McG, meet your nemesis - Takayuki.

McG, meet your nemesis - Takayuki.
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I'm Ill. Not very ill, mind; just that kind of achey cold thing that everyone seems to have had. However, I did get a great laugh through the wooziness yesterday - I had some upper-intermediate level students come up with 'film pitches' for me, which I would then assess on both linguistic and stylistic grounds. The one in the picture opposite was so good, i had to write it in whiteboard marker in the Teacher's Copy of the book (at the back, so it'll probably be found long after Em and I have left)

The title of this post may need explaining to some, so here goes:

The McG referenced is Alex McGregor (current location, Rio) and not the producer-of-the-OC-McG (although comparisons can and indeed are regularly drawn). Alex has on numerous occasions come up with concepts and scripts for films - from the scary 'The Will', a horror movie, to the balls-out ridiculous 'Mega-Tsunami' (which was almost immediately moved to the never-gonna-get-a-green-light pile as it was devised shortly before the real one). Takayuki is one of the students in my class. His idea, which is a low-brow, action thriller casts good-ol' Governer Schwartzenegger as a renegade, whose only unfulfilled ambition is to kill the most deadly animals in the world with his bare hands (I have paraphrased from the original - Arnie... er...to kill all animal in Amazon Jungle with...er...hand.) What makes this special (and lowers the budget and insurance costs considerably) is that there need be no real pig-hearted Arn anywhere near it - it can all be done in CG! Now, all we need is for the T-man and McG to get together and bash out a script - we can have Hank Azaria (or Tim Allen depending on budget) to voice it - Golden Globes, here we come...

Being ill means i've got more time to spend on t'interweb, messing about. Check out this video for some Mayday hip-hoppage...

[cough] laters...