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what is going on Las Vegas thank you for tuning into the 404 show my name thank you very much we're not used to applause so appreciated but my name is Jeff Bakalar I'm Justin you we are seeing it's daily tech show at the intersection of pop culture and technology Justin Rick tell these people where they can find our show find us everywhere online can go to the 404 cnet.com for all of our daily shows all the links we talk about the stories you can also find us on Facebook Twitter SoundCloud Ashley Madison if you're feeling nasty most importantly let us get to our very special guest he's a legendary star who's appeared in directed and produced countless classic films and most recently starring as Frank Reynolds one of our personal favorite shows It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia ladies and gentlemen please help us welcome to the 404 show mr. Danny DeVito we are going to pay tribute to you sir really nice to be here really excited Jersey Jersey man where you from I'm from Southern California Southern Cal nobody's perfect like Southern Cal plays other not northern Cal no no no where are we how long you been here I'm it's it's like I like that how are you doing sir I'm doing really good just got here really excited to be here love technology love the fact that you guys are sitting there with computers in front of you you appreciate that I do I don't know how to work them because I was born before 1960 66 right anybody after 66 stay away you seem to have figured it out pretty well though especially with your Twitter presence yes while only King I really loved you know from the time it started with computers and everything I was like you know even though it was like hitting me myself over the head with a hammer I tried to like you know do it I really dig and I do go I have a Twitter page is Danny DeVito that's very unique we've heard about that Queen we bring that up because we we got to talk about something going on on your Twitter profile specifically your Twitter photo we bring that up on the screen well first of all what happens like well then you're a little bit technically impaired right you don't know how to turn the picture around but that verse oh I shouldn't the picture with the photo booth right on it's on the computer right you almost look like an eye cries yourself up I wanted people to know what is what's the final picture no we bring the picture back up yeah what does it say on the card anyway I wrote something on the card right what is it say oh it says Twitter it's hard to read it still it's the address to find you I can't do you yeah Danny right though I just wanted people to know that you know you got to authenticate some way sure right I and you know I didn't take time to put a shirt on right yeah that's that what what happened we're on I take your work very very brief you know it's been fun I've been doing it for a couple of years and my first tweet ever was my balls are on fire we've all been there and you know ya know cuz they you know you want to kind of break the ice so and then I started when we did our sunny it's always sunny in philadelphia a live show which Charlie in the shell wrote a show and because he wanted to get close to the waitress we insinuated ourselves on up you saw it yeah and we did a live show and in the show I played a troll yes so we were on the road and one day I just said you know they're right there next to you is it is the foot so I called a troll foot yes and I started taking pictures yeah yeah you have to get the boys oh yeah oh I've learned a lot about you through the trophy's pictures - I mean it's kind of a reflection of how your day is going what you're up to everyday noam chomsky i was listening to no yeah a big fan of his and I've there's lots of really cool pictures some people give me flak about the manicure because I don't care about it but you know it's a lot of fun you fly that flag proud I can't help but notice that you're also wearing a pair of Crocs right now easy access to the troll put socks on the ideas you have to have easy access to the foot would be a good picture to take right so is this one good in a while we're gonna see an actual troll foot well it's like you know like I say is there any way to shut Siri up no you get her and I say to it I say will you stop asking me questions and she goes I'm just and she quotes how 2001 you know something it's a friend he's a friend of hers I guess so it's what I do basically I take we're gonna live troll foot demo right what's happening all right it's not in order to do this right you have to get up okay and you have to go on the audience side of this bench okay can you I don't know I mean is there a little sterile edge for them to stand on is over there and duck down uh yeah because I need to take a picture of the audience yeah because it's a careful because why don't you go that way all right I'll go this way did he listen to me or what wait okay you go over there all right this is the way it works go what go on go on all right so let me see yeah this is good this is good you see now I'm not gonna get that flow going but you don't mind right here we go wait all right way now get me on the screen in the back there you got me back no put me on the one that's in the back there yeah that one okay ready nice one more one more gonna line myself up because you know it's most important that I'm in the shot anyway I'm glad that you're all so interested in technology because it's better than being interested in the other thing what's the other thing the thing that hurts people what does that have these big conventions and people go to them and they buy things that that shoot oh okay so this is really cool because this is expanding your mind this is much and you really you know a keyboard I've never heard of a you know drive-by keyboard no that doesn't seem to hurt his people as much oh sorry technology well get wild so you have any questions we do we do Justin yes mr. DeVito a question no no no no I'll close it but one of my favorite movies that you were involved with was a Gattaca my favorite movies of all time yes really brilliant guy and that was like really fantastic lots of fun to do yesin hawk and you know Jude Law and it wasn't really it was a cool at the time when we did the movie it was like just the beginning of the research genome research right yeah that was all just you know kind of happening and yeah kind of predicted the future of social media and stalking people online and finding out so much information about someone anytime you could like now it's I guess it's you know the whole thing about you go to if you to an airport you got to do all the the craziness that we're forced to do because of some nuts who attacked us up now I think you can do a thing where you go I mean it sounds big brother II but you can do a thumb print or a some kind of thing you go in and you talk to the TSA and you can get a passport so you don't have to do all that stuff huh yes the whole bypass the whole thing I think it's okay to do I mean like it's a lot of people will say you know you're getting controlled and you're you know but look look at where we are anyway yeah kind of used to have fun right what what I'm most amazed by is the sort of accessibility of filmmaking you're very accomplished filmmaker yourself everybody now who has a camera can be a filmmaker yes what I mean the whole thing is study yeah it's all like a like Gong you know like kung fu gongs Qigong okay like blood flow right yeah so it's like a study so everything you do is a study like you guys are learning how to do this right it's really cool that everybody can you know take a take a crack at it you know like get their their cameras you know the technology we've got your you got your various ways to edit movies or things you could take your home movies and make them at least like when I was a young man in in New York I had a super 8 camera sir and I always took you know but my father was born in Brooklyn and I went to I belong in Asbury Park yeah New Jersey and I went to New York and when I got there I I did things like to to show him where I was I I would just shoot little snippets of film of the you know you get that little good cartridge send it in you get it back then I got the little plastic rewinds and I but you know you tape it and you put the put the thing then you get a projector and when you go back for Thanksgiving or a holiday of some kind you would show it to the family you put a record on you know usually opera because he was uh you like the Verdi and and just show him like the city you know and he could do that it's really a cool thing I love that don't you think some things do you think something is lost because when I actually went to film school I was the last generation that got taught to cut on a Steinbach with the cutting splicing famous joke you know the girl goes up for an audition she says she wants to sing she goes you say tomato I say tomato you say potato I say potato and a guy says either thank you very much miss Levine that's Levine wait for the punchline okay so what were you gonna say I'm saying you know do you think because people don't have to go through the trials and tribulations of the belt of developing film anymore how do you think that's effective wait you didn't develop film yourself or in any way no the only thing different basically well there's a lot of things different but and you know aesthetically whatever you feel when you look at it you say oh god I look look at you know a David Lean movie or a Kubrick movie or or you know karasawa or whatever early film that we've made in this country and you go that's my speed I really love that but you know the way it looks but there so there's lots of differences in terms of personal aesthetics and stuff but in terms of like you know doing the task you know you still have to have a story Church is like really important characters and the characters have to want something right and you can't short shrift that right so okay so now you got it you shoot it and you you're able to edit it you know in your bedroom or your closet or ever wherever you want or barefoot or naked or whatever you can do it yourself if you learn how to do the you know you still a learning process you know whether it's a steenbeck or a Steinbeck or a or a movie Ola right I've made movies proud to say on a stand-up movie Ola which was what Orson Welles cut Citizen Kane on I mean it's not you know it's all about it's basically about what's inside you know it's like the heart of it and whatever it's there what's going on you know and we're just moving with the flow right so you don't want to stop the flow you can tamper with the other stuff sure still I mean my son just made a movie in New York that is about young Lincoln like Abraham Lincoln as a young boy and they shot it they shot it on film they were gonna shoot it in black and white but they couldn't really find a lab anymore except for one in like I think Detroit somewhere where they could send the the black and white footage do or it doesn't do it anymore and those people don't so so they they shot in color and they're gonna desaturate it and make its a black and white movie so but so you can still make those choices if you wish but in terms of accessibility I mean you know get that little camera that starts shooting you know it's cutting and putting it together and you got Final Cut or you got at avid or you got whatever you use you know and you got all the tracks a sound and you sound effects blah blah blah you can you're gonna have some fun yeah well you're really embracing the digital age and we appreciate we're big fans of everything you doing thank you so much for being here you most certainly can just of course never leave home empty-handed ladies and gentlemen you can check out Danny DeVito you're going to be at a panel that our own Greg Sandoval is moderating that's at the Panasonic booth in the central hall you'll he'll be moderating the panel with you and the CTOs of 20th Century Fox and Panasonic again psyched about that I'm excited are we talking about excited to be here all right well we're excited to have you and we really appreciate you coming on here thank you ladies and I'm with Danny DeVito all right then we will be back tomorrow that's going to do it for us here we'll see ya