Perhaps the biggest new egomaniac in Hollywood is Darren “Dead-Horse-Beater” Bousman, the man whose career would be virtually nonexistent without the Saw franchise.

As you may know by now, Bousman’s newest project—which defies all logic by involving Paris Hilton in a singing role—is called “Repo: The Genetic Opera”, and is garnering all sorts of strange and baffling testimonials, especially from people involved in it. This of course isn’t what you’d call a real bell-ringer in terms of quality, and perhaps worse yet is Bousman’s own evaluation of the work, including:

”Repo‘s a hard pill to swallow. It takes a good fifteen minutes for you to understand. There is no talking. There is no spoken dialogue in this movie.”

Which is already pretty scary—Bousman is already convinced that a portion of his audience will not “get” his movie, but it only gets worse:

“I think right now, the problem with this movie is that people are thinking of it as meat and potatoes. It’s not. It’s sushi.” He adds, “I think the problem they are having is that they have to think outside of this box before they see this movie. Viewers have to go in knowing its going to be sushi.”

And this is the major problem. Bousman already has an excuse ready to fire if (or more possibly when) Repo tanks like the housing market. Basically, if Repo goes down, it’s because viewers were actually too damn stupid to get it. Note his language: YOU have to “think outside the box.” YOU have to “know it’s sushi”. Thus if YOU don’t like it it’s because YOU weren’t thinking outside the box sufficiently.

Which is, of course, a very, very bad sign.

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