao'
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with a woman, with the result that
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taped, and find out what it’s like when
people stop being polite.”
As much as “The Real World”
intrigues and sucks you into its couch
potato-inducing bubble, it’s just not
real anymore.
This couldn’t be more obvious from
the fact that none of the housemates
pay rent for the three months they live
in the totally phat, complimentary
house. The last time I checked, I was
responsible for bills and rent, and if
that doesn’t apply to you then a huge
portion of reality is missing from your
daily dose of life. College life isn’t tech
nically the real world, but neither is
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they’ll have her in
the sack faster
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In this quirky
Sundance come-
dy, Dex, an overweight kindergarten
teacher (Donal Logue), manages to bed
more than his fair share of women just
by following this commandment.
But when he meets the girl of his
dreams at a college reunion, he realizes
he can’t use his rules on her, and, as she
points out, “Don Giovanni slept with
thousands of women because he was
afraid he wouldn’t be loved by one.”
After graduating from film school,
director and screenwriter Jenniphr
Goodman decided to base a project on
her friend Duncan and his overwhelm
ingly successful seductions. Her sister,
who plays Dex’s dream girl, got
involved and the three crafted the script
for “The Tao of Steve.”
And what a brilliant script it is. The
dialogue is intelligent and hilarious, and
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After the New York season spawned
a legacy of “Real World,” and later
“Road Rules,” each successive group of
people picked had expectations and
ideas of what lay ahead, affecting what
they said or did for the camera and
how. The straightforward discussions
of serious issues and prejudices
became filtered, and artificiality set in.
In the end, how we perceive the
exploited “characters” comes from the
final edit of the show. Bunim-Murray
Productions wants us to see Elka as a
religious innocent, Flora as a whiny
bitch, Dominic and Ruthie as raging
alcoholics, Neil as a lady’s man, Puck
as an insensitive pig and so on. We’re
ready to associate these people with
others in our lives, and are as obsessed
with it as hearing the latest gossip.
It all should have ended with the
first season, the most real “Real
World.” At least I would’ve saved a lot
of marathon-watching time and could
have, gawsh, read a book.
Shindy Chen can be reached at
shindy@email.unc.edu.
even though this movie can be classified
as a romantic comedy, it is thankfully
devoid of the oversentimentality that
tends to mar the films of that genre.
The story does stay true to form in
one way, however: There’s really no
doubt that Dex is going to get the girl in
the end, despite the various mishaps
that occur as the film veers off track.
Goodman tends to get too ambitious,
splicing in close-ups and transitions that
distract the viewer from, rather than
enhance, the storyline. And the annoy
ing music - which sounds like a rip-off
of the “Northern Exposure” theme song
- also detracts from the film.
But Logue is perfectly cast as Dex.
He’s one of those actors who’s in every
thing (“Runaway Bride,” “The Patriot”)
but you never remember his name.
Logue keeps you guessing about
whether Dex is being honest or deceit
ful and nicely surprises you along the
way. This performance will hopefully
land him some of the leading-man con
sideration he deserves.
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