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    Year Released:
    2007

    STUCK (2007) Story and Directed by Stuart Gordon.

    Opening titles say “Inspired by a true story.”

    Average: 10 (1 vote)

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The Death of Sonnyboo

sonnyboo's picture

This is my first serious and important piece. It's an abstract/avant
garde piece studying the deeper meanings in life through film images. It's shot in glorius
black & white film, just to make it that much more serious. That's why this is better than a narrative film. I also used footage leftover from Bitter Old Man, even though it doesn't relate to the story in any way. I just trusted my instincts and not one iota of filmmaking technique or using any of my experience as a filmmaker.  

It's also my proof that anyone can shit out
one of these experimental movies with little to no effort. It's a mockery
of these kinds of pretentious retarded films and Ezekial? This one's for you babe. FUCK ART.

 

My role(s) in this film:
Director
Writer
Producer
Cinematographer
Editor
Actor
Composer
FX
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FableForge's picture

Masterful....

The evanescent quality of shade is like a smiling ghost all over this celluloid-given-life, protean-like, and enarboring the primordial flame of creation. Through the veritable cornucopia of ciaroscuro we glimpse at secret chords of a tortured soul, the slowly beating, probably stuffed heart of a teddy bear, which nevertheless represents our superego, or as Nietzche called it, the Übermensch. Is it an indication of the frailty of our spirit, that thoughts of immolation must always accompany our everymoment trivial and trascendental? Does the final plunge into the abyss represent a final capitulation over the vanality of existence, or rather a last defiant act of rebellion against a world for which we refuse to ever conform? The subtle music, like the strokes of a drunken father over the bare bottom of his cousin's son thrice removed, serve as a rowing rythm by which we surrender our preconceptions of style and graphonalagy to the overwhelming if seducing concept of having shit to say and being proud of it.

My sincerest congratulations, Master Boo. 

 

sonnyboo's picture

danke

Gracias hermano.

Put on your best black turtleneck and black beret and prepare yourself for the ultra sensory filmic experience. This is not just a film, it's an invasive proto-soul search into the world of imagination and emotions, raw deep probing emotion.

Please note the all important "guy washing his face in a sink"
generic scene that must be present in most pretentious crap house art
films. There's already a plethra of meaningless words on screen, enough
to placate the most hardened veteran of art-house flicks.

Actually, I just randomly put a bunch of crappy super 8 under-exposed images together on a timeline and shit this out like the turd that it is. Even if some level of thought was put into something like this, who the f**k cares? These types of movies are meaningless assemblages of poorly shot nonsense that very few sane people give two shits about.

This is what art-house, pretend avant garde-experimental shorts mean to me -  something to be mocked and laughed at. 

I'll bet if I sent this to a few of the choice film festivals, this garbage might win some of the more pretigious awards. Now that I have some money in my pocket, I might try this little experiement under an alternate title. East Lansing Film Festival, here I come!

 

FableForge's picture

Oh man, do it, do it!!

 
Submit it!! It would be hillarious if you win! Holy shit, that would make it to the news and would prove your point beyond a doubt, although I wouldnt want to be the film fest organizer after you appear cracking jokes about it with Jay Leno :) But anyway, go for it! Yes!!

sonnyboo's picture

title changed, experiement begun

First thing tomorrow, this masterpiece, under a psuedoname and the director will have an alias too.  I formed a new WITHOUTABOX account just for this film. There are 6 film festivals with a more alternative twist that will be recieving this little gem.

Did anyone else note the very specific MACHAEL BAY shot in slow-motion at the end of the two guys standing up? It's very "BAD BOYS". If I get pyshoanalytical, it's a refelction of the state of racism in Hollywood today and my defiant homage to oen of Hollywood's blockbusters and their abuse of African Americans in terms of lower salaries. Either that or just some random idea that I thought would be hysterical to mock. You decide.

I guess the only thing missing is a tribute to 9/11, which somehow every abstract piece of shit short seems to have in the last 6 years.   

 

Ezequiel's picture

YEAH HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

I'm gonna make an art film also! Check this out. here is my pitch--We see a flower right...then we see the flower again from a different angle--and THEN we fade to black. POW! art

haha 

EZEQUIEL

sonnyboo's picture

time

Ezequiel wrote:

We see a flower right...then we see the flower again from a different angle--and THEN we fade to black. POW! art

 

Just make sure it's a JUMPCUT! Rules aren't important! Only instinct and bad lighting are important. Make it look like shit and you'll have an Oscar™®© winner there. You will at least win an award at SXSW or SUNDANCE. Then you can finally say you are successful.

 

 

sonnyboo's picture

This hunk of crap just won an AWARD!@!!!!

On Sony Pictures' CRACKLE.COM, I even won the EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD for today October 1st. How's that for an unexpected surprise?

FableForge's picture

HOLY SHIZE!!

 
Awards follow you like bees on honey man, you just cant swat them away fast enough!!

Oh, this makes me laugh! Man, and you didnt even change the title, or the Ein Film Von Sonnyboo card :)

Just.. amazing....  oh btw, the link here, and in your blog post are saying http://http//crackle... instead of just http://crackle...

Man, congrats.. wow. Now you're an award winning avant garde experimental filmmaker! 

Pericles's picture

As a matter of fact, I shit this out a month ago...

My lawyer will be contacting you shortly. Tongue out

I think that KC should hold an experimantal film contest. 

 

"I'm almost not crazy." - John Cassevettes

sonnyboo's picture

the shitter

Pericles wrote:

I think that KC should hold an experimantal film contest.

 

 we can even have award categories

 

WHO CAN MAKE THE MOST GENERIC ART FILM?

COUNT THE CLICHE'S OF EXPERIMENTAL FILMS

and

CLEVERIST  ABSTRACT NAME OF MEANINGLESS CHARACTERS

 

John Meredith's picture

Dreamspots 2

sonnyboo wrote:
Pericles wrote:

I think that KC should hold an experimantal film contest.

 

 we can even have award categories

 

WHO CAN MAKE THE MOST GENERIC ART FILM?

COUNT THE CLICHE'S OF EXPERIMENTAL FILMS

and

CLEVERIST  ABSTRACT NAME OF MEANINGLESS CHARACTERS

 

That sounds good. I actually have some ideas.

JOHN MEREDITH

WWW.MEREDITHFILMS.COM

 

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