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VIDEO REVIEW
Cake Boy
DVD Release
Steele pick of the month
Directed by: Joe Escalante (lawyer/ founder of punk band the Vandals/ co-owner of Kung Fu Productions)
Starring: Warren Fitzgerald, Scott Aukerman, Sheila Platte, Pamela Gidley
Written by: Warren Fitzgerald (co-owner Kung Fu Productions)
Kung Fu Films/ Image Entertainment Inc.
Think you want to lead the glamorous life of being a roadie in a band? Wonder what it's really like on the road? Is it as exciting as it sounds? Cakeboy, a new DVD, is a film about the travails of one man's haphazard journey to find his true passion but first getting sidelined by becoming a roadie for a band along the way.
Producer Escalante explained the reason for direct-to-DVD projects. "It costs the same to make the DVD as to make a CD and we own it and get 100% of the money back. Also, the punk kids that it's directed at aren't going to go to art theatres to see it. The DVD is doing well (being sold) on the Warped Tour. We are doing print and internet marketing."
An erotic cake designer, Selwyn (Fitzgerald), escapes his abusive girlfriend to become even more abused as roadie for punk rockers No Use for a Name. His neighbor Mickey (Scott Aukerman) is the quasi manager relationship with the band it turns out and they just lost a member of the touring team. He sees it as an escape from his girlfriend and going no-where life. It turns out that the band uses him as more of a whipping boy than his girlfriend ever did. They just make him do everything from set-up to break-down to getting snacks to cleaning the van and anything else the band can think up. They torment him by chanting "Cake Boy." The script is funny, near truthful, though tongue-in-cheek.
"The goal was to have it be funny, unique and have charm especially with things about the band," said writer Fitzgerald via phone from his Orange County, California home. "To write it, you set up circumstances and see how things react and go sensibly where they would go. You create a lot of 'what if' scenarios and they eventually evolve into something."
In the best line in the film, Selwyn says to the band: "Hey guys, would you mind giving me a hand with the stuff." No Use bassist Matt Riddle replies: "Look man we do our work on stage alright. You don't see me asking some roadie to come up and play some tasty baseline during our set, do you?" Later on, Mickey gives the band money and says "Per Diem is Latin for one dollar a day." Selwyn finally fights back and gets dumped off in the middle of nowhere U.S.A where he falls into a job as a chef. His luck changes when he meets a cute, spunky wheelchair-bound redhead named Lilly (Platte) who inspires him pursue his baking dreams.
"It is appealing to explore misery and failure and how to keep plugging away. It's about the grief and humiliation that goes throughout life. Bad things happen with any dream. A fair portion of the public can relate to that," Fitzgerald added."
This is a unique and highly sarcastic, hysterical, sweet film with the added plus of a kick-ass soundtrack with a great selection of punk rock songs from bands like No Use for a Name, Yellowcard, The Vandals and Piebald.
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--Amy Steele
More information and merchandise available at:
http://www.kungfurecords.com/cakeboy/cakeboy.html
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