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Natalie Portman And 'Ratty-Assed' Boyfriend Invite You Into Their Trippy 'Tantric Revelry'
Posted by Molly Friedman at 4:45 AM on July 23, 2008
Feel like crying today? Great! Thanks to Natalie Portman, queen of bizarre short films that never fail to please, a new music video collaboration with her homeless-but-hot folk singer boyfriend Devendra Banhart will bring on the tears. Whether they're from fits of laughter or rage, we can't say for sure. What we do know? This acid trip of a video starring Natalie as Princess Carmensita and Devendra as her "ratty-assed Compadré," whose impressive Harry Potter treasure trail peeks out from various loincloths, might just be the best short Natalie has ever been in. Sure, her Gangsta Rap on SNL was epic ("All the kids lookin' up to me can suck my dick!"), her bare butt saved Hotel Chevalier from putting us to sleep, and the best short film from Paris, Je T'Aime featured Natalie in one of the most romantic visions of Paris we've seen to date. But can any of these compare to killer snakes flying out of her eyes, demon avatars best viewed while stoned, or watching Natalie transform herself into an octopus, whose tentacles Devendra "entangles himself in"? Watch this truly bizarre video after the jump.
From what we can tell, Devendra plays the Ewan McGregor savior type to Natalie's Nicole Kidman-esque captive, à la Moulin Rouge, rescuing her from some kind of King capable of multiplying himself in an effort to hypnotize the doomed lovers. But thanks to a magic rainbow attack thrust from Devendra's forehead and dusted with Natalie's "divine aura," the King is dead. Unfortunately, a Goddess of Change lures Nat's hero away by wearing nothing but blue body paint (Devendra "likes her dress"), and our Princess pouts, turns herself into an octopus and, well, we finally get it. Banhart is not some scruffy hobo undeserving of the most likable actress in town — he's kind of gorgeous, his torso is kind of mesmerizing, and as for the song? It's headed straight into our iPod as soon as we finish this post.
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lonely_goatherd
Posted 9:40 AM 23/7/08
Those dirty hippies are still together?
lonely_goatherd
LLH
Posted 9:32 AM 23/7/08
@Oxycontinmoron: i'm right there with you. i made it to 1:14.
LLH
LLH
Posted 9:30 AM 23/7/08
full on. sorry. too busy gagging to see what i'm typing.
LLH
LLH
Posted 9:30 AM 23/7/08
@Little Mintz Sunshine: treasure trail? those were pull on pubes. i think i'm going to hurl.
LLH
Decebal
Posted 9:15 AM 23/7/08
Aha, so that's what a good fuck and a joint can do to a girl. She actually smiles.......... I bet the pot makes his farts smell like cherries.
Decebal
gwiliandre
Posted 8:33 AM 23/7/08
Jade stems.
Lotus flowers.
Body odor.
Male anorexia.
gwiliandre
Midge
Posted 7:44 AM 23/7/08
Artie Ziff never looked so good!
Midge
Citizen Kang
Posted 7:21 AM 23/7/08
@Citizen Kang:
"You do have to admire his courage unconventional of male masculinity."
Sorry...You do have to admire his unconventional interpretation of male masculinity.
Citizen Kang
Citizen Kang
Posted 7:19 AM 23/7/08
OK...I love me some Natalie Portman. I think she's absolutely gorgeous; easily one of the most beautiful women in the world, but this guy looks like he and a bar of soap haven't been on speaking terms in a long-ass time. I'm sure he's a great guy and Natalie is totally in love with him (*sob*), but I can't be the only guy who thinks he looks like a water rat. Maybe he is hot and smells like cherries and rainbows; I just can't see it under the massive amount of facial hair and the, to put it generously, completely unimpressive body that looks like 90 pounds of chewed bubble gum. You do have to admire his courage unconventional of male masculinity.
Citizen Kang
DrFeelgood
Posted 6:32 AM 23/7/08
He looks like he smells bad. You can give the homeless a home but you can't force them take a bath.
What's up with her? Hs she caught gonerreah and refusing antibiotics out of her misguided love for him?
Only the goddess of change can help them now.
DrFeelgood
Lapinot
Posted 6:06 AM 23/7/08
Loved it. Smiled the whole way through. Laughed twice. Singing in my head. Would gladly follow the trail to the treasure.
Lapinot
OldTowneTavern
Posted 6:04 AM 23/7/08
I should have known when her short in Paris, Je T'aime was deemed "the best" that this probably wouldn't be my cup of tea either.
Natalie, never date a man you might outweigh.
OldTowneTavern
Oxycontinmoron
Posted 5:49 AM 23/7/08
Could not tolerate watching this all the way through. Sucks with a capital S!
Oxycontinmoron
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 5:33 AM 23/7/08
I think this is...dare I say it...cute...but I could have lived without seeing his treasure trail.
Little Mintz Sunshine
kookla
Posted 5:26 AM 23/7/08
Much cooler than Gwyneth and What's His Apple.
kookla
Calraigh
Posted 5:20 AM 23/7/08
I am in love. With both of them. Also, I want an octopus.
Calraigh
Huge Tracts of Land
Posted 5:20 AM 23/7/08
Devendra may be "ratty-assed" but he's quite an accomplished freak-folk musician who strangely seems to channel both Bob Dylan and Tiny Tim at the same time. I think it's sweet Queen Amidala is so publicly tripping balls for her new BF.
Huge Tracts of Land
gwendolyn
Posted 5:12 AM 23/7/08
'Feel like crying today?"
Yes, but not over the likes of Natalie Portman, who will be hosting infotainment ads in the next decade.
No, I am grieving over the loss of Estelle Getty who died today.
Farewell, Sophia and rest easy...
gwendolyn
raincoaster
Posted 1:09 PM 23/7/08
I never got the buzz about him. His voice is whiny and irritating in the extreme, and yes, he looks like a water rat. But this IS fun, and when was the last time you saw Natalie Portman actually smile? The guy must have real magical powers. I wouldn't cross him.
raincoaster
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 1:27 PM 23/7/08
@LLH: And now you know why I used "treasure trail"....
Little Mintz Sunshine
"Good" Crazy...
Posted 6:17 PM 23/7/08
UH-OH!
No no no no I didn't see that, must just be further shock to loosing Estelle...
"Good" Crazy...
Null.Aleph
Posted 6:07 AM 24/7/08
Makes me thing longingly of King David and what he did to Bathsheba's husband Uriah. Would be a proper fate for this weenus.
Null.Aleph