The Deeper You Go Documentary……
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THE DEEPER YOU GO tells the intriguing story of Wayne Lee, a comedic stage hypnotist who endeavours to transform himself from marginal celebrity entertainer to mainstream motivational personality. With his Ken-doll looks and omnipresent smile, this cross between Wayne Newton and Raveen relentlessly promotes himself and his show, tirelessly performing magic tricks, churning out motivational acronyms, and preaching about human mind power to any willing audience.
Hypnosis was the invention of Anton Mesmer, an 18th century Austrian physician and eclectic. He enjoyed fabulous celebrity for his eerie ability to command subjects to abide his will. Practiced by Freud, Mozart, Jung, and even Winston Churchill, it remains a subject of acute interest today. The fascination with hypnosis is typical of our national pastime of tapping into our psyches. Throngs of people scour the self-help sections of bookstores, order tapes from late night television infomercials, and pack arenas for seminars, perpetually searching for ways to improve their lives. The public clamor for personalities such as Anthony Robbins and Deepak Chopra has created opportunity in the unlikely career niche of life coach. THE DEEPER YOU GO, examines the mystery behind hypnosis, highlighting the hilarity of the onstage antics while documenting Wayne Lee’s efforts to profoundly redesign his show for the massive self-help market.
Wayne Lee hails from Edmonton, Canada where the thirty-five year old entertainer initially began a career as a high-school teacher. A knack for magic developed into part-time work performing magic shows for parties and corporations. After witnessing a hypnotist at a local club, he set out to learn the secrets of hypnosis. Three months later he was performing his first hypnosis show on amateur night at the neighborhood bar. Inundated with offers from other local establishments he became an immediate success. Soon his insatiable drive to perform compelled him to leave the teaching profession and become a vaudevillian entertainer. He has never looked back. For the last seven years he has built a lucrative business playing thousands of venues across North America. All his energy had been poured into fine-tuning the show and polishing his skills as a performer in order to reach the penultimate goal of headlining on the Vegas strip alongside the likes of Siegfried and Roy Celine Dione. In a bid to find inspiration, brace himself for his pending celebrity, and fine-tune his show business strategy, he attended a popular self-help seminar. Following this life-changing experience, he had another epiphany…
Wayne came to the conviction that his true calling was "to serve people" – as a motivational speaker and self-help hypnotist. For Wayne, his design was to pattern self-help industry giants and dogmatically spread his message. Granted, his stage presence and charisma is undeniable. Audiences marvel at his hypnotic powers and they swarm around him following every show. But can this relatively unknown hypnotist evolve an edgy display of wildly funny, adult-theme antics into a mainstream seminar with global intentions? The Deeper You Go chronicles the metamorphosis of Wayne’s madcap comedic stage show into a "Life is Magic" seminar encouraging people to "get in touch with all their dreams, goals and aspirations."
Whether creating elaborate wall charts outlining his planned seminar, listening to endless motivational tapes in his motor home, or building an impressive entourage and crew, Wayne is resolute. A consummate entertainer, seemingly always "on", tirelessly promoting himself and his message that "life is magic", you can’t help but cheer him on. The Deeper You Go follows Wayne Lee as he performs his summer tour and attempts to launch his Life is Magic seminar. Whether his message has the universality and impact he intends remains to be seen. Will audiences and his disciples accept this radical shift? Witnessing this entertainer’s efforts to make his dream come to fruition is riveting, entertaining and above all, hilarious.The Deeper You Go was directed by first time director Jeremy Podlog. It was shot 16:9 on a Cannon XL1s Digital Camera.
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