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My b-movie. If I had five dollars and/or knew some girls

Started by Raffles, July 31, 2001, 01:56:31 PM

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Raffles

I was thinking of doing one called "The saloon".  You know when they have the party scene in a movie, like in Shaft or something and there's just music and sick people hanging out , like right before the dialogue.  Just that for like three hours.  No plot.  Just music girls outfits, etc.

peter johnson

I think Peter Sellers was in something like this, called simply "The Party" -- I think it was by the same director as the Pink Panther franchise.  Anyway, he plays an out-of-place East Indian whose only function seems to be to stop some hippies from painting a baby elephant.
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"Barfly" comes close to this -- though I really like Charles Bukowski & mostly enjoyed this film -- 'thought Micky Rourke did an outstanding job.
Speaking of Bukowski, has anyone ever seen the Ben Gazarra film of his "Tales of Ordinary Madness"?  Roger Ebert finds it one of the worst films ever made ("I hated hated hated hated this picture!!").
I think we've all attended a few parties/bar scenes in our lives that you wish the cameras were rolling on -- I recall once in Bombay, back in the late '70's, I was having a beer & at the other table were an albino French dwarf, a Svengali-like Moroccan "furniture" dealer, another hippie like me, & an enormous Kenyan sailor.  They were discussing Bridget Bardot -- heatedly.  I did not join in because at that time I had never seen a single Bardot film & only had the vaguest idea of what she looked like.  All at once, a local lunatic started flinging stones in through the door as hard as he could, smashing lots of glass & some chairs.  Nobody was hurt, he was dragged away, and the argument over Bardot's virtues resumed.
This would be one hell of a festival short film --

Raffles

that Bridgt Bardot debate would be pure movie gold!!

FaerieOfDeath

I would go see it.  And if you need girls and live in Michigan, I can help you out, I'm sure there are some around here somewhere. . . *begins rifling through closets, drawers, pockets*

Mofo Rising

I'd like to see a STAR WARS cantina style version of your party movie.  Better yet, I'd like to see a remake of BARFLY done in cantina style.  Hapless alcoholic (or whatever aliens drink to get drunk) loser stumbles around the less savory parts of science fiction, getting in fights and causing trouble, mostly for himself.

As for insane drunken party scenes in movies, check out the last segment of FOUR ROOMS.  Not really a party scene, but it does capture that craziness.

Flangepart

Good,good, this is verry incouraging, your delusions are getting grander and grander.......I like it! The Cantina bar, with visitors from all over SF. Start with the Bridget Bardot argument, then go from there.....Dianna Troi and her mom, and the Psi's from Bablyon 5 commenting about how men even think like pigs....Ben Sisco lamenting to a drunken Marcus Cole about how maryterdom sucks....The ghost of Dr. McCoy trying to order a mint julip.....and the ghost of Sarek telling him how illogical that is...then Sam from Quantum Leap leaps into the body of the guy from Sliders, and they both say "OH,BOY!"....hey, this has potential!

Raffles


Hairzilla

The crews of both LOST IN SPACE and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA wander in and ask for directions to Earth, only to be repeatedly laughed at by a disgruntled Gil Gerard and Charlton Heston who've bonded over warm beer. Muffet quickly gets "fixed".... with the latest in Borg technology.... by a plastered Queen, [Here's a question: If the Borg Queen gets drunk, does the entire collective feel it?] and the Robinson's robot starts leading several Cylons in a chorus of "Happy Birthday". Meanwhile, as Boxy and Wesly Crusher whine about how everybody hates them, robot head 790 hits it off with The Brain That Wouldn't Die....and Kai feels oddly sad about it.