Title:
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2001
Released: 2001
Plot
Summary: The 2001 edition of the Sports
Illustrated swimsuit video was produced to be shown
on MTV, but except for brief appearances by an MTV
staff person, who provides narration, the format is
entirely familiar. Beautiful women travel to exotic
locations, eccentric and demanding photographers take
a gazillion photographs of them, and the editors of
the magazine engage in a painstaking process to figure
out which photos measure up to the standards of the
fabled swimsuit issue. This edition of the annual
video contains a brief look back at the magazine's
tradition of showcasing swimsuit models as well as
a segment showing some problems faced in past years
(such as a capsizing boat that scuttled a photographer
and thousands of dollars worth of equipment). But
for the most part the camera lingers over the bodies
of more than a dozen models, including Josie Maran,
Heidi Klum, Daniela Pestova, Michelle Behennah, and
Molly Sims. Clad in the tiniest and tightest swimsuits
imaginable, the women are seen posing--and occasionally
talking about how much work posing is--in locations
ranging from Las Vegas to Malaysia to Greece to Tunisia.
The video is, as one might expect, very professionally
produced, and while it contains no real surprises,
it's a suitable tribute to the annual magazine issue
that has become an American institution.
Comments:
I
think it's the best in the Sports Illustrated series,
and I have all of them. But I'm a photographer, and
the reason I think it's good is because there's lots
of footage here of the photographers working with
the models. There's a segment on Terry Richardson
and how he often uses point and shoot cameras, which
I found very interesting. The beautiful women are
still there, and I get to watch some of the best photographers
in the world work. I think it's great.
