VERTIGOED: A Press Play mash-up contest

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• Jake | January 23, 2012 1:06 AMReply

  Can't get enough of the FERRIS BUELLER, BASTERDS, JETSONS, AMERICAN WEREWOLF, and MEAN GIRLS entries.

• Joe | January 22, 2012 11:44 PMReply

  Wow...7K views on the Zoolander one! And well deserved, it's the best one by far.

• Frank Coppola | January 22, 2012 3:59 PMReply

  I love ALIEN by William D'Annucci. I've watched his mashup three times. What's really impressive is I think about it at various times of the day. Way to go.

• Madeline Elster | January 21, 2012 11:51 PMReply

  I'd say either TROLL 2 or INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. One is hilarious, the other is perfect.

• Eric | January 21, 2012 6:03 PMReply

  I'm pulling for Alien. Eerily beautiful.. The last scene becomes a tragic and heroic ballet.

• Domenick Fraumeni | January 20, 2012 10:59 PMReply

  I second the ALIEN piece. To turn a horror/action climax into something sad and almost romantic brings home the point of how just altering one element of a movie can dramatically alter it.

• Bob Gutowski | January 20, 2012 10:46 PMReply

  So much good stuff. I like how my pal Bill D'Annucci's ALIEN/VERTIGO blend makes it seems as though Ripley thought she had left her murderous lover behind, and is forced to finally destroy him through a musical haze of the passion they'd known.

• chuck cirino | January 18, 2012 7:56 PMReply

  Old news. Swap these two soundtracks: The 'trench' scenes from "Star Wars: A New Hope" with the 'trench' scene from "633 Squadron". It's a perfect fit. I experimented with this over 20 years ago.

• Ali Arikan | January 19, 2012 4:42 AM

  "I used to 'Vertigo' movies before it was cool!" God go with you; you trailblaizer, you...

• Dexter | January 18, 2012 7:11 PMReply

  Nobody did A PLACE IN THE SUN yet?

• Wookiee | January 18, 2012 8:43 AMReply

  Akira is my favorite so far. and i wont mention Wall-e, because they stole my idea D:< (before i could even think of it, no less!)

• ProgGrrl | January 12, 2012 12:14 PMReply

  Brilliant idea.
  
  My favorite thing about this whole Novak/Vertigo/Artist kerfluffle is that this Hermann theme is an unbelievably obvious "rape" of the very famous love theme from Wagner's Tristan & Isolde. So. Whatever.

• Scottie Ferguson | January 20, 2012 1:26 AM

  Makes me wonder if you've ever bothered listening to Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde", as Herrmann's work surely echoes the piece, but is far from being "an unbelievably obvious 'rape' of the very famous love theme". You may need to take another listen.

• Matt Zoller Seitz | January 11, 2012 3:24 PMReply

  Just added a clarifying sentence: "The pairing that our judges decide is most imaginative and altogether satisfying will win the prize." Hope that helps.

• Ronnie D. | January 11, 2012 1:33 PMReply

  What is the contest? The piece in which the music best fits the scene, or worst fits the scene? i.e. "Is there any clip, no matter how silly, nonsensical, goofy or foul, that the score to Vertigo can't ennoble? Let's find out!" It's not very clear what you are looking for.

• monty | January 11, 2012 1:16 PMReply

  The German captions are a great touch. Together with the music they bring out a flavor I hadn't noticed before in the very familiar Death Star sequence. May have to re-watch the film with German audio just to see if that effect works throughout.
  
  Thanks kevin!

• Christoph Hochhäusler | January 11, 2012 9:41 AMReply

  I think Novak's feelings deserve respect. To call the use of Herman's score „rape” is certainly a poor choice of words, but I see no reason to make fun of her. She has a point and while we have gotten used to a culture of remix and reappropriation, she obviously did not. Herman did write the score for a specific use, and for a much worthier film. I can see why she gets upset. Of course Herman himself „stole” quite a lot from Wagner (Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal) for his Vertigo-score...

• Christoph Hochhäusler | January 11, 2012 4:59 PM

  @Kevin,
  it really is a stupid use of words, I agree. Also, there is a reason why the Vertigo score is one of the most widely used temp scores --- it fits pretty much everywhere, because it follows it's own logic, has very little 'mickey mousing' elements unlike many other Hollywood scores now and then.
  
  As far as I know, nobody tried a 'reunification' of the Dreileben films, but feel free ... I'd be curious to see a new version. (happy you like it).

• Kevin B. Lee | January 11, 2012 10:37 AM

  Christoph, I don't think anyone responsible for this article or contest intends to disrespect Novak's point of view (though I take exception to the rather crude way she expressed it, which for one thing is disrespectful to victims of rape). But as you say, we live in different times and values concerning cultural creation than we did 50 years ago. I think a work should be judged not by whether it re-appropriates an existing work, but how successfully it does so. (By that measure I think the use of Bernard Herrmann's score in THE ARTIST is pretty uninspired and misguided).
  
  Also, I'm curious, has anyone explored the possibility of a "supercut" version of DREILEBEN in which the three sections are interwoven into one continuous narrative? I don't mean to suggest this in any disrespectful way towards the work of you, Christan Petzold or Dominik Graf. (DREILEBEN was one of my favorite films of 2011 and I love how the separate films have a dialogue with each other much like the correspondence between the three of you that inspired the project). It's just how a "remix" mind works.

• aragorne1970 | January 11, 2012 2:45 AMReply

  kim novak is jut an old and angry lady

• Bandito | January 11, 2012 9:48 AM

  @ARAGORNE1970 Maybe, but Novak speaks for a lot of people of all ages who have a very narrow and precious concept of what art is and what constitutes property and free expression in this era of corporate totalitarianism. Lee's video graffiti here honors the original work better than any straightforward but hollow Hollywood tribute.
  
  Also, the shit is funny as hell.