Hey folks, Harry here... Rav is one of the contributors to the site with the most eclectic tastes out there. He's the sort that looks forward to men giving birth through their anuses ON FILM. Or wants to see a film version of GOODFELLAS as played out using CG Babies. He also is desperate to see BROWN BUNNY and wants to marry Scarlett... you know who I'm talking about... anyway, here's his latest email... this time it's about a drug addicted computer animated elephant from Norway! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!
Free Jimmy (Slipp Jimmy Fri) - The Greatest CG Film Ever Produced?
Hey Harry,
A week ago I brought up free jimmy to you in chat and you told me to send ya an email about it. Well this is it.
This is perhaps the one film I'm looking forward to most this year, and for some fucked up reason it still seems to be "Flying Under The Radar." I don't think any film website has even done a story on it ever, and the film opens this september.
This is a feature adaptation of a popular Norwegian TV show, the characters of Odd and Geir are apparently two speed-freaks, the TV show was called "Two Wasted Wankers."
Here's the film synopsis from the Norwegian Film Institute (www.nfi.no)
"The same day Odd reveals to Geir that he owes the unpredictable and violent Ivan 40.000 kroner, and that he has implicated Geir, their old buddy Roy Arnie comes to visit, along with their mutual friend Kælle.
Ever since he was a little boy, Roy Arnie has been fascinated by the circus. At the moment he is working as the tour manager for Cirkus Stromowskij. This circus has a long and proud tradition, but is a sad sight today. Their main attraction is Jimmy the Elephant, who has been a part of the circus for twenty years.
Throughout his entire "career" they have supplied him with drugs: uppers so that he would be at his best in the ring, downers to calm him down after the show. This has resulted in Jimmy becoming a drug addict.
And like all drug addicts he is extremely paranoid about the police. When Jimmy escapes from the circus, he gets a militant animal rights group on his tail that will stop at nothing to liberate animals and punish corpse-eaters. The Sami Mafia is also interested in Jimmy. Up on the tundra a gang of drunk, frustrated hunters, have for days been drinking and shooting at anything that moves, without hitting a single moose. But up there Jimmy finally finds his first real friend, Bull Moose, the magnificent king of mountain and plain."
Okay and this is Norways first CG animated film, one of the most expensive norwegian productions ever.
It has an english voice cast featuring Woody Harrelson, Simon Pegg, Phil Daniels, Kyle MacLachlan, Samantha Morton, and Jim Broadbent. It's English adaptation was done by Simon Pegg as well.
Now I'm not exactly sure who is the voice of who, but Woody Harrelson voicing a drug addicted elephant sounds like magic to me.
Here's a few image links from the film from the site of a CGI artist working on it.
For much better stills and a shitload of information on the film check out it's web page at http://www.freejimmy.com and for more story information in detail check out FreeJimmy.Com
Also apparently it seems that it doesn't have an American Distrib. which is just pure bullshit, I want to see this in theatres now damnit!...fucking evil studios, this would clean up man.
It's a CG animated drug addicted elephant versus animal rights activists and mafia, can you picture anything better?
later,
Rav
