Long story short?
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April 2nd, 2010
Inspired by the website The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library where famous movies are re-enacted in 30 seconds, by bunnies, i would like to ask you to tell us the story of a book or film you like(d) very much in, let’s say, max 100 words.
Preferably in your own words.
One of the movies that i like is Vengo.
Spain. Lots of North-African/Spanish Gypsy music.
Caro lost his daughter. He is sad. He visits her grave and drinks loads. Takes care of his brother’s spastic son, Diego. Brother is hiding for rival family (of whom he killed a member). Caro won’t give him up. The family go for revenge on Caro, by threathening Diego.
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Psycho
Crazy boy even crazier mother,sex with boyfriend, boy freaks out.Strictnine mother & boyfriend pukey pukey dead.Boy keeps mother’s corpse.Boy becomes man,runs motel.Pretty girl on the run stays at motel in shower naked. Man likes,mother doesn’t.Girl dead.Girls family trace girl to man’s motel, man & mother merge into one.Man arrested for crimes,mother won’t hurt a fly he he he he.Await inferior sequels, the shit they pull.
Reminds me of the Woody Allen anecdote; “I took speed reading and read War and Peace in about 20 minutes. It’s about Russia.”
Then there’s also my emoticon synopsis of Anna Karenina:
:) :( <3 :) :) thwunk :-0 !!!
All the President’s Men: Nixon tapes himself while his plumbers get busted for burglary. All Nixon’s subordinates turn out to be criminally insane dodos. Nixon himself turns out to be the worst offender of the lot. Nixon hangs himself. Case closed.
Here’s a favorite of mine, retold in exactly 100 words. “The Man Who Would Be King” is a short story by Rudyard Kipling, and in 1975 John Huston made it into a terrific movie starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer.
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A pair of British soldier-adventurers in India set out for a remote part of Afghanistan, intending to become kings by trading on their military skills and taking advantage of the rivalries of minor chieftains. A battlefield incident causes one of them to be hailed as the heir of Alexander the Great; his Masonic paraphernalia is seen as proof. Soon he is ensconced on a throne in command of an immense kingdom and fortune. When he begins to believe in his own myth, he runs afoul of the priestly caste. His hubris costs him his life as his comrade barely escapes.
Six Sense.
A young boy is considered unstable. You’d be unstable too if you saw dead people.
Wizard of Oz
Kansas girl caught in tornado with her dog. She is hit on the head and has hallucination about strange place called Oz where she is surrounded by little people, kills a witch, befriends a witch, gets cool shoes, hangs with three strange men (a scarecrow, a lion, and a man wearing a tin can while carrying an axe) and meets a man who pretends to be a wizard. She is pummeled by apples thrown at her by trees. She sings a lot and gets a balloon ride for her trouble. She is jolted awake only to be surrounded by loved ones and the same three strange men (now wearing street clothes) looking in through her bedroom window. They let her know everything is now ok.
You know, when you synthesize this one down, it really is pretty disturbing all the way around.
Before you jump me, I know she only sings in the movie and not in the book . . .
Oh, dear, @mammal, I’m afraid that does pretty much cover it.
@Jeruba is that a bit of a spoiler :(
Children growing up with their lawyer father in Alabama learn what it means to stand up for one’s values through their father’s example. Their father defends a black man in a losing cause while the town’s ugly underbelly is exposed. The children learn to value and respect the uniqueness of all human beings when a reclusive neighbor saves them from a cowardly attack.
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