jidong finds a monkey
Jidong Finds a Monkey
(the world's first TPRS old school movie with phantasmagorical elements)
Open to camera moving slowly down a small path. Dense jungle on either side. Silence side from the sound of birds etc. After a few moments the camera emerges into a clearing. A serious looking cast of characters looks straight into the camera as it slowly zooms in, settling finally on Jidongs face. Silence. Suddenly...
Jidong - AM I YELLING?
The cast of characters is startled and jumps in unison, a little too in unison.
Huh - huh?
Transformagirl - TA WEN TA HOUJIAO MA?
bobsaid - Jidong asked if he was yelling.
Oh - Oh, Jidong asked if he was yelling. That's...odd.
Oh repeats everything bobsaid says, only faster.
Reporter - It's a tense situation ladies and gentlemen. Jidong asked if he was yelling and huh said "huh?" transformagirl translated and bobsaid repeated the English only in reported speech. Oh repeated what bobsaid but with fast relaxed pronunciation. It's quite the linguistics lesson. Lets see what happens next
Huh - huh?
transformagirl - Hoa ji de jingquang..... Kan kan yixia. Xianzai fasheng shenme...
George - YES.
Jidong - YES WHAT?
George - YES, YOU WERE YELLING.
Jidong - Oh, we could dance....
Jidong begins dancing to a song called "jackhammer". He is eating a banana.
Danny Daoyan - CUT!
Slinky - Oh! I'm hungry.
Reporter - Things are really getting exciting now ladies and gentleman. Jidong is eating a banana and the director is angry about it.
Huh - Huh?
Transformagirl - Oh hao xinfen oh. Daoyan zhuyi jidong zai chi yige xiangjiao. Ta hao shengqi oh!
bobsaid - Reporter said that things were really getting exciting now....
Oh - Oh, Things are..... That's excitING. I'm excitED
Danny Daoyan - There is no banana in the script.
Jidong - How can there be no banana in a script about monkees?
Huh - Huh?
Transformagirl - Zhei bu juben guanyu houzi. Meiyou xiangjiao. Zenme ban?
bobsaid - Jidong asked How there could there be no bananas in a script about monkees?"
Oh - So bob asked... That's... a good question.
Danny Daoyan - Sacred Blue Tabernacle (Danny Daoyan has quite a strong gutteral French accent)
Huh - Huh?
Transformagirl - Huh?
George - I thought we were going to find a monkey.
Huh - Huh
Transformagirl - Wo xiang women yao zhaodao yi ge houzi.
Bobsaid - George said that he thought we were going to find a monkey.
Oh - Oh, George said that he thought we were going to find a monkey.
Jidong - We ARE GOING TO find a monkey. Here's the map.
Jidong spreads the map out on the ground. It is a roughly drawn but attractive enough looking document with a big X and the words "The Monkey is HERE"
Jidong - We are here.
George - Yes but we are at the wrong here.
Huh - huh?
Transformagirl - Huh?
Slinky - Be here now.
Huh - huh?
Audiolingual (speaking Chinese) - Be Here Now is a literary reference to a book entitled "Be here Now" by Baba Ram Das. It was popular in the seventies....
Huh -
(the world's first TPRS old school movie with phantasmagorical elements)
Open to camera moving slowly down a small path. Dense jungle on either side. Silence side from the sound of birds etc. After a few moments the camera emerges into a clearing. A serious looking cast of characters looks straight into the camera as it slowly zooms in, settling finally on Jidongs face. Silence. Suddenly...
Jidong - AM I YELLING?
The cast of characters is startled and jumps in unison, a little too in unison.
Huh - huh?
Transformagirl - TA WEN TA HOUJIAO MA?
bobsaid - Jidong asked if he was yelling.
Oh - Oh, Jidong asked if he was yelling. That's...odd.
Oh repeats everything bobsaid says, only faster.
Reporter - It's a tense situation ladies and gentlemen. Jidong asked if he was yelling and huh said "huh?" transformagirl translated and bobsaid repeated the English only in reported speech. Oh repeated what bobsaid but with fast relaxed pronunciation. It's quite the linguistics lesson. Lets see what happens next
Huh - huh?
transformagirl - Hoa ji de jingquang..... Kan kan yixia. Xianzai fasheng shenme...
George - YES.
Jidong - YES WHAT?
George - YES, YOU WERE YELLING.
Jidong - Oh, we could dance....
Jidong begins dancing to a song called "jackhammer". He is eating a banana.
Danny Daoyan - CUT!
Slinky - Oh! I'm hungry.
Reporter - Things are really getting exciting now ladies and gentleman. Jidong is eating a banana and the director is angry about it.
Huh - Huh?
Transformagirl - Oh hao xinfen oh. Daoyan zhuyi jidong zai chi yige xiangjiao. Ta hao shengqi oh!
bobsaid - Reporter said that things were really getting exciting now....
Oh - Oh, Things are..... That's excitING. I'm excitED
Danny Daoyan - There is no banana in the script.
Jidong - How can there be no banana in a script about monkees?
Huh - Huh?
Transformagirl - Zhei bu juben guanyu houzi. Meiyou xiangjiao. Zenme ban?
bobsaid - Jidong asked How there could there be no bananas in a script about monkees?"
Oh - So bob asked... That's... a good question.
Danny Daoyan - Sacred Blue Tabernacle (Danny Daoyan has quite a strong gutteral French accent)
Huh - Huh?
Transformagirl - Huh?
George - I thought we were going to find a monkey.
Huh - Huh
Transformagirl - Wo xiang women yao zhaodao yi ge houzi.
Bobsaid - George said that he thought we were going to find a monkey.
Oh - Oh, George said that he thought we were going to find a monkey.
Jidong - We ARE GOING TO find a monkey. Here's the map.
Jidong spreads the map out on the ground. It is a roughly drawn but attractive enough looking document with a big X and the words "The Monkey is HERE"
Jidong - We are here.
George - Yes but we are at the wrong here.
Huh - huh?
Transformagirl - Huh?
Slinky - Be here now.
Huh - huh?
Audiolingual (speaking Chinese) - Be Here Now is a literary reference to a book entitled "Be here Now" by Baba Ram Das. It was popular in the seventies....
Huh -
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