They're Made Out of Meat

[serai]

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They're Made Out of Meat

Written by Terry Bisson, Directed by Stephen O'Regan
Starring Tom Noonan and Ben Bailey

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Please click the above link and watch. The film you will see, They're Made Out of Meat, is just over seven minutes long and it is...there is nothing I can say, really. Nothing that will get across the...what it has. It occupies an honored place in my Top Ten Short Films, and at least three of its lines have become in-jokes between me and Spike. It's completely...just watch it. Trust me.

And let me know what you think. Because I'd really like to hear other people's opinions on this.


ETA: I just thought of one thing I can say about it: I'd kill to be able to write like that.

Comments

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*snerk* The things that make checking your flist a truly interesting prospect at two in the morning...

(must figure out how to embed things...)

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Youtube provides the embedding code all made up and ready. You just copy and paste it into your journal.

[belleferret.livejournal.com]

I have seen this before and it is indeed brilliant! "Who wants to meet meat?" LOL!!

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

OMG. I saw this a while back. It is so, so good...

[oohasparklie.livejournal.com]

Well, that was just bizarre, but I liked it. The guy in the suit is terrific with the eyebrow and all.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, is this the one about aliens? Can't see the movie yet (home computer died) but I read the story years ago and enjoyed it so much I ripped it out of the paper and kept it ever since.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Tom Noonan is so wonderfully flip with that line. That "Spare me!" is wonderful, too. And I am quite in mad love with Ben Bailey's eyebrow.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Yep. A nice length of mental floss can make one's day. ;)

[rachstonebreakr.livejournal.com]

splendid! I hadn't seen it, so THANK YOU for brightening my otherwise very dull day (reloading my PC for the umpteenth time and needing something to cheer me up)

~ Rach (still laughing about MEAT)

[ferretdad.livejournal.com]

What you said about Ben Bailey's eyebrow. What princessofg said about your "noodly appendage" icon.

I love this. I love it the way I love Gary Larson's one-panel cartoons. It takes an isolated moment, and an emotion, and implies a context for it. We're able to relate to the scene anyways, just because the context is suggested -- but we're left wondering about the context.

"But, then, what does the thinking? Don't they have a brain?"
"Oh, they have a brain, all right. But it's... meat."

It implies that there's an alternative. What the alternative is is left to our imaginations; but clearly it is so foreign to meat that they're revolted. Why such a strong reaction? We'll never know. It's a tease!

[fordsflappers.livejournal.com]

That attitude was widely held by Platonists, Manichaeans, and many early Christian ascetics.