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bliumchikMs McKay taped something off SBS for us last night without watching it. Ohhh, you know this is gonna be good.
It starts with semi-naked men (see! see!) shampooing their hair and talking in French (I have no idea). We thought that maybe Ms McKay had taped her educational program over some porn, and Edwina said it was perfectly possible as her English teacher once showed them a movie which had about ten seconds of Japanese porn after the credits.
But nevertheless. It was immediately followed by a shot of modern day French street. There was some narraton, and then the camera did a craaazy running through the streets shot over dramatic music. For about a minute. The rest of the movie consisted of narration voice-over as the camera panned across dramatically lit statues of Robespierre, old paintings and random buildings, interspersed with random out-takes from Tale of Two Cities (there were pitch-forks) and narrator dude walking through the streets of Paris.
Two notable bits that had us going WTF, mate? were:
1. Pictures of skulls. Without voice-over. That's right, absolutely silent pictures of very old mass graves.
2. (and this is the moment of glory, the thing that had me rolling in the aisles) ... *drumroll* ... ... ... LAVA!!!! Just bizarre footage of lava casually rolling down a hillside with the narrator continuing his voice-over like we're not looking at a completely random VOLCANO.
It was just like, tree, building, dude with pitchfork, LAVA.
That'll teach Miss to be lazy!
It starts with semi-naked men (see! see!) shampooing their hair and talking in French (I have no idea). We thought that maybe Ms McKay had taped her educational program over some porn, and Edwina said it was perfectly possible as her English teacher once showed them a movie which had about ten seconds of Japanese porn after the credits.
But nevertheless. It was immediately followed by a shot of modern day French street. There was some narraton, and then the camera did a craaazy running through the streets shot over dramatic music. For about a minute. The rest of the movie consisted of narration voice-over as the camera panned across dramatically lit statues of Robespierre, old paintings and random buildings, interspersed with random out-takes from Tale of Two Cities (there were pitch-forks) and narrator dude walking through the streets of Paris.
Two notable bits that had us going WTF, mate? were:
1. Pictures of skulls. Without voice-over. That's right, absolutely silent pictures of very old mass graves.
2. (and this is the moment of glory, the thing that had me rolling in the aisles) ... *drumroll* ... ... ... LAVA!!!! Just bizarre footage of lava casually rolling down a hillside with the narrator continuing his voice-over like we're not looking at a completely random VOLCANO.
It was just like, tree, building, dude with pitchfork, LAVA.
That'll teach Miss to be lazy!
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