May have been more relevant to last weeks QOTW
But it does involve films!

Back in the heady days of Year 11 (16-17) we were slyer than a funnel of foxes and more scheming than Dick Dastardly.

As it was the last day we were going to be watching films in the lessons rather pretend to learn about the geography of western Floberdoberstien.

We (my friend and me) had a while back seen Pi which we really enjoyed so subsequently managed to aquire a copy of Requiem for a Dream. We then hatched a plan to watch it in class on the last day.

Scanning in the cover he changed the 18 rating to a -12 and changed the English reviews to French ones. He then copied the film to a blank DVD, then scanned in the disc and edited the rating on there and printed everything out, and made up his new -12 rating "French" version of RfaD.

The lesson rolled round and the teacher asked if anyone had a film they would like to watch, we put forward RfaD, the teacher noticing the French reviews asked if it was subtitled or dubbed but we said there was the English soundtrack and we can turn off the subtitles.

Our teacher did enquire several times about the rating as the subject matter is mostly hard drugs, sex, starvation and violence but the whole class did seem to be enjoying it and I think he secretly was too as he let us watch it all, by the time the last scene rolled round with Marion in the "club" there were a few gasps and the teacher looked slightly uncomfortable however we had already seen the rest and the credits were soon rolling.

The end of the film did leave the class stunned, most of the films we had all seen until that moment had happy endings, the main characters always overcame their problems and lived happily ever after. Except in this film. This film really did open out eyes as to the cold harsh reality that sometimes people just screw themselves over so much there is no hope, that addiction, obsession, paranoia and delusional ideas can rip people apart and piss on the remains.

So my first viewing of a "faked" copy of RfaD was a bit of an eye opener. And also kick started my mates forgery business....
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:53, Reply)