Spitball Army

If you ever wondered what David Lynch’s take on the Super Bowl might be – what his filmmaker’s eye might make of it – wonder no longer.  Andrew Bouvé has imagined the annual football event through the creative lenses of five cinematic auteurs: Quentin Tarantino, the aforementioned Mr. Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard and Werner Herzog.

The clip representing Tarantino is a riff on his Kill Bill mix of hyper-violence and anime; the Lynch clip seems enamored of the director’s fascination of randomness and backwardness; Anderson’s is storybooklike and musical; Godard here seems to take cues from his Pierrot le Fou (or a number of others, but I just re-watched Pierrot recently, so it’s in my head) with aged black-and-white footage, a wacky voice-over and an odd cameo by Kirk Douglas; Herzog’s narration from his Grizzly Man documentary is used as narration of a game featuring the Chicago Bears.  Even if you’re not familiar with the directors’ styles, there is plenty to enjoy here.

Oh, and GEAUX SAINTS!