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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :- Very cool, 30 July 2005 Author: camachoborracho from Los Angeles, CA
Fast film makes you realize how basically every film has the same plot just done differently (hero, bad guys, girl who gets captured, escape, chase, fight, etc.) and recreates it perfectly using clips of film entirely photocopied frame by frame and put on paper. That alone (the paper part) is amazing in itself.But I found myself just marveling the entire time as I watched this short and despite there being no one main character with which to identify, I was rooting for the hero nevertheless. It was also interesting and humorous in the way that the filmmakers made the characters seem aware that they were in a film based on certain reaction shots from other films - so it was self reflexive in this way. As I watched I couldn't help think "My God, these people have an encyclopedic knowledge of every old film ever made" since the story scripted for the paper movement cleverly parallels what's going on in the film clip(s).You have to watch this. This isn't your typical artsy short film. It is a feast for the eyes and the mind.10/10 amazing
6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- one of the best shorts ever made, 12 April 2004 Author: benji-32 from vienna, austria
this film contains everything what a great movie should contain: a hero played by a guy like bogey, cary grant or sean connery, a beautiful girl like marylin, liz taylor or brigitte bardot and a super-evil villain like godzilla, dr.no, the creature from the black lagoon, frankenstein or dracula. a love story, a spectacular chase and a enormous good against bad- final battle the animation technique is genious and till 2003 unique in the history of filmmaking. never before somebody came to the idea of making a movie only from footage of other famous films. mr.vidrichs masterpiece. but who knows what comes next...
5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :- fast and fun, 10 January 2008 Author: acmelita (lita@acmefilmworks.com) from United States
300 different feature films.65,000 photocopies.14 minutes of jaw dropping, fun animation.This is one of those films that simply must be seen to be believed. I believe the director, Virgil Widrich, is once again, taking an animation style into a whole new direction. This man has innovation coming out of his pores. To recast these iconic film actors as into collective hero, damsel in distress and villain takes a unique perspective and skill set.Fittingly, this compilation (of a sort) is available on a compilation of shorts over at www.Filmporium.com. The $5 DVD also comes with the bizarre bed-time story "Hilary" and the noir "Le Foto Dello Scandalo".
6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :- Laugh/scream-out-loud funny, and mayhaps a little touching, to boot!, 15 April 2006 Author: rzajac from Dongshih, Taiwan
I've got to tell you the circumstances where I first saw this.I went to an short animation fest in Taipei, Taiwan, with my eldest daughter. We walked into the screening room when Fast Film had been playing for about a minute; in other words, we missed the first minute or so.My daughter and I were laughing, screaming, cheering, looking at each other in amazement. This thing is such a labor of love. I could easily add comments that fairly well mirror others here in the IMDb, but I'll just refer you to them. I found them to be good reads, and I concur; the artists involved tapped into something about early American film, and as such taps into the collective dream we call life. And to top it off, it takes its silliness seriously, and its seriousness zanily.You can buy this film (+ electronic license) from an online dealer for US$3. I did, and I watch it once a month or so. Go to any reputable search engine and find it.
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :- Dejavu, 7 July 2007 Author: tostinati from United States
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Fast Film is an orgiastic summation of the dream life of the 20th Century. The chief romantic storytelling vehicle of the last century and modern culture's mythology -- The Movies -- is hand cut and pasted into a ripping tale of pursuit, cliffhangers, narrow escapes, final clutches, dashing heroes, melt-in-your-mind babes and shrieking scary monsters. The facility and wit of the enterprise renders a nerdy analysis of the films staggering technique, or an inventory of clips recognized, embarrassingly beside the point. Even as your neural sensor boggles and clicks off one film recognized after another, it all flies under the radar of consciousness. We have been here before; we have never seen anything quite like this.Above all, it's an achingly funny film. Someone else here said it was sort of sad, too, and with this, I concur. As you watch the purgatory-trapped face of James Wood meld into Gene Kelly into Roger Moore into Sean Connery into Orson Welles into Richard Carlson and on, it is hard not to feel the pull at your heart of a thought set to words a long time ago, now brilliantly evoked by film maker Widrich: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts... ...The lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth." It doesn't get any better than this. Check it out. Ten of ten.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :- An amazing film technically speaking, 2 November 2008 Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida
Several years ago, a short film won an Oscar and it consisted of tons of clips from classic Hollywood films. At the time, I thought the film didn't really deserve the award, as there was no original content--just a nice collection of clips from old films. However with FAST FILM, someone got the idea of using classic clips in a whole new and exciting way. Using modern computers, the film makers were able to use film clips in a peculiar way--a way that is frankly too tough to explain! You just have to see it for yourself, but this is NOT just a cheap assemblage of clips. Instead, the clips move and tell a fast-paced story that is just beyond words! Now as for the story, it's not all that important. Instead, FAST FILM is more like an art film--like something you'd see in a modern art gallery. Captivating and strange--it's well worth a look.
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