tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14836079287242120692024-02-19T07:21:24.226-08:00My Coursework Blog ThingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-65650691718709669472013-03-06T03:31:00.001-08:002013-03-06T04:15:42.066-08:00script<style>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dole-Proof</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Opening Scene;</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Camera Spans across an Egyptian style Desert at night with a full moon, the
screen fades to black and then fades back into to an Egyptian tomb were
hieroglyphics are written on stone walls and the floor is sandy, the theme song
from Tomb Raider 2 is playing over this scene, one Egyptian style guy is stood
wearing a big necklace with purple teeth on it, on each side of him are two
Egyptian style men wearing loin cloths and are covered in strange body paint, a
teenage Egyptian girl is tied up and struggling on a sacrificial table, they
speak in a strange unknown language.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Head Egyptian: shuridepa deuenta si elondar nege, forsa ca
fiatow, (The three moons of elandor have aligned, the time is dawning)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Left Egyptian: ales kla me prophecia al dabloe (as the
prophecy foretold my liege)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Right Egyptian: le ferdan de comencia (let this battle commence)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Music turns dramatic as the girl is sliced down the chest with a sacrificial
dagger by the head Egyptian, as she dies she screams:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Girl: Un gretyuna rave denta res!!!!! (I forsee the final
rave)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While
this is happening the other 2 Egyptians pour molten gold into two mould boxes
and a glowing green substance into another, bigger box in the middle.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The two
boxes containing gold are shot off in one direction while the bigger box is
sent off somewhere else in the same way, by high powered catapult through a
window.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The head
Egyptian then walks up behind the others and uses his massive hands to crush
their heads.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Egyptian: resida inferteyo (this is the beggining)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fade to
black</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scene 2:
The Montage</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
scene is set in a jungle, a t-rex is running through the forest, the camera
shows the t-rex standing on the 2 smaller boxes, pushing them deep underground,
the t-rex screams and grabs its foot, as the dinosaur rawwrs the subtitle
“Ahhhhh you fucker!” appears.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
earth is the shown being wiped out by the meteor and the t-rex is killed, along
with everything else.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Millions
of years later the boxes are dug up by a cave man, who breaks them both open
with a stone, it is revealed that the artefacts look like two halves of a
golden grinder.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The cave
man is shown striking them together, and being the first man to discover fire,
he screams but then realizes how warm the fire is, he burns himself, panics and
puts it out, as he gets chilly he relights it and gets cosy.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Later
that day he is showing his discovery to all of the cave people in his tribe,
another cave person walks up to him and signals to borrow it with a grunt and a
hand gesture, the cave man the puts a finger on both sides and rolls it down a
hill, he then invents the wheel</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cut to
1939, a British soldier and his 3 mates are seen using the golden grinder in a
trench hot boxing a dug out, a reggae version of God Save the Queen can be
heard on an old time radio.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier 1 (Skinning up with gg): so anyway yer as I was
saying, these Germans were fighting?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier 2 (smoking a spliff): yer, what about the nazi fuckers?</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier
4 hits a bong and falls asleep with it in is hand, soldier 3 proceeds to pick
it up, clean it out and repack it during the following</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier 1 (sparks up spliff): like, what can they really be
that pissed off about, I mean they had that fight with us right? (tokes) but we
cleared that up and it was generally understood that, ya know, that shits in
the past, its gone?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier 2: so yer whats your point (toke)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier 1: Im gettin to it yer hold on, (toke) anyway as I
was sayin; were English, so let’s face it were pretty nice people, like, the
British are programmed to be polite, take queuing for example, we invented that
shit man (toke)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier 2: And?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier 1 (Relights spliff): and then you’ve got the French,
and fair play they beat them, but declaring war on France is like punching a
kid in a wheel chair, you just don’t do it, its harsh; and correct me if im
wrong here but to the Nazis; isn’t the whole point of this is to wipe out the
jews? why? I mean yer they may have some weird customs but their hardly a
threat are they? (toke) I mean when would a Jew do Ju du? All im sayin is that
that hitler wanker, if he just maybe, just took the time to sit back a smoke a
bit of this, hey, maybe he wouldn’t feel so pissed of all the time; sorry ive
been chattin shit, ah well (relights spliff)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier 3: yer but that is pretty true tho</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soldier
3 pulls and hits the bong, when he inhales a bomb explosion is heard as all the
lights go out, shouting and gunfire is heard and the silenced after a load of
white flashes</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cut to a
scene of a woman in WWII clothing opening a letter saying her husband has died
in the war, she starts going through the box of his belongings, she finds his
uniform, a photo of her, the grinder and a rasta hat.</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
widow buries the hat and the grinder in a box in the garden, the camera zooms
into the ground were the box is buried the zooms out again to the same place
but 50 years later, 1999.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The area
has become a building sight, a low level worker is smoking a roll up while
digging a trench, and finds the box, when the box is opened the hat has wasted
away but the grinder is perfect condition, amazed by what he found he
immediately took it to the nearest jewellers and asked how much it was worth.
The workers in the jewellers huddle together and have an unheard conversation</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jeweller: How much do you want for it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Worker: 50 quid</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jeweller: deal</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
screen then side wipes to a scene of the jeweller being outside a museum
surrounded by media people on a big stage appearing to unveil the artefact at
the museum</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Guy at podium on stage: And so it is my honour to introduce
the man who discovered this ancient, possibly Egyptian, possibly myan, possibly
anything artefact; It is my honour to introduce to you, Mr David Deramy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Polite applause</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Steven(the jewler): Thank You, Thank You, it was through
nothing but shear hard work, that I can spunk 10 mill of this stupid museums
money, all on hot tubs, bitches, bling and burgers, ill see you later and you
can all get fucked! (runs of stage with a big bag with ‘£’ sign on the side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fade to black<b>)</b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
camera pans from the left, down from the floor upwards in a conservatory, past
a wooden table holding a bong, different types of rizzla, blunts and rips, an
ounce of weed can be seen on the table to, along with the golden grinder, the
camera pans around to show 2 people aged 17 and 18 on a sofa, going from left
to right, smoking blunts, Scott is on the left,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and Ben is sat on the right, over this scene the following conversation
can be heard, while buffalo soldier is on quietly in the background:<br />
<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scott:
I cant believe this actually happened, I mean we’ve deserved this for so long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben: Knaw what I mean, its been takin this piss lately, I
mean what has happened here doesn’t usually happen to decent people like us yo
know; usually its just fake little plastic pop girls and dickheads pretended to
be talented buy doin the same shitty thing everyone else seems to be doin over
and over again, and getting paid fuckloads of money for it, when me and you
would be ecstatic to make fuckloads of money buy doing something decent,
(camera pans to bens face) If we handle this properly mate (big toke) we could
be dole proof! (blows smoke into camera)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
words dole proof appear in big letters on screen as the opening sequence plays,
pictures of the characters cartoon/anime/comic/anime style drawings of the
characters are shown with the opening credit the song playing is hectic by
enter shikari.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Scene 2: Allow This</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
scene is set in a college classroom, all the students have desks covered in
scraps of paper and artwork, except ben, who sat with a ipod with one head
phone in, looks slightly hung over and is drawing a companion cube in a note
pad.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
Teacher is talking at the front of the sclass in a middle class, slight up
tight attitude, all line between two * is bens thoughts. During these thoughts
the teachers words turn to mumbles, the camera is on ben during thoughts.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Teacher: And what we can see is that the shape in the water
is analogical of oppression of women and minorities in this (picture of
deodorant can in the style of lynx named ‘Hype’) Deoderant advert from 1985…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben: *yer gunna watch scott pilgrim later, ugh im well
shattered, would they notice if I fell asleep here? Oh for fucks sake I can’t
be arsed with this anymore*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Teacher (picture of apple on screen): …Origination from the
late works Sainsbury van dahlia of the 1940’s avatacan art movement, which
blends the colours of fruit using a solution made from berry juice and horse
semen…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben: *I could be doing such better shit right now, I mean I
could be at home writing a film, I could be out pulling granny’s out of wells,
I could be making the world a better place but no, instead I’m stuck here a nun
at an orgy, no idea what’s going on and I’m surrounded by dicks.*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Teacher: … which is why the colour yellow was banned in china
(Ben stands up) can I help you ben?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben: Yer you can as It goes,</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(Frame pauses; while the frame Is paused the background behind ben a
light blue with a grid of ganja leafs over the head headphones and yellow
smiley faces, at the bottom Jedi420 is wrotten in a futuristic chrome style in
the bottom left corner. Revert back to video)</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">listen, im glad you lot all
seem to have your priority’s in life sorted out, and that you can all find this
interesting, boring as fuck it maybe, good for you, but you know what, I came
here expecting to be making cool pictures on computers and that, but instead I
find myself standing behind an easel in front of some dying plats, wasting my
time away being the excact thing I didn’t want to be come, so you know what I
don’t know what I’m gonna do after this, but theirs no way it’s not gonna be
better than this, so fuck this, yer I’m out (everyone goes quite and have a
‘what the fuck look on the faces)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben
precedes to walk out of the door</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben: (While leaving) laters’</span><br />
</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The next
clip is ben walking down a corridor to get to an elevator, a small emo girl is
walking the other way, towards ben</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben: I quit college!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Emo: What?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben: Yer I Finally Quit</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Emo: Why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben: Cuz I was gonna do real subjects, proper a-levels and
that, but instead I ended up on some shitty course with shitty people, fuck
that, I’ve got to do better things with the time I have man</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Emo: Oh really, what are you gonna do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben: First get hogh, then I’ll figure out the next move, think I’m gonna use all this spare time to learn guitar, really get my band goin ya know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Emo (Giving ben dirty looks): Little stoner, maybe it’s time
to grow up and stop pretending you’re in dethklok (walks off)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ben (Casually): Fine, fuck ya then (Walks off)</span><br />
</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cut to
scene of ben on his own in the lift, with earphones in singing the chorus to
Coheed and Cambria: The Running Free</span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-15953753920488743322013-03-04T01:15:00.003-08:002013-03-04T01:15:45.846-08:00script stuff and thatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-47636001132072702012013-02-13T04:15:00.000-08:002013-03-01T04:48:03.023-08:00Film IdeasFilm Ideas<br />
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Aims And Context<br />
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Influences:<br />
My Film shall be influenced in style by the work of filmmakers Kevin Smith, Edgar Wright And Richard Linklater. As such my film, inspired mainly by the films Clerks And Slacker, my work will be a minimally edited examination of the conversations had in the everyday lives of normal people.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-12670757118782408452012-12-14T05:00:00.002-08:002013-02-04T02:56:56.755-08:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><i>Kevin Smith Presentation Script</i></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What i intend to do throughout this presentation is examine the way in which the work of the filmmaker Kevin Smith has grown and developed over his career and the ways in which Smith can be describes as being an Auteur. This presentation shall explore the way in which the directors experiences in his life have affected the way in which his films are developed and his characters are created. Smith has stated in his q&a DVD release <i>An Eveni</i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>ng With Kevin Smith </i>that what led him to become a film maker was that before the time of making <i>Clerks</i> "their we're no movies being released that particularly meant anything to me, i wanted to create something that i could recognize myself and my friends in".</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-45996692159116786972012-12-03T02:54:00.000-08:002012-12-05T04:13:59.618-08:00Fight Club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><i>Fight Club</i></u></span><br />
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What does your chosen film reveal about the usefulness of one or more critical approaches you have applied?<br />
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Fight Club (1999) is a film that can be viewed through a variety of perspectives and critical approaches; adding meaning to a film lack lacks obvious genre convention. One critical perspective that become useful in understanding the concepts put forward by the film are Freudian Theories Of Psychology.<br />
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The reason for which Freudian Psychology is useful in understanding the film is because the film is drenched in symbolism, from the characters themselves to settings in which the events of the film take place.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-71083613622348442532012-11-09T05:17:00.000-08:002012-11-09T05:17:27.630-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Experimental
films are full of strange mixtures of images, situations, words and
expressions that may not tell a cohesive story but, in the end, don't
have to in order to achieve an emotional goal. This type of film
therefore requires the spectator to shift their conventional cinematic
expectations to accommodate more radical narrative techniques, themes
and meaning construction. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #111111;"><i>Un Chien Andalou</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">, the infamous 1929 surrealist short film from Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, attests to this. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Marker became known internationally for the short film <b><i>La Jetée</i></b> (1962).
It tells of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel by using a
series of filmed photographs developed as a photomontage of varying
pace, with limited narration and sound effects. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Now a</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><i>dd your personal response and discussion of spectatorship issues</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maya Deren’s <b><i>Meshes of the Afternoon</i></b> (1943) is
a work that maintains all of the mystery, tranquility,
unpredictability, and personal attachment that is ever present within
the world of dreams. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span">As opposed to the more direct story-telling approach of most modern cinema; </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Meshes of the Afternoon applies it's meaning through the use of symbolism thus allowing spectator's to decode the meaning of what has been shown for themselves, sort of like the old silent hill games.</i><b><i> </i></b><i>The audience are never specifically told anything but instead are confronted with visual metaphors of the films themes and meanings; for example they are not informed of the mental state of the films female lead, instead this is symbolized by all sides of her fractured mind being portrayed as multiple versions of her, with each of her copies showing the extremes of multiple personality traits</i><b><i>. </i></b><i>Further symbolism is put forward in the form of the films male lead, who's mirror mask symbolized the attitudes towards gender politics at the time, where a woman was considered to be nothing more than a reflection of her man. The film seeks to destroy these ideals, ending with the woman's destruction of the man and his reflective mask, thus destroying that which separates her from her independence.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Meshes of the Afternoon</i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i> also uses highly experimental techniques in the way in which it is put together; For Example, </i><i>In modern cinema the ability to show one actor interacting with themselves on screen is not considered spectacular, modern technology has made this nothing more than a quick and inexpensive editing technique</i><b><i>, </i></b><i>however at the time of </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Meshes of the Afternoons release it would have been considered a revolutionary experimental technique of cinematography.</i><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-88333720699274182352012-10-22T02:45:00.001-07:002012-10-22T02:45:47.176-07:00exam prep
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<span lang="EN-US">The three films that I have analyzed are La
Haine, City of God, And Chungking Express, these 3 films showcases the lives of
everyday people across varying cultures and time periods. In each film
characters are depicted as being products of their own environment, each
dealing with issues relating to their surroundings, be it a 24-hour Snapshot of
life in Post-Riot France, the stories of the rise and fall of different
criminal organizations and the people who run them, or finally the medial
everyday lives of workers living in Hong Kong in the time leading up to return
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<i><u><br /></u></i><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How do the films and projects of Kevin Smith show the characteristics of auteur and how has this changed throughout his career as a filmmaker?</span></u></i><br />
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<u><i>1) Clerks (1994)</i></u><br />
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Smith's first
full-lentgh film; Clerks is a low budget snapshot of a day in the lives
of Quickstop workers Dante And Randal and the New Jersey locals they
are forced to deal with as they work through their dead end jobs that
they claim to despise but yet seem to find themselves stuck with.
Throughout the day Dante And Randal discuss all manner of topics from Dante's dreams of leaving the Quickstop to find education to the ending
of <i>Return Of The Jedi</i>.<br />
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This film will help with my presentation script as i believe that this film showcases
Autuer Theory in its purest form, as it was filmed in the store wherein
Kevin Smith worked during the filming; with the character of Randall
originally intended to be played by Smith himself. Kevin Smith Has
Stated On His Q&A DVD <i>An Evening With Kevin Smith</i> that it was
a lack of acting ability that steered him to change his role to
accompany long time friend Jason Mewes as the now famous Jay And Silent
Bob.<br />
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Smith has also stated that clerks was intended to showcase his and his friends film-making ability, in the hopes of attracting financial backers for the next film, which after a bleak opening of clerks was achieved as clerks climbed in popularity, leading to the creation of <i>Mallrats</i><br />
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<i><u>2) Chasing Amy (1997)</u></i><br />
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Widely hailed to be Smith's greatest film, Chasing Amy takes a whole different direction to Clerks as it tells a complicated story of Tragic romance, the film explores the themes of friendship, sexuality and love. Chasing Amy is the third film in Smith's View Askewniverse series, after <i>Mallrats</i>.<br />
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The story follows life-time friends Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) and Holden McNeal (Ben Affleck), together they are the artist's behind the popular comic book "<i>Bluntman And Chronic</i>" (see next item). The pair's friendship is put under strain as Holden begins to fall in love with a girl named Alyssa Jones (<span style="color: black;">Joey Lauren Adams</span>) at a comic book convention in <span style="color: black;">New York</span> where they are promoting their comic book. What follows is a cinematic adventure into the human heart at its most raw.<br />
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While discussing this film in my presentation i shall be using evidence taken from the DVD <i>An Evening With Kevin Smith </i>as it is rich with director monologues upon the subject of Chasing Amy<br />
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<u><i>3) Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)</i></u><br />
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My personal favorite piece of Kevin Smith cinema, <i>Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back </i>twists the classic american road movie as titular characters Jay and Silent Bob venture to Hollywood in a quest to save their names and reputation from from being tarnished by the big budget Hollywood industry.<br />
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They travel in an attempt to sabotage the filming of the <i>Bluntman And Chronic</i> Movie, a film based on a fictional comic book <i>Bluntman And Chronic</i> (A Key plot point from smith's earlier film, <u><i>Chasing Amy</i></u>), the character bases for who are Jay and Silent Bob.<br />
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I believe that this film is the best example of how Kevin Smith's cinematographic style has developed through his career, coming along way from black and white long shots filmed in a convenience store; As Smith put it himself in his DVD <i>An Evening With Kevin Smith </i>"I thought this movie looked really good man, cuz ya know, everything before looked like Shit".<br />
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<u><i>4) Jersey Girl (2004)</i></u><br />
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Moving away from the Smith's originally established tone of cinema whilst still maintaining elements of auteur, Jersey Girl is arguably Smiths most artistic film, and is also the first film by Smith not to be set in the <span style="color: black;">View Askewniverse</span> or to feature his iconic characters Jay and Silent Bob.<br />
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The film follows the story of media publicist Oliver "Ollie" Trinké (Ben Affleck) who loses everything after the tragic loss of his wife during childbirth, leading him to a breakdown that costs him his career as he becomes Blacklisted by all of New York City's public relations firms, forcing and his baby to move back to Ollie's fathers (George Carlin) home back in New Jersey, where Ollie takes up a a job as a civil servant, alongside his father.<br />
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Much like one of Smith's other films Zack And Miri Make A Porno, Jersey Girl was a financial disappointment, with a budget of $35 million dollars the film was Smith's biggest Budget work to date, yet only managed to make making only $25.2 million domestic and $10.8 million overseas. Smith discusses this film at great length in his dvd Kevin Smith: Too Fat For 40, this will help me show evidence for any points i wash to make about this film in my presentation script.<br />
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<i><u>5) An Evening With Kevin Smith</u></i><br />
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In this DVD Smith tells the story of his early film career, his experiences of studying film in Canada and also goes into quite a lot of detail concerning the making of Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back; it is for this reason that this DVD will be extremely useful to me in constructing my presentation script.<br />
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<u><i>6) Kevin Smith: Too Fat For 40</i></u><br />
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This DVD will be extremely useful to me for discussing the film <i>Jersey Girl</i> as Smith devotes a large chunk of his performance into explaining his own perspective on the films meaning, making and release.<br />
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<u><i>7) This Film Is Not Yet Rated</i></u><i><u> (2006)</u></i><br />
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<i>This Film Is Not Yet Rated</i> is as 2006 documentary film upon the subject of censorship and the inner workings of the MPAA (the Motion Picture Association of America). The documentary is a showcase of Interviews with filmmakers affected by the MPAA (one of whom being Kevin Smith) and investigations into the ways in which the MPAA operates.<br />
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Segments from this documentary shall be useful to me as not only does it contain Smith discussing ways in which the MPAA has affected him directly but also it deals with the way in which censorship and ratings systems affect independent film making as a whole.<br />
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This image is a screenshot from Smith's first film Clerks; taken from outside RST video this image depicts a young Kevin Smith along side life time friend Jason Mewes in their first appearance as the now iconic Jay And Silent Bob.<br />
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This image represents the humble beginnings of the director before journey to big budget cinema, as such it is the image i shall use as the opening of my presentation script in order to set the tone for the opening of my discussion.<br />
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<i><u>9) Chasing Dogma</u></i><br />
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Set between the events of Chasing Amy And Dogma, Chasing Dogma Is An Excellent Example Of Smith's Story Telling Ability. The comic tells the advanture of Jay and silent Bob between the Diner scene in their <i>Chasing Amy appearence</i> up to the pairs indroductory scene in <i>Dogma.</i><br />
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As Smith states in his DVD An Evening With Kevin Smith, Chasing Dogma was project intended to fund the making of Smiths 1999 film Dogma; i shall be using this in my presentation to discuss Smith's methods of self-funding (and later self-publishing) in his film-making work.<br />
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<u><i>10) Clerks: The Animated Series</i></u><br />
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First broadcast in 2000 on the american TV network ABC the show only ran for two episodes before being cancelled due to several factors; for example the networks decision to play the episodes out of order.<br />
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The series did find some success however when released a year later on DVD and VHS, marking it as one of the first instances in which a short-lived TV series has found success in this format, and since then the series has been broadcast on several other networks such as comedy central, ITV 4 and [adult swim]<br />
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The show continues to follow the lives of store clerks Dante And Randall as well as lifetime friends Jay And Silent Bob. Throughout the series the show seems to go through all of the cliches and staples of classic television, depicted in Smith's classic style of pop-culture referencing and intertextuality; with the series's originality is derived from the characters understanding, perspective and responses to the situations they find themselves in.<br />
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<u><i><br />11) www.viewaskew.com</i></u><br />
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The official website/personal blog of Kevin Smith, this website keeps fans updated as to goings on of Smith and his film production company ViewAskew Productions.<br />
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I Shall use this website in presentation as evidence alongside Smith's Twitter profile in reference the direction in wich Smith his taking his career, including the prospect of Clerks 3 in 2014<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">This interview shows Smith telling the story of how he came to make his first film </span><i>Clerks,</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> i shall be using quotes and clips from this interview in my presentation script as evidence when discussing Smith's early work and the methods used to fund </span><i>Clerks</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">.</span><br />
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This book upon the subject of film-making is rich in information on auteur theory, this is useful to me as i shall be taking quotes from it to use in my presentation script when explaining the auteur qualities of Smiths work.<br />
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<u><i>1) Mallrats (1995) </i></u><br />
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Smith's second film, <i>Mallrats</i>
follows the lives of slackers T.J Quint and his best friend Brodie
Bruce, the film takes place after both characters have been dumped by
their respective girlfriends. The film fallows their adventures as they
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Clerks the film prominently features extended discussion of seemingly
irrelevant subjects; the best example being Brodie's 'plane story'.<br />
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ViewAskewniverse Named after the View Askew production company founded
by Kevin Smith And Scott Mossier), and as such features the adventures
of Jay And Silent Bob as they assist Brodie and T.J, they plan to
destroy the pilot episode recording of T.Js ex's father's new reality
dating show, meanwhile helping Brodie to dishonour his ex's new
boyfriend.<br />
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I have chosen to reject this film from my study because even though it is a film i personally enjoy it is a film that is of a very similar tone to other films featured in my presentation script, i feel as though <i>Mallrats</i> will only allow me to make points about my topic that are more easily discussed and explained with reference to Smith's other work. (specifically <i>clerks</i> and <i>Chasing Amy</i>).<br />
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<i><u>3) An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder</u></i><br />
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The Sequel To <i>An Evening With Kevin Smith; An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder</i> is of an identical format to Smiths first DVD perfomance, covering fresh topics and telling new stories about his expiriences as a film-maker.<br />
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Released alongside <i>Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back</i>; <i>Bluntman And Chronic</i> is a real world comic book release based on the reccuring fictional comic book series Bluntman And Chronic, referenced throughout the View Askewineverse but most prominently featured in one of Smith's earlier films, <i>Chasing Amy</i>.<br />
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Possible Focus Films:<br />
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Smith's first full-lentgh film; Clerks is a low budget snapshot of a day in the lives of Quickstop workers Dante And Randal and the New Jersey locals they are forced to deal with as they work through their dead end jobs that they claim to despise but yet seem to find themselves stuck with. Throughout the day Dante And Randal discuss all manner of topics from to Dante's dreams of leaving the Quickstop to find education to the ending of <i>Return Of The Jedi</i>.<br />
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The film showcases Autuer Theory in its purest form,as it was filmed in the store wherein Kevin Smith worked during the filming; with the character of Randall originally intended to be played by Smith himself. Kevin Smith Has Stated On His Q&A DVD <i>An Evening With Kevin Smith</i> that it was a lack of acting ability that steered him to change his role to accompany long time friend Jason Mewes as the now famous Jay And Silent Bob.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-55394303622682502982012-09-24T01:38:00.002-07:002012-09-24T01:38:12.757-07:00Kevin Smith Interview With Empire<br />
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<a href="http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1351%C2%A0">http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1351%C2%A0</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-59930230425601393202012-09-24T01:36:00.003-07:002012-09-24T01:36:55.143-07:00The Official Trailer Of What Will Most Likely Be My Focus Film<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlfn5n-E2WE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlfn5n-E2WE</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624308390112829818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483607928724212069.post-78937210568159529802012-09-24T01:32:00.000-07:002012-10-05T04:43:10.177-07:00Meaning Of LifeThis Excerpt From Kevin Smith's Latest Q&A DVD Kevin Smith:Burn In Hell shows kevin smith's personal viewpoint on what he creates and showcases him touching onto sentimental subjects drawn from his own life experience<br />
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