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zacharias said:
Hello,

is very funny. A great "scary movie" of SIMILO.
And the robot... the best thing of the movie is his acting! I've really enjoyed with him.

I'm very grateful for this tribute.

BZ
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Hey, fantastic. Thanks Zacharias. You have perceived this in the manner it was intended (see my earlier posts re this being intended as a small, good-spirited homage to Similo ...).

I am grateful for your response.

Now about that "robot" comment ...
 
spidey said:
little slow in parts but overall funny you should have got her nakkied.
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Hey Spidey. Thanks. I'm making notes of people's preferences for the next one.

And if you're available to do a little on-screen work, that might be kinda ... different ...

spidey said:
... and the squeeling pig noise made me laugh.
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Ahhh. It's all becoming clear now ...

spidey said:
also why is driving in hong kong at one point. he was driving near causeway bay!?
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And SPIDEY wins the prize. And now I get to tell the story, so blame him.

Around May 16 I'm on the Star Ferry heading across Hong Kong Harbour to Wanchai having visited my favourite little Irish bar in Tsim Sha Tsui, so I'm thinking about (what else) finishing Bucketman. And it's a really awesome harbour, and it's close to the magic hour. And I'm thinking the BG to the car scene. So being totally unaffected by the 1/4 pint of beer in me (and do you know how hard it is to order beer in a shot glass?), out comes my (hold on now, kiddies, we're going for a ride) Sony DSC-V3 digi-camera and I video the harbour, never believing it could be usable footage.

But I plopped the footage (640x480 30 fps) into Vegas and voila! Given that I was blurring the BG anyway, the shot worked. At least I thought so.

And given that I just admitted that I used a Sony consumer digital camera for Bucketman, I think I just DQ'd myself from the voting.

DANG!
 
PK Gillock said:
Dahopa - Don't worry about relocating. You're not the only one who has parodied another DVXfest film. Antomic did a small parody of my film, The Loner, which won last year, and then I parodied his film, The Morning After. BUT you are the first to have the guts to enter a DVX parody into a festival. LOL :) I hope McG is cool and appreciates the effort you put into this. It's REALLY good. I've watched it a few more times and even showed it to some of my Thai friends. They thought it was great even without seeing the film on which its based. I'll be selling copies of your movie in the local market. :)

spidey - I'm pretty sure the water boat scene was a joke. They were going for something outrageous to place in the background and thought it would be funny if they were on the water. Kind of like the movie, Airplane!, where anything goes. Speaking of, don't they have Cowboys with guns chasing their car in one scene in Airplane! ?

You know, now that I think about it, your film had a lot of similarities to "Airplane!". That's not a bad thing. Airplane! is brilliant. But the Bucketman kind of looks like the Autopilot n the movie and the lead actress does a lot of Voiceover and she also does the nasty with the autopilot. Remember, when he starts to deflate. :)
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PK. It's always great to receive comments (and interpretive assistance) from someone I respect. Thanks, man.

And yeah, the Airplane auto-pilot really hit me only after I got into editing. I really hadn't thought of that before, but there is a clear similarity, I think. Maybe too close, now that I consider it ...

Now if I'd only thought of the cowboys chasing the car ...

(and ps - Thailand is one of my favourite places in the Universe. You're lucky to be there. And next time I'm in Bangkok, I'm heading to Patpong to look for pirated copies of Bucketman. And that's gonna be my story and I'll be sticking to it.)
 
Hehehehe, i just watched it!
I guess you wont need to run and hide. It was really funny, and the bucket man ruled.

(loved the iron fight btw) ;P
 
Bucket man rocks!
You had some lovely gags in there. I thought bucketman was driving dangerously though. Love bucket man spanking red dress girl. Best gag for me :- The hand in...turning to look at me without using your hands.
Great job.
Cheers :beer:
 
macgregor said:
Hehehehe, i just watched it!
I guess you wont need to run and hide. It was really funny, and the bucket man ruled.

(loved the iron fight btw) ;P
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*sniff*

I love you, man.:crybaby:
 
jpbankesmercer said:
Bucket man rocks!
You had some lovely gags in there. I thought bucketman was driving dangerously though. Love bucket man spanking red dress girl. Best gag for me :- The hand in...turning to look at me without using your hands.
Great job.
Cheers :beer:
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Thanks J.P.

(You ought to see the out-take where he didn't use his hand. Priceless.)

(And you also really ought to see the 3.5 hours of outtakes on the red dress spanking scene. Those are $14.50. Visa, Mastercard accepted)
 
It was genius, and I loved every moment, the VO, you managed to copy to the T. Well done man. A good parody homage to Similo.

Loved the line - 'he will never leave me for someone more intelligent than me..'

Priceless.
 
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Dahopafilms said:
And given that I just admitted that I used a Sony consumer digital camera for Bucketman, I think I just DQ'd myself from the voting.

DANG!
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Seeing how SIMILO was disallowed from the SciFi Fest as an entry it's only appropriate that, as a complete homage, that yours be disallowed too.
:Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)

Ahhh. The circle of life.

I LOVED BUCKETMAN!!!!


ian
 
Last night my girlfriend was over... and I refreshed her memory of Similo by showing her again... then to put her in the right frame of mind I implied that some guy totally ripped off the Similo style... then I played Bucketman... I don't think she's laughed that hard in a month.

I used the same setup with my roommate and he laughed just as hard.

Now I want to spoof something.

The one thing I DO know... is that I hope you stick with comedy... at least for a while.
 
I mentioned in another post how all the Herofest entries suffered for absolutely terrible scripts. Many of the films have really nailed other aspects: acting, score, cinematography, etc. But none nailed a really good script. Bucketman was closest, because it just made me laugh. Then again, the script was also already written for you! You emulate an excellent existing film (Similo), and then added your very very funny take on it. I thought Bucketman was funny indeed. But if the only film that got a half-way decent script needed to use another film as a template, we all need to go to writing school, not film school. (I'll go put on my bulletproof vest now.)
 
MattinSTL said:
Last night my girlfriend was over... and I refreshed her memory of Similo by showing her again... then to put her in the right frame of mind I implied that some guy totally ripped off the Similo style... then I played Bucketman... I don't think she's laughed that hard in a month.
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Yeah. The same thing happened to me. Then my wife walked in and ... well ...

(sorry)

MattinSTL said:
...Now I want to spoof something.

The one thing I DO know... is that I hope you stick with comedy... at least for a while.
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OK! OK! No more Contrabands. I get it.

Thanks Matt. I appreciate your comments.
 
I just watched this again. Many, many great lines, but I suppose my favorite is: "Because I can. And I'm not getting any younger."

MmmHmm, take notes, dudes... :kali:

(Just kidding... sort of...) :cheesy:
 
sean90291 said:
I mentioned in another post how all the Herofest entries suffered for absolutely terrible scripts. Many of the films have really nailed other aspects: acting, score, cinematography, etc. But none nailed a really good script. Bucketman was closest, because it just made me laugh. Then again, the script was also already written for you! You emulate an excellent existing film (Similo), and then added your very very funny take on it. I thought Bucketman was funny indeed. But if the only film that got a half-way decent script needed to use another film as a template, we all need to go to writing school, not film school. (I'll go put on my bulletproof vest now.)
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So much to say and so little time (2:1 in the Germany/Costa Rica game at half time - unreal!). In no particular order:
  1. I categorically agree with every statement in your post - but only in relation to Bucketman and definitely not for any of the other entries. There were many, many good, original scripts here. But then again, I've not read the scripts - just experienced the stories brought to life in the films.
  2. You are absolutely correct, of course, that the Bucketman script indeed was already written for me. Not one original line. Not one original thought. Hell, I didn't even need to use my Screenwriter program - just my handy Xerox machine. Gosh. How did you know?
  3. As for more time at writing school, I'm guilty. For me, a couple of degrees from nine years of University (those are the places you go to when you graduate from High School and are too dim to get into a Community College) weren't enough ("GASP! He played the education card!"). And I really enjoy academia anyway. It's cool to study, but not actually do. Right?
  4. To quote Lew Hunter "Always remember, individualism is what makes screenplays great, not their uniqueness". And Chris Vogler's entire thesis was "All stories consist of a few common structural elements found universally in myths, fairy tales, dreams, and movies." So did I use a template for Bucketman? Gee, I guess I did. And Similo was, in my view, a pretty nice template.
And now I must remind myself that we're talking about screenwriting techniques, accomplishments and mythic story structure in relation to a short video about the girlfriend of a guy wearing two plastic buckets and turning his head with his hand.

SHEESH!

Now, back to Germany and Costa Rica ...
 
sean90291 said:
Then again, the script was also already written for you! You emulate an excellent existing film (Similo)
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Jeesh! What are you smokin' up there in "The Far North"? I won't address others' screenplays in DahopaFilms' thread, suffice it to say I can only judge them (having not read them) from what they put on the screen. Sure, they used Similo as a basis for their parody, HOWEVER, the story was different. Perhaps, too subtly for you? And the dialogue, omg, the dialogue was incredible. But then again, I suppose the dialogue really has nothing to do with the screenplay, does it?

Dahopafilms said:
I categorically agree with every statement in your post - but only in relation to Bucketman and definitely not for any of the other entries. There were many, many good, original scripts here. But then again, I've not read the scripts - just experienced
the stories brought to life in the films.

You are absolutely correct, of course, that the Bucketman script indeed was already written for me. Not one original line. Not one original thought. Hell, I didn't even need to use my Screenwriter program - just my handy Xerox machine. Gosh. How did you know?

As for more time at writing school, I'm guilty. For me, a couple of degrees from nine years of University (those are the places you go to when you graduate from High School and are too dim to get into a Community College) weren't enough ("GASP! He played the education card!"). And I really enjoy academia anyway. It's cool to study, but not actually do. Right?

To quote Lew Hunter "Always remember, individualism is what makes screenplays great, not their uniqueness". And Chris Vogler's entire thesis was "All stories consist of a few common structural elements found universally in myths, fairy tales, dreams, and movies." So did I use a template for Bucketman? Gee, I guess I did. And Similo was, in my view, a pretty nice template.
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I think it's really not fair of you using wit to answer that rediculous post :grin: because you're a whole wit.

Sorry, for the rant guys but that post was so rediculous, I couldn't help myself :thumbsup:
 
Well, I was actually sorta kinda saying I thought your script was among the best, because it did indeed make me laugh. But more in general, I thought it was interesting that the best of the not so good scripts was a parody. That's all.

Oh, and I really shouldn't have said your script was written for you. That was truly over-stating it. I meant I guess the story itself was already there. You did write some damn funny stuff. Funny is funny, and you can't argue with it if it makes you laugh, and that is good writing. Maybe parody is not the most challening writing. But you did it well. And screenwriting was an actual category in the voting for these films. I just felt over all that most of the films were bad scripts with very strong elements otherwise (acting, cinematography, etc.).

I guess nine years of Uni didn't prepare you for constructive criticism though. ;-)
 
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Buketman ruled. The most entertaining of the lot IMO

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I remember at first glance thinking 'This looks waay too familiar.' and not realizing it was a parody and going 'What's he thinking?' and then of course the hilarity ensued!

Too funny !

I loved the boat in the background, the bad greenscreen, the expressons on Bucketmans face, the 'Running real fast' and the flying was brilliant ....

Awesome!!
 
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