Chat with the creator of "Old School Revolution"

There was some heated response to the Flash fanimation featured on the site recently, so it only seemed right to give the filmmaker a bit more space to explain himself and the intentions behind "Nintendo: Old School Revolution."

In an interview with Go Nintendo, Larry Longstreth (writer, co-director, and editor of
"N:OSR") goes into length about how dreaming up an idea while standing in the shower led to 3 months' work with animator Jacob Drake to put all the elements of the short together. The self-professed fan of Morrowind
and Halo ("the first one") wanted to speak to the timelessness of Nintendo's products, using analogies to Superman, Cyclops (of X-Men fame?), and the WWF to show how people tend to favor darker/edgier material to the classics right before them.

Can someone be a passionate fan without being an egregious fanboy? We certainly hope so, and we hope the folks who leave comments here can embody that sentiment. For more of Larry's live-action work, try some of these other links off IFILM's site: a rather long collection of shorts here or a much shorter mock documentary over there. Any other aspiring filmmakers we should know about?

[Thanks, Larry]