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This one is so strange, I bet even Sue Galloway will shake her head. It’s “The Fightin’ George Orwells” which I was going to submit to Channel 102, but it ended up being too nuts even for that admittedly lenient arena. I had just read Orwell’s Down and Out In Paris and London and then re-read 1984 and was obsessed with creating a weird distorted view of those worlds. Basically, I like to do adaptations as if they were being done by non-English speaking Eastern bloc directors who are told only the titles of what they are supposed to be adapting.

Anyway, on a Saturday afternoon last May I shot this with Jon Golbe, Dyna Moe, Rob Lathan, Matt DeCoster and Tony Carnevale. It was a blast but SUCH a mess that I didn’t feel like finishing it. But I’ve been editing a bunch lately and I found myself able to cobble this together somewhat quickly, for what it is.

I kinda totally love it!

(I’m not expecting any staff pics from any web site for this one).

Trivia:

• All songs by Minor Threat!
• A boom mike shows up at least four times!
• There is a spot on the lens that I did not notice during the entire shoot!
• Baby eating is always funny.
• George Orwell’s real first name was Eric.
• The love interest in 1984 is named ‘Julia’ which I changed to Julie because I remembered her name incorrectly on the day of the shoot.

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