Short short motorcycle film (inspired by 1974 Australian film STONE)

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S21FOLGORE

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I’m a big fan of “short short story.

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Well, whether it really was Earnest Hemingway’s creation or not,
I like most of his stuff, esepcially short stories.
(Except, maybe “The snows of Kilimanjaro”.)

And, I also like “extremely short” films.


youtu.be/LMXiQB5ilYY
https://youtu.be/LMXiQB5ilYY

The idea came from the opening sequence of 1974 Australian film, "STONE"
(opening scene on youtube, not great quality, but you get the idea)


youtu.be/8V9lciB21ds
https://youtu.be/8V9lciB21ds

If you are curious, here's full movie in much better quality.
(That scene starts at around 6:30)

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bngr3
 
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S21FOLGORE

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Thanks.

It is great that you could interpret this short movie that deep.
That’s why I like to do this kind of “short film” without dialogue / monologue.
Telling story by just graphics is so much more fun.

(There are quite a bit of “motorcycle short films” on Youtube.
Many of them, especially the ones featuring cruiser / hardtail bobber / scrambler type of thing
tend to have voice over narration, which I don’t find interesting, at all.
(Please note: I am not saying they are bad, I am only saying they are not
for me. And, it really doesn’t surprise me.
Motorcycles are neither fashion nor lifestyle statement (to me),
I don’t grow facial hair, I don’t have tattoos, I don’t smoke, I don’t drink,
and I don’t do drugs.)

A good example of “graphic story telling, rather than heavily relying on words” would be
Akira Kurosawa’s films.
(You can grasp the story line even without subtitles. Because, in his film, the “picture” is telling the
story.)
Another good example would be first 15-20 minutes of “MAD MAX 2 (The road warrior)”.
Watch it again if you have already seen it, while paying attention how many times, how much words
Max speaks.
(Throughout the movie (Mad Max2), Max Rockatansky speaks very little.
Most of the “story telling” in this film is done by visual.)


Anyhow, some more example of great motorcycle cinematography, without the word.


From first Mad Max


youtu.be/tqPO-kHRIvU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqPO-kHRIvU

Ending of “Rumble Fish”
(You can’t see his face, but it’s Matt Dillon,
You can’t see the color (because it’s blakc &white film) but it’s “fire cracker red” GPz550)


youtu.be/-t3t-k92Dx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t3t-k92Dx8&feature=emb_logo
 
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Those old bikes like the SR400's are so cool. Basic no frills dead reliable go anywhere bike. Well maybe the Suzuki's weren't so reliable.
 
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