Snarky Goodness

by danya | May 22, 2006 | Blog | 2 comments

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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Rachel on May 22, 2006 at 10:01 pm

It’s the vocal cameo by Samuel L. Jackson that really makes it for me… 🙂
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Uri Cohen on May 24, 2006 at 2:35 pm

Thanks for the shout-out. There’s an interesting take on this trailer, at http://www.turnhere.com/turnherepro/2006/05/best-movies-youll-never-see-remixed.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.
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