I've Been Mocked Enough

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Digital8 video, 7 min., 2002.

"I've Been Mocked Enough"
starring

Colin Brown as Tex Reeves
Volcano Todd as the Man With No Name
Nighttrain as ten thousand fire-breathing dragons
Daniel Arbuckle, Art Balteria, Steve Martin, Harry Pottash, and John McCulloch as Tex's gang
Paul Zirkle, Garrett Gilchrist, Michelle Brochman and Mariana McConnell as the innocent people of Yukonville
Narrated by Garrett Gilchrist

"Blue Sea Eagle" cgi created by Jason Porath

written by Jonason Ho
directed by Garrett Gilchrist



Read the script!

Photographs on this page by Mariana McConnell and Garrett Gilchrist.

Bravado Entertainment, based in Oregon, managed to create 60 episodes of a series, "Delusions of Grandeur," for college station KBVR-tv. Garrett met Bravado frontman Alan Winston at the Camp Rewind festival in 2001, and though shy Alan didn't say a word to anyone for the first half of the week, Garrett was eventually won over by Alan's good nature, good movies (like The End part 2), and Star Wars references. Garrett enlisted Alan (and girlfriend Erin Arbogast) to appear in his Camp Rewind movie, "Ghost Busted," spoofing their roles as lovers in Jason Santo's "Transients," which was also shot at Camp Rewind (and featured Garrett) and premiered only a few minutes before their scene was shot.

From these auspicious beginnings, it was only a matter of time before some Orange Cow stuff began to seep in at Bravado. Alan ran many of Garrett's movies, including Excaliburger, The Phantom Movie and Ghostbusted, on KBVR-tv. It was only a matter of time before Garrett took part in one of Bravado's "Gauntlet" projects.

The "Gauntlet" projects, spearheaded mainly by Bravado friend Warren Blyth, who runs his own company, Funeral Home Entertainment, are collaborative video projects in which various friends of Bravado write their own short scripts based on certain guidelines, and then usually the scripts are given to other people to direct. Garrett was a fan of the most recent Gauntlet, "Gauntlet 216," which resulted in an interestingly David Lynch-like movie when all the parts were put together.

In the first Gauntlet Garrett was involved in, filmmakers were asked to create short advertisements for their production companies. Garrett created three shorts, "Jar Jar," "Catchphrase," and "Urban Spaceman," for that Gauntlet. ("Catchphrase" featured Mariana McConnell.) They were edited with the help of Damien LeVeck of Incendiary Productions (Volcano Todd's roommate at the time).



Alan then asked Garrett to be involved in the next Gauntlet, where scripts would be exchanged between directors, entitled "Random Eyes." Garrett wrote a script entitled "The Teenage Bingo Brigade," a surreally funny non-story set at the beach. Warren Blyth asked to direct the project.

Garrett himself asked to direct a script written by Bravo friend Jonason Ho, entitled "I've Been Mocked Enough," a strange tale of a western-style battle between superpowered men. He picked "Beautiful Zelda" alums Volcano Todd and Colin Brown to play the lead roles, and lots of other faces recognizable from Garrett's student films made small appearances (including "Mort's" Daniel Arbuckle, going above and beyond the call of duty). Volcano Todd's pet dinosaur, Nighttrain, also stars in the movie. The silly, basically silent short contains impressive special effects, including the "Blue Sea Eagle" designed by then-SCFX president (USC's official special effects society) and special effects master Jason Porath. True to Gauntlet form, little effort was put into shooting the film. It was a fun, very small, shoot, shot handheld and fast on two separate days. (Because he needed to go back and get more people in it than Colin and Cano.)



This was the only script from the original Bravado batch I really liked. Jonason is an odd man.

Harry Pottash was hung over when doing his cameo. He never really left the apartment, shooting his material inside in the kitchen, or just outside on the deck (I digitally altered photos of him shot inside to look like they were shot outside). John McCulloch, Paul Zirkle and Michelle Brochman were also shot on the deck, so that I could sneak people in who were barely aware a movie was being shot.

I was very proud to shoot with screen legend Nightrain, who plays the ten thousand firebreathing dragons. A friend of Volcano Todd, Nightrain is perhaps the greatest unsung minority star working in motion pictures today.

I thought this thing would run about 2 minutes. It came in at 7. Frankly I'm amazed I got so much mileage out of this schlock.

The same hat is worn by nearly every character in the film. I've had that hat since I was a small child. The same gun is used four times, the same eagle footage is run in reverse at the end ...

Daniel Arbuckle plays the guy in the tiger mask here. In case you were wondering.

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Warren's Video Gauntlet Page
The Random Eyes Page
Bravado Entertainment
WarrenBlyth.com



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