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Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: A British filmmaker has forced the people who decide how to censor films to watch a 10-hour movie of paint drying on a wall following a protest fundraising campaign. Charlie Lyne launched a Kickstarter to help raise the money needed to send his 'documentary' of a single shot of paint drying on a wall for consideration as a protest against the 'stronghold' the organisation has on the British film industry. The BBFC charge an initial fee of $144.88 to view a film and decide what certificate to give it, and then and additional $10.15 for each minute that the film lasts. The idea was the more money Lyne could raise via his fundraiser, the longer his paint-drying film could last. The campaign eventually nearly £8,500, meaning he was able to send in a 607 minute video which the examiners had to watch in its entirety.
It will probably sweep the Oscars... as long as it's white or beige paint.
Dark Reflection
They were watching the inverse Laplace Transform of subliminal porn.
Was to give them 8,500 pounds to have them claim to watch the whole thing? Even if I didn't fast forward, that's still pretty good for 10 hours of work.
I wish someone would protest me that nicely. I'd really learn something. Feel free to repeatedly protest me.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Still a better love story than Twilight.
They could have turned it into an M. Night Shyamalan movie:
What if the paint never dries???
What if it turns out that the paint is really aliens from the future???
Sure thing champ!
Initial Fee: 3235532.60 Vietnamese Dong
Fee per minute: 226674.88 Vietnamese Dong
Campaign raised: 272438646.75 Vietnamese Dong
All in all, that's a lot of dong!
You would want to have a really dry audio track - perhaps a computer voice reading some long novel - say "Moby Dick". If the computer mispronounces some words, it wouldn't be a big deal. Except that you would slip in some swearing in the middle somewhere - spoken by the same monotone computer voice in the same speaking pattern as the rest of it.
An alternative would be to have the soundtrack be 10 hours of a crying baby (undoubtedly a much shorter clip in a loop). Which for most people would be torture to listen to. But in the middle of it you could have an adult come in and swear at the baby.