As always, comments welcome...
Funeral Ire
Quote: David Bussell @ January 17, 2008, 8:00 PMAs always, comments welcome...
(video to come)
Itchy trigger finger!
Is that Scattman F**king John lol!!!!
Well doe mate, well framed, nice pace good performance. Very good I enjoyed it, and you know how grumpy I normally am lol!!
I like most of your stuff, but I wonder sometimes how it translates to people younger and indeed older than you. I seem to have a lot of the same childhood references as you (street fighter, scatman). Perhaps you could go for something more generic?
Just a thought.
Good stuff.
I loved that one Dave, I enjoyed it a lot more than your camera sketch, you seem to have quite a bit of range as well after watching a couple of your videos.
*downloads Scat man song*
I wonder where the Scattman is now? Great vid.
Right i'm starting a campaign. If BBC THREE don't commision David i'm going to burn my license fee.
The great thing about your sketches is you lure the viewer in that false sense of 'I know whats coming' and then turn the sketch on its head. This and the casting sketch could quite easily, and should be, on BBC THREE instead of Wooten or Adam and Shelley.
So in other words I loved it 
Scatman died a few years backed.
I'm not sure I get this one. He says he killed him... but he didn't?
I don't get it but the film/direction/acting is superb
Thanks a lot everyone.
The Scatman is indeed dead.
That's an interesting point James made about the ending. The idea was that he thought he was dead but only wounded him. Did anyone else not get this? You can be honest. If you didn't get that it wouldn't be a problem for me to go back and alter the edit to make it clearer.
Well, it's an honour for me to even belong to the same forum as David.
Very very good. Whether or not the references work is a moot point as the joke is the constant interruptions and not what is interrupting.
Re: dead / not dead - I thought the lead role was bluffing it to look 'cool' to his future offspring.
Don't mind me David
Well, you don't need me to tell you it was well acted and flowed well. The ending just seemed odd to me in that taken straight-up the Bussell character clearly thought he'd killed the irritating Scatman-playing neighbour/housemate, yet this neighbour pipes up at the end and seems cheerful and back to his usual irritating self as if nothing had happened, almost as if someone else had been attacked.
I suppose this seems like me being pedantic or something - I'm not usually like that, I don't think! - but it just meant I was left feeling a little confused about the ending. I think if the housemate/neighbour delivered his last lines as a gleeful slightly drawn out death-rattle-type job I would have been satisfied. Anyway, if it works for everyone else I'm probably just being a bit autistic.
I thought that the guy had just randomly gone out and killed someone. The audience assumes that its the neighbour untill the neighbour speaks. Thats why it was brilliant in my opinion.