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Despite his widespread popularity--people do worship him--he's as jittery and insecure as Marilyn Monroe.
Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.
That, and the way youthful twitchiness and uncertainty--from an uncomfortably pandering Ruth Brown to an amateurish Frankie Lymon to a jittery Elvis Presley--formed a new musical vocabulary.
But while the story of these ads is mainly one of a desperate grab for market share and brand identity via the familiar techniques of jittery cameras, hyperbolic humor, and some measure of association with that ineffable quality we now call "extreme-ness," the most interesting new Internet ad campaign offers none of these.
And, as a counterpoint to all the luscious, bare-breasted white girls used to tempt the hero into playing for the Man, there's a hooker (the model Milla Jovovich, the film's most unlikely bit of casting, made to look like a near albino) who's exploited and knocked around by a jittery black pimp (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) so sadistic that if this film had been made by a white director he'd have been cited (most likely by Lee) as a flagrant racist outrage.