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Post number 14719

hincandenza — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:00:57 -0800

Tales for The L33t presents 'Romeo and Juliet' (flash, ~5min) Here's a classic of literature presented in new, revised language to reflect these changing times. It's quite possibly the most ineptly produced flash animation I've ever seen- yet I can't say I wasn't rather entertained. Wildly fluctuating production values, a "soundtrack" that cuts in an out randomly, character animation so bad it had to be intentional, and dialogue that... well. You really have to see it to believe it.

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:07:50 -0800

My apologies if this has been making the email rounds, since I hadn't seen it until a friend pointed me towards it today, nor did I find it in a MeFi search. Google says it's been around for a while, though.

By: Hankins

Hankins — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:19:22 -0800

Saw it on filepile a while ago. In that regard: [this is good]

By: bingo

bingo — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:54:23 -0800

This is really funny. Not quite enough jokes to keep it from getting a bit slow, but the good parts are really good.

By: geoff.

geoff. — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:07:37 -0800

I could have sworn this was on metafilter, mostly because I sent this to all my friends this a long time ago. I spent a while searching and couldn't find it either... someone with more capable abilities help! Not that I have a driving urge to stamp out double posts, it's just I know it was on here and it's driving me crazy.

By: darukaru

darukaru — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:14:54 -0800

Stick-figure Mercutio is quite possibly the greatest badass in the history of Flash.

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:21:31 -0800

That's 'merctio', you FUXOR. And geoff., I searched vigilantly for it on MeFi- maybe you just remember seeing it, and assume it must have been on MeFi.

By: willnot

willnot — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:41:17 -0800

You're probably thinking of This Thread. Well past the statute or limitations and a bear to find in any case, but I can't pass up a search challenge.

By: tpoh.org

tpoh.org — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:19:53 -0800

Well, this is the first time I've seen it. He could have compressed the audio a bit more...it was a killer to download at 56k.

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:23:58 -0800

and here.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:39:52 -0800

why is the type too small to read on IE 5 for Mac?

By: willnot

willnot — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:44:10 -0800

Paris try This. It should expand to the size of your browser window.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:01:28 -0800

What should I have done to my Browser to do that myself? If any case, a complete waste of time. Too long. Impressed with the music quality, however. And what was that reference to Paris?!

By: willnot

willnot — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:08:48 -0800

View Source, and the embed tag points towards the actual flash file without any of the shrinkage the HTML file causes.

By: videodrome

videodrome — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:34:44 -0800

As for the fluctuating s/t, seems to be meant as a riff on Luhrmann's film - that's where the Radiohead fits in at least. Been a while since I watched this so I can't remember if there's other DeCaprio/Danes s/t material references.

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:10:56 -0800

"WTF CANT ANYONE SPELL MY NAME RITE" - mercushido

By: panopticon

panopticon — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:21:21 -0800

Is it possible that there were no anti-Microsoft statements?

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:47:57 -0800

Huh- I searched on "romeo" in the threads only for a full year, and it never turned up. I also searched on "l33t", but it too didn't work- because that link used l33+, which isn't even the spelling the flash creator(s) used. If I'd searched on l33, it would have come up, though. So yeah, it's been linked before, but man- if the MeFi search were quicker or didn't time out on full (threads and comments) searches, we all would do more thorough and alternative spellings.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:53:32 -0800

I enjoyed this tremendously. The ineptness makes it more effective. I didn't get a lot of the language but I do know he play fairly well and found it very clever and faithful in an off-beat way. Cheers, hincandenza.

By: brand-gnu

brand-gnu — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:01:28 -0800

The kool aid guy is the best. OH YEAH!

By: o2b

o2b — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:16:24 -0800

but if it had been found in the search, we wouldn't have all seen it again... what a quandry!