Earth Vs. the Full Monty
Archon 27 |
I'd been wanting to put
together this idea as early as 2001, but things didn't come together
until 2 years later, when I could recruit some friends to
participate.
The original inspiration, if you're not familiar with it, is the old 1956 SF movie "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers". I'd always had a fondness for it, ever since I saw it on TV as a kid 'way back in the early 1960s. I thought it'd be fun to pay homage to it and other movies like it, but with a cross-genre twist. |
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The presentation starts
with a sound effect of one of the original saucer sound effects,
followed by the movie's ominous-sounding opening. The
voiceover (mine) describes how the aliens were defeated 47 years ago by
a "brave band of American scientists". Now, they've
returned with a "terrible new weapon calculated to drive Earth's
population mad!". Suddenly, there's a record
scratch and the music switches to Tom Jones' version of "You Can Leave
Your Hat On".
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It's then we go into a strip
routine.
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Piece by
piece, the aliens strip down, until the "the grand finale",,,,
If you want to skip to the end, click here |
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The Saucermen were put together in about 3 months time,
working about 1 evening a week, until the last month when we were
working 2 or 3 evenings a week. Want to find out how we made them? Read on, MacDuff! |
(Photos by Linda Zang) |
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