Monday, July 2, 2012

2003: Return of the Rival Guns of Fortune


Date of Creation: 2003

Synopsis: When the discovery of a hidden family secret results in the abduction of a daughter, two rival duos compete to find her before it's too late. And before the other team gets there. And they'll kill each other, apparently. Because they're that serious about winning.

A Brief History: So this was our first involvement with the National Film Challenge, which is essentially the 48 hour film challenge, except national and you have 72 hours to write, shoot, edit and submit your film.

You are assigned a genre, so we, of course were assigned the hardest one: western. We took it in stride though, and found every cowboy-related piece of costuming and paraphernalia we could and slapped it together.

We shot for almost 24 hours straight after spending the first 6 hours of the night writing. I don't remember much else, except that there's a 40 minute documentary on the DVD that everyone who worked on it should've received, so if you really want to know literally everything that went into this thing, that's your best bet.

We did win "best cars" and best in central time zone, as well as finishing in the top ten nationally.

Looking back at this again, after a long time, I have come to the conclusion that Dale is exceptionally gross in this film.