Comments on: Must see grassroots political TV

By: The Victorious Opposition

The Victorious Opposition — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:13:49 +0000

Darth Barack?…

This is making rounds around the Rightwing Blogosphere and I just had to post it:

Artistically done!

H/T: Bookworm
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By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:41:21 +0000

That is an incredibly well done video. I agree with jlibson, they put a LOT of time and hard work into making it. This wasn’t made off the cuff and they didn’t just cheap it out. I consider this video politics as art. Impressive.

I know campaigns can’t put time and effort into productions like these for TV… but they could organize an internet campaign to support efforts like these. I ought to be able to go to McCain’s web site and, via just a few clicks, get to notable efforts like this video. He could do a lot more to highlight the efforts of people to support him.

This was great!

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:20:26 +0000

Given my antipathy towards Hollywood, I think it would benefit people to realize the difference between illusion and reality.

We’ve all seen Hollywood movies and the kind of illusions they needed to craft to tell their stories.

But not many people actually know the difference between real violence and Hollywood violence.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:19:53 +0000

You can still see when they pull their punches and when they aren’t putting the weight of their body through the strike.

Pro wrestling has learned how to hide “hits” from the cameras, in that when you see them hit with speed and bounce, that’s not what it is supposed to look like.

A successful strike looks like this one, where you stay in one place or your striking edge keeps going, while the other guy flies away from you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXX8dCtkeqQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9SjPhC0pM&feature=related

If it doesn’t look like this in choreography, then it’s just non-specific trauma and the kinetic energy is getting dissipated somewhere other than the target. This is a rather important detail when you want to create the illusion.

But for non-studio work, it’s still pretty high quality fx and martial arts moves.

That escape from the hand grab and extension, though, that’s pretty much impossible. Your hands already broken or sprained and it’s not going to escape just cause you put your other hand on your forearm.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:47:30 +0000

But, but, but…these are people of color saying all these “racist things”.

Helen, help us out here, would you?

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:29:21 +0000

I agree completely, jlibson. It was wonderfully choreographed, in addition to being really clever.

By: jlibson

jlibson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:42:29 +0000

THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO EVER!!! (or at least in the last week or so).

Book, you do martial arts. Have you ever done any “set pieces” where you string together a series of “fake hits” with an opponent. It is *incredibly* hard and time consuming.

These guys not only had tons of witty dialogue, they also managed to do some really cool martial arts. Amazing. Just amazing.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:09:38 +0000

So I was right, you did want to see more of it after the first minute mark ; )

I had the same reaction to the first minute and a half, which is why I put in some teasers to get you past that point to the meat.