Giggling this morning over Georg's link to PC World's 13 Most Embarrassing Web Moments, and got caught up over at YouTube watching PC's number 4: the Star Wars Kid. The poor bugger got sprung ages ago making a video of himself being a Star Wars fighter, a scene I have to live with in all of Bumblebee's waking hours, except without the ungainliness (Bumblebee is small and skinny, and surprisingly adept with a lightsabre substitute). Of course, that got me watching some of the remixes of the STK, and I just wanted to share my favorite:
Gold.
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I really liked Mark Hamill's & Alec Guiness's expressions.
Well, it's not surprising that Bumblebee is more elegant than that - he's not carrying an extra 40kgs of lard.
that's a classic example of what film theorists call the Kuleshov Effect; editing shots of a person looking at something together with shots of the thing he's supposed to be looking 'at' dictates how viewers will interpret the person's facial expressions. Excuse that little nerdout moment.
I love it when you get all technical on me.
[dkekuurv]
Wild. I did go and watch the original too. Kind of sad, but I do like what they did with it - better when you can't see his face.
Poor bugger, I feel sorry for him. He probably felt that he was good, but has become a fairly well-known object of ridicule. That said, it is pretty funny.
"Gold"
Nay... platinum.
that remix - oh, I'd call it Comedy Titanium! brilliant editing!
I too, feel sorry for the kid - BUT! - he taped himself. and to all accounts, left the tape hanging about at school. who does that? fair game in a ruthless world... and none so ruthless as high school. first rule, cover your arse (literally and figuratively).
also, I love the way it actually starts out looking like a reasonably co-ordinated, almost choreographed little scene, and degenerates into exhausted flailings as he gets tired.
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