Idiots in Time Part 5

This scene was written especially for one of Cracktown's friends, and illustrates perfectly one of the dangers of no-budget filmmaking, namely, if you use your friends as actors, there is a good chance they will suck.

The case in point being Mr Smith, super villain, fake moustache wearer and part time drunkard. He is normally very outgoing, loud and shameless, yet stick a camera in his face and he suddenly clams up, and could only get through the scene with a liberal application of brandy laced tea. At 1.30pm!

Hence why Mr Smith's accent is even more wobbly than the rest of the accents in the film and why it took forever to get through what is essentially a pretty straight forward scene. That and the fact that all Santa's Close-ups were filmed at a different time as Julian [who plays Santa] had to get back to his day-job.

At least the ever professional Cracktown [and mainly King Rat and his eccentric hat] delivered their lines on time and mostly on cue and gave me something to cut around to salvage something. I do like the chase scene at the end, despite the rather lame electrical cord gag.