May 11, 2006

Negadon Contest Winners

(Posted In Giveaways )

negadoncoversmall.jpgWell, our giveaway contest to see Negadon for free at New York's ImaginAsian Theater has come to an end. We asked people to send in suggestions of creatures that need to be kaiju-ized to enter and among the suggestion were horses, little fluffy bunnies, kangaroos and three toed sloths. The best suggestion - complete with illustration - definitely belongs to Jim Murray who suggested Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. You can read on for Jim's complete entry ...

Anyway, congratulations to our winners: Charles Webb, Raph Branca, Kevin Ross, Kyle Ruddy and, of course, Jim Murray. Negadon begins its week long run tomorrow, and your double passes will be awaiting you at the ImaginAsian box office.

Hi. Here's my bid for the Negadon tickets in NY. Hope I'm not too late...

I don't believe my idea for a kaiju has been done in films as of yet. I see the shores of Japan threatened once more, this time by none other than a giant Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi!!! (or "Prime-Minisaur", as the media will come to call him).

Mr. Koizumi can be found at his favorite sushi shop after a long day serving the public and visiting the graves of war criminals past. Three bites into a fresh serving of sashimi, he realizes something is a bit off. The fish on his plate is from waters off the coast of Kusai Shima (Stinking Island), infamous not only for a recent nuclear facility leak, but also for being home to a nefarious group of rogue scientists testing the effects of Gamma Radiation beams on skinny, mild mannered people. Double whammy.

Normally exposure to such substances would kill a person. In fact, it most definitely would... except in those rare cases when it gives the victim Super Powers!

As such, he mutates into Prime Minisaur, growing to enormous proportions and crushing everything in his path. He is unstoppable. Prime Minisaur establishes new laws forbidding military action against him. Any in his party that oppose this law fall beneath his power to remove them from office (recalling days when the shorter, more human Koizumi did much the same thing to opponents of his Post Office privatization efforts).

Such militaristic action against the great beast would be pointless anyway. His entire torso is completely protected by two luxurious waves of gravity defying hair on his head, impenetrable to any conventional forms of weaponry.

Lastly, he is endowed with Psycho-Deflector-Shields, granting him the power to divert blame for his destruction (and for the rising crime rates in Japan) onto the foreign immigrants currently living in Japan.


...alright, so it's a stupid idea, and completely pointless to anyone that doesn't pay attention to Japanese politics, but... Give me those tickets! I live in NY, I'm super psyched about Negadon, and I luvs me some free swag! Do the right thing here, eh?

Well, even if I don't get the tickets, thanks for your efforts on Twitch.com. I check it every day, and I'm grateful to be able to find out what other fine gems the world cinema has to offer (besides, of course, whatever film this season features Tom Cruise making intense facial gestures while saving the world... once again).

Thanks,
Jim Murray


P.S. I attached some concept "art" for the film. I suppose I could have spent more than 7 minutes on it, but... I didn't.

» Posted by Todd at May 11, 2006 12:49 PM
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