Matt Shea
RubySoho
Morgan Bell
Cibbuano
David O'Connell
Mountain Fog
100 Numbers quoted from 100 Movies
October 18th 2007 22:53
This YouTube is death-defyingly awesome in its suggestion of massive movie knowledge.
The creator of this clip spliced together 100 quotes from 100 different movies, each containing the numbers from 100 to 1.
Can you imagine the enormity of this project? How many hours of fruitless fast forwarding, hunting for a fragment of a hint of a whisper?
In reality, I suppose you could collect the scripts in text format, then just search through them for the numbers. Yeah, that'd work. Still, it's an impressive feat.
Found on the Guardian film blog, Peter Bradshaw calls this the 'greatest YouTube clip of all time'.
We-ell, I dunno about that. Has he seen Where the Hell is Matt?
Bradshaw says:
"It is an inspired collage, lasting nine minutes and 28 seconds, composed of tiny movie-clips, with fragments of dialogue, simply quoting every number in countdown from 100 to 1: a mind-blowing effort of archive research, somehow trivial and monumental at the same time. The effect is brilliant, hilarious, even weirdly moving.
The final ten clips have a tension and a crescendo of their own, as you try to guess what they're going to be. I should have sussed the final one, but I didn't. It functions as a mini-masterpiece on its own terms and also as the basis of a fantastic pub quiz round, in which contestants have to identify each clip."
Bradshaw has it right - after the first 90, the last ten have such monumental weight. My favourite is number 2.
Can you identify the movies in the clip? Would you pick a different '10'?
The creator of this clip spliced together 100 quotes from 100 different movies, each containing the numbers from 100 to 1.
Can you imagine the enormity of this project? How many hours of fruitless fast forwarding, hunting for a fragment of a hint of a whisper?
In reality, I suppose you could collect the scripts in text format, then just search through them for the numbers. Yeah, that'd work. Still, it's an impressive feat.
Found on the Guardian film blog, Peter Bradshaw calls this the 'greatest YouTube clip of all time'.
We-ell, I dunno about that. Has he seen Where the Hell is Matt?
Bradshaw says:
"It is an inspired collage, lasting nine minutes and 28 seconds, composed of tiny movie-clips, with fragments of dialogue, simply quoting every number in countdown from 100 to 1: a mind-blowing effort of archive research, somehow trivial and monumental at the same time. The effect is brilliant, hilarious, even weirdly moving.
The final ten clips have a tension and a crescendo of their own, as you try to guess what they're going to be. I should have sussed the final one, but I didn't. It functions as a mini-masterpiece on its own terms and also as the basis of a fantastic pub quiz round, in which contestants have to identify each clip."
Bradshaw has it right - after the first 90, the last ten have such monumental weight. My favourite is number 2.
Can you identify the movies in the clip? Would you pick a different '10'?
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Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
This is brilliant. A real labour of love.
Comment by Cibbuano
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Comment by KylieW
Celebrity Obsession
I'll be back on the weekend to see the video
Comment by Miswanderlust
Killer Beats
Ramble On
Hipnotherapy
Wonderful...sent it to my friends! Thanks for the hook up!
Mis
Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
fantastic clip, thanks for bringing it to our attention Cib.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
Pop Culturist
Pop Rock Factory
Outstanding stuff. Like you I was mesmerized.
Boy - talk about someone with time on their hands - certainly beats a NASA countdown.
MNG
Comment by Stanley