I don't usually do this but Snider is just too ill...
You have prolly seen this before but everytime i read it, i can't stop myself from breaking a funny bone.
Clash of the Titanic
by Eric D. Snider
Many of you have seen the film "Titanic," which is about a great big
boat that sank like a thousand years ago that for some reason everyone
is just now getting worked up about. Some of you -- I am speaking to
the women here -- have seen this movie several times. And I would like
to know why. Have the principles of film-making not been adequately
explained to you, so you think there's a chance the movie will end
differently if you see it again? Do you think this is a "Choose Your
Own Adventure" movie? Because it's not. No matter how many times you
see it, the boat is going to sink, and the same people are going to
die, including the guy who falls and whacks his noggin on the railing
on the way down. I think this movie is entirely too long. The actual
sinking of the Titanic took only four hours; the movie is easily three
times that long. (Note to reader : From the following choices, select
the "this-movie-is-too- long" line you like best and go with it.) A.
Savings bonds have matured in less time than it takes to watch this
movie. B. Many marriages do not last as long as this movie. C. I had
to shave twice during this movie. D. Three Eastern European nations
(Izikikstan, Checher, and Kudropabian) were formed while I was
watching this movie.
As a public service, then, I am offering my much-shortened
screenplay which some ambitious film-maker can feel free to use as the
script for a shorter version of "Titanic." All I want in return is a
lot of money.
(Scene 1)
KATE WINSLET: Why, this is a fancy boat, isn't it?
KATE'S WEASELLY FIANCE: Yes it certainly is. Here is the art you asked
for. It is by an artist named "Picasso." I am certain he will
amount to nothing.
KATE: Ha ha ha. That is very funny to our '90s audience, because of
course Picasso later amounted to quite a bit, after this boat
sank.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: Hello, I'm Leonardo DiCaprio. Perhaps you have seen
the many Internet sites dedicated to the worship of me. You are
very pretty.
KATE: Thank you. So are you.
LEONARDO: I know. Prettier than you, in fact. I am going to put on my
"brooding" face now, to ensure that women will keep coming back
again and again to see this movie. Later, my white shirt will be
soaking wet.
KATE: While you're doing that, I will concentrate on standing here and
looking pretty, to keep the men in the audience interested until
the boat sinks and people start dying.
WEASELLY FIANCE: Excuse me. I do not like you, Leonardo, even though you
saved my fiancee's life. I am going to sneer at you and treat you
like dirt because you're poor, and then I'll probably be
physically abusive to my fiancee, and then, just to make sure the
audience really hates me, and to make sure my character is
entirely one-dimensional, perhaps I'll throw an elderly person
into the water.
AUDIENCE: Boo! We hate you! Even though all real people have at least a
few admirable qualities, we have not been shown any of yours, and
plus, you're trying to come between Leonardo and Kate, and so
therefore we hate you! Boo! (Even though technically it is
Leonardo who is coming between you and Kate. But Leonardo is
handsomer than you, even though he is only 13, so we are on his
side. Boo!)
(Scene 2)
LEONARDO: I'm glad we snuck away like this so that you could cheat on
your fiance.
KATE: So am I. Even though I am engaged to him and have made a
commitment to marry him, that is no reason why you and I cannot
climb into the backseat of a car and steam up the windows together.
The fact that I am the heroine of the movie will no doubt help
the cattle-like audience forgive me of this, though they would
probably be VERY angry indeed if my fiance were to do the same
thing to me.
AUDIENCE: Darn straight we would! Moo! We mean, Boo!
LEONARDO: I agree. First I would like to draw you, though, so of course
you will have to take off all your clothes.
KATE: But can a movie with five minutes of continuous nudity be at all
successful in, say, Provo, Utah, where the audiences might not
stand for that sort of thing?
LEONARDO: I would be willing to bet that for the first three weeks the
film is in release, every single showing at Wynnsong Theater in
Provo will sell out.
NARRATOR: According to Wynnsong manager Matt Palmer, that is exactly
what happened.
KATE: All right, then. (sound of clothes hitting the floor)
(Scene 3)
FIRST MATE: Captain, we're about to hit an iceberg.
CAPTAIN: Great, I could use some ice for my drink. (sound of drinking)
ICEBERG: (hits boat)
FIRST MATE: That can't be good.
CAPTAIN: Bottoms up!
AUDIENCE: (silence)
FIRST MATE: That was irony, you fools.
AUDIENCE: Baa! Moo! Where's Leonardo?
(Scene 4)
LEONARDO: I have been informed that this boat is sinking.
KATE: That is terrible.
LEONARDO: Would you like to engage in some more immoral-but-justified
behavior?
KATE: Certainly.
WEASELLY FIANCE: Excuse me, I --
AUDIENCE: Boo! Boo!
WEASELLY FIANCE: (aside) I'm getting the raw end of the deal here. (to
Leonardo) Listen, Leonardo, to cement my
morally-dubious-yet-somehow-less-annoying-than-you personality,
I am going to handcuff you to this pipe, here in a room that will
soon be filling with water, due to the fact that we are sinking,
which I believe has been mentioned previously.
LEONARDO: Why don't you just shoot me?
WEASELLY FIANCE: Because then you wouldn't be able to escape and save
Kate from me. Of course, you're going to die anyway--
AUDIENCE: Don't spoil it for us! Boo!
LEONARDO: He's right, though. I am doomed.
AUDIENCE: Aww, look how cute he is when he's doomed.
WEASELLY FIANCE: I hate you people.
(Scene 5)
150-YEAR-OLD KATE: And that's when Leonardo rescued me from my evil
fiance and helped me float on a board in the water. Of course, if
it hadn't been for having to rescue HIM, I could have gotten on
an actual lifeboat, and not frozen my legs nearly off. Anyway,
he's pretty much dead now, and I'm well over a thousand years
old, and who's making my supper? I need a bath. Turn down that
Enya music, it's making my ears hurt. You kids today, with your
loud music. Why, when I was -- hey! Don't you walk away from
me, Mr. Snooty- Patootie! I'd turn you over my knee, if I had
one. I'll beat you in the head with this huge diamond! Come back
here!
(Fade to black; roll credits; play annoying Celine Dion song.)
Clash of the Titanic
by Eric D. Snider
Many of you have seen the film "Titanic," which is about a great big
boat that sank like a thousand years ago that for some reason everyone
is just now getting worked up about. Some of you -- I am speaking to
the women here -- have seen this movie several times. And I would like
to know why. Have the principles of film-making not been adequately
explained to you, so you think there's a chance the movie will end
differently if you see it again? Do you think this is a "Choose Your
Own Adventure" movie? Because it's not. No matter how many times you
see it, the boat is going to sink, and the same people are going to
die, including the guy who falls and whacks his noggin on the railing
on the way down. I think this movie is entirely too long. The actual
sinking of the Titanic took only four hours; the movie is easily three
times that long. (Note to reader : From the following choices, select
the "this-movie-is-too- long" line you like best and go with it.) A.
Savings bonds have matured in less time than it takes to watch this
movie. B. Many marriages do not last as long as this movie. C. I had
to shave twice during this movie. D. Three Eastern European nations
(Izikikstan, Checher, and Kudropabian) were formed while I was
watching this movie.
As a public service, then, I am offering my much-shortened
screenplay which some ambitious film-maker can feel free to use as the
script for a shorter version of "Titanic." All I want in return is a
lot of money.
(Scene 1)
KATE WINSLET: Why, this is a fancy boat, isn't it?
KATE'S WEASELLY FIANCE: Yes it certainly is. Here is the art you asked
for. It is by an artist named "Picasso." I am certain he will
amount to nothing.
KATE: Ha ha ha. That is very funny to our '90s audience, because of
course Picasso later amounted to quite a bit, after this boat
sank.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: Hello, I'm Leonardo DiCaprio. Perhaps you have seen
the many Internet sites dedicated to the worship of me. You are
very pretty.
KATE: Thank you. So are you.
LEONARDO: I know. Prettier than you, in fact. I am going to put on my
"brooding" face now, to ensure that women will keep coming back
again and again to see this movie. Later, my white shirt will be
soaking wet.
KATE: While you're doing that, I will concentrate on standing here and
looking pretty, to keep the men in the audience interested until
the boat sinks and people start dying.
WEASELLY FIANCE: Excuse me. I do not like you, Leonardo, even though you
saved my fiancee's life. I am going to sneer at you and treat you
like dirt because you're poor, and then I'll probably be
physically abusive to my fiancee, and then, just to make sure the
audience really hates me, and to make sure my character is
entirely one-dimensional, perhaps I'll throw an elderly person
into the water.
AUDIENCE: Boo! We hate you! Even though all real people have at least a
few admirable qualities, we have not been shown any of yours, and
plus, you're trying to come between Leonardo and Kate, and so
therefore we hate you! Boo! (Even though technically it is
Leonardo who is coming between you and Kate. But Leonardo is
handsomer than you, even though he is only 13, so we are on his
side. Boo!)
(Scene 2)
LEONARDO: I'm glad we snuck away like this so that you could cheat on
your fiance.
KATE: So am I. Even though I am engaged to him and have made a
commitment to marry him, that is no reason why you and I cannot
climb into the backseat of a car and steam up the windows together.
The fact that I am the heroine of the movie will no doubt help
the cattle-like audience forgive me of this, though they would
probably be VERY angry indeed if my fiance were to do the same
thing to me.
AUDIENCE: Darn straight we would! Moo! We mean, Boo!
LEONARDO: I agree. First I would like to draw you, though, so of course
you will have to take off all your clothes.
KATE: But can a movie with five minutes of continuous nudity be at all
successful in, say, Provo, Utah, where the audiences might not
stand for that sort of thing?
LEONARDO: I would be willing to bet that for the first three weeks the
film is in release, every single showing at Wynnsong Theater in
Provo will sell out.
NARRATOR: According to Wynnsong manager Matt Palmer, that is exactly
what happened.
KATE: All right, then. (sound of clothes hitting the floor)
(Scene 3)
FIRST MATE: Captain, we're about to hit an iceberg.
CAPTAIN: Great, I could use some ice for my drink. (sound of drinking)
ICEBERG: (hits boat)
FIRST MATE: That can't be good.
CAPTAIN: Bottoms up!
AUDIENCE: (silence)
FIRST MATE: That was irony, you fools.
AUDIENCE: Baa! Moo! Where's Leonardo?
(Scene 4)
LEONARDO: I have been informed that this boat is sinking.
KATE: That is terrible.
LEONARDO: Would you like to engage in some more immoral-but-justified
behavior?
KATE: Certainly.
WEASELLY FIANCE: Excuse me, I --
AUDIENCE: Boo! Boo!
WEASELLY FIANCE: (aside) I'm getting the raw end of the deal here. (to
Leonardo) Listen, Leonardo, to cement my
morally-dubious-yet-somehow-less-annoying-than-you personality,
I am going to handcuff you to this pipe, here in a room that will
soon be filling with water, due to the fact that we are sinking,
which I believe has been mentioned previously.
LEONARDO: Why don't you just shoot me?
WEASELLY FIANCE: Because then you wouldn't be able to escape and save
Kate from me. Of course, you're going to die anyway--
AUDIENCE: Don't spoil it for us! Boo!
LEONARDO: He's right, though. I am doomed.
AUDIENCE: Aww, look how cute he is when he's doomed.
WEASELLY FIANCE: I hate you people.
(Scene 5)
150-YEAR-OLD KATE: And that's when Leonardo rescued me from my evil
fiance and helped me float on a board in the water. Of course, if
it hadn't been for having to rescue HIM, I could have gotten on
an actual lifeboat, and not frozen my legs nearly off. Anyway,
he's pretty much dead now, and I'm well over a thousand years
old, and who's making my supper? I need a bath. Turn down that
Enya music, it's making my ears hurt. You kids today, with your
loud music. Why, when I was -- hey! Don't you walk away from
me, Mr. Snooty- Patootie! I'd turn you over my knee, if I had
one. I'll beat you in the head with this huge diamond! Come back
here!
(Fade to black; roll credits; play annoying Celine Dion song.)
posted by Uganda Tourism Press Journalists at 7:47 AM
7 Comments:
Hilarious!! Even more so considering I watched Titanic twice and cried over it for about a month.
Hey!
I dont blame the ladies, the movie was great..bt I always watch a movie once, doing it severaly doenst work 4 me..Bt that's agreat preview!!
am in a cafe and my time is goin down real quick...so I'ma save this for office!
ROTFL...dust on my teeth!
This is excellent. I've never watched that movie (partly because Celine Dion scares me) but now, thanks to you and Eric Snider, I don't have to. Thanks.
Can you do a translated version? Like Luganda, The chaps at Ceas4's kafunda need a part 1½.
It would give them a great moment because every sunday they show the same Titanic under the slot "Lovers special" and the same people watch the same movie all the time.
Its sad that there is a Titanic which leaves PortBell every sunday and ends up sinking in the open lake slightly beyond Entebbe.
According to the voice, if you go to Entebbe, you can see where the survivor landed.
this is so wickedly funny.
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