Dead Things: The Bridge Between Life and Death
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You live. And then you die. It's as simple as that. Well...not really.
Col. B. Buster and friends travel through a fantastical forest while frenzied dark denizens moan and groan. The group soon grow tired and set-up camp beside a man-eating tree. Between yawns and snores—the tides of dream carry them to a place no mortal belongs: the bridge between life and death.
Symbolism abound everywhere . . . death = scythe, dead horse, Marvin’s presence; Mr. Grumble = the soldiers’ hunger personified; owl with bat wings = environmental pollution-based mutation . . . Another great video!
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Thanks! Yup — there’s plenty of mysterious things stuffed into that particular episode….perhaps there are oddities no one noticed…you never know!
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Brilliant: the croaking bull frogs and singing, shouting birds, the one-eyed owl and YES, yes, Marvin has made a mysterious appearance, oh yes…your mind, your imagination:..wondrously weird. Brilliant.
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I don’t know what scares me the most…the bullfrogs…or the one-eyed owl…Haha.
Marvin’s scene was brief, but at least you got to see what he looked like before his face melted. Poor Marvin.
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Oh, that probably is the end of him then, unless he has a habit of bouncing back out of any situation somehow.
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Been waiting on this for some time. Great film, great haiku. Looking forward to the next episode.
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Thanks for watching! The dead horse appreciates it.
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Thank you for sharing my haiku. Your versatility, in the creative field, is mind blowing. The setting looks so real; a far cry from the cardboard walls in the early Dead Things episode. 😊 Did you take the crew outside to film or was the set totally recreated by you?
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I typically begin with a cardboard stage, and then create the world. Moss, leaves, dirt, and grass…and then I add the unnatural stuff (plastic trees, props, tombstones, carriages…).
After I’m done with the stage, I dismantle the entire scene, and then create another one. Can you recall the model scenes in the movie Beetlejuice? It’s kind of like that, but on a much smaller scale.
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Yes, I remember the Beetlejuice scenes. 🙂 One day, perhaps, you can do a video of how you create your model scenes — this would be helpful for the ones just starting to shoot film. I know you feel you’re still a novice, but you’ve grown so much in just a couple of months or so. Your films keep improving each time.
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Thanks! I may do a behind the scenes video someday. I would have to narrate the video, but that’s not a big deal.
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Do you have a squeaky voice like Mort? 🙂
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Squeak!
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OMG, how odd, I just wrote a poem last night called “Dead Things.” Maybe we are psychic, eh? Cheers and happy weekend.
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Perhaps! Haha — did you post it on your blog? I’d like to read it!
Have a great weekend!
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Yeah, throughout my stupidity i would probably cross the bridge no matter what was on the other side…
Just the nature of my character..
chris
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Not to worry! Bridges are meant to be crossed — even those made from shadow and bone.
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Wow, shadows and bone…
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Yup — netherworld extension bridges are made out of shadow and bone.
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Cool!
Let’s build one?
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I would help build one…but we need a permit.
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Damn, government!
lol
chris
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