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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Nov 28, 2005 13:02:51 GMT -5
*applauds*
That's great, Thea!!! 'Kill the pretty one'.... great line.
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Post by goblingirl on Nov 28, 2005 13:34:36 GMT -5
*beams with pride*
Do I have to continue?
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Dec 1, 2005 10:01:01 GMT -5
I'd like it if you did.... but don't have to. You can wait until I post more wisdom.
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Post by goblingirl on Dec 1, 2005 12:52:02 GMT -5
Phew. *waits*
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Dec 1, 2005 13:35:54 GMT -5
Oh... now I have to post wisdom. OH.
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Post by goblingirl on Dec 1, 2005 13:36:22 GMT -5
Yup! *srnk*
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Dec 2, 2005 15:38:23 GMT -5
... damn.
*posts next bit of HP parody instead*
THE QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP: SURPRISINGLY WITHOUT A MAGICAL ESCALATOR
Ron: Geez, now I can pity Frodo at Cirith Ungol… though he didn’t have drunken Irish to fight through.
Malfoy: Oh look, PLEBS! I suppose you’ll be in the PLEB SECTION! *gloatinsultsmarm*
Lucius Malfoy: *THWACK* Honestly, son, you have no class with your taunting.
Harry’s sleeve: *IS ENSNARED BY PIMPIN’ CANE!*
Lucius Malfoy: And you, Mr Potter, have no class whatsoever.
Harry: Yeah, see you at the climax, Mr Malfoy. See, I have a movie to star in?
Lucius Malfoy: … *gives Harry ol’ stink-eye*
QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP: NOT THE TOP BOX
[Everyone squees and shouts at a surprisingly disturbing leprechaun, while some Irish Dark Wizards swear and try to think of a new design for their Dark Mark. Then everyone cheers a dashing Bulgarian whose ego must be set to explode, despite his name sounding like cheap dog food. The match will obviously be awesome.]
Cornelius Fudge: LEEEET’S GET READY TO RUUUMBLE!
Audience: YAAAAAAAAA-
WEASLEY TENT
Audience: -AAAoh. WTF?
[The match is called off for lack of budget and movie length. There is general merriment in the Weasley tent.]
Harry: Damn, that match was AWESOME!
Fred: I love Quidditch!
George: I love the Irish team!
Ron: I LOVE KRUM!
Everyone: …
Ron: … in a strictly fanboy sense!
Harry: Too late – a ship has launched.
Kron shippers: Heeheehee.
Mr Weasley: OMG EVERYONE GET OUT OF HERE!
Harry: Huh? By who?
Mr Weasley: NO TIME TO EXPLAIN WE HAVE TO FIT IN AN ACTION SCENE GO GO GO!!
CAMP OF BURNINGNESS
Everyone: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! *panic*
Harry: *inevitably gets separated*
Audience: Oh geez, they ought to keep that boy on a LEASH.
Hermione: Harry! Harry! Harry! Harry! Harry! HARRY! HARRY!
Ron’s eardrums: *bleed*
Death Eaters: *look like an odd hybrid of football hooligans and the Ku Klux Klan*
Harry: *gets stomped on* Oh, way to smush the Chosen One.
CAMP OF BURNED-OUTNESS
Harry: Wow… they may seem to be Ku Klux Hooligans, but they’re pretty damn efficient for the team of five or six.
Black Leather Death Eater: Morsmordre! (Translation: Death to any possible mystery surrounding who could have cast the Dark Mark!)
Harry: …
Black Leather Death Eater: …
Harry: …
Black Leather Death Eater: …
Harry: …
Black Leather Death Eater: …
Harry: … eep.
Black Leather Death Eater: *AGGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS*
Hermione: OMG HARRY WE CAME BACK TO FIND YOU I KNOW WE LEFT IT A BIT LATE IF YOU’D GOTTEN SMUSHED BUT STILL-
Black Leather Death Eater: Damn! That would have been so simple! Now I’ll HAVE to go through with the whole elaborate year-long plan!
Ron: (sees Dark Mark) Ooh, wassat?
Hermione: OMGCRAP.
Ministry Wizards: *KA-POOF!* Stupefy!
Trio: EEP! *tackle-glomps ground*
Crouch: Who did it? Who used part of our CGI budget?
Hermione: Um, FIRSTLY, you came a bit late - it was conjured, what, a couple of minutes ago? Harry and Black Leather Death Eater stared at each other for AGES – and SECONDLY, you’re covering a very small area with those Stunners, the Dark Mark wasn’t even conjured from here –
Ron: Yeah, and your voice is... weirdly high-pitched.
Harry: Dark ahoosit?
Hermione: The Dark Mark. HIS sign.
Harry: *gasp* Spongebob Squarepants?
Everyone…
Dark Mark: Hey look! I can tie my tongue in a knot!
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Post by goblingirl on Dec 2, 2005 15:42:31 GMT -5
NOOOOOO! *fears the terrible and evil Spongebob Squarepants*
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Dec 3, 2005 9:15:50 GMT -5
Oh yes. FEAR HIM.
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Post by goblingirl on Dec 3, 2005 17:09:42 GMT -5
*does so*
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Dec 4, 2005 6:49:55 GMT -5
Good. Now, some wisdom.... sometimes, the easiest way to parody something is just to sum it up into a few lines. Take Legolas and Aragorn arguing before Helm's Deep. Legolas: (in elvish) Dude, we're SCREWED! Aragorn: (in elvish) We're not THAT screwed... we have least 300 people with a Y chromosome here! Legolas: (in elvish) Yes, but most of them couldn't even SEE the uruk-hai due to shortness or cataracts! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! Aragorn: WELL THEN I GUESS WE'LL ALL DIE TOO!!! IN A HORRIBLE, BLOODY MANNER!! Everyone: Aragorn: ... that wasn't in elvish, was it?Another thing to do is add what the characters are thinking when they have a silence. And also to use running themes. A great example of this is in Lord of the Rings in Fifteen Minutes, by Cleolinda. Firstly, when Aragorn has fallen off a cliff. Gimli: My lady.... he fell. Eowyn: Well, I'm sure we have some band-aids somewhere. Gimli: OFF A CLIFF. Eowyn: I'm going to die a virgin, aren't I? And then later, when Saruman and Wormtongue are viewing the thousands of Uruk-hai: Saruman: KILL ALL THE HORSEY PEOPLE! [Wormtongue views all of the Uruk-hai and realizes that he has just betrayed his entire race, and that by morning they may all be dead.] Wormtongue: I'm going to die a virgin, aren't I? You can also insert bits from other films. Examples of this I've seen in Cleolinda's work is Hagrid and Harry accidentally ending up in Narnia when trying to get into Diagon Alley - just a brief mention of a faun yelling at them - and also of Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, when they're trying to find Merry and Pippin, running into Jack and Kate from Lost who are looking for Charlie. Again, they're not mentioned by name - it just says they find a Scruffy Castaway Doctor and a Criminal with a Heart of Gold who looks suspiciously like Kate Beckinsale saying "Not idly do the leaves of Driveshaft fall..." Another great thing to do in parodies is use things like "Whee!" when characters are happy, and things like "Ooo" and "Waaaa!"
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Post by goblingirl on Dec 4, 2005 9:30:37 GMT -5
Yay! A useful lesson with no homework!
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Dec 4, 2005 11:18:58 GMT -5
Your homework is to keep working on that HP parody...
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Post by goblingirl on Dec 4, 2005 12:32:20 GMT -5
Oh damn... Can I start parodying Charlie and the Chocolate Factory instead. I've forgotten loads of stuff about HP4, and just got the DVD of CaTCF
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Dec 4, 2005 13:20:29 GMT -5
Erm... well, Charlie is already a comedy, but OK...
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