Sunday, August 30, 2020

Auteur Watch - James H. Brown

The best title he's associated with is, of course, For a Few Zombies More.  Only trouble is, gee whiz, the title's so good you don't even have to see the movie that goes along with it!  Okay, Hide and Creep's pretty good too, and... hmm!  Dare I say that For a Few Zombies More is a sequel to Hide and Creep?  I'll let the hard-working geniuses at the IMDb make that connection, however.  Speaking of which... time to check up on John Hyland again!  ...nope!  Still the Highlander.  Good for him!
But back to James H. Brown, director of the 2007 short feature, Lunch.  It's a short feature about a guy who takes revenge after his lunch is stolen from the office refrigerator.  Must've been a hell of a lunch!  He takes revenge, the only way a film director can: stealing the lunches of others, then filming their reactions.  You know, I think Lee Strasberg himself had such an exercise in one of his classes.  This also reminds me of a story I once heard... and the person who told it to me will no doubt come forward, demanding royalty payments... about a guy who had to deal with a more direct threat: a co-worker who, during lunch, just came right up, grabbed the sandwich right out of the guy's hand, declaring "This looks good!  Can I have it?"  Much like that clip of Chris Farley as the Gap Girls helping himself to some French fries that they show over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ... I'm just saying they show that clip a lot is all.  Anyway, so one day, possibly the next day, the guy took his sandwich ... but it had a bunch of hot sauce on it!  The Roy Cohn special soon ended after that.  So I guess the next question is: is this classic available on YouTube?  That's about as far as I'm going to find it.  Vimeo, out... ah, close enough.  Enjoy this timeless classic yourselves.

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