This 1993 movie is really a film within a film written and produced by Des Mangan. The story of a movie buff, Brad McBain, who is tired of his job working for a cinema conglomerate that has taken all the fun out of the movie experience. Brad decides to quit his job and reopen the old "Picture Palace" so he can run a movie house the way they used to be. He hires his old friend, a projectionist named Sprocket, and a publicist named Lisa (who isn't afraid to punch out any man who is inappropriate with her). They decide to show the last movie that played at the Picture Palace before it closed. Hercules. The only problem is that Brad's old boss doesn't like competition.His old boss makes sure that the copy of Hercules is in Italian, with no subtitles.
They find this out at their gala opening night, so thinking fast, they decide to dub all the parts in the movie themselves. Brad, Sprocket, and Lisa do all the voices and they make all the sound effects. They create their own dialogue for what is going on on screen using contemporary references for the time. Scenes split from what is going on in the film to what they are doing to make the sound effects. In one scene Delilah [of Sampson &] is cooking meat on a spit; in the projection room Sprocket is cooking a pig on a spit. They also played with some of the names of the characters. Zeus told Hercules to go to Climidia, on his way there he saved the life of Labia who is in love with Testiculi.
There is some coarse language, as with any Australian film, but this is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. I am attaching the trailer for the movie to give you a sample of how funny it is.
This film earned $318,788 in Australia. It was not released in the US. The film that they used in the film was Samson and his Mighty Challenge. The idea for the film came from the comedy stage show Double Take. Des Mangan created the stage show and expanded on it for the film.
They find this out at their gala opening night, so thinking fast, they decide to dub all the parts in the movie themselves. Brad, Sprocket, and Lisa do all the voices and they make all the sound effects. They create their own dialogue for what is going on on screen using contemporary references for the time. Scenes split from what is going on in the film to what they are doing to make the sound effects. In one scene Delilah [of Sampson &] is cooking meat on a spit; in the projection room Sprocket is cooking a pig on a spit. They also played with some of the names of the characters. Zeus told Hercules to go to Climidia, on his way there he saved the life of Labia who is in love with Testiculi.
There is some coarse language, as with any Australian film, but this is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. I am attaching the trailer for the movie to give you a sample of how funny it is.
This film earned $318,788 in Australia. It was not released in the US. The film that they used in the film was Samson and his Mighty Challenge. The idea for the film came from the comedy stage show Double Take. Des Mangan created the stage show and expanded on it for the film.
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