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11 Cast Shoenice (ep 6) 🤪

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Shoenice Situation is Crazy...

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Deep Lore

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Shoenice AKA Chris Schewe

Vice’s Shoenice22 Documentary

I recently watched Vice’s documentary centered around Shoenice, a Youtuber whose claim to fame is his iron clad stomach and timed eating and drinking challenges.

Characters: Throughout the whole documentary, Shoenice consistently holds the focus of the film, although there are three other characters that have a little bit more of a significant role than the extras in the background. That being the filmmaker Dan Stuckey, Shoenice’s hotel manager, and his old friend and fellow youtuber, Ian.

Quotes: Throughout the whole piece, Shoenice has quotes cited throughout his whole Youtube career and in the documentary interviews themselves. These quotes, with added exposition as to who Shoenice actually is, solidifies him as a character and helps to move him from a freak on the internet eating deodorant to a small time, inspirational hero figure for everyone on Youtube. The first line in the entire documentary is Shoenice saying “a lot of people think I’m a complete idiot, but actually, I’m a professional idiot with decades of experience.” “My mom told me someday that, Chris, someday you’re gonna save the world, and she’s right cause I’m gonna do it.” “Everybody tries to impersonate their heroes sometimes and I just happen to have four thousand parody videos.” A main theme of what Shoenice talks about is solving hunger. His goal is to end world hunger and he has many, many videos of him donating to the homeless with money and food.

Story Arc: The story arc of this documentary focuses on the uprising of Shoenice22 as a child, all the way up to his Youtube career. Our story starts out with exposition given by Shoenice himself, and a montage of some of his more popular videos. This is a great introduction because it both hooks the audience with the outlandish eating, but the audience also knows who and what the rest of the film is going to be focusing on. We then get some insight on his family upbringing. Shoenice being interviewed at a local diner, recalls his early years with shots inbetween to give context. He starts by talking about his childhood and his family, where on the family photo, the classic Ken Burns effect is in place while Shoenice talks about his families early trials and what it was like to grow up in that family. We then have a sequence at the original home Shoenice grew up in, reminiscing about his past of being a trouble maker with his brothers. We leave the home scene with Shoenice walking away from the property pointing out an empty beer bottle to which he remarks “nothing’s changed”. This whole scene with his family and the house makes Shoenice an even more solidified character. I like the decision to introduce his background before actually talking about his Youtube channel, because if the audience is just being introduced to Shoenice, these first couple scenes really make him a more endearing character than if he were to just talk about eating pinecones right from the start. Shoenice then skips to his life in high school, where he alludes to himself being a class clown eating things to get a big reaction out of his peers. He also briefly mentions being in a gang but quickly said he had to leave because it got too crazy. Chris then tells us about his decision to drop out of high school and joining the army. He tells us a story about his inspiration for what he is doing. While deployed in Baghdad, during a sandstorm, serving as a food rations unit, Chris found two starving children hiding in a sand dune. He fed them some rations and said that the look on their face when their hunger was over was inspiring to him. His dream was then to rid the world of hunger. We are then shown a short clip of his earlier videos while he talks about the first steps of his channel. His channel started to go viral when an old classmate of his suggest that he make videos around what he used to do in high school. Eat weird things. We’re then introduced to Chris’ old friend and fellow Youtuber, Ian, aka Glazed420. He talks about his experiences helping Shoenice22 grow as a channel. After this introduction and construction of Chris’ character, we finally see what we’ve been hearing about in action when a Vice filmmaker helps him eat an entire container of wood glue. He then talks about his Youtube comments and how active he is within them. He also talks about the negative comments like how people berate him on his videos or create rumors about him dying because of one of his eating challenges. After his initial exposure to the internet, his wife made him leave the family because of the fame it was providing. This is when Chris started to drink after being sober for 6 years and we’re shown a montage of him drinking entire bottles of liquor, similar to the montage of him eating at the introduction. We are then shown some more videos where the setting is outside of streets and bars of Shoenice doing challenges while homeless. At this point in the story you can see the rising conflict, however, this is shown on the lighter side by multiple video clips of his and interviews of people Shoenice has known vouching for him being kind hearted. This is important because it shows the conflict within the story by also doing its best to keep Shoenice as a positive figure in the audience’s mind. He talks about his mother’s death because of alcohol and how in his upbringing, being drunk in eighth grade was a normal thing. We then see more clips of his liquor slams. Ian and his hotel manager stress their concerns, but justify his actions because of the good that he’s done because of them. We leave off with a low angle shot of Chris standing at his hotel door shouting one of his usual intros for his videos and walking inside.

Narration: Shoenice does most of the narration while talking about his upbringing in life, his Youtube channel, and his downfalls. We only see two instance of text displayed. One being his channel name, and another showing just how viral Shoenice really is. To get an outside opinion on Shoenice, Vice interviews people that he lives near and one of his fellow Youtube friends,

Mode: The main mode used in this documentary is basic expository. Shoenice narrates most of his life and the interviewees fill in the gap. You never hear the questions being asked by the filmmakers. There is a little bit of participatory with the scene of Shoenice eating wood glue with a Vice filmmaker. A lot of the shots were Shoenice22 videos which generally have a close up shot of Shoenice. We see the Ken Burns effect on his family photo while giving exposition to his past. High angle, low angle shots of the town Shoenice lives in. There is also a use of panning when showing websites or comment chains to make the shots more lively.

Why Should I Care?

Shoenice is an internet celebrity. One of the oldest and most consistent Youtubers with countless viral videos. If you haven’t seen any of his videos, there’s literally hours upon hours of challenges to watch and either be horrified, shocked, intrigued, impressed, or anywhere in between. This documentary gives you a closer, more personal look into the life of a Youtube celebrity and really solidifies his character. As someone who knew who Shoenice was before I saw this documentary, I learned so many new things about him and feel like I know him as a person more. This documentary was entertaining through and through and I would recommend a watch.

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Thanks Shoenice.