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drdjdani has won the Visually Artistic Contest

A mans struggle understanding and accepting his truth, coming to terms with his demons and his own inner beauty.

December 29th 2009 · Comment

noel vicious very dark, intense, waiting to see whats going to happen. good job.

September 22nd 2009

Erik Marum I haven't seen it yet. I'm going to go check it out right now.

October 20th 2009

Erik Marum Very well done! Loved some of the shots and especially the use of the green grass in the colored sequences. Music also I ...more

October 20th 2009

Emerald Wow. Very intense!

November 30th 2009

drdjdani · OMG ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLAZ-SM4nP4

October 26th 2009 · Comment

Xavi I know five guys who had 100 beers one night...so something kind of similar!

October 26th 2009

Josh Perez Hahaha! I wouldn't have been able to continue past the 4 minute mark!

October 26th 2009

drdjdani sad how we are sometimes entertained :)

October 27th 2009

drdjdani has entered Chasing Rhino in the Visually Artistic Contest

The story of a mans social frustration and consequent experimentation

September 22nd 2009 · Comment

drdjdani has won the Visually Artistic Contest

A mans struggle understanding and accepting his truth, coming to terms with his demons and his own inner beauty.

September 21st 2009 · Comment

noel vicious very dark, intense, waiting to see whats going to happen. good job.

September 22nd 2009

Erik Marum I haven't seen it yet. I'm going to go check it out right now.

October 20th 2009

Erik Marum Very well done! Loved some of the shots and especially the use of the green grass in the colored sequences. Music also I ...more

October 20th 2009

Emerald Wow. Very intense!

November 30th 2009

drdjdani has entered Chasing Rhino in the Experimental Contest

The story of a mans social frustration and consequent experimentation

September 21st 2009 · Comment

Working Progress Films Good film. Nice one, Steve :)

October 18th 2009

JDMV That's one of my favorites on here. Really good character and acting.

February 21st 2010

drdjdani has entered Flying Objects in the Parody Contest

Do you have a tool and have no idea what it's used for? Just ask our friend Syril, he's got...

September 21st 2009 · Comment

noel vicious you funny buggers!!!!

September 22nd 2009

drdjdani has entered Noelans Gardens in the Parody Contest

A jovial, improvised view at the varied plants in your garden.

September 20th 2009 · Comment

noel vicious the furry lavender wattle omg you guys crack me up!

September 22nd 2009

Suzy Muvy I'm not sure what this is referring to or making a parody of...

September 28th 2009

drdjdani I guess it may be an Aussie thing.. but it's just a basic general take off of the many garden shows on television.

October 3rd 2009

vesnaflor Some genre theorists, following Bakhtin, see parody as a natural development in the life cycle of any genre; this idea has proven especially fruitful for ...moregenre film theorists. Such theorists note that Western movies, for example, after the classic stage defined the conventions of the genre, underwent a parody stage, in which those same conventions were ridiculed and critiqued. Because audiences had seen these classic Westerns, they had expectations for any new Westerns, and when these expectations were inverted, the audience laughed.

Perhaps the earliest parody was the 1922 Mud and Sand, a Stan Laurel film that made fun of Rudolph Valentino's movie Blood and Sand. Laurel specialized in parodies in the mid-20s, writing and acting in a number of them. Some were send-ups of popular films, such as Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde (1920)--parodied in the comic Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1926). Others were spoofs of Broadway plays, such as No, No, Nanette (1925), parodied as Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925). In 1940 Charlie Chaplin created a satirical comedy about Adolf Hitler: The Great Dictator, which followed the first-ever Hollywood parody of the Nazis, the Three Stooges' short subject You Nazty Spy! .

About 20 years later Mel Brooks started his career with a Hitler parody as well. After The Producers (1968) Brooks became one of the most famous film parodists and did spoofs on any kind of movie genre. Blazing Saddles (1974) is one of his most popular parodies, and Spaceballs (1987) is still presumed to be the best science fiction spoof ever.

The famous British comedy group Monty Python is also famous for its parodies, e.g. the King Arthur spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974) or the Jesus satire Life of Brian (1979). In the 1980s there came another team of parodists including David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker. Their most popular movies are the Hot Shots! and the Naked Gun movies. Nowadays one famous film parody is the Scary Movie franchise. Furthermore Daffy Duck has a talent for film parody[clarification needed]-appearing as Stupor Duck (Superman); Robin Hood Daffy (Errol Flynn's classic The Adventures of Robin Hood); Duck Dodgers (Buck Rogers); and Sam in Carrotblanca.

October 13th 2009