Crash, Bang, wallow?
Year of Production: 2010
Running Time: 4 mins 10 secs
Director: Jon Dunleavy
Funded by Screen East, UK Film Council & 4Mations
This short animation tells the story of a stuntman called Larry who’s hay day in 80s films was now shadowed in the 90s from the new use of CGI technology and he was no longer able to find proper work. He wasn’t even able to keep simple menial task jobs as he made all his actions stunt related, such as running into stacked tin cans in the supermarket. He then decides to commit suicide by jumping off a building, but his attempt turns into a stunt job and as he falls to the ground and performs a tuck and roll automatically. He will always be a stuntman!
The main character wallows in his on self pity as you see him sitting in a dark, dirty trailer watching his old movies he’s been in and retells the story to the audience as if was the one that made the movie great. E.g. ‘I was the one to make it seem like Seagal could act’. He now seems resentful towards the public today as it seems like they only want to watch movies that are light hearted and they don’t want the action movies in which he had stunted in anymore. He thinks that the public is simple minded as he makes reference to the fact that an actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is now running the American state California.
Throughout the retelling of his story he is naked in his trailer and as he tries to commit suicide. As if to say that he’s been stripped of everything he’s had, being a stuntman made him who he was, he was born to be one. The nakedness could also represent the emptiness he feels inside; also even though he gives off this strong, tough persona he is still vulnerable. He addresses the audience maybe as a call for help or to give them a wake up call to how much the change in cinema affects the people you don’t care about within a movie.
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