{"id":926,"date":"2008-10-14T00:04:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T00:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2008-10-14T00:04:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T00:04:49","slug":"evil-league-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Evil League of Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad Horse put out the call: the Evil League of Evil was seeking applicants<\/a>. A rare opportunity to get on-side with the Thoroughbred of Sin. Many people rose to the challenge. And I helped one of those people. Here’s the app:
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Evil League of Evil Application: The Embezzler<\/a> from Jarratt Gray<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.
\nThis is all a spin-off from internet musical Dr Horrible<\/a>, created by Buffy-maestro Joss Whedon during the writers’ strike. When Dr Horrible is released to DVD, ten or so ELE applicants will round out the package. The open call was an invitation to compete for one of those spots.
\nJB saw his chance and devised a heck of a script around the Embezzler character. He gathered together a crew of amigos and amigas to make it all happen. A lot of effort went into prep, and a lot into editing etc. afterwards, but it still felt like the day of the shoot was when it all happened – always to remember, shooting a film takes a lot of effort. I was recruited to play second-string character Devil’s Advocate, and when we did a script readthrough in the morning I took the opportunity to stick my nose in about how the story resolved. To my delight, the whole crew managed to usefully find a shared creative energy – sometimes too many cooks will spoil the broth, but here it felt like every idea contributed moved us closer to a solid final product. I note that I am co-credited on the script, but to be honest, it’s very close to JB’s original, and most of the changes originated from other people – my main contribution was finding a good structure for a three-minute bit, and even then I had lots of help.
\nIt was cool to have Jarratt behind the camera. its the first time we’ve worked together on a film since ’99 I think, and his expertise has grown – he does this sort of thing for a living after all. The rest of us could have put our heads together and got the material down to about 3′ 15″, but the only way we would have made the required 3 minutes was by cutting out jokes. Jarratt was able to apply years of experience to slice it down to 3 minutes without losing anything important, finding just the right way to compress information. That is highly impressive to me.
\nDirecting was shared between everyone, even me for a bit (is this the first time I’ve directed since the nonsensical Morgue’s World project of ’92?) and in fact everyone pitched in all over the place. Lovely crew made a very busy shoot a delightful experience. I had some doubts when I arrived in the morning that it would all get done but it did, and while it was hard work it wasn’t unpleasant. Good fun times were had, pizza was scoffed, and baby Hurricane made numerous behind-the-scenes appearances.
\nSpeaking of Baby Hurricane, here’s his application, the work of Debz<\/a> (the assessor in the Embezzler vid) and Matt C<\/a> (who spent most of the shoot wandering the streets with the leetle super hero). It’s a treat as well. Good luck to them both!
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Bad Horse put out the call: the Evil League of Evil was seeking applicants. A rare opportunity to get on-side with the Thoroughbred of Sin. Many people rose to the challenge. And I helped one of those people. Here’s the app: Evil League of Evil Application: The Embezzler from Jarratt Gray on Vimeo. This is … Continue reading Evil League of Evil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-also"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-eW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}