In one of the very first episodes of the HAWPcast, I talked about an idea for a zombie movie I had. More specifically, I had an idea for a montage revolving around the protagonist’s everyday, postapocalyptic life, ending with what I referred to as “the saddest shot scene ever put to celluloid” — a guy cutting a cookie in half, eating it, replacing the other half in a tin, putting it away, and crossing off a date on his calendar marked “COOKIE DAY.”
Two different people have actually made short films depicting that very thing: “Anthony,” by Carwyn Sussex, and “Cookie Day,” by Andrew Stuelke and Spencer Claypool.
If you want, you can watch those in a marathon along with Phallus Knife Fight’s “The Chocolate Taco” and “Nick Poodoo Chapter Two Dramatic Reading.” Doing so is pretty much like watching an official HAWPcast feature film.
Whether or not this is a good thing is up to you.
“Anthony” was really impressive. It definitely was one of the saddest things I’ve seen in a while.
I feel like, of the two, Anthony was the superior interpretation, but I think it shouldn’t have referenced the calender until the very end as a reveal, and that the eating of the cookie needed to not be this musically dramatic moment. I really liked the original cookie day idea. It had a sort of twisted sad humor to it. I feel like its undermined by over-dramatizing the cookie day and foreshadowing it before it happens. But its a short film about a cookie and I am perhaps misplacing energies.
You are a muse.
As a previous commenter said I would consider “Anthony” to be the better one, although I pictured the actual cookie day to be more of the survivor’s personal thing instead of a national holiday. Still, I know it’s an interpretation, but I thought I’d mention it.
That Phallus Knife Fight guy is really something.
Oh, wow.
Thanks for featuring my vid, Anthony! And thank’s for the comments you guys’s'ss’.
Phallus’s Choco Taco is exactly how I would have invisioned it, you’ve captured what I attempted to show with ‘Anthony’ perfectly.
If anyone’s got comments or criticisms about the ‘Anthony’ vid could you ask them on the video link and I’ll happilly- hapilly- happyly- happyly- happiylylpypy ???? (How do you spell that?) reply as I don’t wanna spam up HAWP with my own things. =)
Well done on the video, bud.
Did they pay for link these stupid videos?
Did you pay for link this stupid comment?
BOOM
You should submit these to some independant film festival or something.
I cried buckets.
Goddamn you Philafofalof for incorporating an additional “sad-person-eating-food-sadly” moment.
I’m super depressed now.
Does Samit know about the nick Poodoo thing? Cause thats hilarious.
I really liked the feel of Anthony movie, but felt the tv scene was a bit out of place with the rest of the movie. Other than that it was awesome.
The chocolate taco was definitely best though. An almost perfect imagining of that scene.
Haha the best part is that all three of those short films were inspired by depression (by god)
My vision for cookie day…
1st scene- The cookie guy is puncturing a water bottle with a hammer and nail, then pouring water out of the hole into a cup of water. (shot is focused on the water bottle and cup, does not show cookie guy)
2nd scene- Camera focused on cookie guy’s profile, revealing unkempt hair, dirty skin, and hardly any clothing. The camera cuts to cookie guys back, showing that he is watching a brightly lit window, with curtains drawn, revealing nothing outside of his room.
3rd scene- cookie guy is using previously mentioned water bottle to pour water onto a cloth, then using the cloth to wash off dirt from his body.
4th scene- cookie guy is shown crossing off a date on a calendar, revealing the date as March 15, 2006. With a note listed on a week from that day.
5th scene- cookie guy is wrapping his hands using the previous cloth, the camera pans downwards revealing another water bottle, but covered in blood, with a nail still stuck inside of it.
6th scene- cookie guy crosses off another date, shown to be 5 days into the future, he walks away from the calendar to sit in front of the window. Camera cutting to outside the window, showing a busy new york street in the middle of the day.
7th scene- cookie guy is crossing off the next date, March 21st, and the camera pans across cookie guy’s room. Objects of note are water bottles filling shelving, all empty, an old television without a screen, and calendars covering a wall, all with X’s covering the dates.
8th scene- the camera cuts to an apartment door, covered in yellow and black tape, and a hand painted sign saying “CONDEMNED”. The numbers on the door are 42.
9th scene- cookie guy is crossing off the the next date, camera zooming in revealing ‘COOKIE DAY’. The camera cuts to cookie guy as he reaches to the bottom of the water bottle shelving to grab a red and green tin, carrying the tin to in front of the window, the camera cuts to above the tin, where cookie guy opens it, to tissue paper, and unfolding the tissue paper revealing two cookies. He removes one cookie and smashes it with his hammer. He takes half of the remaining crumbs of the cookie and eats them. Taking the other crumbs in his hand.
10th scene- the camera cuts to outside of cookie guy’s window, showing night time, with the curtains drawn to the point where cookie guy’s face is seen. Outside of the window are cookie crumbs laying on a fire escape railing. Cookie guy watches as some pigeons fly down to the crumbs and eats them. Cookie guy’s expression slowly grows to joy as he sees the pigeons eat the cookie crumbs.
Credits.
Any thoughts?
The implications of cookie day being a national holiday are brilliant, really. Shortly after our hero consumes his half-cookie of the year, a cry rings out. People are stirring in the streets – men who have squandered their cookies are taking up arms, to fight for the day they love, to cut down their fellow men in the name of having a dessert-snack on its namesake holiday…