Tuesday, July 3, 2012

2002: The Impresario


Date of Creation: 2002

Via Dan.

Synopsis: A filmmaker struggles to create the Greatest Movie Ever Made, but with no ideas, he turns to his friends, then his muse.

A Brief History: By senior year in High School, we had begun attending film festivals and seeing other work out there.  The impresario was an attempt to make fun of some of the pretentious nonsense we were seeing.  It became, rather, an excuse to give homage to some of our favorite movies and filmmakers at the time, ranging from the obvious; Welles to musicals, Gene Kelly, war movies, etc.

Funny thing about it was that I really didn't have any ideas for a project, and so it exists as this parallel to actually not knowing what to do, and making a film about that.  It also serves as an excellent retrospective of almost all of our friends at the time and features pyrotechnics, an action scene specifically directed by Nick, cameo by Mr. Mike Wall, and much much more.

Missing from this cut is an ending scene where The Impresario, struck with his lack of good ideas, stumbles upon a burning script in a trash can.  That script; "The Impresario".  Crazy, right?  So not pretentious...

2 comments:

  1. Wow. All I remembered about this thing was helping out with the song and going to see it at the Tivoli. I completely forgot about my dad doing a waiter character that is eerily similar to the one I played in the calculus video. Strange.

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  2. Ha ha. I totally forgot it screened at the Tivoli. And I never made that connection until you said it just now. Your dad's French accent is pretty much perfect.

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