Thursday, 5 February 2009

And the winner is..?

In the first writing competition of the year over at, Save The Cat website, you are asked to think of a famous movie, and then replace one of its letters with another to form a new, preferably humorous new film title and then write a 'save the cat' like logline -the kind of description of the film you might find in the TV guide. Ladies, gentlefolk...here are four entries that I came up with when I should have been correcting colour proofs, admiring my own typographical genius...or something work related. Just in case it's not plainly obviously what films I've gently mocked, they are; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Catch-22, Cloverfield, and The Italian Job.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S VEST
A violent haberdasher is transferred to a mental institution where he meets a controlling nurse intent on keeping the other patients dressed in beige. In a brief and bitter struggle of wits and woolly hats, he opens the eyes of the other patients to the wonder of denim.

LATCH-22
A U.S. Army Air Force airman waiting out the war on an Italian island struggles to understand the point of having so many latches on the door of his B-52 bomber.

CLOVERFIEND
Five heroin-starved New Yorkers with the shakes film an "alien invasion."

THE ITALIAN HOB
A hotchpotch of bank robbers get misdirected through a Turin traffic jam and have to make do stealing designer kitchen utensils.

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