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07.07.06
Independence Day, RerunIt strikes me that this closing statement by Alan Shore (James Spader) on ABC’s Boston Legal is what I should have posted three days ago to celebrate our national holiday. Like the Jefferson excerpt I did post, it’s old and it’s long, but damn, is it good. Keep on hooting, James. 07.07.06
Bush Performs “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”
I don’t even want to think about how long it took to put this together. This is the guy who did it. [tip via Mikhail; originally on One Good Move and Boing Boing] 06.20.06
Head Save, and a BeautWhile I wait for Le Bérubé to comment upon last night’s thrilling conclusion to the Stanley Cup, I thought I’d share one of my favorite moments from yesterday’s Spain-Tunisia World Cup match. With Tunisia up 1-0, a Spanish player drove a perfect corner-kick towards the center of the box. A waiting teammate headed the ball towards the net, past the outstretched arms of the keeper. Standing on the goal-line, Tunisia defender Anis Ayari preserved his team’s lead (momentarily, at least) by heading the ball away from the net at the last possible second. To see the play, let this video load a little less than halfway through. Go to the 3:05 mark, and watch Ayari use his head in brilliant fashion. 09.28.05
The Shining, ReduxMy friend Mikhail sent this on to me. It’s simply BRILLIANT. A post-production house organized a competition where assistant editors ‘re-cut’ trailers for famous movies to try and make them seem like different movies . . . . this is the one that won.
Update: Welcome Waxy, Metafilter, Screenhead, and Defective Yeti readers. Waxy is also mirroring the trailer. I’m trying to track down further details about both the trailer and the contest. I’ve contacted its creator, but haven’t heard back from him yet. If you have any futher information, please post it in the comments. Thanks for visiting, and feel free to poke around the Coat. It’s what Jack would want you to do. Update #2: NRO’s The Corner also linked to this post. And crashed the blog when it did. Update #3: I think that the source of the original email that reached me saw the link on the blog of Dustin Stephens, who is friends with Rob, the creator of the Shining trailer (the original link is in the middle of this post). Dustin has links to a few other contest entries — his own recut of Titanic, and a recut of West Side Story. Dustin writes that Rob has gotten a call “from the Vice Prez of Production from Warner Bros. asking him what else he does.” Through an email I received, I know that this won’t be the last time Hollywood gets in touch. Update #4: As Ben notes in the comments below, the third place finisher in the contest was a recut of David Swift’s The Parent Trap (1961) as a coming-of-age lesbian love story. To see it, go to Moondog, click on Paul Lacalandra’s name, and click on the image with “ordinary girls” written on it. Update #5: Among them is the news that The New York Times has now covered the story:
Robert Ryang, 25, a film editor’s assistant in Manhattan, graduated from Columbia three years ago with a double major in film studies and psychology. This week, he got an eye-opening lesson in both.
Since 2002, Mr. Ryang has worked for one of the owners of P.S. 260, a commercial postproduction house, cutting commercials for the likes of Citizens Bank, Cingular and the TriBeCa Film Festival. A few weeks back, he said, he entered a contest for editors’ assistants sponsored by the New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors. The challenge? Take any movie and cut a new trailer for it – but in an entirely different genre. Only the sound and dialogue could be modified, not the visuals, he said. Mr. Ryang won the contest, and about 10 days ago, he said, he sent three friends a link to a “secret site” on his company’s Web site where they could watch his entry. One of them, Mr. Ryang said, posted it on his little-watched blog. And that was that. Until this week, when he was hit by a tsunami of Internet interest. On Wednesday, Mr. Ryang said, his secret site got 12,000 hits. By Thursday the numbers were even higher, his film was being downloaded and linked to on countless other sites, it had cracked the top 10 most popular spoofs on www.ifilm.com, and a vice president at a major Hollywood studio had called up his office, scouting for new talent. Now I know why Robert hasn'’t had time to respond to my interview request. Robert deserves every bit of attention he gets from this. As Jim MacDonald writes, “Thus is virtue rewarded.” For the record (and in case anyone is interested in the evolution of a viral phenomenon), I want to note that I hadn'’t seen Dustin’’s site before I posted about this clip. Someone forwarded an email message about the clip to my friend Mikhail, who sent it on to me. I posted about it; Waxy.org took note (how, I'’m not sure), and linked to it; and then things really began to take off. Metafilter, Screenhead, Defective Yeti, The Corner, and iFilm helped send it into the stratosphere from there. What’s amazing to me, at least, is how quickly this moved — it all happened in a matter of hours after Waxy picked up on it. That’’s a testament to both the quality of Robert’’s trailer and the speed with which information moves today. I know I'’m not the only one looking forward to seeing more of Robert’’s work in the future. Update #6: The Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) has posted a page about the Trailer Park contest which includes links to winners in several different cities. Kathryn Hempel, who came up with the idea for Trailer Park, writes: Early in 2001, I conceived the idea of having an editing festival for the assistant editors in hopes of generating grassroots involvement and awareness of AICE. With the generous support and encouragement of the other Chicago board members, I asked some fellow editors to join a festival planning committee. Our mission was to give our hard working assistants an opportunity to showcase their editing talent and creative storytelling capabilities. Trailer Park was born.
The first Trailer Park required each entrant to cut a :90 second trailer for the film that won the Academy Award for Best Editing that year. The assistant had to be the sole author of the trailer, and had to do all the editing, effects, sound design and finishing. Other chapters have adopted slightly different requirements since, but the principle remains the same: edit a creative, compelling trailer for an existing feature film. Next summer marks Chicago’’s 5th Trailer Park Anniversary. Over the last four years we have had enthusiastic involvement from the many panels of judges, and fun–sometimes trashy and sometimes mighty impressive–prizes. We'’ve received letters of encouragement from Academy Award winning editors. We'’ve seriously critiqued the work and fostered the growth of our dedicated assistants, and have announced with pride at each festival new chapters across the country and in Canada that have latched on to the Trailer Park idea and run with it. Clearly there have been many volunteers and contributors over the years, for Trailer Park takes a village to pull off, and it’’s been a heartening ride. –Kathryn Hempel, editor/partner, Cutters, Chicago I think it’’s safe to say that Trailer Park has helped raise awareness of AICE. Update #7: I'’ll be posting a short interview with Robert tomorrow (Oct. 3). Update #8: Still waiting to hear back from Robert about a few follow-up questions. In the meantime, here is another recut trailer, along with a link to an entire website about movie trailers. Update #9: After seeing “Shining,” Aaron Moorhead, a student at FSU Film School, created Eternal Darkness, a remix of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Update #10: The interview with Robert Ryang is up! Update #11: (10/22/05) A few more remixed trailers: This one was made by request: Tom was uncontent to let sleeping dogs lie, so he just had to work it one more time. Actually, he was contacted by the director of Cabin Fever, who saw that his music was used on the West Side Redux, who wanted a spoof of his own.
Update #12: (3/29/06) Rob Ryang writes in: After “Shining”, I was approached by the Independent Spirit Awards to turn an independent film into a Hollywood one: and vice versa: IFC didn'’t broadcast them, because David Lynch and Universal refused to clear the rights, respectively. I also threw this together at the last minute: Update #13: (9/15/06) This year’s winners of the Trailer Park Competition have just been announced, and AICE gave me access to the winning video. It’s a remix of “Cocktail” — Click here to see it You are browsing
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