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movie, out somehow those wacky
Canadians manage to pull it off.
Mason:Beauty, eh?
Josh: Take off, you hoser.
The characters are spawned from
Second City Television, the Canadi
an equivalent of Saturday Night
Commentary
Mason West &
Josh Ryneal
Live. John Candy and Martin Short
also got their start on the show.
In their movie debut, Bob and
Doug McKenzie have lost their
dad’s beer money and take a trip to
the brewery looking for a beer
handout. As it would happen, ill
things are afoot at Elsinore Brewery,
where our heroes (kind of] obtain
jobs. The owner has died, and his
brother has married the owner’s
wife in a surprisingly short amount
of time. The owner’s daughter, Pam,
finds out that her uncle was the one
who killed her father. This informa
tion is revealed to her by a vision of
her father in an arcade game.
Mason: It’s like Hamlet — if he
were a Canadian girl, eh.
Josh : I didn ’t care about the plot,
but I did want to drink a lot of beer.
Mason: Beauty.
Plot be damned, this movie has
some classic moments that you
won’t find anywhere else. Such as
when Bob and Doug’s lawyer (they
were bound to get into trouble) in
stigates a full-scale martial arts beat
down on the members of the press.
Mason: I was shakin’ in my
boots, eh.
Josh: This movie also has the
most spectacular car crash I’ve
ever seen outside of “The Blues
Brothers. ” I want to move to Cana
da immediately.
What this cinematic experience
boils down to is not the plot, the
acting or the special effects, all of
which are pretty sub-par. It’s about
watching two bumbling idiots,
Turn to ‘Strange Brew’, page 7B
Spin the Bottle* bubbles with multimedia images
Cclin Cavasher (left) and Ben Hubert practice for their production of ‘Spin the Bottle* on Sunday night. The pfcy, which debate
tonight in the Pocket Playhouse, examines the relationships people make, using the party game as a continuous theme.
By Mason West
Oregon Daily Emerald
The student-operated Pocket
Playhouse begins its season
tonight with the play “Spin the
Bottle.” Written and directed by
senior video production major
Ben Martin, the play deals with
the connections between people
— how they are made and bro
ken, what sustains them and why
we need them.
The theme of a spinning bottle
perfectly reflects the unpre
dictable way the characters in the
play develop and interact. The
script and acting are so well done
that at times, it seems you aren’t
watching a play; you could just be
watching some people talking at a
party. This realism was achieved
by Martin’s unusual way of devel
oping his production.
“I had a rough sketch of what I
wanted to do, then I cast the show,”
he said. “Then I had improv ses
sions with the cast set at a party
where they came in character. ”
These parties were videotaped,
as well as other parties not involv
ing cast members. After observing
the tapes and how people inter
acted, Martin wrote the script.
“The ideas I played with and
where they went depended on
what the actors did,” he said.
The show was cast in May, and
the entire summer was spent on
the production. In addition to the
acted portion of the play, there are
video segments that help give in
sight to characters and events.
The beginning of the play
shows an edited portion of the
film “Koyaanisqatsi” by director
Godfrey Reggio. The portion of
the film shown to the audience
was intended by the original di
rector to reveal his disapproved of
what our society has become.
Martin uses a less dramatic adap
tation of this message throughout
his play.
Another blend of multimedia
in the presentation is provided by
new University professor Camille
Dussinger. Martin came into con
tact with Dussinger less than two
weeks ago by pure coincidence.
Dussinger has been working on a
continuing series of photographs
for the last seven years dealing
with the connections between
people. Her device for doing this
visually is posing people in situa
tions and somehow connecting
them physically with a piece of red
Turn to Playhouse, page 7B
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