A couple of years ago, I heard a bizarre story about a group of kids who had obsessively recreated and filmed their version of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, scene by scene, taking almost a decade to complete. As someone who has similar obsessive and compulsive tendencies, I immediately appreciated both the ability to love something so much that it would take over your life so completely as well as the need to nurture this love and in turn, let it evolve into something new.
The sheer brilliance of a 12-year old, creating storyboards, detailing each of the 609 scenes they would later shoot is just mind-boggling. I mean, just take a look at the meticulousness of the wardrobe sets:
So, how excited am I that it's showing at the 2008 Backseat Film Festival? And that this weekend, I'll be writing to tell you how awesome it was instead of how excited I am to go see it? Pretty fucking excited.
Doing anything Saturday night? Get tickets and meet me there!
In the meantime, this should convince you that we're not talking about some run-of-the-mill afterschool project here:
Angela R. and Chris S. as Marion and Indy.
Nazis marching the Ark through Indonesia.
One version featuring suspiciously diminuitive Nazis.
Eric Z. and Paul Freeman as Rene Belloq.
"Jooones? Jooooooooo-oonnes!"
Chris and Harrison Ford starring in their respective Cairo streetfights.
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