Comments on: Historia de un Letrero (The Story of a Sign)

By: Boogey

Boogey — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:35:32 +0000

Yotam, Take a look at:

http://adage.com/garfieldtheblog/post?article_id=110104

By: simon

simon — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:24:03 +0000

I don’t like those over simplistic messages, where they try to make you feel like you can change the world with a witty rephrasing. Fuck that, it’s way more complicated than they want to make believe, It kinda reminds me of the rich ‘hippies’ I knew.

By: Louisa

Louisa — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:32:17 +0000

Pretty cheesy but cute. Did anyone else notice the handsomeness of the suit guy? Oh my. I think I’m in love.

By: mmgc

mmgc — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:31:58 +0000

If a study in compassion — freely giving of talent and time that alters someone’s circumstances for the better, instead of taking the easy way out by tossing a coin — is “cheesy”, then I hope that my pantry is someday full of waxed rounds.

I would rather see hundreds of shorts like this than some dark, angst-ridden, self-indulgent piece of “art” that might be a masterpiece of cinema or technical achievement, but as cold and barren as the middle of Antarctica.

“hark” and “Ty” — if you like this, you’d enjoy Chaplin’s “City Lights” a great deal.

By: Technologik

Technologik — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:56:55 +0000

Suitguy gave him many, just not personally. Cheesy, yes…Also very good.

By: Ty

Ty — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:18:32 +0000

ditto, hark. the tears were unexpected!

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:14:13 +0000

Its sweet. I didnt notice but does Suitguy even give Blindbeggar a single coin?

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:38:31 +0000

Cheezy or not I LIKED IT!

By: yotam

yotam — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:39:31 +0000

This is just a poor 1:1 reenactment of a famous old tale by some renowned advertising geezer I can’t remember his name. It is written in several advertising books, written in the 80s i think.

By: anna_k

anna_k — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:33:10 +0000

Jaay-Zus wept!! How cheesy can you get? Probably not a lot more than this cheesy piece of cheesacious cheeseness.

I mean, it’s all there: the whiny music, the suit, the sunglasses… the humble beggar, of course… a plot hole the size of Bogotá when Suit magically scribbles something on Humbly’s piece of cardboard in one cut without Beggy Beggar actually questioning what goes on… good thing he’s already blind, though: the cheesy colours would have ruined his eyesight forever anyway. Sadly he’s probably deaf now, too, what with all the cheesy music.

I predict this one’s going to win big. Just the right amount of cheese, artificiality and downright ignorance of anything actually going on in the (so called) real world.

By: hark

hark — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:23:57 +0000

sorry, I disagree. the ending made the tears jump right out of my eyes.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 24 May 2008 12:59:57 +0000

Oh man, that’s disappointing. I was excited to see your article about these films, and I watched them all, but this was probably my least favourite one.

My favourites are the dutch film, Balbezit, the american animation, Papiroflexia, and the romanian film Lecita de Box (The Boxing lesson).