The Internet age is making it easier and easier for fans to create media, such as music or film with limited or even no budget. But of course, society loves things they recognise, and so they'd rather watch re-runs of Scrubs than try something new and incredible(watch it!) - we don't need to take risks any more. Which is where this fits in.
Taking the style and music of one of the most popular music videos (and its famous song), and combining it with one of the most popular films of all time is pretty much the best move this amateur film editor could have made, and so the video is getting fairly popular, and is being circulated around the Internet. Unless he'd added re-runs of Scrubs. There are hundreds of similar videos floating around, many much more popular than this, going to show the massive interest people have in seeing their favourite films redone or edited.
Of course, I'm only writing about this because I love it so much, but the sudden boom in fan-made material since web 2.0 is incredible, providing other fans with pretty much anything they could want. The best thing about this is that its new - off the radar content such as this would never have been reproduced by Spike Jonze. People aren't complaining about these either, which is a nice change, as they provide a source of advertising for the source media. In fact, it is becoming so popular that companies are branching out and asking audiences to make fan-made content, especially for shows aimed at younger audiences, who apparently love to kill time on computers (although these obey copyright laws, and so are generally far less interesting). Skins have hosted several video-mashup competitions now, the latest of which being this one. Free advertising! Channel 4 must love that.
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