Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Movieoke
I can't sing, and have no desire to stand in front of a group of people and torture them with any form of attempt at holding a tune. However, I do lurve my films, and do, from time to time, like the idea of putting my dialogue and voice in the film. So, I'm a perfect candidate for "karaoke's very young American-born cousin", movieoke! NY Times reports:
I can't sing, and have no desire to stand in front of a group of people and torture them with any form of attempt at holding a tune. However, I do lurve my films, and do, from time to time, like the idea of putting my dialogue and voice in the film. So, I'm a perfect candidate for "karaoke's very young American-born cousin", movieoke! NY Times reports:
All the evidence in the room pointed to imminent karaoke. There was a tiny stage and a television monitor flashing words. There was an energetic hostess trying to whip people into the mood. And the people, about a dozen, were waiting patiently for their third beer to lend them the necessary talent. But when the first amateur celebrity took the stage, it was not to belt out his own heartfelt version of "Candle in the Wind." Instead he crouched like a lemur and began to croak out a scene from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," as a movie screen behind him showed the monologue by the creature Gollum. "We hates them!" whispered the man on the stage, Oden Roberts, a 27-year-old cinematographer, crawling around as his friends whooped and clapped. When his performance was over, Mr. Roberts reported that, really, it was not all that different from karaoke. "You just have to put your body into it more," he said. Or if you are really dedicated, your hair: Mr. Roberts had moussed his up into little blond spikes, perhaps better to resemble a Middle Earth creature. "It took me half an hour to get it like this," he said. He had just become a willing test subject in the service of movieoke, karaoke's very young American-born cousin.And you can even envisage the high-end market version which would come complete with a motion capture suit so your can be Gollum! Ah, the film lovers weirdest dreams come true ... my precious ...
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