Making movies

We live in an age where you can make a movie and upload it to the world with just a phone and an internet connection.

The only thing stopping you is you.

Try a one minute film and work your way up.

What was the movie that some dude, I want to say Armenian, circa 1999/2000, he was looking for true love or something, the guy that was bankrolling the production insisted that Tia Carrere appear in it... I couldn't find it under her credits... I think she DID appear but may not have had any speaking lines...

I've always wanted to make a movie about Don Chenevert and Bill 'Zook' Baldwin; a pair of "voc boys" who were in high school when I was in primary school in the early 1980s. They drove around in Don's Plymouth Duster and liked to harass younger kids who were walking home from school. I figure that Mike Judge knew people like that when he was a kid, because his "Todd" character from Beavis and Butt-Head is essentially Don Chenevert, right down to the beat-up Plymouth Duster that Todd drives. If I were to make such a movie I'd probably be accused of ripping off Mike Judge, even though it wouldn't be true.

I don't have an overall plot in mind, but I do have some individual scenes I'd want to include. For example, in real life Don thought it was cool to drive around with no hood on his car as if it were a drag car. So I'd have a scene where he's at a general store and steals a pack of cigarettes, not by way of stealth of any kind, but by simply grabbing them from the counter and making a run for it. As he's running toward his car we see some sort of visual representation that he's thinking about the iconic scene from The Dukes of Hazzard where Luke slides across the hood of the General Lee...

https://i.imgur.com/35DhkfQ.png

... and we'd hear the DoH theme song as well. Meanwhile Zook slides over into the driver's seat and starts the car, so that he can be the "getaway driver." Don tries to emulate Luke's hood slide, but due to his stupidity and preoccupation with the DoH scene running through his mind, he doesn't consider the fact that his car has no hood. So he gets tangled up in the engine; shirt gets wound up in the fan belt, a few fingers get broken by the fan blades, he gets some burns from the exhaust manifold and radiator, etc., and of course he gets caught for stealing the cigarettes.

It might be hard to find a stunt man willing to do that scene though.