There was some heated response to the Flash fanimation featured on the site recently, so it only
seemed right to give the filmmaker a bit more space to explain himself and the intentions behind "Nintendo: Old School
Revolution."In an interview with Go Nintendo, Larry Longstreth (writer, co-director, and editor of "N:OSR") goes into length about how dreaming up an idea while standing in the shower led to 3 months' work with animator Jacob Drake to put all the elements of the short together. The self-professed fan of Morrowind and Halo ("the first one") wanted to speak to the timelessness of Nintendo's products, using analogies to Superman, Cyclops (of X-Men fame?), and the WWF to show how people tend to favor darker/edgier material to the classics right before them.
Can someone be a passionate fan without being an egregious fanboy? We certainly hope so, and we hope the folks who leave comments here can embody that sentiment. For more of Larry's live-action work, try some of these other links off IFILM's site: a rather long collection of shorts here or a much shorter mock documentary over there. Any other aspiring filmmakers we should know about?
[Thanks, Larry]
