| 40 Years of Hysteria | |
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| Unofficial documentary | |
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| Clips From | 1981 - 2021 |
| Released | Sept 22 2021 |
| Format | YouTube |
| Length | 2:20:36 |
| Genre | Comedy Documentary |
| Producer | Dan7609 |
| bootleg | |
Duran Duran: 40 Years of Hysteria (Laughing With... Duran Duran The Movie Part 2), is an unofficial Duran Duran comedy documentary, produced by Dan7609, and released on YouTube September 22nd 2021.
About The Movie[]
This is an extended mix of clips freely available on the internet, which shows the bands career; mostly looking at the fans and the craziness surrounding them. Portrayed as a light-hearted comedy movie, revealing some of the mayhem involved with being megastars; the things which went wrong, and some funny stories.
The author says: "As soon as I'd released Laughing with... Duran Duran - The Movie, I kept finding more and more clips (on youtube) that I couldn't throw away. The lifestyle of touring, no days off, pressure, fans, and constant screaming. I used to have a copy of a (bootleg?) film called The Duran Duran Phenomenon, and I got the idea to make a film about that - the Mania."
Production began with the gathering of clips from June 2020 until July 2021 (13months). Editing began 25th Feb 2021, and ended 4th September 2021 (7 months). Subtitles took a month (6 Aug - 15 Sept). Pre-release versions were show privately to some fans on the Proboards DD Forum during the months before release.
The author says: "This was another project which turned into a monster. Each day youtube would keep finding me new clips to look at, each with their own funny twists and stories. As I went through them and arranged the clips, I noticed certain themes kept coming up. Fans! for sure. But also constant travelling, airports, press conferences, news, TV spots, shows, and after all of that, recording sessions. I noticed too many documentaries focused on the glamour boys side of things, or the 'wild boys' image. I wanted to offer some kind of antidote to all of those dry featurettes. This one turned into a opus of fan fanatica, the madness and the mayhem, but also looking at the funny side."
"Near the end of the project I finally came up with the name "40 Years of Hysteria", and when I uploaded it to youtube, one of the thumbnails was the blue image of a woman holding a lighter. This was a completely random event which seemed to sum up the project, even though the image itself was taken from a frame of very low resolution footage. I added titles to this image, and it became almost like my icon - a blue weeping Rio woman. One of the final things I did was to add her as the background image of the end credits; which fades into an artwork version of her with eyes closed and now smiling."