Candidate #6
STARRY EYES
So you're an actor. You can become other people. But can you be yourself? Can you put your inner being on the screen? Then come try out for Celeste, a young up and coming actor in our Tinsel Town terror tale: The Silver Scream.
It’s that notice that aspiring actress-slash-Taters Girl Sarah Walker (Alexandra Essoe) answers which leads her right up to the gateway to fame and stardom.
But
does she have what it takes to step through that gateway? Is she willing to
embrace all that she is, deep down inside, in order to ascend into the firmament
of the Hollywood elite?
Starry Eyes--written and directed
by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer--takes a look at the idea of how Hollywood
can really change a person, through the lens of the horror film.
Shot
over the course of 18 days (with an additional 3 days of re-shoots), it’s a remarkable achievement that is a
disturbing look at the entertainment industry.
And
given that central idea of transformation and its ultimate costs, La La Land is
the perfect setting for the narrative.
A toxic environment where people reinvent themselves every day, where dreams
are shredded and shattered every single hour. Where desperation is the drug of
choice, mainlined by every waiter and limo driver and physical trainer, each
and every one of them aspiring actors or writers or actor-slash-writers, all
just waiting, yearning, for that Big
Break.
It’s
a film that asks, quite pointedly, how much are you willing to pay, how far are
you willing to go, to answer the siren song of your ambitions.
“Sarah, if you can’t really
let yourself go, how can you ever transform into something else?”
(Starry Eyes OS’ courtesy of bloody-disgusting.com & twitchfilm.com)
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