Someone told me that 85 million gun owners didn’t shoot anyone yesterday. I don’t find that a particularly reassuring statistic. What about the day before?
And maybe they were just not trying hard enough. So I made a t-shirt and bumper sticker. I hope you enjoy:
http://www.zazzle.com/85_million_gun_owners_have_terrible_aim_tshirt-235101380489441678
http://www.zazzle.com/gun_owners_must_have_bad_aim_bumper_sticker-128687226493356228
For a parody to be successful, it has to be both good and first.
The official trailer for Men In Black III (shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyaFEBI_L24) went online two weeks ago. My animator sent me a link and asked what we could spoof about it. I had a script done in two days. Within two weeks of the trailer being online, my video is online (shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-x0KkLjS0)
If you search “Men In Black 3 parody” in YouTube, my video is the first to come up. And it’s the only one that’s really relevant.
What I’m hoping by all this is that by being first to the party, I’ll get a head start on views. The script is good, and I especially love the ending. And the video is first, or at least among the first if I missed the others.
So, take a look at it, and let me know if it’s successful. Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-x0KkLjS0
My animator had the idea of taking really messed-up jokes and turning them into skits. Here’s our first try. It’s offensive.
Doctors and nurses hustle through the surgery tent. The charismatic doctors deliver deadpan one-liners while digging through the young men torn up by battle. A young man walks into this whirlwind of activity.
“Radar, put a mask on,” one of the doctors yells.
“I have a message,” the young man says, faltingly. “Col. Henry Potter’s plane…was shot down over the Sea of Japan, it spun and…there were no survivors…”
The doctors all fall quiet. Just the clank of scalpels dropping on metal trays.
From the Associated Press: Harry Morgan, who died Dec. 7 at age 96 after having pneumonia, was in the top ranks of actors who could take a small role, or a small scene, and bring it deftly alive. He added richness to any comedy or drama smart enough to call on him.
I always loved M*A*S*H and wanted to give Morgan a send-off that Henry Blake had.
Even as a kid, I liked how that show could go from goofy to serious and then back again. The seriousness made the goofiness that much more important and the goofiness made the serious parts all the more real.
What I Learned: If you want to balance comedy and drama, it starts with the characters. They have to be funny because they are reacting to the sad parts. The two feelings go hand in hand.
Just another horrible thought I’ve had:
True story! Not really.
Not really religious…in case you’re easily offended…
A very simple idea I thought of.
This is true, by the way:
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