Synopsis
The Greatest Party That Never Happened
He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.
2019 Directed by Chris Smith
He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.
Billy McFarland Ja Rule Jason Bell Gabrielle Bluestone Shiyuan Deng Michael Ciccarelli Mdavid Low Samuel Krost Andy King J.R. Brett Kincaid Mick Purzycki James Ohliger Grant Margolin Keith van der Linde Marc Weinstein Martin Howell Mark Musters Luca Sabatini Adam Renna Mary Ann Rolle Calvin Wells Jillionaire Seth Crossno Mark Crawford Columbo Justin Liao Stacy Miller Ben Meiselas Show All…
Chris Smith Danny Gabai Gabrielle Bluestone Mick Purzycki Brett Kincaid James Ohliger Max Pollack Matthew Rowean Elliot Tebele
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, Fyre: A Maior Festa Que Nunca Aconteceu
I don't feel bad for anyone here except the locals, workers, and vendors who never got paid. The rest are social media dupes and con artists. Fuck 'em.
Imagine a scenario where Letterboxd tries to throw a festival. Everyone on Letterboxd shows up to some Landmark theatre and the only movie playing on every screen is Vice and people proceed to riot like they did in this.
sometimes u just gotta suck dick so you can get your shipment of evian water out of bahamian customs i guess
using songs from not one but two fincher films to score a doc about my lifelong dream of scamming a hadid sister? oh yes daddy i do!
You probably first heard about the Fyre Festival on April 27, 2017, when the Sauron’s Eye of Twitter’s attention turned itself towards the Bahamian island of Great Exuma. A horde of millennials — lured south by a legion of social media influencers, supermodels, and the seductive promise of Blink-182 — thought they were about to become the Lewis’ and Clarks of a new Coachella. Alas, such dreams of a hedonistic beach weekend were soon dashed, as a quick look at the FEMA-quality festival grounds made it clear that these eager party-seekers were more like the Donner Party of tech start-up fiascos.
There were no bands. There was no food. Emily Ratajkowski, Bella Hadid, and the other stars of Fyre’s promotional…
off topic but i was reading out the documentary bio to my friend and when i said “now-incarcerated ja rule” they replied with “yo i know fyre was a mess but burning them to death is a bit harsh”
brutal document of the facade of capitalism face-planting into material reality. in any other context i would say depicting a bunch of social media "influencers" going Mad Max on each other in the bahamas over hurricane relief tents is a bit too on the nose but, like, it literally happened. the material itself obviously does most of the heavy-lifting here and the details are well-drawn and entertaining to see unfold but the biggest misstep this makes imo is getting so hung up in the specifics that it implicitly tries to convince you billy is some sort of "insane" outlier and not the norm. a better doc would acknowledge that all of this silicon valley start-up app venture bullshit is cut…
the funniest part was an ‘influencer’ complaining about being on a standard airplane instead of being in first class
Living in a pandemic and craving for a music festival? Watching this crazy party for rich people completely fall apart might help. Definitely could have been longer though, as much as there's going on and wrong!
Great material handled in a dull manner. What’s most interesting about the Fyre story is that festival mastermind/con man Billy McFarland seems less like a bug in the social media marketing and branding world than he does a feature. But this doc doesn’t ask that sort of question, opting for straightforward boilerplate procedural instead.
billy mcfarland looks like a finance bro ben affleck and i want the french revolution back
i was there but fortunately i had seen titantic the night before and knew to pick up a local bahamian child to secure my spot on a lifeboat out of there
I was supposed to watch this for my mejo class in the fall but I didn’t do it then😳
everyone except the innocent employees, vendors, and bahamians you absolutely deserved all of that....
I don't know why I felt the urge to watch this again - there's not really anything to be gleaned from repeat viewings (or watching the other documentary about this festival.) But I do love a scam.
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