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This thought popped into my nearly-empty skull a few days ago and thought it might be kinda fun to toss around...
Letterville: The Movie
The basic premise is that a rag tag group of sign painters, frozen in suspended animation by a freak accident at a Letterhead Meet, were awakened in the distant future and battle against a world dominating cartel of cyborg sign makers. (Picture the Terminator with a huge bazooka that spits out vinyl...lol)
Just for giggles, how about describing your part in the film and who you would cast to play it?
In my case, I'd be the guy who runs around with foam brushes, whiting out out the work of the evil "Signborgs", distracting them long enough to buy time for the Letterheads to formulate a plan and defeat them. I think Robin Williams would fit the part.
Who's next?
Have a fun. Rapid
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But Roy, creativity is an asset for a sign maker, especially in these days of severe competition.
As far as the movie goes, well, I'd change the theme a teeny bit, something more realistic, and scary. How about setting it in the NEAR future, not the distant. The enemy isn't vinyl making cyborgs, but zealous gov't persons. Free speech has been banished, and the sign people are the only ones left able to get messages to the masses. They have to constantly strive not to show any signs of proffessional layout or lettering skills. Crucial also is the use of hardware store materials, so as not to leave forensic evidence. (Hey, some people are already gettin' ready!! )
I don't know what part I'd play, I suppose it would be wise to name it myself, rather than letting someone else say my part I kinda like James Bondo, though.
Funny that you should bring this up Ray. Mr. Shortreed mentioned the same thing awhile back on chat. I've been political enough on this response, so I won't disclose the scenario he told, but I will tell him my belated reply: "you're so right Steve, but it was a 'pre-emptive' raid!!".
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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I think you have a great idea here. I remember when I first got on this web site maybe in '96-'97, there was a lady who wrote a story about a guy and gal at a "Bed and Breakfast place", then she let others get on it and write their part of it, then someone would pick up from there. I wrote something to that part of the story along with I think 10-12 others. At that time a post would keep scrolling down, no matter if you responded to it or not. I like the new one now. If someone responds it comes to the top. I also along with 42,874 others have a story, I have started it but keeping at it is another sign story...
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ok, ray, there's this character, something out of those mel gibson desert warrior honkin' vehicles movies of yore, you know the ones... i'd be the signwriter that was part of that crew... paintin' on anything...the grity-er the better... crappy conditions...bring it on! runnin' short on maroon?... here, let me bleed some into my dixie cup!
will work fore scale...or good microbrew.
John Lennig / SignRider
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Although I was thinking a much smaller scale, like a comic book with different chapters for different step-by-steps.
Originaly asked others for more ideas to add chapters. Sounds like you guys have chapters to write ... and I know you have the abilities to "decorate" them. Then we could put together the ultimate sign-how-to comic book.
I could easily rewrite mine to include "Signborgs"
haha "Signborgs" I love it hahaha
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ANYONE EVER NOTICE HOW MUCH RAY LOOKS LIKE SLAPPY HOOPER????????
Ray you know I want a role in this saga! I wanna be the freaked out old wierdo that still suffers from some bad windowpane acid flash backs and lives in a hippy van with this groovy chick, I can't be counted on for nothing and very unapproachable but in the last scene comes through with the secret anticdote Vynilborg Eliminator Slime (rat fink green of course) and with the aid of recently outta retirement, Frog Man and side kick Scotty the Wonder Dog we seal their doom until the sequil can be written.
do I get points for a running sentance?
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Oh yeah, I can see this one, my ol' war buddy calls me in the middle of the night to inform me that Painterheights is being run over by the vinylborgs, spraying RTII on everything to encapulate them for transportation to the haggard halls of borgsville prison. Faithfull sidekick, Scotty the wonder dog, having recently completed his training in the mastering of the english language, informs me that the path to prison has been vinyl'd over and we must take a #11 blade w/us to cut thru to achieve surprise by coming in their unprotected entrance. As we storm in, slingn' anti-venom(i-shot) to those that can still hold a pencil, we use a electro-jr. to stimulate their blood as vinyl shocktreatment leaves you placid and unable to operate on their own. With that done, we open a door to a beautiful sunrise and walk out into the warm air to smell the whiffs of freedom so hard earned. At that moment, a bouncing-betty, laced w/dupont 77 goes off at 10 ft. above us, showering us all in this vile liquid, trapping us in out footsteps. If you go there today, you can still see the foot imprints and if you're real quiet, you can hear our voices emitting from a demensionall void in which we find ourselves trapped for eternity. I, of course, play the part of the dashing, handsome, brave former warrior known as "HEEM". Scotty plays himself, at going rate per hour, damn dog knows the law now. Ray? I think he's one of the vinyl-borgs.......
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Wynona Ryder will play my part as the seemingly sweet, naive sappy-panel-slinger that lures the cyborgs with the promise of pleasure but who ends up pouring Dark Magenta One-Shot onto their circuits, thus destroying a few of them. Then I ride off into the sunset on a moped with Stevo, who is portrayed by the young pre-steriod-pre-telethon Jerry Lewis. Love...Jill
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Rabid, ya need to add what you IMd me....far more imaginative than my humble addition! Love...Jill Good one Rove!
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Ok, I haven't laughed that hard in a while - Ray, I almost spit my comopolitan on my keyboard!
That was priceless!
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Sean Connery should play me, even though I am better lookin. Instead of an Aston Martin, a 51 Chebby panel wagon, flamed all to hell with flames that are hot to the touch (done with House of Kolor Solar Sucker paint- future product). Instead of machine guns, Binks Supergun Multicolor Specials (another future product, chrome plated) that activate automatically when sensors detect the presence of Brush Script or Arial Bold Squeezed and coat with multicolor rainbows that glow in the dark (One Shot Night Blinder paint- future product)...
Ray, pass me the bong. um... what were we talkin about...?
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Jill (Wynona Ryder) , Steveo (the young Jerry Lewis), Bruce (Bruce Willis)and Dana(Julianna Moore), raising colorplast shields that have been coated with Armour All to resist the vinyl sticking to them, charge into the attacking Signbot horde. They brandish their SwirlyQs and pinstripe, letter and flame the robots, rendering them inactive as a result of the sensory overload they suffr at the hands of our heroes.
Mike Lavalee (Keanu Reeves) battles the Master Signbot with an airbrush. (Gotta have one of those cool "Matrix" rotation shots when he wraps the airhose around it.)
Meanwhile....Frank Manning (Paul Newman), Roger Bailey (Anthony Hopkins) and Si Allen (Dennis Hopper) use their chemical knowledge to discern a way to destroy the Signbot manufacturing plant with a mixture of laquer thinner, mineral spirits, napalm, acid, sunblock and beer.
Joey Wan Kenobi.......PERFECT! Played by Peter Fonda.
Harris (Drew Carey) and Bruce C (The Rock) and Brian Briskie (Brad Pitt) attack the Sigbots on their converted 1949 Chevty Roadsters with Signgold and sucessfully save the planet "Fyrtruk" and rescue Don Coplen (a Wookie) and peace begins to "flourish" in the Galaxy.
Meanwhile..... After saving the ice planet "Translab",young Stewey (Matt Damon) returns the remote world of Oz-ee, to continue his traning with Letterhead master Jonda (Ian McKellen). As his Letterhead abilties grow, Stewey's sense make him realize that Shiela (Shania Twain) is his sister.
Introducing Gump as "Scotty, the Wonder Dog"
..............roll credits................
WARNING: I'm gonna get to the "Blazing Sadles" scenes in the next installment!!!!!!
heheheheh Rapid
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The movie could open with one of those old time head-on locomotive crashes!
The characters and actors, hmmm...
Don Rickles as the crusty old know-it-all...
Donald Trump as the island’s billionaire sign man...
Mrs. Forman from “That ‘70’s Show”, nice lady but with Tourette’s, who swears like a sailor all the time...
Tonya Harding and Joey Butafuco can replay the famous Fair vs. Nordby sparring match.
Brad Garrett as the computer guru who crashes more ‘puters than he fixes, and the CDs he sells never open.
Cheech Marin or Christopher Lloyd as the color blind mobile painter with horrible, loud colors all over his step van.
Bea Arthur, Gloria Allred on PMS and Fran Drescher as...well, you figure it out...
Billy Barty as the airbrush master flamer...
Wilfred Brimley as the lovable goose-stepping Sergeant Schultz or Colonel Klink type, but from the middle east... Achmed bin Laden
One of those ultra happy, laughing mannequins from a fun house that never shuts up.
Tommy Chong as the pot head with the super shakes, who never finishes the one job that runs through the whole movie - or TV series...
Andy Kauffman/Latka Gravis, but with a thicker accent and nobody can understand him...
I can see Chris Elliott ( from “Get A Life” and “Cabin Boy”) as the wise cracking guy who continually irritates Napoleon, played by Danny DeVito, who runs around town wearing only a thong, tearing down all the signs and padlocking doors.
Maybe Bonnie Hunt as the one level headed person trying to keep a semblance of order, and everybody ridicules her for it.
The Keystone Kops as city planners making sign ordinances.
Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Larry, Moe and Curly, The Ritz Brothers, Bozo, Tim Allen, Larry Storch, for the rest of the inhabitants slapping misspelled Hellvetica vinyl signs all over town.
......oh, and 8,000 extras making their exodus, most carrying brushes and sign kits, vinyl scraps sticking to their shoes.
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I was with John on the "Mad-Max" tones . . bleedin' into cups for maroon, YES! . . . .tie their hands to bumpers and pull 'em off so they can no longer rape us with their horrific signage . . . .just really radical save-the-past scenerios and wipe out the mutants with the last little bits of mineral spirits and turps we can scrounge up from the face of the earth . . . .in all our awesomely flamed wagons, trucks, bikes and leathers. . .
in the finale`, we paint some kind of huge-mongnus, attracting sign on the desert floor with outrageously modified binks spray guns, and all the bad guys come to it and we melt them away with laquer-solvents we've found and adapted for use in sawed-off shot guns and AK forty-7's . . . . . .
'till it got to lookin' like "Star Wars" and then someone else mentioned Bonnie Hunt, ACK! . . . . C'mon!!!
...if ya do a Mad-max theme I wanna be Tina Turner . . . "DOME of FLAMES"....
Playing Shania twain would be ok too . . . .will my new found brother and I get to start a rock-a-billy band 'til we get back on our feet in sign-biz??
Missed all the fun. Pee Wee Herman would have to play me. A partially assimalated Signbot that is trying to break free of the evil empire and create Quality Signage 0ut of his TATOOY Shop Named "Bill's Quiky Stiky Sign Emporium" the inner battle of the dark side keeps confronting him.
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This is awesomely funny! what talented screen writers we have here. Can you squeeze in something from THE VILLIAN IN BABES IN TOYLAND, THE BUBBLE OF BARBARELLA, AND THEN THAT HEAD FROM ZARDOZ?! THOSE ALWAYS CAUGHT ME EYE! OH, AND YES, THE THEME FROM HAWAII FIVE O, CAN BE IN ONE OF THE GETAWAY SCENES!
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Doug Allen (Sean Penn) raids the tiny planet of Wah-ee, and discovers a weakness in all Signbots fabrication. He then hops on his high speed, hand carved, jet powered surfboard and races back to the mainland to share the information with the Letterheads. (Hawaii 5-0 music playing the whole way.)
Appy (Robert Redford) and OP (Al Pacino) lead a crack team of Corel Commandos back to Wah-ee to test their new weapon...the Vectoriser Beam, a broadcast virus that causes the Signbots to begin node editing themselves into a total meltown.
The evil Qui-ki Stiki soon learns of this new weapon and launches a massive counter attack in an attempt to destroy the designs and it's creators, now in hiding in Florida for the winter at Bob Stephens' (Vin Diesel). The letterheads valiantly battle back with gold leafed golf balls, but have to flee the base.
As Stiki enters the base to destroy the plans with his own hands, he is ambushed by the last Letterhead there. His ego gets the best of him and he offers the lone signcrafter a chance to die at his own hands in a one on one battle.
wait for it......
As the battle rages, Stiki tries to coerce the young Letterhead into joining forces with him.
here it comes....
Finally, the brave young Letterhead faces his defeat and the hands of Stiki who reaveals the shocking secret....
yup....
"Luke Scanlon, I am your father."
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Rapid
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In the sequel (which is inevitable)...I could be JAWS lurking in the lard oil awaiting a chance to "pounce" on anything that moved like a yard stick...then "mauling" all the one shot cans til they were "perfectly red". Leon RedBone could play my character and double up with the soundtrack...then I could get double credits and more importantly double pay...that is after all what we are all after... right? MORE MONEY! I WANT ...MORE MONEY!
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awesome post Ray... just checked back in to catch up on the action after a late night TOO COOL!! Sean Penn will work... Hawaii five-O sounds god for a raid... but gotta switch to Joe Satriani "surfing with the alien"
Brian... how about John Belushi? ...the "Signgold Samauri"
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The visuals are here! Ha, ha, that's wild! I can see Doug now! And don't forget to have a villian wrapped up in the end with vinyl, and some common swashbuckler slapping him in the face with oneshot! I can hear the music from Hawaii Five O.
(I am just writing this when my daughter im's me wondering why I am not at work, as today I took a vacation day. She told me I should be in Hawaii! Little did she know I was typing in this post)
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I dunno Linnie, but you will definately be portrayed by Susan Sarandon! Maybe you & I can do a Thelma & Louise bit and blow up the Chrome vynull Brush-Script all caps lettering on some yucky trucker's rig! Love...Jill
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Enough talk Ray, you can draw the whole thing out in a comic book. Your imagination will carry you through to the end. There is more than enough help from the troops, what a wild book it could be. The next step would be to sell it to a Hollywood producer. It sounds like a winner to me.
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