Key: G major
Verse 1
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Oh, who's making these horrible movies
that they show on the big movie screens?
They chase and they crash and they dumb it
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all up and I sit and I watch the credits.
Em
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I watch to see who played that part so badly.
Em
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I wonder why I can't be a movie star too.
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a low -budget equity waiver.
Em
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I just want a chance to prove
they show on the big movie screens?
They charge more and more but they give us
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less and I sit with my date and I suffer.
Em
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Why must I watch
Battlefield
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Earth?
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The script was written in crayon, the script was written in crayon,
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the script was written in crayon, the script was written in
Hey there!
Interior, movie studio,
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big important meeting with big important people.
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We just optioned this original adaptation, totally in dependent,
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big studio, high concept, low budget art house spec script.
for 25 years.
Working title is
Kill
Me
Now.
I just read the first draft treatment and
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it's not very good but we can fix it in post.
It's real
Gen
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surround sound and the
THX
Dolby.
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an d at least one or two prequels.
Jump cut to the festivals, okay?
Two words, cha -ching!
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Our best boy wrote this script!
he used to work on the castings now,
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so he's got ancillary rights,
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and he wants contingent compensation on the back end.
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Wink!
Picture this.
Extreme close -up of some famous
actor ad -libbing.
We shoot a guerrilla,
handheld, cinema verite.
Em
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No protagonist, no antagonist,
no character arcs,
Just avant -garde montages of a beautiful,
emaciated, 16 -year -old supporting cast.
We fire off a few squibs in the
car chase scenes.
Did somebody say
McDonald's, okay?
We split the merchandising
with a fast food joint
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Plus, we get to advertise for free on the soda
boobs for the body doubles,
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stand above on the bed, shoot at all
POV and
OTS and stop -motion steadicam.
When we sell a foreign distribution,
we can dump everything on a
D1,
Letterboxd and add subtitles
and hock a
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DVD of the frickin' director's gun.
The cast is willing to work for scale
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because we pitched it as an
Oscar contender
and most of them are stupid,
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The director's willing to work for deferred compensation,
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but I don't think we need a director on this one.
We'll just send a
PA up to
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Canada to shoot the principal
photography on a
Sony
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Digicam.
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Oh, I've got an idea for a movie.
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All it needs is a bankable cast.
Labor
Day weekend,
We can save money on sound, too.
Make it a silent film,
pretend we did it on purpose.
Who cares?
Let's go black and white.
Shoot the fight
scenes in claymation.
It doesn't matter.
We can do post -production in a slave
labor camp on a video toaster in
Taiwan.
What the hell?
Well, the
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MPAA wants to give us an
NC -17, which is the kiss of frickin'
death.
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I say we storyboard the trailer.
Shoot it before we make the film.
See how it plays in a test market.
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Make it kind of
MTV.
Think
Dawson's
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Creek, real young and anamorphic.
No old people.
Slap the clapstick.
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Soft light the depth of field.
Put some nose grease on the diopter.
Sink it.
Hire a gaffer.
Orange stick most of the
MOS.
Sprocket a blue filter.
Tinker with the f -stop.
Rotoscope the wet gates.
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Bootleg a word print.
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kiss the studio's ass and hope they like it.
Go by the bull legs, load the mags, pan and scan, sweeten the daily,
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sandbag the licensing, and get this baby in the can!
Elton
John to barf out the soundtrack,
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package everything prorated, and most important,
KISS
THE
STUDIO'S
ASS
PRAY
THEY
LIKE
IT!
If it sucks, we cut our throats,
call it a life, and it goes direct to video.
No big deal!
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they show on the big movie screens?
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They chase and they crash and they dumb it
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all up, and I sit and I watch the critics.
Em
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I watch this evil play that parts so badly.
Em
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I wonder why it can't be a movie star too.
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a low -budget equity waiver
Em
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I just want a chance to prove
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That they show in the big movie screens?
They should do us a favor
and blow up their brains
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In the back of their big limousines
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In the back of their big limousines
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In the back of their big limousines
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Come on!
It's a wrap!
We're not done.
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