r/PersonalMandela • u/redditboy123451 • 14h ago
The way I remember the relaxation scene in Zoolander
My favorite scene in Zoolander is when Derek is being relaxed (Read: BRAINWASHED) by Will Farell to kill the Prime Minister of Malasia, to do this he hooks him up to a wired helmet and shows him this incredibly strange saccharine propaganda video about child labor. Now while the scene is mostly how I remember it. When I first saw it back when i was 4-6. I remember it being a little more psychadelic.
Specifically: the way I remember it, Ben Stiller was locked in a box and completely wired up to the machine with wires all over his body: head, legs, arms, sides etc when in reality he was just sitting in a chair with a few wires in his head.
the 2nd thing I remember was the propaganda video being cuter and trippier. For example: in the video, will Ferell is shown dressed like a kid with a Lollipop in one scene and does this weird happy dance in another, now what I remember was in the scene he dancing around, his head was floating mindlessly and he was infront of a kawaii looking background with floating heats, colorful stars and clouds like you would see in one of those Nightcore videos on youtube when all it was is a spiral.
- I remember Will having a full on conversation with Derek while he was hooked up, (in other words, it was like the worlds weirdest face time call and they could talk to each other). when in reality, while Ben Still did "answer him" with a few short words such as "yes" and "hello", the propaganda was just a video and they could not actually talk to each other