The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

Blatant Lies, Lies, Lies!

Lies can be useful tools in seeing the truth.  And parodies may be easy humor but there’s always room for them in our bowls.  In fact, we make extra room for them around here.  

The big business suit wearing adults historically have had a habit (that’s a 4 point alliteration!) of trying to sell the public something that just isn’t possible. Here some smarties poke some fun at the concept of clean coal:

Special Note For The Grown-Ups: This “commercial” was done by The Coen Brothers. I had no idea when I first posted it!

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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