Comments on: "Enjoy your 30 gold coins."

"Enjoy your 30 gold coins."

HostBryan — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:37:57 -0800

Malaria, a short "motion comic" that bends the boundaries of what that means. "Malaria" is a short film/motion comic by Edson Oda. It's unlike any motion comic you've ever seen, and you need to watch it without knowing what's coming.

By: HostBryan

HostBryan — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:45:46 -0800

(Sorry if this is a bit thin for my first FP but it's really great and I wanted to share it as soon as I saw it.)

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:01:32 -0800

Not thin at all; thanks for not padding it. (Linguistic note: in the original, ordenar cabritos 'milking kids (goats)' is mentioned; in English it becomes "milking cows.")

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:01:38 -0800

This is the opposite of thin. One great awesome link is worth a thousand mediocre ones. And this film is really great.

By: KeSetAffinityThread

KeSetAffinityThread — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:05:29 -0800

This film is amazing! I love they way they handle effects. Painting the blood onto the page is so simple but so perfectly effective.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:16:40 -0800

Direct link to movie on Vimeo

By: EnterTheStory

EnterTheStory — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:20:14 -0800

Youtube version for those with less bandwidth. Vimeo never works for me.

By: xingcat

xingcat — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:21:20 -0800

This is incredible. Thank you for linking it!

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:27:05 -0800

"Thanks to Red Bull, The Weinstein Company, Quentin Tarantino"? Sounds appropriate.

By: motty

motty — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:59:39 -0800

Utterly superb. Thank you so much for posting.

By: ovvl

ovvl — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:05:00 -0800

Il Showdown A Rio Jawbone.

By: Uther Bentrazor

Uther Bentrazor — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:08:37 -0800

This is an excellent first post, friend.

By: mule98J

mule98J — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:34:42 -0800

Great. Thanks for that. Original production. Good to not reveal any more than necessary to get us to the link. BTW: I reaslize this is a bit of derailery, but this was on the side bar: Yet another MeFite poses semi-nude, but for an excellent cause. http://jimhines.livejournal.com/667303.html

By: notsnot

notsnot — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:35:34 -0800

That was amazing. Perfect story/setting for this "animation", too.

By: Anitanola

Anitanola — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:52:34 -0800

Just when you think there's nothing new under the sun some creative person concocts a stunner like this! Thanks--this is quite a memorable inaugural post, HostBryan.

By: fuzzypantalones

fuzzypantalones — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:01:10 -0800

it definitely helped watching it full screen. smaller i had a hard time paying attention to what was happening inside the drawn bits, and subtitles, following mostly what was going on outside of the frame (hands/knife/etc)

By: parki

parki — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:12:54 -0800

Excellent - thanks!

By: DU

DU — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:29:16 -0800

I don't get why the title here says 31. But that was excellent in many ways.

By: HostBryan

HostBryan — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:33:16 -0800

I don't get why the title here says 31. Apparently I got the number wrong and don't know how to/if I can edit it. Sorry.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:31:17 -0800

That was great. Possibly my favorite thing that Quentin Tarantino has been associated with.

By: taz

taz — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:48:07 -0800

[Fixed to "30 Coins" in the title.]

By: epo

epo — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:29:35 -0800

Excellent. I'd love to see Marvel present some of their classic super heroes in this style. Perhaps as a short preceding their feature films in Pixar fashion?

By: aeschenkarnos

aeschenkarnos — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:50:23 -0800

I wonder if "I thought you were a woman" and Death's appearance are shout-outs to Neil Gaiman and Garth Ennis (and of course the respective artists who drew these characters)?

By: Mojojojo

Mojojojo — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:50:04 -0800

I came here for teh kittehs, but found this instead!

By: jcrbuzz

jcrbuzz — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:25:33 -0800

aeschenkarnos, it's because 'muerte,' the Spanish word for death, is a feminine noun.

By: Flunkie

Flunkie — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:01:47 -0800

I think a contract killer could've easily switched to the contract kidnap-and-put-in-some-horrible-tortuous-pit-for-thousands-of-years-er economy.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:28:30 -0800

'muerte,' the Spanish word for death, is a feminine noun. Minor correction: the film was in Portuguese (probably Brazilian variety, as the creator is from São Paulo), but yeah, 'death' is feminine there too.

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:14:45 -0800

I really enjoy motion comics, and was very intrigued/amused by the innovative presentation here, but for some reason, the finished product didn't really work for me. I think ultimately the technique (the hand manipulating the scenes) was too distracting. I was far more interested in the technique than the story or mood, which are normally my favorite things about motion comics.