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UNCOOKED - My Favourite Movie Trope

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 What do the following movies have in common? Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension Airplane! Shrek 2 Guardians of the Galaxy GotG 2 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Answer: They all contain my favourite trope in movies. Elaborate. - Ed. To explain, I'm going to start by showing you a clip from Avengers: Endgame : Fantastic scene, greatly enhanced by Alan Silvestri's fantastic score; I'm sure you'll agree. However, that's what you can hear. Here's what the characters can hear:   Now let's compare that to a scene from Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension : To give you some context, Phineas and Ferb have just learned that their pet platypus is a spy, and in order to help him fight a robot army, they have just replicated every gadget that they had created until the movie came out. If that doesn't make sense to you, check out the whole movie on Disney+ And here's what those characters can hear: This is because PnF has music playing canonicall

Today is Gonna be a Great Day - The Making of

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 So in addition to ignoring all the other projects I've got on at the moment (The Blog; The Podcast; The Interactive Game ; The Play; The Sitcom; The Movie), I decided to start a new project: A Lego Stop-motion animated music video. It's going to be a recreation of this video: Side note: If you're a fan of Phineas and Ferb and/or musicals in general, check out Musical Without a Cool Acronym (MWCA) . It features loads of your favourite PnF songs, as well as some parodies of songs from Hamilton ; The Music Man ; Legally Blonde ; Heathers ; Grease ; Tick Tick Boom ; Dear Evan Hansen , and The Village People Anyway, I thought you might like to join me on my ill-advised journey into the unknown. Chapter 1 - You've Been Framed (you can  should skip this one) So firstly, I decided on a frame rate of 10fps, because I'm lazy. At the risk of mansplaining, fps = frames per second However, this brings its own set of problems. I first had to check how many frames the original v