Internal Affairs: San Jose cop's YouTube video is all the rage in Cannes. Or not. Sunday, June 7, 2009 By the Mercury News The summer season of competing, overblown blockbusters has begun right here in San Jose. Except not with the big-budget oeuvres of James Cameron and Ridley Scott, but with an unlikely New Wave of film work from the head of the San Jose Police Officers Association and a mystery director. The movies — actually, YouTube videos — launched one after the other with scant fanfare. TMZ paid little — make that, absolutely no — attention. The first release was helmed by union director Bobby Lopez. Like Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," Lopez's controversial subject sparked instant protests. Community activist Raj Jayadev was cast as Pontius Pilate; Councilman and former SJPD cop Pete Constant was the faithful disciple. You can guess who plays the savior. Lopez uses the 1:32 running length to powerful propaganda effect, filled with Bresson-like purity as he keeps the camera focused on Jayadev speaking at a recent council meeting. Then, taking cues — if not his ideology — from Michael Moore, Lopez throws up one sarcastic subtitle to Jayadev's speech after another: making fun of a misspoken word and a protest T-shirt and culminating in some caustic repartee not exactly ripped right out of "All About Eve." When Jayadev notes there hasn't yet been a "street response" to what he calls racial profiling by police, the unseen narrator writes: "Wait a sec, Raj, is that a threat?" "Our patience is running thin," Jayadev then says on screen. The narrator: "Sounds like a threat to us." Jayadev gave the video a big thumbs down, saying it was meant to intimidate him and anyone else who speaks up against police. But he vehemently denies he was behind the camera for the response that soon followed on home computers everywhere. This four-minute-plus epic, much like the legendary "Naked Gun 21/2," uses the Lopez video's own style as a counterattack. The rebuttal tries to nail the POA piece for twisting Jayadev's words and underestimating public concern; makes fun of Constant and even resorts to comparing the officer in the BART shooting to the SJPD. Toward the end they throw in a gratuitous doughnut joke, the film equivalent of a slip on a banana peel. No one yet has 'fessed up to being its underground auteur, but there will no doubt be more to follow. As a matter of fact, the POA just launched its own blog at www.protectsanjose.com. So you can watch the whole flame festival on your PC. Or you can rent "Alien vs. Predator."   Internal Affairs is compiled by Mercury News staff. This week's items were written by Sean Webby, Scott Herhold, John Woolfolk and Denis C. Theriault. Send tips to internalaffairs@mercurynews.com, or call 408-271-3638.