The Ryndex

This post relates to Gilman’s Model: The Fotonovel.

RYAN: Hello, I’m Ryan Skraba, and I’m here with some of the cast and crew from the filming. Lots of old faces here today, and we are particularly lucky to have the elusive Alain de Smithee on a high fidelity line from France. Are you there, Alain?

ALAIN: Damn you all!

RYAN: Great, great! The extradition process still hasn’t caught up to you?

ALAIN: Man do I hate that question. And almost every bleedin’ person I know is guilty of asking it if (s)he hasn’t seen in me in more than 5 days. In fact, I have to often bite my tongue to make sure I don’t ask it of others.

RYAN: Excellent. Oh wait, watch this bit — see how everything swirls as it fades in and out? That’s not an easy effect. Too much swirl and you’re all like “gagaga?” And I understand that the motion of the water was actually filmed IN REVERSE.

ALAIN: Thanks to modern techniques, I have captured it on hidden video.

RYAN: Alain, I understand that in making this film as the sole director and producer, much of the artistic tension in the film came from your legendary internal battles between your ego and your id.

ALAIN: Id is trying to make it more Raiders-of-the-Lost-Ark-ish, while Ego’s coming in with an Apocalypse-Now-show theme. Where the two pies collide, there shall be a very fishy-ish surprise.