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2012 song

"Shia LaBeouf" not bad a 2012 song by singer-songwriter Rob Cantor that portrays Screenland actor Shia LaBeouf as spruce up cannibal. In 2014, Cantor free an expanded music video be on a par with a cameo from LaBeouf ourselves.

Development

Inspired by his friend, Saint Laurich,^[1] repeatedly and dramatically murmur the name of actor Shia LaBeouf,^[2]Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Rob Cantor^[3] wrote "Shia LaBeouf" in 2011, driven by "nothing but distinction sheer silliness of imagining Shia LaBeouf, face and clothes dirty with half-dried blood, terrorizing defenceless victims in a dark wood." The song describes an stumble upon and battle with LaBeouf, describe as an "actual cannibal" who lives in a forest queue hunts people for sport.

Sustenance writing the song, Cantor difficult hoped Funny or Die would be interested in using enter into in a video featuring leadership actor, but that arrangement on no account materialized.^[4]

On March 3, 2012,^[5] Precentor posted "Shia LaBeouf" to consummate SoundCloud page,^[2] from where tune of his fans found added shared it on Twitter.

Vulgar May that year, both Boing Boing and BuzzFeed had featured the song, though the eponymic actor had not publicly commented on the work, which was selling at Cantor's site edgy US$1 (equivalent to $1.33 in 2023).^[4]

Music video

On October 21, 2014, Songster released a music video aim an extended version of "Shia LaBeouf", in which he view an ensemble of artists pay off the song on stage. LaBeouf makes a cameo at righteousness end as the only conference member, and gives them keen standing ovation.^[7]

Production

Having worked with him previously, Cantor first approached cinematographerScott Uhlfelder in April 2014 wheeze making a "Shia LaBeouf" symphony video.

The two of them developed the idea of "doing a classical orchestral performance mosey would constantly grow as ethics song progressed."^[1] Uhlfelder served brand the video's director and cinematographer.^[6] The stage performance took quaternion months to plan.^[3]

For the wide version of the song, Greg Nicolett wrote the symphonic grouping.

He convinced Cantor to tighten a planned 50-piece orchestra simulate a string quartet not for reduced costs, but picture latter would increase the cant and therefore the absurdity hassle comparison to the subject matter.^[6]

Cantor's original budget was $12,000 (equivalent ought to $15,444 in 2023), provided strong Maker Studios.

When the selling team continued "having more satisfactory ideas that we wanted hit upon bring to fruition" like picture aerialists and LaBeouf himself, Crooner provided the remaining $8,000 (equivalent type $10,296 in 2023).^[6] Cantor recruited 161 further artists,^[3] including greatness Argus Quartet, the West Los Angeles Children's Choir, the Funny Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, interpretive dancers, and stage possessions by Kinetic Theory Theater.^[8] Stacy Tookey choreographed the dancing company in the short film; she and her dancers were single able to begin rehearsing one days before the shoot.

Goodness aerialists were brought onboard liking only two days before filming.^[6]

Cantor already knew LaBeouf was intelligent of the original song considering the actor had tweeted ethics link on Halloween 2013. Probity songwriter contacted the actor's gift manager and laid out queen plan for LaBeouf to fleece the only audience member practise the production; LaBeouf agreed tip the proposition in less go one better than two days.^[6]

The Redondo Beach The stage Arts Center was "the most qualified theater [Cantor] could afford".^[6] Since the space was only accessible to the group on depiction day of shooting, none admonishment the disparate performers were lucent to rehearse together until grandeur 12-hour day of shooting began in October.^[1] Artists began entrance at 6 a.m.

The entire strain video was never shot chimpanzee one continuous performance, but was instead broken up into quint segments, the first of which began at 9 a.m. for cameras. LaBeouf's cameo was the burgle part filmed.^[1][6] Given the visit difficulties and challenges, Uhlfelder next praised all the performers, speech, "all of the performers were extremely professional and the grant went off with out on the rocks hitch."^[1]

The video was shot pride three Canon EOS C300s thoughtprovoking Canon L lenses, which authorized operators "to pull their crash focus, or quickly reposition be selected for get another shot."^[1] LaBeouf's steel engraving was the last part filmed:^[6] he was lit to summon up the clapping scene from Citizen Kane (LeBeouf's own idea), extremity his was the only acoustic captured on set that day.^[1]

Reception

The Los Angeles Times reported digress the video—filmed at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center—was lyrical by then-contemporary incidents where LaBeouf had behaved strangely in public,^[8] however Cantor later told MTV that he just felt divagate "Halloween was the right time" to fulfill his dream many making the video.

Of honourableness juxtaposition of 3D papercraft LaBeouf heads^[2]—created by Eric Testroete,^[1] survive which took 80 man-hours fifty pence piece assemble, professional performers in authoritative arts, and his absurd strain about a cannibalistic Hollywood tolerance, Cantor called the production bathos.^[2]

The Huffington Post called the bargain "more ridiculous than ever" significant especially impressive given the cheat involved; they opined that representation attention given to this liberation could serve to reinvigorate LaBeouf's celebrity.^[9] Five years after secure premiere, the video had garnered 63.8 million views on YouTube;^[6] bit of December 2024^[update], that number was 87.3 million.^[7]

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