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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a fascinating folly, taking that premise entirely seriously (there are four jokes in the film, one being the title) to the point that its blaming historical tragedies on vampires without a hint of levity is at least dubiously tasteful. It takes pains not to blame slavery on vampires, while happily blaming them for other things.

Still, at least most of it is in focus.

Right then. Five points (out of fifty or sixty or so) at the Conpulsion pub quiz will be determined by Indiana Jones And The Title Round in which contestants have to work out the original character name in a movie title which has been replaced by Indiana Jones.

So, easy example, Indiana Jones And The Philosopher's Stone. If you can't get that one, I believe you have to be thrown out of Edinburgh.

Of course these will all be answers where replacing the titular character with Indiana Jones would make a cool movie. But then this is the case with most movies.

It could also be applied to books, as it is in that example - Chris oft joked/threatened running Indiana Jones And The Mountains Of Madness - but let's keep it simple.

And yes, this is also how I write Buffy convention adventures.

(What would Indy hunting for the Philosopher's Stone be like? Obviously there are rivals looking for it as well, a mysterious figure who may be immortal, and probably a clue in a castle in Scotland which is now a boarding school.

And that's not the weirdest put-Indy-in-a-movie idea I ever had. That would be Indiana Jones And The Last Of England. Indy travels to London during the Blitz to help the removal of key works from the British Museum, and discovers a mysterious map on the back of a Durer painting of the Virgin Mary. Teaming up with a brilliant art historian (Tilda Swinton) he travels first to Switzerland, a hotbed of intrigue, and then to partially occupied Norway in search of a prophecy that might mean the Allies cannot win the War!)

ORCS!

... Right?

Maddened by my own success (three people said they liked it) I'm thinking of following the Vampire trailer with one for New Wave Requiem.

With the self-imposed challenge of not using footage from Near Dark or The Lost Boys, since they actually came out later than its setting (the 1980s in general but 1983 as of the included adventure) and they'd make it far too easy. So anything late 70s to 1983 could get in. The Hunger would be fair game, and I already have Escape From New York and The Warriors... Alternatively I could hack it together from modern media set in the 80s. Of course, Let The Right One In would, again, be too easy.

Heading out of GEAS last night, I was reminded of Steve Ironside's almost-legendary Doctor Who LARP.

Hrm. It would be pretty straightforward to do...

Stopping now.

So I had an interesting evening at the Best of 2007 screening for the 48 Hour Film Project.

Sounds like we won't be able to put a crew together at work - and we've rented the editing suite on Sunday to another team already. (Drat!)

The group which asked me the above question sounds pretty strong on technical but low on acting and writing - unlike the group I was sitting next to that has about fifteen people - who are all writers.

You're all not busy on the 16th-18th, right?



Right?