Bad Interview
Better Interview
The first video is the example of a not so good interview. The scene takes place on the Late Show with David Letterman and his guest for the night is Joaquin Pheonix. The two never discuss anything important and the conversation never picks up. It seems like David Letterman is mainly laughing at his guest, and Joaquin returns this treatment by making Letterman look bad. The interviewee is uncomfortable and uncooperative. The interviewer doesn’t care to get any valuable dialogue from Joaquin. Letterman is simply looking for anything with a comedic tone that will produce in a laugh or chuckle from his audience. Joaquin doesn’t want to be laughed at, so maybe he shouldn’t have agreed to do a comedy show.
The second video is an interview of Bob Dylan. It’s not a great or profound interview, but the guy asking the questions is calm and keeps asking questions. It’s fascinating to see how the interviewer needs to approach Dylan differently because Dylan is such a different kind of guy. The whole time that the interviewer is jotting down or recording what Bob says and does, Bob is turning the tables on the interviewer and he draws a picture of the guy conducting the interview. But the guy keeps the interview going and when Bob questions him the man simply say, “well, I’m fascinated, and I want to know more.” It seems more genuine.
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Dude I thought the Joaquin Phoenix interview was freakin wierd. Was he on something? He was a space cadet the whole time. Oh yea, and I can't wait to hear his hip-hop album drop.
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