We had another shoot last Tuesday in this sweltering, disgusting heat. Luckily the lovely actors of Twinhead don’t sweat, so the shoot went marvelously!
We’re slowly getting footage for a new parody trailer, which are both fun and laborious because each shot takes about three seconds to set-up and shoot, but there are A HUNDRED of them. They’re definitely less stressful, and I’m going to somehow rework every idea I have in my little notebook to be a parody trailer of something. Then, I’ll start parodying the parody trailers I’ve already made, and then parody those parodies, until a veritable Möbius strip of parody trailers emerges from our YouTube channel and tears the fabric of the space/time continuum as we know it.
Anyway, here’s some pictures of Rob in Spandex.
What’s the short about? Well, that’d ruin the surprise, but if you follow us on Twitter, you’d have a clue or two by now.
On an unrelated note, I just watched Bram Stoker’s Dracula last night, after finally finishing the book I bought 9 years ago and reading over the past 4 months. The movie was completely bizarre, just all over the place, but really fascinating to watch. It felt like a madman was behind the camera. Nothing made any sense, but at the same time it was very consistently inconsistent.
One thing it had going for it was the incredible pace it kept. It’s the shortest 2 hour movie I’ve ever seen, for sure. I think part of why it looked so absurd/bad is because Coppola (so I read) decided to eschew any computers in his typical curmudgeon fashion and used either in-camera effects or just plain old-school tricks. It ends up looking like a completely inconsistent mess. Everything from the color timing to the gaudy outfits and sets, even the framings looked like Sam Raimi shot it rather than Coppola.
In any case, I think I’m going to watch it again. It’s a pretty poor adaption, opting to add a bunch of sex and boobs rather than adhere to the Victorian awkwardness about sex. The characters have no motivation at all. Did I mention it also stars Cary Elwes!? He and Keanu basically are having a bad-accent duel the entire film. Keanu wins, however, with his implacable pronunciation of “inferno.” But beside that, it’s visually fascinating, and it seems to have been fairly well-praised when it was released, but that’s probably just critics favoring a great director failing to notice he went off the rails completely.
-JHG
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