Re: Expelled trailer parody script
Timberwoof
<e08ad30a-2d7d-432f...@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
jdb <con...@jdbartlett.com> wrote:
> I think the Expelled "Super Trailer" is a great opportunity for
> parody. I slapped this script together and planned to make an
> accompanying YouTube video composed /entirely/ of Lord Privy Seals.
> Released under Creative Commons, the audio could also find its way
> into podcasts etc.
>
> Unfortunately, I lack the audio equipment (my PB's built-in Mic sits
> right next to its fan--smart one, Apple) to make a listenable
> recording. I'm throwing the script up here to see if anyone is
> interested in lending voice talent. Any good Ben Stein impersonators
> out there?
>
> Here's the script:
>
> --
>
> Hello. I'm a lousy impersonation of actor Ben Stein. You may
> recognize my name from that one game show, or for my minor role in
> Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Did you know I was also speech writer for
> Richard Nixon, one of this country's most beloved presidents? Yes,
> I'm a pretty great guy.
>
> But I also have delusions. Very big delusions. For example, that God
> carved all our rocks from bigger rocks, and that humans were created
> when God slapped some mud together and puffed on it. I thought this
> was straightforward, but many other people, very smart people, even
> many Christians, prefer to believe the empirical evidence that
> diversity of life is the result of millions of generations of
> naturally occurring mutations combined with non-random natural
> selection and other mechanisms and processes; in a word: evolution.
>
> I have no problem if people want to believe such unholy heresy. At
> least, that's what I thought until I got this role.
>
> This is Richard Von Sternberg, righteous Christian warrior editor for
> the journal of the Biological Society of Washington. That is, until
> June 2004, when he retired. One of his last editorial decisions was
> to subvert the peer review process and approve a fringe article
> irrelevant to his journal's subject without properly consulting the
> society's council, thus causing his employer a lot of embarrassment.
>
> In Galileo's day, they would have loved the paper he approved, because
> they were really open minded people. Unfortunately, we don't live in
> Galileo's day, so we can't force people into life imprisonment for
> contradicting church doctrine. Scienceists are allowed to teach
> evolution, just because empirical evidence conveniently consistently
> confirms it.
>
> But it's not just scienceists who support evolution. The media's in
> on it, the courts, the education system, the fossil record, even our
> DNA. It seems to be a universal conspiracy reaching all the way to
> God himself. For example, in the Dover trial, creationists couldn't
> even convince a court of laymen their ideas had any basis in science.
> Clearly, everyone in in the courtroom except for the creationists had
> been brainwashed by scienceism.
>
> And you know what else? Hitler loved Darwin. He loved Darwin so much
> that books about Darwinism were banned by the Nazi party. When Hitler
> wrote Mein Kampf, he categorically stated that he persecuted Jews and
> others because he considered it God's will. Clearly, by "God" he
> meant Darwin.
>
> I now realize it's my duty to warn you before it's too late: you could
> watch this movie, but if you do, you'll either be really bored, or
> enraged that we're insulting your intelligence with such blatant
> falsehoods. I simply ask you to forget that we had complete freedom
> of speech to do so; it may discredit our claim of oppression. After
> four hours of my monotonic drone and drivel, will anyone in the
> theater be awake?
>
> --
>
> Any takers?
I'll give it a go. I could even do a good bad "Lord. Privy. Seal."
iMovie to go with it and post it on YouTube. (I'll plug an external
microphone into my Mac. :p )
--
Timberwoof <me at timberwoof dot com> http://www.timberwoof.com
"When you post sewage, don't blame others for
emptying chamber pots in your direction." 気hris L.
QED
wrote:
>I think the Expelled "Super Trailer" is a great opportunity for
>parody. I slapped this script together and planned to make an
>accompanying YouTube video composed /entirely/ of Lord Privy Seals.
>Released under Creative Commons, the audio could also find its way
>into podcasts etc.
I like this one:
Don Cates
jdb wrote:
> I think the Expelled "Super Trailer" is a great opportunity for
> parody. I slapped this script together and planned to make an
> accompanying YouTube video composed /entirely/ of Lord Privy Seals.
> Released under Creative Commons, the audio could also find its way
> into podcasts etc.
>
Anyone? Anyone? ...
--
Don Cates ("he's a cunning rascal" - PN)
Rusty Sites
The sidebar had a video of Ben Stein on the 700 club which I had not
seen. Who needs a parody? These guys are self parodies. Stein
actually says that evolution has problems because it doesn't explain how
gravity works, it doesn't explain how thermodynamics works, it doesn't
explain how planetary motion and the laws of physics work. I would
think a few of the ID people are wanting to distance themselves from Ben
Stein by now. Evolution has lots more problems of course. It doesn't
explain how the mail works, it doesn't explain why the dollar is
slipping against other currencies, it doesn't tell you how to get a job,
and lot's more.
Timberwoof
<5410cadc-01ca-4001...@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
jdb <con...@jdbartlett.com> wrote:
> These are just ideas, of course; I'm not asking you to use them,
> especially if you have better ones of your own.
These are great; I think that to do proper honor to this project, I
shouldn't spend too much time on it. This helps.
Additional images are welcome.
Tom McDonald
I was interested in what Stein said in the first half of the 700
Club snippet you refer to. He said Mammon has taken over the US,
that Wall Street and the Republican supply-siders are his chief
priests (paraphrasing here), that Bush inherited a moral cesspool
but a budget surplus, and that the only way out would be involve
a large increase in the taxes of the wealthy, 'who could afford it'.
Then he went on to spout the nonsense you listed.
I have to wonder whether Stein is taking the piss out of the
IDiots, along with a trunk-full of their money. That would be sweet.
But then, I thought it possible that Bush was beating the war
drums against Iraq as part of a back-room deal with the Europeans
to do a carrot-and-stick with Saddam, to get him to acquiesce to
more reasonable demands. So I may tend to have an excess of hope
over experience.
Timberwoof
<timberwoof.spam-7B...@nnrp-virt.nntp.sonic.net>,
Timberwoof <timberw...@inferNOnoSPAMsoft.com> wrote:
> In article
> <5410cadc-01ca-4001...@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> jdb <con...@jdbartlett.com> wrote:
>
> > These are just ideas, of course; I'm not asking you to use them,
> > especially if you have better ones of your own.
>
> These are great; I think that to do proper honor to this project, I
> shouldn't spend too much time on it. This helps.
>
> Additional images are welcome.
I went through jdb's script and looked up all the key phrases in Google
Images. This will be a riot. You will roll on the floor laughing for the
illustration for "conspiracy reaching all the way to God himself". Now I
just need to record the narration, time the phrases, and overuse the Ken
Burns Effect. I'll post it on Youtube and let y'all know.
Greg G.
> > Any good Ben Stein impersonators
> > out there?
...
> Anyone? Anyone? ...
VoiceOfReason
<...>
> Any good Ben Stein impersonators
> out there?
My kitchen exhaust fan does a fair job.
Mark Isaak
Chez Watt nomination (sound defects category) for:
>> Any good Ben Stein impersonators out there?
>
> My kitchen exhaust fan does a fair job.
--
Mark Isaak eciton (at) earthlink (dot) net
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering
Walter Bushell
<7ee643b4-0aef-4ca9...@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
VoiceOfReason <papa...@cybertown.com> wrote:
If you are outside standing in the exhaust.
--
What is done in the heat of battle is (normatively) judged
by different standards than what is leisurely planned in
comfortable conference rooms.
John Wilkins
> In article
> <7ee643b4-0aef-4ca9...@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
> VoiceOfReason <papa...@cybertown.com> wrote:
>
> > jdb wrote:
> >
> > <...>
> >
> > > Any good Ben Stein impersonators
> > > out there?
> >
> > My kitchen exhaust fan does a fair job.
>
> If you are outside standing in the exhaust.
Any hot air outlet will do.
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
Walter Bushell
j.wil...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:
> Walter Bushell <pr...@xxx.com> wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <7ee643b4-0aef-4ca9...@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
> > VoiceOfReason <papa...@cybertown.com> wrote:
> >
> > > jdb wrote:
> > >
> > > <...>
> > >
> > > > Any good Ben Stein impersonators
> > > > out there?
> > >
> > > My kitchen exhaust fan does a fair job.
> >
> > If you are outside standing in the exhaust.
>
> Any hot air outlet will do.
Or cold in the winter time.