Scientology is in the process of making a documentary about Louis Theroux

Zombienosh · 24-04-2015 09:57AM

I hope it stars will smith and tom cruise

maximoose · 24-04-2015 10:05AM

porsche959 wrote: »

Good point. Theroux admitted that his questioning of Savile should have been tougher, that said, he got closer than most to exposing Savile.

I was listening to the episode of Joe Rogan's podcast with Louis on this recently and he touches on the subject. It's worth listening to!

he's a massive snide asshole for the most part.

Why's that?

walkingshadow · 24-04-2015 10:18AM

Love Louis Theroux and his documentaries. Whats great about Louis is that for the most part, he is very quiet and non confrontational, but by asking his subjects some simple questions, he really gets them to open up and say some incredible things.

walkingshadow · 24-04-2015 10:24AM

Scientologists are like the Iona Institute- too many nut jobs giving them obscene amounts of money that allow them in turn to use armies of lawyers to sue and litigate against anyone who doesn't conform to their warped ideology.

24-04-2015 10:38AM

He's also an absolute badass. There's no denying that he has absolutely got balls of steel. Watch the episode in Philadelphia, where he goes right up to the drug lord, who the cops have told him is extremely dangerous, and asks him directly if he's a drug dealer and all of those. Then when they discuss how expensive the jewellery they are wearing is.

Not to mention when he is in that super jail and the guys are threatening to steal his shoes. And he goes right into the cell a day later to shake the guy's hand.

You would never get the likes of Michael Moore doing things like that.

I also recently watched the LA stories mini series, and I genuinely felt emotional watching the one about dogs and the one about being on the edge of life.

One of my favourite moments of his is when he's attending this .. Ceremony in which a woman gives magical hugs. He goes up and hugs her and has a hard time explaining why it made him feel the way it did.

Ranchu · 24-04-2015 02:28PM

maximoose wrote: »

Why's that?

I'm generally uncomfortable that he often uses kids, people that are clearly mentally ill or people that are often doing what they're doing as a result of conditioning and abuse to make his entertainment shows. He profits from other people's misfortune. I'm not saying that this is the case for all his subjects but it clearly is for a lot of them.

Goat the dote · 26-04-2015 10:29PM

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waulie_palnuts · 26-04-2015 10:34PM

Did anybody see the one where he went to the legal brothel?

I'm convinced that he and the girl who they primarily focused on knocked boots...

Cold War Kid · 26-04-2015 10:43PM

He does do the "faux naive" thing all right. I remember when he interviewed Michael Jackson's father, he suggested that maybe Michael would like to be in a committed relationship with a man or woman. Mr Jackson Snr went nuts at the suggestion that Michael could be gay, and it totally seemed like that's what Louis was aiming for.

I still like Louis Theroux a lot though - he is very brave. In Louis Meets The Nazis, when he was interviewing those rural Californian skinheads (hard, hard nuts) and they started to get nasty and suspect him of being Jewish, I was sh-tting myself for him. He stood his ground for as long as he could, though. And when they asked repeatedly if he was Jewish, instead of him saying he wasn't (and as far as I know, he isn't) he just insisted that he didn't have to answer that question, which totally made it look like he was.

Darkglasses · 26-04-2015 10:47PM

This is becoming fairly standard practice for the church of scientology, they'll try to do an expose on people doing one on them. Naturally, it's complete and total bull****.

In John Sweeney's docs and in Going Clear, you can see the Scientology people videotaping everything, and they'll be sure to edit and distribute anything that makes the documentarians look bad.

Also, they created a serious of extremely pathetic websites about the people who made Going Clear, such as this - www.whoispaulhaggis.com

Tarzana2 · 26-04-2015 10:49PM

Ranchu wrote: »

I'm generally uncomfortable that he often uses kids, people that are clearly mentally ill or people that are often doing what they're doing as a result of conditioning and abuse to make his entertainment shows. He profits from other people's misfortune. I'm not saying that this is the case for all his subjects but it clearly is for a lot of them.

+1

The Adversary · 26-04-2015 10:58PM

Love his older "Weird Weekends" stuff, the light-hearted and comical approach and the complete nutjobs he interviewed had me in the stitches at the best of times. His newer documentaries are good also however.

IrishTrajan · 26-04-2015 11:35PM

I quite like Louis' works. Can't wait to see both his and the Scientologists' documentaries. I don't see him losing his cool like the previous documentary producer did.

SaveOurLyric · 26-04-2015 11:48PM

Is he giving the scientologists time to hang out in his gaff for a few weeks ?

Chat to him over a cup of coffee in his kitchen? Have a word over the fence with his neighbour on what they think of living next to Louis and do they approve of his documentaries ? Meet his Mum and ask her to reminisce on how he got into the whole documentary thing, and was he always asking probing questions of strangers when he was a child ?

Will the scientologists start to get worried that they are getting too close to him, getting drawn into his world and his way of thinking and wondering if they should contact the authorities to check if he has gone off the deep end ?

And end up feeling conflicted - both admiring and repulsed by Louis' way of life ?

walkingshadow · 27-04-2015 10:18AM

Recently watched 'Going Clear', amazing documentary. In that, there was a high ranking member of Scientology who left and started publicly denouncing them. They responded by harassing him and following him around with video cameras. He eventually lost his cool and broke one of their sunglasses and was arrested! I imagine this will be what they do to Louis- harass him with cameras in his face, hoping for an outburst they can use against him.

Potatoeman · 27-04-2015 11:34AM

He has a knack for picking people with a bit of strange. A few people he interviewed had some odd thngs happen to them. The white supremacist in South Africa got hacked to death by two of his workers.

He does intentionally create drama for no good reason other than entertainment. When he went shopping with the swinger and he was trying to get her to ask people to her party, she was clearly uncomfortable and had already told him it was not the kind of thing they just asked people that were not into it. She was not happy having him try and bring it up in conversation at her local store.

I would not want to be the focus of one of his interviews if my story was not interesting enough as he would just make the drama he wants.

Scientology is in the process of making a documentary about Louis Theroux

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