Okay, Tampa absolutely has to tell you guys about this one. The thing that makes this 11 minutes of video "Hall of Fame" material is the theme and the corresponding dialogue. This clip features two sisters who sit down side by side, light up, and essentially go about talking to the viewer about about the "advantages" of smoking.
Fran shot the primary footage with the women sitting on a couch in his studio, but the the clip also features the pair as they go about a day in the city, walking the sidewalks, window shopping, and, of course, smoking non-stop ... and everything is edited together quite professionally. As the viewer watches the outdoor vignettes, the audio features the sisters talking to each other in the studio.
I'm sure there was no script and no coaching. Fran might have suggested the topic, but once he turned on the camera, the women started talking about their personal choices and simply "ran" with things. What happened over the course of 11 minujtes was truly phenomenal. It was like watching Jackie Gleason and Art Carney at the top of their game as fellow idiots "Ralph Kramden & Ed Norton" or, 4 decades later, Jerry Seinfeld and George Alexander as "Jerry & George Costanza".
In the pyschotic world of "Ajda & Masha", it turns out that you have to be nuts NOT to smoke! And they pull it off. An outlandish statement from one not only elicits complete agreement, but an even more outlandish statement from the other ... and they go on for 11 minutes solid.
In the end, you may find yourself believing them and thinking that there certainly couldn't be any such thing as an "Anti-smoking Movement". It's a trip back in a time machine -- a clip that Tampa will always enjoy watching -- and you can buy it for less than $7.00 USD.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this is an incredible bargain.
P.S. More reviews to follow. Tampa sprung for quite few clips. Fran is sitting on top of the Mother Lode and Tampa just got things figured out :-)
