During
my days as an aspiring videographer and editor, I dreamt up many
ideas for movie projects: Shag
Wars
-
a Star
Wars
and
Austin
Powers
combo;
Desk
Jumper
-
about a miniature man who base jumps from a school desk to the carpet
below; 3
Punks, a Monster and a .45 –
pretty self explanatory. But my favorite idea was for a feature film
made up entirely of movie trailers, to be called Trailer:
The Motion Picture.
It would start with a few ads (restaurants, doctor offices, etc), the
silence is golden / emergency exit cards, then move into the
trailers. And the ending? The feature presentation card, of course.
In the middle of releasing the Tarantino / Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse,
Eli Roth mentioned that he would love to make a movie along the lines
of the one I had thought of years before. So far, the latest word on
that project is a blurb on a wikipedia entry, but I'm optimistic –
especially with groups like Drafthouse Films in operation.
