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Here’s a trailer for I Am, the documentary chronicling Tom Shadyac’s radical change of life. As a director, Shadyac was a hit machine until Evan Almighty. As Deadline previously reported, Shadyac’s life took a radical turn after that when a biking accident left him nearly dead, and prompted a soul-searching journey. The film’s released in February.
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Kudos for this wonderful effort.
It reminds us all of the old saying, “It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game.”
Agreed. Great trailer and looks to be just in time in view of what’s going on.
Mr. Shadyac – I’m sure you’ve seen, but if not, this is well worth the watch and related to this movie’s main point
RSA Animate- The Empathic Civilization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g&feature=player_embedded#!
on one hand, I appreciate if someone truly has a life changing experience that extremely alters their outlook on life
but on the other hand, Shadyac played the game and lost and it seems as if trying to be relevant again
so Im at %50 curiousity / %50 skepticism
I can assure you that Tom Shadyac walks the walk. I have witnessed his selflessness on many many occasions. He also surrounds himself with similar spirited people.
Directing 7 studio movies in Hollywood with several being major hits as well as exec producing a hit network TV series does not mean he played the game and lost. Sorry, that’s winning the game, or at least, is a very successful run.
Wow Mat, he had one bomb, so he failed? Sounds like you’re %100 douchebag, I’m just sayin.
Hippie Bullshit: The MOVIE
Sorry best of luck, I hope this movie disproves my innate cynicism.
Cynical is my middle name, but in this case I, too, am hoping this was done for all the right reasons.
Sure, it won’t do anything at the box office, but any positive messages about the folks who inhabit our planet cannot be a bad thing.
It is always the easiest to attack the messenger when it is the message that should count, and on the surface, this appears to have a good message for all.
if you hope to have your cynicism disproved, then you’re not really a cynic, are you?
Wow, that looks profound. As profound as… Evan Almighty. Pass.
It’s easy to be snarky and cynical. The coat of a coward.
He almost died and he’s trying something.
Let your jealousy and bitterness go for five minutes.
Good comment here. I agree with you. Let’s give the guy, whose life was obviously changed by a profound personal experience, the benefit of the doubt.
Even though it seems like the trailer suggests (perhaps erroneously) that a disproportionate amount of the film’s focus is on Shadyac himself (the “ever seen my movies?” bits), I have to give him credit for really having the guts to do something rooted in positivity.
I agree — am willing to give the film a chance.
I actually thought the “ever seen my movies?” bit was just some self-deprecation on Shadyac’s part, pointing out the contrast of the lives and work of people like Desmond Tutu and Noam Chomsky and his own output of “Nutty Professor” and “Evan Almighty.” He seems like a good sport about it, at any rate.
You’re so right BeckyD: Let go of your bitterness and jealousy and commonsense and intelligence to rise above it all and become something else: an idiot.
Hi Becky, I will ad only….try that 5 minutes letting go everyday and your life will change…for the better. 10 minutes? 1/2 hour? Many need, fewer want. Our lives are only as happy as we make them. I Am Happy today.
Selfishly, I await the release to DVD so I can show it to all the clients I work with who have had brain trauma (myself included).
Namaste,
Rev. Atindra Gibbs, Theinterfaithcircle.org
bitter haters on patrol.
Just what we’ve been waiting for: The guy who directed mind-numbingly awful movies to share obvious “meaning of life” wisdom as majestic, uplifting music swells in the background. UGH. This makes Yogi Bear look like My Dinner with Andre!
Au contraire Yogi Bear is smarter than the average bear.
I just converted to Buddism in the process of watching this trailer. It’s THAT profound.
that was really funny (genuinely said)
Moonsnow Rainbow? Heh….just had to ask. You took me to Maui and the Moon Rainbow I experienced there going up the east side of Haleakala.
Thanks, it was a glorious moment for myself and a good friend.
Om
Atindra
Ditto on the “irrelevant” comment.
Tom was one of the most hurtful, mean-spirited people I’ve worked with in my 23 years in film. All under this bullshit mask of a nice guy that I think even he believes.
You know what, Tom? You treat people like dirt, there’s a thing called karma.
I applaud any self-realization, but the fact that you’re using it as a springboard to try to get back into the same power that you abused before…? It kind of corrupts the process, no?
You should sit on your pile of money and think about the people you’ve fucked to get where you are.
Maybe St. Peter will start selling indulgences… if so, you’ll be fine.
I am… a Jesus freak douchebag.
on one hand, I appreciate if someone truly has a life changing experience that extremely alters their outlook on life
but on the other hand, Shadyac played the game and lost and it seems as if trying to be relevant again
so Im at %50 curiousity / %50 skepticism
What are you smoking this early in the morning? He played the game and lost?? How did he lose….by directing some huge films and then deciding he wanted a better life than just accolades and money. You sir are the loser who has not accomplished 1/1000th that this guy has so back to mothers basement for you.
I don’t know, I think it’s some sort of beautiful, mystic irony that of all people, this pinhead is making a movie like this. He’s made such mindless dreck and now he’s finally asking the big questions. This is what happens people! God first speaks in a whisper… and if you don’t listen, s/he yells, and if you still don’t listen s/he drops a brick wall on ya. That was his bike accident.
I, for one, love the fact that’s it’s not some guru or religious person or politician… it’s a stupid director who lived in the hollywood bubble until it burst. It feels truthful to me. And just watching that trailer made me feel better than 95 percent of the other bullshit movie trailers I’ve seen out there.
Way!
I’m much rather see Jim Carrey talking out of his ass again.
Now on to Ace Ventura 3. I was going to write something else but the trailer told me to “Forget What I Know” – so my mind is a blank.
I think part of society’s current spiral downturn towards terminal cynicism is due to comments such as the above that negate any inspiring works at the outset. Kill the messenger before the message has been received and read. I, for one, would be interested to see what this docu has to say – and its message seems to be one of hope, which seems to be sorely missing today. Bravo, Tom. It takes guts to put yourself on the line – and receive the kind of idiot reactions that are so ready to put you down.
I’m in. We need more people trying to do something good. I chose the career that I have so I could do some good. Kudos to Tom Shadyac.
How many more times can Preston Sturges be proven right. If you really wanted to help heal the world, Tom, you’d make something funny. Sullivan’s Travels FTW.
Trust me. This guy is full of it. As a writer, he had my project, a chance to make something with depth and then did Nutty Professor. Stripes don’t just change. Next he’ll be a scientologist.
They always say Hollywood is full of petty, shallow assholes. The majority of these comments prove it.
As long as he doesn’t make the doc about himself a’la some of Michael Moore’s more recent work (which I actually liked in the “TV Nation” days when Moore was still more of a man-of-the-people), I’d be interested to hear what these people have to say. Probably will see this, just maybe on cable.
Kudos to the man.
Glad he is still with us and is now trying to go beyond the illusions of Hollywood-style happy endings and helping those who wish to listen, all the possibilities of a happier life.
Maybe it’s just me but…
The messages we get NOW from all available sources of media….just don’t look to be working anymore.
I’m willing to check it out and spread the word.
‘The Shift Will Hit The Fan’?
Near death apparently doesn’t make people smarter.
There’s never a shortage of hater’s here as you can tell by reading almost every article on this site. Still, I think you have to give credit to a guy who is trying to move in the right direction. I can’t say how well it will do at the box office, but this feels like the real thing to me. Open your minds and maybe some good will come of it. Just sayin’.
Maybe God was so offended by the shitty ‘god’ movie he made, he sent the biking accident. Not really, but kinda.
This is really the subconscious acting out… the accident didn’t happen to Tom — he put himself in the time, place and circumstance for it to happen — because he knew that mining spirituality was immoral on some level (to himself) and he punished himself for it. The guy has moral character and knew how he was treating the material he was making movies about wasn’t right (to him). I’m not religious at all, but Evan Almighty offended me as a fan of cinema. It’s not about the film being a bomb — it’s about Tom thinking that every single idea he has is gold… and then when the reality that he was wrong about only shitting gold hit him, he couldn’t help but punish himself so he can be reborn, by his own hand, as someone who suddenly has depth and spirituality. Most in Hollywood never come to this conclusion, they just move to the next genre… Curious to see Tom’s rise in frequency via his movie…
Karma does not care how much you know or don’t. It is just karma. Tom’s life in the limelight here is touched by both good and bad. Who is the Judge here? Judge others and you will be too. Simple? Yes, but many folks don’t get to simple until (usually) pain becomes the vehicle of change.
It happened FOR me, not TO me. We all have our dark sides. I love this movie, and therefore Tom, if for nothing else than focusing the lens where few tend to look unless provoked. There are many ways life will nudge us, some whispers, some accidents. As I wrote above, they are all meaningful if we allow them to be…for us. I Am…learning to do so moment by moment. Many of the haters here did not just wake up and start hating. There are long deep scars that bring on the separation from Self. Really, I can laugh at some of the negative comments here. These folks don’t have a clue…yet. The oxen are slow, but the Earth is patient.
Namaste
So much hate and dismissal by those who haven’t even seen this project.
The message in Tom’s film is universal, and meaningful. Say/feel what you want about the messenger; his message is powerful, containing scientifically proven truths about who we are and how we are all connected at a very deep level.
There have been other movies with similar messages, including “What The Bleep Do We Know,” and these efforts all deserve attention. Some people dismiss out of hand such concepts because they are new and foreign to them, and that’s a shame because evolution is in our nature, and positive/progressive change can be aided and even propelled by such concepts.
Instead of busting off a ration of pressed keys in hasty and unthoughtful responses, try taking a breath, meditating, expressing some gratitude for the life you have, and then approaching the rest of the world with a heavy measure of love and compassion. After all, since we’re all connected; when you endeavor to say hateful or hurtful things about others, you succeed in hurting yourself.