Snarky Goodness

May 22, 2006 | Filed Under Blog |

Thanks to the good R. Uri Cohen for passing this along… it’s a revised movie trailer for Charlton Heston’s The Ten Commandments.

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  1. It’s the vocal cameo by Samuel L. Jackson that really makes it for me… :-)

    Comment by Rachel — May 22, 2006 #

  2. Thanks for the shout-out. There’s an interesting take on this trailer, at http://www.turnhere.com/turnhe.....mixed.html

    Here’s an excerpt:

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    Ari Eisner and Mike Dow elevate trailer parody remixes to an art form. The two take old classics like “The Ten Commandments” and “Jaws” and reconceptualize them through the eyes of brain dead Hollywood studio executives.
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    In other words, this trailer isn’t making fun of The Ten Commandments as much as it’s pointing out how Hollywood can reduce any complex story to a sound-bite formula it can recognize.

    For me it was an insight, anyway.

    Comment by Uri Cohen — May 24, 2006 #

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