Sunday 28 September 2008

One Influence was....

One of our major influences was the blockbuster romantic comedy "There's Something about Mary" as it perfectly capture the picture of three guys going to extreme lenghts to impress the woman creating laugh out loud moments in the film. This is something we would like to acheive but without so much comedy as it could risk ruining the mood of dates.

The Plot: A high-schooler Ted (played by Ben Stiller) lands a prom date with his dream girl Mary (played by Cameron Diaz), just to have it cut short by a painfully humiliating zipper accident. Thirteen years later he's still in love with her. On the advice of his best friend Dom (played by Chris Elliot), he hires a private detective called Pat Healy (played by Matt Dilon) to track her down. Healy finds that she is an orthopedic surgeon living in Miami but falls in love with mary and resorts to lying and cheating to win her heart. Tucker, however, also turns out to be a fraud himself, who is also in love with Mary and drives potential rivals ,including a man named Brett who she almost married away by slander.

Ted drives down to Florida and seems to have won Mary's love when an anonymous letter exposes his link to Healy. While Ted confronts Healy and Tucker, Mary is confronted by Dom, who turns out to be her former boyfriend Woogie in college. Having found out that Tucker also lied about Mary's former love interest, football player Brett, Ted decides that Mary should be with Brett, as Brett was the only one who did not resort to deceit to win Mary. After reuniting Brett and Mary, Ted leaves tearfully but Mary however chases after him, preferring him to Brett. The film concludes with the two engaging in a kiss.


The kind of thing we are trying to achieve for this influence:

The way this next video has been done is almost exactly the kind of shots, effects and kind of scenes we are trying to create and has been done by taking scenes of the film and mixing them together to "Girls all the Bad Guys Want" by Bowling For Soup. This is a brilliant example of want we are trying to achieve.

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