All Time Favourite scenes

[Nick Marlow]

I don't know if this has been done before, (I'm sure it must have been) but I was just wondering if people would care to share their thoughts on their favourite scenes ever shot by producers and amateurs alike. And maybe something about why they like them. After all, with Splosh celebrating it's 20th year, that's quite an archive we've assembled.
Nick

[eighty]

Pretty Clumsy Women Cafe scene... pefect WAM I think, and Sammy at her best. Haven't seen it in years (how about a down load?)

[Phantom]

Jo and Emma's 'It's Splatterday' food fight. Haven't seen it in years, but it was fantastic.

Also Lorraine, Rachel and Melanie's big food battle on the James Whale show.

[Richard]

I think I must go with eighty's choice of the restaurant scene in PCW. Its so hard to choose though. Other greats are the final massive piefight at the end of 'Nightmare on Gunge Street' or the mud in 'For a Few Dollops More'. I wonder why they all involve Sammi-Jane?

[darrenlee]

for me it is any scene with the lovely louise hodges in also. she was the reason i found wam. i visited a local sex shop and saw splosh magazine number 11 on the shelf with a picture of louise on the front cover and since then been hooked.

[Nick Marlow]

As I suspected, quite an element of nostalgia here - do you think these scenes (would) still hold up today? I haven't seen a lot of the older stuff, but from the stills that are kicking around, it seems like there was more of a playful and fun atmosphere going on, compared to much of todays stuff which pays lipservice to the term 'slapstick', but is more earnest in it's pursuit of high technical standards. But the older stuff seems more ambitious in many ways - people seemed to attempt stuff like longer, story-led films, with lots of girls involved etc. Two of my fave films are Pie Wedgies (sadly I can't find that anywhere now) and At the Messy Movies, the latter of which was great in terms of editing, performance, style and the sheer quantity of mess on offer. Ah the good old days... Of course, we're spoiled for choice these days, with dozens of producers out there, but still - they don't make 'em like they used to, right?
Anyone care to comment?

[BillShipton]

You can buy a copy of Pie Wedgies from us!! On VHS though...PM me for details.

Anyway, the answer to why films these days have less in the way of stories, jokes, performers and time spent on them is simply that most material is turned out for subscription sites with a pressure to do something every week or so. Even at Gilly's Silly House (a subscription site) where we do still put gags, voice-overs and stories to almost all the films, time and cost has meant they aren't as good as the 'Old Days' where one video every six months was the norm. I am trying to make Splosh! Downloads (where time is less of a constraint) a mix of the two - cheap, simple films and more complex, funnier cleverer ones too.

Certainly I get more pleasure out of producing 'proper' slapstick films and am working towards the long term aim of concentrating on that rather than churning out weekly stuff (will let you know more as it develops). Meanwhile some of the 'classier' Silly House films could well be put on sploshdownloads.com soon so you will be able to see them without being a member of anything. Does that idea appeal?

Bill

PS Delighted that the old PCW restaurant sketch has been nominated. That was one of the first films I made and the first that I wrote and directed in exactly the way I wanted slapstick to be. I'd be delighted to go back to doing that!!

[Nick Marlow]

Unfortunately, I don't even own a TV anymore, never mind a VHS player! Maybe I need to return to the good old days even more than I thought. Good to hear you're still into making the films Bill, the more stuff on your download store the better, old or new.

[mr angry]

I would also agree the PCW restaraunt scene is my favourite. I loved the way it built up gradually with the girls getting messier and messier and I liked the outfits too.

The mass pie fight at the end of Nightmare on Gunge Street was good but could have been better

[BillShipton]

I think the problem with mass scenes like the pie fight in Gunge St is that too much is happening at once. I like to be able to concentrate on the action, the expressions and so on, and though GS had some set-piece gags in the chaos, I would rather it was more choreographed throughout.

Don't worry, I know this is purely a personal belief...

[Nick Marlow]

I think the problem with mass scenes like the pie fight in Gunge St is that too much is happening at once. I like to be able to concentrate on the action, the expressions and so on, and though GS had some set-piece gags in the chaos, I would rather it was more choreographed throughout.

Don't worry, I know this is purely a personal belief...

I agree - 100%

[mr angry]

See your point Bill. I like a fairly slow build up without many pies thrown to begin with and the fight would gradually escalate. In my opinion a good way to get a choreographed pie fight going is a small incident which spirals out of control. eg one girl(dressed perhaps as a waitress/french maid) spills a tiny amount of custard or whatever on another girl, she apologetically tries to clean it up, but then knocks a jug of custard over her instead.

The girl who has been accidentally messed up then picks up a pie to throw at the maid/waitress, but misses and hits another girl full in the face, she then retaliates and so on.

The best set piece gags in GS were the girl answering the door getting one in the face and the bit were Sammy-Jane kept getting hit in the face repeatedly by the other two girls then said "sod it" and gave herself another one! I also liked the bit where one girl completely missed getting messed and ended up in a pool of goo at the end, but thought the stuff was too thin and runny.

PS notice you like the Western region diesel hydraulics from some earlier posts! only ever saw one of those once, in South Wales when I was on holiday there when I would have been about 9 or 10, 1969 or 70

[mr angry]

I've just thought of another. At the end of one of the WSM series, I think it was WSM TV there was a decent food fight involving about six girls

[Lizzie_Claymore]

PS notice you like the Western region diesel hydraulics from some earlier posts! only ever saw one of those once, in South Wales when I was on holiday there when I would have been about 9 or 10, 1969 or 70

Oh yes ... and that has just reminded me of Westerns in that experimental 'Sand' livery. I thought that was quite nice, though a touch bland.

[BillShipton]

Oh yes ... and that has just reminded me of Westerns in that experimental 'Sand' livery. I thought that was quite nice, though a touch bland.

Don't get me on the brief period they painted the Hastings trains dark brown and beige with an orange stripe (the 1066 Electrics, yuk). They looked like jaffa cakes.

Sorry, the train element should stay on the other thread...