Would you accept it if the actual film was good?

[bridboyross]

I want to make a sort of shogun assassin type movie except I cant afford to have proper Kimonos and cannot afford any proper samurai backdrops. Do you think you'd accept white english people dressed in bathrobes and the like if the film is meant to be a parody? Its going to be completely over the top with everything from bad dubbing, blood fountains and electro pop/japan theme? I'll probably end up doing it anyway coz i just love the whole sub genre of samurai flicks but wanted to know if a)viewers would want to watch it if it is bit lo fi and b) whether people are actually interested in it

[Citrus]

I think your idea sounds awesome, I would watch it no matter what. Well maybe if you don't have tons blood gushing, but I can probabky still be interested enough to see it.

[Jier]

You can sell anything as long as the film is good. Look at "O' Brother where art thou" it's a retelling of the Iliad and Odyssey. I can't remember it's name but there is an old Japanese film that is done with shoguns that is based of Hamlet.

You can do it. :D

[drumsofdoom]

i'd watch it

[bridboyross]

sweet, also i think the Hamlet Samurai movie could be Kagemusha or Rashomon (defininetely Kurosawa, His RAN(chaos) was based on Shakespeares King Lear), anyway yer thanks I'll get it done soon as and have it posted on here.:)

[nooneimportant77]

if you take some extra time so your characters apear to be speaking jibberish but dub it over with english so it looks like the old godzilla movies that would be soooo awesome!

oh and blood, i'm guessing you'll have a good amount of blood

[bridboyross]

exactly what I want lol

[WesScog]

You could make it a modern setting, yet still have a kind of Shogun backdrop.

Do it like the remake of Romeo and Juliet with DiCaprio, have a lot of anachronisms, and instead of it being because of a budget constraint, you can make it into a stylized choice for the setting of the film.

[SuperRyan]

Pretty much anything goes when your making a parody. The more abstract and ridiculous some parts are, usually the funnier they are.

[WesScog]

But yea to answer your original question, no matter how cheap and ridiculous something looks, a good narrative can cover up a bad camera, and a cheap production any time.

[njfilmcore]

id watch