Expensive Virals and My Reality TV Idea

I wanted to talk about two things and I thought it would be ok to just combine them into one post. But it doesn't really matter because no one reads this. 

I just watched the new SNL digital short "Jizz in my Pants" for the 48th time. It is one of the funniest videos they have done, even more so than "Dear Sister" and "Dick in a Box". 

And I'm glad for one thing about the video - it has solid production value to it. This is good for two reasons. 

1. It adds to the humor of it all because it looks so much like an actual music video. 
2. I don't have to worry about all the YouTube wannabes remaking it. 

I'm fine with movie remakes and I'm actually excited to see The Day the Earth Stood Still but for some reason, I fucking hate it when the YouTube crowd finds it appropriate to make their own version of a funny skit on SNL  or whatever. They are piss poor and have no redeeming value. I think I've made a post about this before. 

But because this video has some much production value, no one in their bedroom is going to decide to remake it. And that makes me sleep better at night, knowing that their aren't fifty horrible remakes. 

It might be the volume of the YouTube remakes that pisses me off. If Hollywood decided to send out fifty remakes of The Day the Earth Stood Still, I think I would get upset. 

The next thing I want to talk about is my Reality TV show idea. Although, it probably wouldn't work as a Reality TV show, I think it was a cool thought experiment. 

So in the show, regular folks would come together and form small groups (4-5 people) and write a movie script. These people would be mechanics, businessmen, housewives, nurses, students, what have you. All walks of life. Basically, you can't be involved in the movie industry in anyway. And they write a script. Now I know what you're thinking, "They would probably write a terrible script," and that's the point. The worst it is the better. I want plot holes, paper thin characters, no structure, just a flat-out terrible script. I wouldn't want it to be made outside of the show. 

So this terrible, terrible script, a script that would defile any kind of artistic credibility that film is desperately clinging to, would be brought to a visionary director of today like Steven Spielberg or Paul Thomas Anderson or the Coen Brothers. They would take this God-forsaken script and direct it with perhaps struggling actors looking to make a break into the industry. 

The main idea behind it is to see if they truly possess the talent to tell even a horrible story in a way that would be generally acceptable to a modern audience. Two films would be made, by two groups and two different directors. The best film, judged by a panel of film critics and regular folks, would win. What they win, I haven't decided. 

But like I said, it would never happen because it would cost so much money to make and waste a lot of important people's time.