Silliness Aboundeth.

[tealin]

So I'm cleaning my room (a Sisyphean task), and I discovered a gag sketch I did more than a year ago, but didn't post it because it pertained to the show I was working on at the time so a)no one would get it and b)I'd be breaking my non-disclosure agreement by revealing bits of the show before it was released. Of course, by the time it had been released, I'd forgotten about the sketch, which is why I am posting it today.

The project was Dragons 2: The Metal Ages (which, coincidentally, is A LOT BETTER than the first one, even though I realise that isn't saying much) and there's a bit in the script where the two kings (fathers of the main characters) are discussing battle plans. It turns out that it's basically going to be a suicide mission, but they agree to go anyway (??). King Siddari says 'And if we die ... our hope is to die like kings!' Well, my mind being full of inappropriate connections, I could only think that THIS is how kings die.

Comments

0.0 Great Scott... I know who you are. Sort of.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my giddyGodtrousers. I've seen your movie! Well, actually, my 5-year-old brother recieved the Metal Ages Lego set for Christmas, causing my 10-year-old brother to set out for Toys-R-Us for the related movie, and I simply saw it by default. It was amusing, if only because it was so very unbelievable at parts. I remember the part you described - it reminded me of King Theoden's speech before the Battle of Minas Tirith, only bad. (Sorry.) I admit I am still reeling from the realization that darnit, the world really IS a small place after all.

Please post a comment at least recognizing that you've read this, because I feel such a coinkydink needs to be shared (and then dismissed for the inconsequential thing it is.)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Wow, someone who's actually SEEN it! I remember the first one was available everywhere (I even saw it for sale and I don't shop for toys and videos very much) but I've never seen the second around. Yeah, there are lots of things stolen from Lord of the Rings, not just the attempt at motivating the troops by telling them they're all going to die (I didn't understand it in LotR either ... who's really going to charge into battle with a cry of 'DEEEAAAATH!'?), but considering that the first movie was fabricated entirely out of every corny fantasy cliché known to man, stealing from something as good as LotR is a marked improvement.

I'd hardly call it 'my' movie, as the director and designer and writer had much more to do with it than I did, and most of the work I did didn't end up onscreen, but you know those ships that are in it for about two seconds just before the final battle? I DESIGNED THOSE! I have to crow about it because I love tall ships and the ship assignment was given to practically everyone else in the design department before they gave it to me, and mine was the one they went with! WOO! (Okay, excessively enthusiastic.) (And yes, I was specifically told to make them look kind of like the Corsair ships in Return of the King. It was like they were trying to make it obvious...)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

P.S. If you want really bad writing, watch the first one, in which you can find such stellar morsels as 'Feel the icy rage of my wrath!'

Yes, really.

[(Anonymous)]

(Long breathy "Napoleon Dynamite" sigh) :)
---DisneyBoy

[(Anonymous)]

I guess you're supposed to believe that Theoden's army is SO tough and so honorable, they all know they're probably gonna die (being vastly outnumbered) and rather than fear it, they're embracing it - kinda like the Kamikaze pilots. In the book it's kinda cool in a horrible, hopeless way (unlike the way I'd view suicide bombers today), although I can't quite identify with that sentiment myself ("Yeah! I am SO going to bite the dust! Woo hoo!").
Have you (or are you allowed to) post those tall ship designs? Or do I have to (gulp) track down the video?
---DisneyBoy

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't tell you sooner that THAT is s great quote! Too bad I am so painfully ignorant of history that I'll have to look up "Maldon"...