Step aside, movie star coming through
Jude Law moving through the crowd at Borough Market.
This publicity stunt was part of Tate Modern’s “The World’s a Stage” series and was called Real-Time Movie. In March, Jude Law acted in a short movie filmed in London’s Borough Market. The trailer was put on youtube and showed Jude buying fish from Applebee’s, striking a ridiculous pose that only he could pull off, while spewing philosophical musings.
Tate Modern then organised a realtime renactment of the movie, where cast members would retrace their steps at 1130 on the 30th of November. By the time I arrived at Borough Market at 1120, there was already a large crowd gathered outside Applebee’s. I thought Jude was already in the store so I thought nothing was out of the ordinary when someone, in that very polite British way, asked me to step aside. And Jude Law passed right by me.
He went into Applebee’s for the briefest of moments before leaving by the same route. And this is when I took this picture. Just as his minder firmly pushed me aside.
The director of Real-Time Movie said in an interview that his idea was to expose people to reality. That people would be at Borough Market to see the cast members but what they would see is real life. Now, if that is Art, I am Klimt.
Anyway, most people did not even recognise the other cast members who were quite anonymously walking outside Applebee’s. They had made no impression on me when I watched the youtube trailer but, to me at least, they stood out from the crowd. It was only when I returned home and watched the trailer again that I realised I had taken photos of the cast members.
Tuesday, 04 December 2007
