Austin/San Antonio, Texas based digital film maker, animator and motion graphics editor.
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Desmond has a barrow in the marketplace
Molly is the singer in a band
Desmond says to Molly, girl, I like your face
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand
Ob la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Ob-la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Desmond takes a trolley to the jeweller’s store
Buys a twenty carat golden ring
Takes it back to Molly waiting at the door
And as he gives it to her she begins to sing
Ob la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Ob-la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
In a couple of years they have built
A home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones
Happy ever after in the market place
Desmond lets the children lend a hand
Molly stays at home and does her pretty face
And in the evening she still sings it with the band
Ob la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Ob-la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
In a couple of years they have built
A home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones
Happy ever after in the market place
Molly lets the children lend a hand
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening she’s a singer with the band
Ob la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Ob-la di, ob-la-da, life goes on, bra
La-la, how the life goes on
Alan Moore’s ground breaking comic book THE WATCHMEN was brilliant. A comment on the defunct CHARLETON COMICS characters, and a comment on comic books in general.
I ‘ve always thought that Rorschach was at least partially inspired by Robert Deniro’s portrayal of Travis Bickle in Martin Scorcese’s TAXI DRIVER.
This illustrated prequel to that comic is “Before Watchmen“.
The water color finishing is fantastic. It was done by original Watchmen colorist John Higgins, It reminds me of the fantastic illustrations in RANXEROX, a violent and explicit Italian comic book series reprinted in HEAVY METAL in the 1980s.
( I also think that Arnold Schwarzenegger in the original 1985 TERMINATOR was partially inspired by Ranxerox)
You might think that there would be a copyright issue, you can’t put a character into your comic book with the owners permission. Then again, DC comics is owned by Warner Brothers, which released TAXI DRIVER. So WB wouldn’t sue one of its own subsidiaries over something so minor would they?
I added music and voice over in Adobe Premiere. This was made in Flash ( Adobe Animate), Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.
Script:
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Is ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ based on a true story?
There is a critically acclaimed film out now called ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’.
You might think it is based on a true story. The writer says it isn’t.
Writer Martin McDonagh says he heard about billboards ( or maybe saw them- the stories vary) somewhere “between Louisiana and Florida” criticizing the local Police about an unsolved homicide.
Well I happen to know that “somewhere between Louisiana and Florida” is a little town called Vidor, Texas.
Vidor, Texas has had a series of billboards on I-10 ( the main highway that leads from Lousiana through Vidor, Beaumont and then onto the mega city of Houston).
Several different billboards were placed on the roadside. The one I saw said
” Welcome to Vidor, Texas where you can get away with murdering a woman! Why? Ask Police Chief _________ ”
A young woman named Kathy Page died under mysterious circumstances in Vidor, Texas in 1991. Her father, James Fulton, is convinced Kathy’s estranged husband (Steven Page) was responsible and he ( Fulton) is outraged that the Vidor Police couldn’t convict him (Page).
He paid for a series of billboards criticizing the Vidor Police.
There is an urban legend that the Vidor Area Ku Klux Klan had posted a billboard on the edge of town saying “N—ger Don’t let the sun set on you in Vidor”. Many people say they remember this sign, and many say there are pictures of it….. but I haven’t seen them (yet).
In the acclaimed documentary ” The Thin Blue Line” one of the characters was from vidor and they show a klan sign nailed to a tree. But its just a plank with the letters “kkk” painted on it. Not really a billboard.
I think many folks who drive past the “Murder a woman” billboard on I- 10 THINK they have seen the infamous Klan sign. But the Kathy Page case has nothing to with racism or the KKK.
I was living in Beaumont, Texas working at a TV station. I can remember all the news stories about the desegregation of nearby Vidor Texas, and the national hoopla when the last African American resident of the Vidor housing complex left and then was killed 12 hours later in a rough neighborhood in Beaumont, Texas.
I spent 5 years researching and shooting an independent documentary on the death of Bill Simpson.
I didn’t find the story I thought I would find. But I told truth as best I could. I really think the movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri was at least partially inspired by the Kathy Page case in Vidor Texas.
The billboards at least. The rest of that movie has NO connection to Vidor or the Page case. Its about a mother ( not a father) of a young girl ( in the movie she seems to be between 18 to 20) who frustrated that the local police haven’t found who killed her daughter. Beyond that, there isn’t ANY connection to what happened in Vidor. None of the characters or plot points match up to the Kathy Page case. So the billboards may have been based on the Vidor billboards, but the rest of the story is all fictional.
Here is my documentary. I cover the billboards at: 4.05
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