Movies – at least the Hollywood type – often have these montage sequences cut over music where time is speeded up and the main character goes through some kind of journey, most often a self-transformation. The short film called Le montage by the Handsome Donkey group uses just about every clich�s seen in those montage scenes. It’s pretty funny.
My favorite scene is the one where the guy picks up the Alzheimer’s for Dummies book, reads it in two seconds, puts it down and then has to pick it up again because he forgot everything already!
I’m really glad to see that short films are making a comeback these days, thanks to the Web (and YouTube, of course). I’m dying to make shorts again…
Found via the New York Time’s Screens blog.
And while I’m on the subject of short films and funny clich�s, did you know that the average man thinks about sex every 7 seconds?
Tu devais recommander le livre Alzheimer’s for Dummies � M�re Indigne car elle semble en �tre frapp�e actuellement…
J’ai pens� au sexe une seule fois dans les 20 secondes d’�criture de ce message. Ma moyenne baisse…
Vraiment bien le film Le Montage …. des cin�astes amateurs � d�couvrir !
Depuis que j’ai vu « Team America » et leur parodie du montage, j’ai toujours leur maudite chanson dans la t�te quand je dois subir la sc�ne du montage…