My Summer Lair Chapter #289: Who Is The Friend You Have a Extremely Unique Dynamic With?
Extremely Unique Dynamic is an Asian stoner comedy, so that’s always fun.
Meet Daniel and Ryan, two best friends who moved to LA to make it big in show biz. But a decade later, neither one is a Crazy Rich Asian or even famous.
And now, Ryan is moving with his fiancé to Edmonton, Alberta. (Just in time for the Oilers to play in the NHL Finals? Go, Orange Team…)
Daniel feels this is a big turning point that deserves doing something special: so they decide to shoot a movie over the weekend to commemorate their fun friendship.
This sounds Half-Baked already.
To make a movie means they need a plot; it can’t be about two Asians going to White Castle…nobody will wanna watch that. Heh.
So, how about a movie about two guys, Gregg and Tim, making a movie! And what will their movie be about? How about two guys — named Jasper and Jake — making a movie?
It’s all meta as in meta-confusing but they both feel this is a showcase for their…extremely unique dynamic.
Extremely Unique Dynamic is written, directed and stars Ivan Leung and Harrison Xu as Daniel and Ryan (and Gregg and Tim and Jasper and Jake). I know: it left me Dazed and Confused as well.
(One of the running subplots I appreciated is that Ivan (I dunno which character he is at this point…) is also confused by all the meta. At least he’s stoned…I just lost the breadcrumbs and couldn’t find my way back to reality.)
This attached My Summer Lair conversation with Ivan and Harrison talks about Extremely Unique Dynamic, which had its international premiere at the 2024 Inside Out Film Festival.
We also get into Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (yes the recent horror movie), adidas tracksuits, how Asian Fame is different than White Fame (that was a compelling conversation) and as if all that wasn’t enough…we also talked about poutine. For his first time in Toronto Ivan wanted to try poutine.
Enjoy my conversation with Ivan Leung and Harrison Xu talking about their “dope” movie Extremely Unique Dynamic.
Behold…the Extremely Unique Dynamic trailer:
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Extremely Unique @ W • T • F
Host Sammy Younan
Recorded: Wednesday March 13, 2024 at 2:00 pm (EST)
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