Hey all – you might remember this, from Omir the Storyteller:
SCENE: An emergency room operating theater. Lots of medical beeps and noises. A woman wearing scrubs, a Hillary Clinton haircut and a surgical mask finishes washing up and backs into the ER, where a clock on the wall says 2:59.
MRS C: Is the patient prepped?
NURSE: Wait a minute, you can’t be in here!
ANESTHESIOLOGIST: Mrs. C, what are you doing here? You can’t be in the operating room!
MRS C: Of course I can. I know how it’s done! My husband was head of surgery here for eight years! I used to watch him all the time.
ANESTHESIOLOGIST: Your husband retired eight years ago. I’m sorry — (continues in background as we)
CUT TO
NURSE ON (red) PHONE: Security to ER One stat!
ANESTHESIOLOGIST (in background) but just watching your husband operate —
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ANESTHESIOLOGIST: doesn’t qualify you to be a surgeon.
MRS C: I was co-surgeon! I’m ready to operate on day one! Hand me that sharp pointy thing and . . . those funny scissors!
(RED PHONE rings as clock on wall reaches 3:00)
MRS C: Is someone going to get that?
Well guess what? I have a filmmaker friend who is AMAZING and is willing to do this for free. But rental space and camera stuff isn’t free, so we have to quickly raise $1000 bucks. He can literally shoot it this week and have it uploaded by Sunday.
Here’s your chance to get Omir a produced credit while helping get Obama elected!
If anyone can donate ANYTHING – $50, $20, $100 – whatever you can – it will either take a lot of small donations or a few big ones – let me know asap. We need to get the funding quickly or the window of opportunity to do this disappears.
Contact me at lpease – cat – gte – dog – net. Thanks!!
I wish I could help with the $$$, but I’m still broke.
Me too. What little I had left of credit went to Obama already. But surely there’s someone who wants to help make the pond famous!
Thanks for promoting this idea. I would love to be able to just foot the bill, but I barely have $50, much less $1000. Nonetheless if others are in, I’ll contribute (more than the script, that is).
Dang, I wish I had mad v1d30 3d1t1ng 5kY11z. It strikes me that there is probably some mileage in taking snippets of old, public domain movies and writing your own dialog for them. If you remember “Fractured Flickers” (a Jay Ward enterprise of the mid sixties), or the Firesign Theater’s “J-Men Forever!,” or similar excursions into the absurd, you know the kind of thing I mean. You could do that for $25, and that includes the cost of the six-pack you bought for the voice cast and the electricity to run the computer while you do the overdubbing and uploading to YouTube.
You know, stuff like creating a trailer for a movie called “The Attack Of The 50-Foot Candidate!”
I have a couple of offers offline – but we’re nowhere near our goal yet…. $50 will definitely help. Then we only need about 18 others to kick in..!
I cringe to suggest this, but you might float this idea at Big Orange to jump-start the fundraising. You might also try at MLW. (Anyone else want to suggest additional websites?)
Maybe those who can’t contribute cash can help cross-post the request? That would be a way of contributing…? Give them my email as shown above…