Comments on: Star Wars meets Rushmore meets Breakfast Club: Jedi High

By: Viktor fermi

Viktor fermi — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Well Joshua, the last scenes (and music!) are from The Breakfast Club!

Check it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv1I4q6lOpo&sns=em

80′s cult movie references aside, this video was really well done!!

By: tedrock

tedrock — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:52:00 +0000

I think this might have been influenced more by DeGrassi High than any of the other ‘high school’ movies that have been mentioned…

By: Joshua Stearns

Joshua Stearns — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:31:00 +0000

Just wondering in what universe this movie has anything to do with Breakfast Club or Rushmore? Just because they all take place at a high school hardly means that they have anything in common.

By: Viktor fermi

Viktor fermi — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:44:00 +0000

*cough* Breakfast Club *cough*

By: Wisconsin Platt

Wisconsin Platt — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:21:00 +0000

Still a better love scene then the prequels.

By: Brad Bowles

Brad Bowles — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 03:51:00 +0000

Hey there, another Winnipeger here. Gotta say awesome movie, but I want to mention that you can get those herbal cigarettes at Vita Health stores right here. Made with cloves and such. Cheap too, in case you need for a next shoot.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:17:00 +0000

Next you’ll tell me those weren’t real lightsabers. :-)

By: gepinniw

gepinniw — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:13:00 +0000

Yeah, we realized the opening titles went on way too long, and we wanted to recut the film to shorten it (and other scenes), but in the end we didn’t have time. Thanks for the kind words!

By: gepinniw

gepinniw — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:10:00 +0000

The smoking scene was a source of much debate. We didn’t want to glamourize smoking, but we thought it was appropriate that the Sith Lord would find some common ground with the tough smoking crowd. In the end we decided that the scene was funny, so we included it. The cigarettes were “herbal” cigarettes specially ordered from an online store in British Columbia, and the actors were cautioned to not inhale.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:15:00 +0000

Fantastic little film. Kudos to the makers! Sadly, something like this couldn’t be done in the US; smoking on school grounds, weapons in the school. Impossible.

By: millie fink

millie fink — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:21:00 +0000

It does look like a lot of fun.

And here’s hoping your own achievements and fame go well beyond the role of “farting guy.” :-)

By: millie fink

millie fink — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:12:00 +0000

Really well done! The lighting, the editing, (most of) the acting. Funny too.

What’s up with letting the opening animated intertitle go on for so long after the audience has read it?

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:08:00 +0000

Fan-tastic! I’ve never seen Rushmore but now I want to in order to beter appreciate your short, kudos

By: Antony Giannuzzi

Antony Giannuzzi — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:57:00 +0000

Hi everybody, this is the farting guy here. I wanna thank Boing Boing for featuring our student film, so much hard work was put into it but man, it was so much fun. And I wanna thank everyone for watching this and commenting and enjoying it.

By: Shaun Martin

Shaun Martin — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:09:00 +0000

Man, that’s even obscure in Winnipeg…

By: Wingnut

Wingnut — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:02:00 +0000

I wonder what the students at Guy Madden* high school would come up with?

*Obscure (outside of Canada) Winnipeg film reference.

By: jere7my

jere7my — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:18:00 +0000

This might be a good place to mention that the folks who did Star Wars Uncut (http://boingboing.net/2009/07/15/star-wars-fan-recrea.html ) are working on Empire now. I’m documenting the progress of my own fifteen seconds (“No disintegrations….”) on my blog.

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:01:00 +0000

Great movie. Couple of cultural observations about their school. They sure do have big lockers. I have never seen one of those full length lockers in real life. I guess they have them up there because they might have to wear heavy coats and stuff. Also, the halls seemed very narrow. They may just look narrow to me because I went to a HS with almost 4000 students. For a comparison, watch scenes in Rushmore set at Cleveland High, wide hallways and double stacked lockers. Also, where’d all those white folks come from? I’m not used to seeing all white groups outside small social gatherings.

Pretty good dis at their rival school after the closing credits. Well played.

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:17:00 +0000

fun idea! great job working with the music!