The Purge parody

Hollar,

So I shot this a few weeks back. It's a spoof (kinda, I think, maybe) of The Purge: Anarchy but set in the UK starring Jenny Bede and Brendan Murphy (2m20s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOtWJXxVtw

Any thoughts on what worked or what didn't work would be most appreciated.

I'm thinking of doing a series of little low-fi sketches like this with different comedians doing big American films but entirely set in my crappy little living room (next one will hopefully be Batman vs Superman in the UK). So any thoughts or critique that'll help in the lead up to that would be fab.

Cheers!
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Like that.
Nicely put together.
Could be a little tighter - try cutting your least favourite gag, that often helps.
A good, dark punchline.

I'd watch others in a similar vein.

I liked it you were giving her too many reactive lines for a while though. Work on those to make it a 'real conversation'. Good though innit.

No idea what was being parodied mind lol.

Thanks for watching and thank you both for taking the time to give me some feedback.

Lazzard - yeah, it's only in retrospect that I realised I could've lost everything between 1:04 and 1:26. But I'll definitely aim to make the next one shorter, starting with the page count.

Marc P - don't worry, I hadn't seen either that film or the original before making this, I'd only heard of the premise and the trailer. Your point about reactive lines is interesting though, I *think* I sort of know what you mean by 'reactive lines' by just in case I'm way off I don't suppose I could get you to give me a dummies' guide could I?

She reacts to what he says in the beginning bit like a tee up woman, rather than developing her character in a witty more rounded way as you have with him. Just the first bit... Speak to the actress and get her take on this point. I could be talking bollocks of course

Liked it alot. Great writing and I love the delivery of 'are you going to smash her back doors in? , ahhh how sweet.'
I quite like delivery and the quick pace of the reactive lines I think Marc is referring to, there are enough jokes that you don't really need to develope the characters that much, you already know she is a well spoken pyscho who loves the concept of the purge a bit too much and he is a hopeless wuss, so the choppy pace and editing circumvents the need for padding of the characters IMO.

Yeah well you're wrong!

Thanks Danphobic, glad you liked it! (btw I just read your Sun coming out article - bloody genius.)

I was trying to cram as many gags in as I could on this one, so I had to lose any bits of dialogue which were there just to pad it out to feel more like a natural conversation (kind of like later eps of 30 Rock where the gag rate in the dialogue is so high that every character is just talking in statements rather than conversation, but because the actors are so talented and the editing's so fast they can pull it off).

I thought that was nice. For me there were one too many little FX thrown in - eg a little camera sound when he talked about filming a movie, and little snipets of reverb and stuff - they sort of spoilt the rhythm of the conversation for me. But, then again I've never heard of this Purge thing, so if that's part of the parody, ignore me.

Ha no the OTT sound effects weren't part of the Purge, that was just me getting a bit carried and worrying that with it being so long it might get monotonous without them, but it's definitely something I can reign back in future vids (especially the whooshes). I was worried the camera spot effects would be pushing it a bit!

that was just great

That was great, some good lines and well delivered. Look forward to seeing more parodies you have loads to choose from.

Cheers guys, thanks for all the positive feedback. Can't wait to get cracking with the next one now, hopefully you'll enjoy that one too!

Looking forward to it.