Finally, let’s explain these two movies.
Greetings true believers. I’m just gonna get right into it. The whole “Serious Business Saga” (DDR and Pump it Up: TWP) actually make a lot of sense believe it or else.
In case you haven’t already figured it out. It’s a huge allegory for…
AN INTERNET FORUM.
We have Derek, he’s like the new user on the block. Doesn’t quite have an avatar yet. Doesn’t know how to handle things correctly. Get’s mixed up with Team Z, our film equivalent of trolls.
What then ensues is what happens on any internet forum… pettiness, trolling, and a heapload of fucking butthurt. It’s really quite crazy at times. But like what any troll, they can be taken down with a little help… and practice. In all my days on internet forums, I have never seen a troll get taken down alone. That theme is there with Wolfen and company banding together to take down this threat. That’s why I sometimes call it “Internet: The Movie”.
Now we move to the sequel, that we’re doing now. It takes place about a short while later.
We continue with our analogy at this point. We have Yvette, who’s seen the glories of dancing games and wants a piece for herself. Much like those asking to be a mod on a forum… even though everyone hates them. We have Aaron, who’s the elite of elites… the guy who really runs things who finally sees what the hell is going on and tries to fix it. In this case, it’s literally sending people out to murder those who would otherwise mess things up.
We have John’s Mom, Evelyn who basically the same as Aaron, but handles things a little more directly.
Maya then becomes the moderator. The one who is in charge of keeping the peace at all costs. In this case, it involves even more killing.
Then we have Lily, Ryzen’s mom. You know that guy that always butts in where they’re truly not welcome or needed? That’s Lily.
All and all, the double feature is just the internet converted for your movie viewing pleasure
That’s all the detail I care to go into right now, I’ll have more clips and stuff over the next few weeks as we finish up.
Beasting
One thing I really wanted to do with the movie this time around is have some more intense dance game scenes. I know some of my actors aren’t players at all and a few have never actually seen the game played well.
Leroy and I intend to be in that tip top shape when it comes time for arrow stomp sequences. I don’t have Pump in The Lab, but I sure as hell got stepmania and a Blueshark pad. So… we spent the night just beasting out some songs and just trying to get some sort of arrow based stamina and know-how back.
Took a while to finally break the pad in, and I need to get a chair that isn’t low as fuck -________-
Nonetheless, we had a great time, and there will be more beasting to come, that’s for damn sure.
Sore as fuck right now, about to go back to more beasting in the morning. Good idea or best idea?
Pump it Up: The Warrior’s Path. Yeah, we in there.
Haven’t been updating things in a while. Let’s change that shall we?
We completed Day 3 of filming last afternoon. Here are my thoughts as of now.
My biggest concern was the talent I had. It goes without saying that last time we weren’t really stacked acting wise. Myself included. I hate acting to be honest. But I have to hand it to some of the new kids on the playground such as Julie pictured below, and Beth… who isn’t pictured because Josh has the footage and hasn’t given me stills yet. But it’s all good.
And your guess would be correct. She’s playing Yvette from the first film due to a number of complications. I don’t regret this decision one fucking bit. No sir. She looks like her (but a little younger in the face, just sayin’), sounds like her, and is the same height. It’s the fucking Twilight Zone in here.
Beth was also a joy, she’ll be appearing as Ryzen’s Mother. Let’s just say formor boy band 98 Degrees was decissed and lol’s were had.
I have a full gallery of high-res pictures up in this bitch. Now I must get back to work… but hey, We in there there and things are feeling better than they ever had. I just need to get my stride and I’ll be okay. I’m just shocked that things are going as fucking well as they have been. And I can only thank the great folks I work with.
So, time to get ready for next weekend’s shoot.
The FP and Dance Dance Revolution: The Warrior’s Path… they can co-exist.
Okay, it’s been a long time coming, but I finally saw The FP last night with a rather large group of DDR players.
First of all. Shoutouts are needed. Thanks to Brian Ho and the Indy folk that traveled so fucking far to get their Beat Beat Revelation on with us. Shoutouts also to the fat old white man who fell asleep during the movie and was snoring, even over our hoots and hollers.
I don’t think I need to explain to you all what exactly The FP is by now, but in case you were living under same kind of a rock, here’s a trailer. I’ll wait.
Yeah, that’s it in all it’s glory. Awesome right?
Now I’ll show you the trailer for last year’s Dance Dance Revolution: The Warrior’s Path.
People wonder how these two go against one another and if they’re really the same movie.
Here’s the answer. They really don’t. These are two very different movies with lots to say.
DDR: TWP plays like a drama, until people start talking. It’s set in the real would and has real world limitations (most of which are budget wise) but somehow I made it work. It has it’s own set of rules. FP hits as a satire right from the get go and has not real established rules. It’s not tied down by lame things like reality. Over the top dialogue sentence after sentence. Not to mention the best ending in recent cinematic history.
DDR: TWP is Internet: The Movie.
FP: Breakin’ 2 on crack.
Both of which deserve your hard earned money. I just wish there was more of it to enjoy. Both movies are short.
That being said, I would love to see a Warrior’s Path/FP crossover of some sort. Many laughs would be had. But I also would like a pony. You niggas hook me up with a fucking pony!
I’ll be pick up a Blu-Ray of The FP whenever that mess happens. Maybe we’ll have a contest here for DDR/FP double pack. Who knows?
Pump it Up: The Warrior’s Path is ready for filming by the way. We gonna get in there.
We’re not dead… but…
I’m still very much alive. I wish I had more drive and passioni to write reviews and whatnot, but this whole making a movie thing really bogs you down.
But I am happy to say I’ll be around and about C2E2 this year… much like last year. However, this time, we’ll be bringing you a lot more coverage. I’ll be up in there with Geek Forge‘s own Lucca providing you with some great videos and other stuff you may or may not find badass and awesome.
As for Pump it Up: The Warrior’s Path, we’ve hit snag after snag but we keep on chugging along. There have been huge cast changes and some really strange drama that I’ll get into at a later date.
Okay, I need to get back to work. So tootles.
Putting Your Money Where Your Damn Mouth Is
Welcome to another edition of “Shit I Like”.
But seriously, I gotta lay some more wisdom on you. All you creative types. Too often do I see all of you so into what you’re doing. This alone isn’t a problem. Whenever you’re in business for yourself, creatively or otherwise, you need all the good karma you can get. This causes an outflow of positive energy. It’s pretty fucking awesome if you ask me. I’m spending a lot of 2012 supporting causes for things I like and for people I love. You learn a ton just from observation (stalking) of folks.
You know where I’m going with this.
So I’mo share with you a couple of folks’ shit. Then go drop some money and stuff on whatever they got going on. Think of them as poor, starving African babies with AIDS.
Okay, maybe not African.
The Vs. Project. Hip Hop meets fighting games? Music and tourneys? Sign me up. Too bad it isn’t rolling through Chicago though. *Sad Face*. I’ve thrown a little money at this already, plenty of shit is worth it. Give it a look see. I was sold with Guiles theme. It goes with everything don’t ya know. So MegaRan and the crew some love.
Lauren Wolf. Hey, she’s my namesake, She a’ight, but that’s a high compliment from someone like me who’s a fucking troll. It’s really a change of pace music-wise. This is always good. She’s also short. What is it with me and all the short women I know?
And lastly
Give some love to the other black filmmaker that seems a’ight, Nick Ford. Even though he’s a Packers fan… he’s cool. Just not during football season. Which it’s not.
So go, be merry. Fuck some bitches. Just enjoy life. I need to get the thought of that new Ghost Rider movie out of my head.
On a happy note for me. Pump it Up: The Warrior’s Path has it’s shotlist done and we start on March 16th. Prepare your anus.
Aaron in Japan: My Inspiration
I started playing DDR back in 2002. DDR 4th Mix+ at Wright’s Barnyard in Lansing, IL (RIP). Who can forget classics like “Cat’s Eye” or “Wonda”?
Anyway, AIJ is 13 years old now. AIJ, or Aaron in Japan for those not in the know, is a site mostly where music game players come and post about topics of their intrest. Which is pretty much just dance games and Loli. I started posting there at around the time my friend Brandon (Dyme) started to post. He said that’s where all the good players were.
He was right. I guess I popped in at around the golden age when we could find good DDR machines all over the place. Everyone was playing. People were leveling up. We could really just hang and have a good time. Not to mention, I have friends for life in Lefty, Darkmage, and even that fag GTC. Not to mention SonGohanX and NicX who I should be seeing soon.
You could say that AIJ really changed my entire life. It really did.
The Bemanifest trip was the first real road trip I ever took without my family around. We drove 20 hours straight. GTC, Lefty, Darkmage and I… and we even picked up a Canadian along the way at a McDonalds at 2AM. Shit was crazy. But I learned a lot about myself and came back a person who stood a little bit taller. This led to a lot of fallout… but I wouldn’t change a thing about it. Without AIJ, I must likely wouldn’t have even gone and who knows how life would be now.
I also got a front row seat to the decline of the modern gamer. Back in my day, when we didn’t have the internet (gasp) we had to go over to friends houses on Saturdays to play games. We learned a lot about sportmanship, and really just life itself. All by just playing games with other people. There was compitition, but it rarely ever got unhealthy.
This is not the case I saw on AIJ.
Since it’s the internet, people are going to act rudely, a lot. The amount of competition and hypothetical dickswinging I can really just blame on the lack of actual social interaction. You couldn’t do this shit at the arcade back in my day. You’d get your ass kicked. But it’s just the world we live in now.
In case you all didn’t realize… this is where Dance Dance Revolution: The Warrior’s Path comes into play.
Darkmage mentioned it first. It’s “Internet: The Movie”. You have the users (Derek, Wolfen, Yvette) then you have trolls (SupTrashcan, Ryzen, Terminator). The trolls want nothing more than to put the users out of existence. Everything is taken seriously when it really shouldn’t… and people get butthurt over the smallest thing.
Then in Pump it Up: The Warrior’s path. Without spoiling much, we bring in the moderator. Who deals with the trolls in her own way. You’ll understand when you see it.
Back to AIJ, I really don’t post on there anymore because I like my IQ at 145 where it is. However, I can’t hate on it’s existence. He’s brought together a lot of good people and really helped make my life the way it is, for better or worse. I have to thank him so much for that.
Here’s to another year of not so great people on an otherwise very nice site.
