Gun Fetish (1993)

Recently I have been sent, have enjoyed and have reposted lots of filmic mash ups and montages. Some of them by editors as young as nineteen, such as Joel Walden who gave us this most recently ( www.edgarwright... ).
The montages I'm sent make me a little nostalgic, because that's exactly what I was doing at age 19. In between making amateur no budget films as a teen, I'd teach myself to edit by cutting together montages of movie clips on a theme. You might have heard me talking to Kevin Smith about it on a recent podcast ( www.edgarwright... ).
The following clip I edited together while at Bournemouth Art College. Way before I'd ever seen an Avid suite, this was done over some long weekends locked in a VHS tape to tape editing suite. Yes, VHS!
So if you are wondering about the low quality of the sound and visuals in the following montage, there's a simple answer. All of the clips were sourced from either films I've recorded off the TV, sell thru VHS tapes I had bought and also films that happened to be in the college library. I literally had piles of VHS tapes in the edit suite. So that explains some of the glitchy clips.
As for the audio edits, hey it was VHS and I was 19. This is the first time I used a 'real' editing suite.
So cast your minds back to the last century and see how I misspent my youth; cutting together bullet ballets to John Lennon's melodic attack on the NRA.
I give you my 1993 mash up; 'Gun Fetish'.
(This is NSFW and spoiler heavy)
Read more over on the blog ( www.edgarwright... )

[@sloucho84]

Love the Robocop line over the title sequence. Kurtwood Smith gives one of the top 10 line-readings in cinema history there.

[@ryehixson]

Where's the Point Break scenes, lol it has a great scene of Keanu Reeves shooting his gun in the air. I learned that from Hot Fuzz

[@segalink]

This was amazing!!! You took one of my favorite Beatles and you did this! It was amazing!

[@rakehellrow]

love the Bobby Peru and Napoleon Wilson clips!!!

[@snowyalice]

Paired with 'Happiness in a Warm Gun'. Well done.

[@nickn328]

So awesome.

[@snowyalice]

Paired with 'Happiness in a Warm Gun'. Well done. No wonder the Gun fight in 'Hot Fuzz' is so awesome!

[@DelaV3]

2:10
Single most defining moment in my childhood toward firearms.

[@neoarcadia546]

Bravo Mr. Wright, Bravo.

[@KarmaAce75]

not bad. i remember the days of editing with vhs and a timed track.

[@LooneyM3]

That Was BAd ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great work,, your story reminds me of Robert Rodrguez stories

[@LowellaWolf]

Feels very classic. I likes. :)

[@cemaldindar771]

Sergio Leone always best. And where is John Landis? :)

[@pozlock1997]

yes oh yes

[@next5km]

And of course there is a "Raising Arizona" clip in there, after all is your favorite movie ever , right Edgar?

[@CarpanaFilms]

Peter Jackson's "Bad Taste" at 1:15 :D

[@RyoMassaki]

Fucking great!!

[@ryehixson]

@jsmith7868 yep and the scene at 2:34 as well

[@BatOfTheDead]

Movie list?

[@cemaldindar771]

0:43 What movie is this?

[@thegreatgaby231]

Taxi Driver and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

[@jsmith7868]

The scene at 1:27, is that The Wild Bunch?

[@tyjax5119]

What’s the song that’s playing?

[@98Lubo]

1:38

[@thecowgivesmilk]

whats the movie at 2:30

[@sharkisland89]

Ain't it cool?

[@loonzoldick]

what's the movie at 2:50?

[@terryticklenut266]

0:30