SciFi YouTube Video Lands Million Dollar Deal
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Cool reference!Charcharo said:
Nice film for its budget. I'll be interested to see what this guy comes up with when he goes pro.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the future. Where the barriers between genius and recognition begin to fall.
[small]I have really, REALLY got to start working harder on my project....[/small]
[small]I have really, REALLY got to start working harder on my project....[/small]
An unfortunate side effect of editing video as a job - every video I see is instantly broken down into its constituent components in my mind. What I saw was a consumer-level handicam with a high shutter speed, CG robots that probably took several weeks to months to animate, and a few copied tutorials from Video Copilot [http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/].Low Key said:
I've seen student projects of comparable effort. Golf clap for the "Bolivian Sensation" - he's incredibly lucky, if anything.
I'm no professional, but I am of the same opinion. If you look at video submissions to directing/film schools or animation studios, they're not much worse than this. He really did get lucky with the contract, though he has some promise as a director.CaptainCrunch said:
Then again, if Sam Raimi, director of the steamy poo-ridden mess that was Spiderman 3 picked him up, I'm really not so sure...
I can't understand why that third spiderman movie was allowed to be released. Everything about it was so terrible; the directing and shot composition felt so forced that it was like watching a shinified family videocam video.
Just goes to show that if you ever want to garner a bit of Hollywood attention, just add giant robots!
Okay, that's a bit unfair. Add giant robots and a helluva lot of awesome SFX, then just sit back and watch the contracts roll in!
Okay, that's a bit unfair. Add giant robots and a helluva lot of awesome SFX, then just sit back and watch the contracts roll in!
Ha, I knew it! Soon as I heard it I glanced around half expecting zombies to show up.Tharticus said:
It costs Michael Bay millions of dollars to make a scene half as good as that, I tip my hat to you Fede Alvare
Am I the only one who wasn't especially taken aback by this? In terms of what he did with his budget, it's seriously, seriously impressive. Creatively, though, it's about as inspiring as a bucket full of vomit. It's robots...blowing things up. It's not new, it's not clever, and while in production terms I'm very surprised with what he managed to do, if he actually made a movie with a bunch more money I probably wouldn't see it. I really couldn't care less how big he can make his explosions if it's based on one of the most overdone concepts in cinema.
I'm sorry, Ataque de Pánico! just sounds like the name of a chapulín [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chapul%C3%ADn_Colorado] episode.
Well the thing is that we're the dominant world power and our form of "conquest" has come through the spread of our culture. Things like Mcdonalds, Starbucks, etc... are known all over the world, as are American concepts like Cowboys. For all the criticisms made about foreigners aping us badly at things, the simple truth is that even while "hating" us everyone also wants to BE us.tkioz said:
Now before you flame me for daring to say that, the point is that our humor is something that most cultures get. What's more throughout most of the world people know who the big names in American politics are like Bush, Obama, Clinton, etc... because what they do/decide can effect them. While people complained about the amount of attention it got internationally, the entire world was pretty much following the US Presidential elections and inserting opinions on it. You literally had people stopping guys in other nations on the street to ask their opinion, typically from pro-Obama media. The point here being that you COULD do this and find the man on the street having some knowlege of American politics.
When it comes to other nations, very few people know or care about their politics unless it directly affects them (like being a neighbor or whatever). There are literally hundreds of differant countries and very few people could tell you who was in the #1 position in most of them who didn't live there. Even a well informed person who isn't directly involved in politics isn't liable to know more than a couple dozen, especially when dealing with nations that have little contact with his own.
Love it or Hate it, people know America, and you can drop a movie involving referances pretty much anywhere and people will be able to follow it. One of the reasons why American movies are such a big deal internationally, and why many nations have been trying to control the import of our media (under a large number of excuses) cultural conquest through ideas so to speak.
At any rate, drop a movie set in the US into say Southeast Asia and they will generally get it. Drop a movie made in South or Central America with local jokes and political referances and people in Southeast Asia are likely to go "huh".
As much as some nations like France hate this, really the three biggest "universal" media producers right now are America, Britan, and Hong Kong in roughly that order. Canada and Australia are not far behind but haven't produced quite as much, and honestly I think a lot of people wind up thinking their productions are American or British. Having talked to a bunch of sci-fi nerds I've heard Lexx (Canada) and Farscape (Australia) referred to as American more than once even though they WERE marketed here, I believe most of the production happened outside the US even if US money and talent were involved in places.
"Hong Kong Cinema" has gained increasing global circulation as the Chinese trade more and more, and in general you can find an almost universal appeal to things like Kung-Fu movies and Erotic thrillers/comedies. It was once a cult thing, outside of China, but has been taking off.
I can understand how a new film maker from outside this group of nations might want to put his country on the map cinematically, and hope he could spread/improve his culture through exposure. But in general I don't thinkt hat is liable to work, in general first a nation/culture becomes successful, and then their media/popular culture tends to follow (with rare exception).
Not faulting his ambition actually, it's just that I feel that even if his first horror movie succeeds, if he wants long-term success and recognition he's ultimatly going to have to work within the big media. With American sponsors apparently that means working in and around Hollywood (or New York for TV) and at most travelling out sporadically
Wow, someone handed out the valium today. What I saw was run of the mill scifi, but with its own twist, and all of it costing only $500. Way under what Hollywood spends on 4 minutes of what usually will be trash coming from their hole. I would say this speaks two strong things that a lot of people here are ignoring:
1. This is from Uruguay, where it is not usually expected that something this caliber and actually as well detailed would come from. I applaud anyone who breaks stereotypes and expectations.
2. This really makes me wonder what other talent is out there that is either being suppressed by cynical attitudes, or doesn't feel like they could get recognized for their effort, because they are thinking people want Sam Raimi, Jerry Bruckheimer, or Michael Bay. I myself would like to see Sam take a break and get his ducks back in a row after screwing up Spiderman, Jerry to move on from Pirates, and Michael to get some serious therapy.
And to think about it, it could be worse. Uwe Boll could have butted in to do this guy's movie as a feature.
On a side note: halfway through the vid I began to wonder what it would be like if this happened half way through Grand Theft Auto IV. That would be fracking awersome!
1. This is from Uruguay, where it is not usually expected that something this caliber and actually as well detailed would come from. I applaud anyone who breaks stereotypes and expectations.
2. This really makes me wonder what other talent is out there that is either being suppressed by cynical attitudes, or doesn't feel like they could get recognized for their effort, because they are thinking people want Sam Raimi, Jerry Bruckheimer, or Michael Bay. I myself would like to see Sam take a break and get his ducks back in a row after screwing up Spiderman, Jerry to move on from Pirates, and Michael to get some serious therapy.
And to think about it, it could be worse. Uwe Boll could have butted in to do this guy's movie as a feature.
On a side note: halfway through the vid I began to wonder what it would be like if this happened half way through Grand Theft Auto IV. That would be fracking awersome!