High School Drifter – Original Cut
Hey Tappers,
I guess I’ve waited long enough to post this, eh? This here, is the original, festival cut of our 48 Hour Film Project entry “High School Drifter.”
I’m embarassed to say the video quality suffers quite a bit from the few conversions I had to do to get it here, but the real version is beautiful, DVD quality with HD sound, etc, etc… But, I only talked about this thing a million times and never had the ability to post it before now.
Things to look for:
Required character: Mr. or Mrs. Perkinson (substitute teacher)
Required prop: Fish
Required line of dialogue: “You look very familiar.”
All the films in the Minneapolis branch of the contest had to conform to the above standards. I almost forgot to put the line of dialogue in when I was writing the script. It sort of worked out well anyway, methinks. All right…enough blabbing.
Watch it!
WARNING! This film has PG level language and PG-13 level violence in it.
Anyway…my apologies for taking so long with it. It was a ton of fun to do and we actually did pretty well considering we ended up with Musical/Western. (we focused on the western side of things)
AAAH!! The wait was worth it!!! 3:31 was a shot of beauty. So much great dialogue: “These damn ninjas have taken out every last one of them.” and “Let’s dance, you ninja bitches.” AND I love how you used, “You look very familiar.” And then tacked, “Oh shit.” Onto it. That made me lulz hardcore. You did GREAT. I can see why this went over. IT ROCKED. Well done!! Also, I am inspired. If you can whip together an awesome film like this is 48 hrs, I am sure I can pwn my revisions.
FTW, Thomas. FTW. Best ever.
Good Lord, Sir. That was beautiful. Like Courtney said, it’s easy to see why it went over so well. It seemed like the kind of project that would be just as much fun making as it was watching. Good stuff.
Hilarious, TKT. It’s even funnier the second viewing. Thanks for posting it; now my fam and I can watch it again and again for good laughs. Love that cowboy. He’s so my hero. Hurry up and make more movies, Thomas!
Triple S
Courts – Hey thanks! I had a blast working on it. Hard to believe I wrote the script in like an hour and a half, right? I mean, great dialogue like “I will skin you alive if I catch you” doesn’t come easy.
LRMB – Thanks, dogg. I’m anxious to get the director’s cut done. The scene with the lady teacher makes more sense with all the shots put back in. Had to trim to make it 7 minutes. Crap.
Triple S – Thanks writin’ pardner! I’m so glad you’re family doesn’t think I’m some complete weirdo for this off-the-wall flick. Watching it again TOTALLY has me wanting to do something new. Hmmm…
Heck, no, Thomas, the fam doesn’t think you’re some weirdo for making HSD. In fact, my twelve-year-old boyzilla asked to watched it again yesterday morning and it almost made him late for school. Keep em’ coming, and keep em’ funny, TKT! Cheers.
Triple S
P.S. And he just asked to watch it again. Ha!
That’s awesome.
A couple years back me and a friend did the 12 hour film contest (we missed the deadline by 3 minutes due to a rendering issue) and it was a lot of fun. I would do it again if I still had my equipment and such.
If you are up to a challenge try the 12 hour one. It’s hard as hell.