Comments on: Brandon Hardesty

Brandon Hardesty

McLir — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:38:21 -0800

Brandon Hardesty [wiki, previously] is a comic actor who is best known for his movie re-enactments and his appearance on a Geico commercial (for which he was well compensated). He asked his thousands of YouTube fans for scene requests. He has now (despite a recent bout with mono) completed performances of the top five five winners: 5: Clerks, 4: Fight Club, 3: Full Metal Jacket, 2: Reservoir Dogs and 1: Pulp Fiction. [YouTube unless otherwise noted]

Hardesty's other re-enactments include The Shining, Harvey, As Good as it Gets, Jurassic Park and Planes Trains and Automobiles. In addition, his performances include a couple original characters, strange faces, impressive piano and some fun with friends. My personal favorite remains his re-enactment of Goodfellas.

By: Brittanie

Brittanie — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:19:17 -0800

Kid actually looks a bit like Chris Penn.

By: billyfleetwood

billyfleetwood — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:35:36 -0800

The best ones are the clips where he's not focusing on timing and blocking, and just nailing the dialog. Specifically Reservoir Dogs and Clerks. The Clerks clip is great because he perfectly mimics the terrible acting that made clerks so great.

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:38:47 -0800

He nails these. Talented man, that one.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:00:16 -0800

His Lee Emery is terrifying. As is his Steve Buscemi.

By: Dillonlikescookies

Dillonlikescookies — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:19:01 -0800

me likey

By: filmgeek

filmgeek — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:21:37 -0800

Cute but (sorry), the editing/camera/eyelines keeps distracting me. He won't look himself in the eye! The angles are often odd to make it so we see only one person/character at a time. And there are times where he jumps across the 180 deg line (a filmschool thing where you feel disoriented because the camera has jumped somewhere too far away, reversing where you'd expect objects to be.)

By: Who_Am_I

Who_Am_I — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:38:22 -0800

I liked the Fight Club one best, his Raymond K. Hessel is good. The Pulp Fiction one just didn't click for me, maybe it was the beard. The bits after the scenes, where he's getting snacks, are funny too: Well I take my bag of grapes, and I go downstairs, and I eat the whole bag...where is my mind.

By: DU

DU — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:46:34 -0800

I really liked his Ocean's Eleven because he somehow manages to capture the very tiny differences in character and style between Clooney and Pitts without even saying anything. He actually looks like Brad Pitt at one point--how does he do that??

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:42:38 -0800

This guy is great. My personal fave is his Star Trek: First Contact. "THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HE-ARH!!!!"

By: spec80

spec80 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:47:48 -0800

This is awesome. Oddly enough, I liked the Unconventional Dance Moves more than the spoofs.

By: spec80

spec80 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:05:18 -0800

which you linked... heh

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:59:28 -0800

I love this guy. He's got a real knack for what he does.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:33:57 -0800

Very good, very nice.

By: Debaser626

Debaser626 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:11:09 -0800

Awesome... "THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HE-ARH!!!!" He completely nailed that line....

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:32:55 -0800

Man, his Jack Nicholson impression is way better than Christian Slater's.

By: birdhaus

birdhaus — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:36:40 -0800

Ya beat me to it! I was going to post about Brandon's stuff some time ago, but I was going to wait until the Pulp Fiction bit was up. Oh well, I'm glad he's getting some attention. This is the kind of thing that really makes me love YouTube, or at least the potential it can have. Bravo, Brandon!

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:13:36 -0800

Pretty impressive, but he couldn't shoot in a parking lot for FIght Club?

By: warcode

warcode — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:32:14 -0800

Outdoor lighting is much harder than indoor lighting. Nice job, those are fun to watch.

By: chunking express

chunking express — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:17:47 -0800

Holy fuck the Pan's Labyrinth one is fucking awesome. Fucking Awesome.

By: shannonm

shannonm — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:09:25 -0800

I especially enjoy reading the director's notes on his older videos, like this one from The Shining: I used two halves of a peanut to represent the chaos that is Shelly Duvall's mouth.