Smash his camera Movie Reviews, Most paparazzi are fly-by-night operators looking for a quick buck, but the veteran Ron Galella pap spent the last 50 years accumulating a collection of candid pictures of celebrities as impressive as any means of communication is important. If a publication is looking for an unknown image, say, Robert Redford in the 70's, come in contact with Galella, which has millions of original view images in your basement. (He has three boxes of Tony Danza alone.) Documentary by Leon Gast Smash Your Camera surveys the career of the photographer from his revolutionary court struggles with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to his pursuit of Liz Taylor and Dick Burton in Rome and his jaw altercation Marlon Brando-busting in the 70s. The film also explores the legal, ethical and aesthetic business Galella, asking if he has the right to take pictures of anyone at any time, and if your work has an intrinsic value beyond its subject.
Gast is a skilled filmmaker who won an Oscar for When We Were Kings, and apart from some very perky soundtracks, Smash Your Camera combines anecdotes Galella's smart, and supports them well visually. Gast Galella follow around as he attends events now, still trying to escape entries back and get the shots every photographer on the press line will not. Then he looks at Galella heyday, when he would jump out of the bushes to catch Jackie O, in an unguarded moment, or pay informants that he would know where the celebrities were eating dinner. Galella and their fans paint these juvenile hijinks as good, clean fun in the pursuit of art, but Gast also gives enough time saver for people who consider tactics Galella a disgrace at best, at worst criminal.
Smash his camera, certainly allows the possibility that Galella is little more than a freak who turned his worst traits in a lucrative career. It's hard to deny the power of his images, that captures some of the most famous faces of our time, unposed. But will be so powerful if Galella were shooting their landlord, instead of John Travolta? Near the end, Gast shows a young woman walking through a gallery of work Galella, unable to identify his subjects. So what happens when people forget all the people he chased and grabbed? Will the collection still be seen as a store of priceless art from the late 20th century, or the work of a collector obsessed with celebrities?, finish Smash his camera Movie Reviews.
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