Monday, December 20, 2004
Killer Idea for Christmas Money. posted by Richard Seymour
KILLER IDEAHere's the deal.
We do a series of movies that spoof the new 'spoof' niche that has opened up in Hollywood. Here's a few title ideas:
"NOT ANOTHER TEEN SPOOF!"
"SPOOFMEMBER"
"THE SPOOF WHO SHAGGED ME"
"SPOOFY MOVIE"
"SPOOFY MOVIE TWO"
"HOT SPOOFS: NUMERO DEUX"
"SPOOF HARD"
"THE NAKED SPOOF: THE FINAL MONEYSPINNER"
"SPOOFBALLS"
etc etc.
You see, certain movie niches after a time become regarded as tired and cliched among more educated and urbane segments of
the audience. These are typically the best part of our audience, the ABC1 group. The spoof market has typically worked by
usurping the incredulity at those well-hoed niches and making fun of them. Cynical generation-Xers react well to films which appear to validate their disgust at the apparent phoniness of some of Hollywood's more repetitive and banal output.
I feel that this audience may well be growing tired and weary of the old "spoof" format. As recent shocking statistics indicate, even VHS sales of these movies are falling drastically low. Should we therefore give up trying to make cheap money by reselling already well-established formats by apparently subverting their content?
Hell no.
What we should do is reach out to those who are now totally turned off by spoof films and offer some biting criticism of the
spoof genre. In that way, we can multiple our returns on ...
So, what do you all think?
KILLER IDEA, THE SEQUEL/SPOOF/BBC REPEAT
I omitted to mention the great soundtrack albums we could have for all of these films. There are literally millions of cheap - I mean to say, tragically under-rated - songs out there, which we could buy the rights to and sell in a double-CD album.
Maybe some chart-bottoming nu-metal or Yank punk.