Eddie Rex - The Man, The Myth Part 1

The world of low budget filmmaking is populated by a lot of odd characters [especially in Hull - which someone once told me has one of the highest levels of inbreeding in the country, although I've never been able to ascertain the veracity of this claim]

When we set out to make a short documentary about this scene, it was inevitable that we would unearth some of these eccentrics, but after we found Mr Eddie Rex, we decided to dump the rest and just concentrate on him. Now, a lot of people, on seeing the film, assumed Eddie to be a character, played by an actor, but I assure you that he is real [just google him if you want, and I'm sure that you'll find some linkage to his films too, if you're brave enough]

Eddie is the only person who's films have silenced a normally liberal audience with shock, especially 'My struggle' which seems to equate Eddie's views with those of a certain Mr A Hitler, and ends with him reading passages from Mine Kampf in an apparently non-ironic fashion. No-one knew quite what to make of it, or him.

We were a bit worried that the finished edit was needlessly vicious and could be seen as a character assassination, but after showing the rough cut to Eddie, he loved it, so we felt no qualms about showing it to a wider audience. Also, we felt even less inclined to portray Eddie in a positive light after finding out that he had been passing some of our films off as his own [Indeed, if you look hard enough, somewhere on-line, Eddie Rex - The Man, The Myth appears with a Directed by Eddie Rex Tag]

The point of all this is that now the equipment and software are so cheap and easily avalable, anyone and everyone thinks they are good filmmakers. Some are good filmmakers, some are naturally gifted, some are awful, pretentious and misguided, and then there is Eddie Rex