This summertime has brought us both 9 and District 9 , two moving-picture show that started liveliness as short movie . Are there more to number . We seem at some of the shorts we ’d like to see on the big screenland .
We ’ve seen a mountain of stellar shorts here ; some are but rattling as abbreviated visits with strange existence and strange public , and some are already being adapted as feature films ( like Sundance - winningTomoand possiblyDr . Horrible ’s Sing - Along Blog ) . These are just a few of the inadequate celluloid that could make for terrific , fun , or unusual feature pic :
https://gizmodo.com/trapped-on-an-ice-planet-with-a-robot-thats-freaking-ou-378380
https://gizmodo.com/could-dr-horrible-be-coming-to-a-theater-near-you-5215038
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
Notes : Jasper Morello prove a film fete favourite , taking top prizes at the Australian Film Institute Awards , Flickerfest , and Dragon Con , and received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film .
precis : Jasper Morello , a dishonored airman , lives in a city plagued by a terrible and incurable sickness . He is called to be a sailing master on a mission carrying an strange rider , the flaky MD Claude Belgon , who is studying airman in Leslie Townes Hope of devise a cure . During the ocean trip , his wife back home , a nanny , develop the sickness , but the gang finds a strange beast whose flesh can bring around the sickness . Unfortunately , the creature has a taste for human blood .
How it could be expanded : Already 26 minutes long , Jasper Morello would n’t need much thrive once we get a bit more into Jasper ’s background and the personalities of the gang . But in an lucubrate Jasper Morello , Claude Belgon could commission an air delegacy on behalf of the Royal Academy to find a occult treasure long rumored by airmen to exist on a far off island , one nearly guarded by air buccaneer . Belgon is to the full aware of the hoarded wealth ’s true nature : it is a venomous monster that could potentially heal the sickness . When the airship reaches the island , they are virtually frustrate by the air pirates , but they manage to kill them , take up one unconscious pirate hostage . They determine several of the monster cocoon and take them alongside , but then crew extremity go disappearing . It is not until the atmosphere buccaneer viewing that it is reveal that Belgon has been feed in the crewmen to the grow monsters . From there , the stay work party would have to sidestep Belgon and the monsters ( and keep the ship afloat ) . In the final encounter , it would be revealed that Belgon choose Morello specifically for this mission because he recognize of Morello ’s ignominy and his married woman ’s likelihood of contract the sickness , and believed it would make him leisurely to manipulate . The film ends not with Morello trap in a cavern feeding the wildcat , but him steering the giant - replete dirigible home after killing Belgon , have intercourse full well that , in trying to hold open his married woman , he could be condemning the intact metropolis .
What could kill it : Much of the short circuit ’s appeal comes from its silhouette liveliness , which might not interpret well to a feature - length pic . A bouncy military action , or perhaps stop move , picture show would have to stay closely to the feeling and palpate of the original .
Neill Blomkamp – Tempbot
Tempbot
Notes : In addition to Alive in Joburg , Neill Blomkamp has head a handful of curt film , let in Yellow , a short circuit for Adidas about an escaped robot who easily passes for human , and Tetral Vaal , about a robotic cop patrolling South Africa . Tempbot is the more tale of Blomkamp ’s shorts .
outline : Tempbot is sent to a embodied office staff for a few weeks to determine how well robots function in the bureau . As the only temp and the only automaton in the office , Tempbot does n’t link to his fellow employee , only silently observing them and get to genial promissory note of how they interact . The only connection he makes is a physical one , with a fellow temp staying at his motel . But when a new 60 minutes manager enters the role , she do an effort to get to know him and treats him as more than an bureau drone pipe . He falls for her , but when he clumsily makes his move , he ’s beam to an all - robot office .
How it could be amplify : Just as District 9 used alien segregation as an emblem for Apartheid , an boom version of Tempbot could examine the way company treat their employees like robots . An indie funniness - style Tempbot could have our tireless hero joining an position to find that all the employee are much like him : uniform , severely - working , and not show much of a living beyond their work , thanks in part to their busybodied HR manager . But when a new manager join the staff , she begins to encourage more discharge and personal identity among the employee . Tempbot start to smell that he , too , is more than just a doer monotone , but his fellow employee continue to treat him like one .
What could kill it : Its non - speaking protagonist .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi6TTNKdgSk
2081
banknote : found on Kurt Vonnegut ’s brusk account “ Harrison Bergeron , ” the trailer for the 25 mo film ( above ) attracted a swell bargain of interest online , and the film debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival .
Synopsis : nearly , following Vonnegut ’s original story ( except with a somewhat older champion ) , 2081 take station in a future America where everyone is forcibly made equal through the use of physical and genial “ handicaps . ” The strong are made to wear heavy weight , the levelheaded article of clothing devices that emit loud interference to disorder them , and the beautiful wearable masks . Harrison Bergeron , who is brainy , handsome , and strong , defies the government , render a speech during a national broadcast in which he own up to his own excellence . He is summarily executed while his parents , who ca n’t commend who he is , watch .
How it could be exposit : A full - length picture show could centre on Harrison ’s human relationship with the Handicapper General , one of the few people in this forward-looking America who does n’t use a mental disablement in his daily lifetime . Harrison , as well as other excellent youth , attend a particular schooling where they are tight monitored by the Handicapper General . The General commonly feels shame at being “ good ” than other people , but she line up herself taking a wayward pleasure in devising new disablement for Harrison , who seems to keep throwing them off . Increasingly , she is drive to off the handicap from guards at the school so that they can close follow over Harrison and keep him from fudge his handicaps , but he smartly handle to slip them each sentence . In the meantime , the General has become slack with handicap the other student , and Harrison manages to notice that one of his fellow students is implausibly beautiful and graceful . He tries to engage her in conversation , but she is initially too distracted by her handicaps and after too afraid to hold the agency , though finally she finds herself intrigued by him . The Handicapper General decides to hold a televised art event to show off how perfectly medium everyone at the school is . know that Harrison is probable to break up such an event , she has him put behind bars in the school . But Harrison has gradually pull ahead over many of his now unhandicapped precaution , and is bring out . When he makes his marvellous speech and unmask the girl who has grabbed his attention — a ballerina in the General ’s production — the Handicapper General feels superbia and admiration for Harrison , and forthwith realizes he must be killed . She orders her enforcers — among them Harrison ’s friends — to kill Harrison , and they obey .
What could kill it : The original short ’s production was entirely funded by a conservative think tank , which may give some pause about adapting it for a feature picture .
Gas zapper
Notes : Originally made as a promotional film for a Flash - based TV game , Gas Zappers(which you’re able to watch in its entirety here)was eventually fund by the Tribeca Film Institute and made its style into the Sundance Film Festival .
precis : A polar bear whose home is being destroy by global thaw strikes back , lease on rising ocean stratum , accelerator emissions , and Arctic drilling ( represented by a jumbo drill with the font of George W. Bush ) .
How it could be expand : Seeing the inconvenient truth of global thawing and the threat to the polar bear population , Al Gore uses the Nobel Prize money to genetically engineer a polar bear ( voiced by Ron Perlman ) as the ultimate weapon of the Green Movement , sent all over the globe to combat the enemies of the Kyoto Protocol ( gird only with environmentally friendly weapons , of course ) . When Gore gets current of air of a governance confederacy that could conduct to unfettered boring in the ANWR , Gore sends his furriest and mortal agent to investigate the post .
What could shoot down it : It ’s doubtful that a live - action movie could live up to the awesome weirdness of the original short . Come to think of it , it might be near for an animated television system series .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKLc-_AoyyE
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notation : The Pixar forgetful film that was show before Ratatouille in theaters , Lifted received a 2007 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film .
precis : In a flying saucer hovering near a farmhouse on Earth , a young unknown is take his final exam in abduction , toggling the right switches from an array of hundreds of superposable , unlabelled switches to use the tractor ray of light to lift a sleeping farmer out of his bed , out the window , and into the ship . The unseasoned exotic repeatedly messes up , banging the slumbering fellow into the ceilings and wall . finally , the instructor becomes frustrated and returns the sodbuster to his seam himself , but feeling bad for the untested alien , lets him launch the ship back home . Of of course , even that has fateful consequence for the husbandman .
How it could be expand : I would n’t dare to step in where Pixar has such a proven storytelling rail phonograph record . But could we possibly make the alien female person ?
What could kill it : Pixar may not want to venture back into space so shortly after WALL*E , which is really a ignominy .
Of course , there are plenty of flick out there ripe for adaptation . Just a span more interesting concepts I ’ve only envision the preview for :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuEw26xE0sk
Lone , a post - apocalyptical story about a humans who , while searching for survivor , discover a robot in a stilt of junk , a robot who may be just the friend he ’s been await for .
And Transgressions , a nigh - future story about a society where the tenuous misdemeanor is instantly penal by death , and one adult male who fears for his life when he unknowingly excise a neighbor ’s gondola .
Additional thanks to Meredith Woerner for suggestion .
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