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March 30, 2010 5:05 AM Subscribe
Scarface school play... the shock value / hilarity is only slightly tempered by the rumour that it is actually by Jonas Åkerlund, director of numerous music video including one recent effort you might just have seen before.
I don't understand, was this somehow passed off as being an actual school play by someone?
posted by Pollomacho at 5:22 AM on March 30, 2010
posted by Pollomacho at 5:22 AM on March 30, 2010
Yeah, I saw Rushmore too.
posted by The Whelk at 5:28 AM on March 30, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 5:28 AM on March 30, 2010 [3 favorites]
Lots of people in the UK (OK, on twitter, in the UK) thinking that this is real...
posted by DanCall at 5:41 AM on March 30, 2010
posted by DanCall at 5:41 AM on March 30, 2010
Check the mom who posted this on YT's profile and favorite videos... pretty hilarious.
posted by activitystory at 5:44 AM on March 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by activitystory at 5:44 AM on March 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
selfimprovementsguide.com: "Everything you always wanted to know self improvement but never dared to ask."
posted by Pollomacho at 5:59 AM on March 30, 2010
posted by Pollomacho at 5:59 AM on March 30, 2010
Ah, having kids say and do things that adults do. It is one of the most sure-fire ways to make people laugh. Just ask Bill Cosby about Rudy Huxtable (who had to be replaced with a younger girl once Rudy became too old for the jokes to work). Or watch any sitcom since.
posted by flarbuse at 8:10 AM on March 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by flarbuse at 8:10 AM on March 30, 2010 [1 favorite]
@activitystory You're right, that's weird. She also something Palinesque going on with them glasses and all. Check out her profile, it just doesn't fit. Fucking virals. I really hope I will never find out what I'm supposed to be infected with in the first place.
posted by ouke at 8:12 AM on March 30, 2010
posted by ouke at 8:12 AM on March 30, 2010
Kids shoot the darnedest things.
posted by shakespeherian at 8:20 AM on March 30, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by shakespeherian at 8:20 AM on March 30, 2010 [2 favorites]
As of the 2000 census of Bartonville, IL (listed as hometown of YT user cindymomof6) they count 6,310 people, 2,601 households, and 1,810 families residing in the village. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.97% of the population.
If there was a production of Scarface in the area i would have heard about it.
However, if you would like to see children with developmental disabilities perform onstage, the Penguin Project sponsored by the Eastlight Theater of East Peoria, IL has mounted successful productions of Annie, Music Man, Guys and Dolls, Beauty and the Beast, High School Musical, and most recently Fiddler on the Roof.
Trust me, the Penguin Project is MUCH MUCH more interesting than this Scarface clip
posted by Hammond Rye at 8:21 AM on March 30, 2010 [2 favorites]
If there was a production of Scarface in the area i would have heard about it.
However, if you would like to see children with developmental disabilities perform onstage, the Penguin Project sponsored by the Eastlight Theater of East Peoria, IL has mounted successful productions of Annie, Music Man, Guys and Dolls, Beauty and the Beast, High School Musical, and most recently Fiddler on the Roof.
Trust me, the Penguin Project is MUCH MUCH more interesting than this Scarface clip
posted by Hammond Rye at 8:21 AM on March 30, 2010 [2 favorites]
Ah, having kids say and do things that adults do. It is one of the most sure-fire ways to make people laugh. Just ask Bill Cosby about Rudy Huxtable (who had to be replaced with a younger girl once Rudy became too old for the jokes to work). Or watch any sitcom since.
The Boys' Companies in Elizabethan theatre are interesting: a part of their appeal seems to have been the comedy value of "adult" material performed by children.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 8:35 AM on March 30, 2010
The Boys' Companies in Elizabethan theatre are interesting: a part of their appeal seems to have been the comedy value of "adult" material performed by children.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 8:35 AM on March 30, 2010
Yeah, I saw Rushmore too.
Stuff like this always flashes me back to Grade 7 (1972) when a few of the "cool" kids in my class put on a play they called The Pusher. It was maybe five minutes long and a direct rip-off of something they'd seen on Hawaii 5-0 a few night's earlier; basically, a drug deal gone wrong leading to a shoot out in which everyone was killed. The cool part was all the ketchup they used for blood (bottles of it) and the kid who fell about twenty feet to his death (they had the high-jump foam hidden behind some boxes) ... and then, with one guy still standing, clutching a stomach wound, dribbling ketchup from his mouth, slowly dying, the Steppenwolf song "The Pusher" came on (via sloppy needle-drop on a standalone turntable just off the side of the stage):
You know I've smoked a lot of grass
O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round
With tombstones in their eyes
But the pusher don't care
Ah, if you live or if you die
God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man
Needless to say, they all got A's.
posted by philip-random at 8:52 AM on March 30, 2010 [7 favorites]
Stuff like this always flashes me back to Grade 7 (1972) when a few of the "cool" kids in my class put on a play they called The Pusher. It was maybe five minutes long and a direct rip-off of something they'd seen on Hawaii 5-0 a few night's earlier; basically, a drug deal gone wrong leading to a shoot out in which everyone was killed. The cool part was all the ketchup they used for blood (bottles of it) and the kid who fell about twenty feet to his death (they had the high-jump foam hidden behind some boxes) ... and then, with one guy still standing, clutching a stomach wound, dribbling ketchup from his mouth, slowly dying, the Steppenwolf song "The Pusher" came on (via sloppy needle-drop on a standalone turntable just off the side of the stage):
You know I've smoked a lot of grass
O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round
With tombstones in their eyes
But the pusher don't care
Ah, if you live or if you die
God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man
Needless to say, they all got A's.
posted by philip-random at 8:52 AM on March 30, 2010 [7 favorites]
Rudy wasn't replaced, was she? They just added Raven Symone as Lisa Bonet's stepdaughter.
posted by DrGirlfriend at 9:03 AM on March 30, 2010
posted by DrGirlfriend at 9:03 AM on March 30, 2010
Funny! Then sad. Then kinda funny. This would have been 100% more awesome if (1) it was real, and (2) it was the kids' idea. Just goes to show that ironic industry alterna-parents can pimp their kids out Jon Benet-style, too. (Will Ferrell did it first, and better.)
posted by turducken at 9:27 AM on March 30, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by turducken at 9:27 AM on March 30, 2010 [2 favorites]
But all of his friends are little.
posted by benzenedream at 10:20 AM on March 30, 2010 [4 favorites]
posted by benzenedream at 10:20 AM on March 30, 2010 [4 favorites]
Heaven and Hell, a play by Max Fischer
"You'll find a pair of safety glasses and earplugs under your seats. Please feel free to use them."
posted by mrgrimm at 11:23 AM on March 30, 2010
"You'll find a pair of safety glasses and earplugs under your seats. Please feel free to use them."
posted by mrgrimm at 11:23 AM on March 30, 2010
Does nobody remember Bugsy Malone?
Me!!!! I remember!! Paul Williams wrote the songs, he's incredibly underrated.
He also wrote the songs for this.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 11:38 AM on March 30, 2010
Me!!!! I remember!! Paul Williams wrote the songs, he's incredibly underrated.
He also wrote the songs for this.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 11:38 AM on March 30, 2010
Phantom of the Paradise is one of my favorite movies of all time. The soundtrack for it was the first CD I bought from online in 1996. "Internet" shopping was a lot different back then.
Carburetors man, that's what it's all about.
posted by Hal Mumkin at 1:10 PM on March 30, 2010
Carburetors man, that's what it's all about.
posted by Hal Mumkin at 1:10 PM on March 30, 2010
Oooh, can we just talk about Bugsy Malone now? I was so gobsmackedly thrilled when Spaced had a Bugsy Malone reference, and yet I had no one to tell it to.
posted by redsparkler at 2:56 PM on March 30, 2010
posted by redsparkler at 2:56 PM on March 30, 2010
It's not Jonas Åkerlund, it's directed by Marc Klasfeld of Rock Hard films
posted by dabitch at 3:55 PM on March 30, 2010
posted by dabitch at 3:55 PM on March 30, 2010
What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fudgin' ash holes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be.
You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fudgin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!
posted by bwg at 5:05 PM on March 30, 2010
You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fudgin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!
posted by bwg at 5:05 PM on March 30, 2010
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posted by grubi at 5:10 AM on March 30, 2010 [3 favorites]