Tuesday 12 May 2009

A new film, directed by Ron Glass

I was searching around on the internet earlier today when I came across this film I had never heard of before. My attention was drawn when I noticed that it was directed by the legendary Ron Glass. Below is a poster for the film, and a brief description of the storyline. It sounds amazing!

Scuffle Society.

This dark comedy thriller explores a society of increasingly emasculated men. Ron Glass (Ron Glass) is a thirty year old insomniac working for an emotionless car company, whose life is a monotonous spiral of consistent boredom. But one day he meets the enigmatic, and dynamic, Alan Tudyk (Alan Tudyk) and his life is changed forever.


“Your eyes will literally explode!!” The Daily Mail


“Tudyk presents his slipperiest performance to date” Anglers Weekly


“So, are Ron Glass and Alan Tudyk like the same person in the film or what? I didn’t really get it. Violent too.” The Idiot’s Press

After searching round a bit more, I found a plot synopsis someone had written. Apparently Alan Tudyk starts up some sort of ‘Scuffle Society’ where men gather to scuffle and thus reassert their flagging masculinity. However the society expands in members and goals, to the point where Ron Glass doesn’t feel they are fully in control. The society graduates to acts of vandalism, bordering on terrorism, and then Alan Tudyk disappears. Ron Glass then has to come to terms with the fact that Alan Tudyk is actually just another side to his personality – but can he do this in time to stop the headquarters of ten credit card companies being blown up? No, he can’t.

Apparently Ron Glass was criticised for the violence and language used in this film, as well as the film being massively over-budget, at $8 Billion USD. The reason for this was that Ron Glass insisted that the actual headquarters of ten actual credit companies had to be blown up for the finale of the film. Ron was then further criticised for not telling anyone that the headquarters were going to be blown up, and thus caused the deaths of 38,000 employees. When questioned by the press, Ron Glass was quoted as saying that it ‘was necessary for the realism of the film’.

2 comments:

  1. This is too much, I'm still reeling with excitement over the proportionate epic comedy that is 'Albie' and now this
    Are these massive over budgeted films to blame for our recession?
    I'm not sure I want my eyeballs to explode
    x

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  2. Ha! I love James' film. Scuffle Society, brill! I'd see it.

    Ron Glass is known for overbudgeting his films sparkx. He always demands preposterous things like filming in space or blowing up things or doing 'real' magic. :-P

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