Teahouse Trouble (Aerger im Teehaus)

Length: 01:55
Date: 27.04. - 23.05.2004
Genre: kungfu film
Download(s): RealMedia / 640 x 480 / 2,2 MB [english]
avi (Divx) / 640 x 480 / 6,3 MB [english]
mpg / 320 x 240 / 5,8 MB [english]
avi (Divx) / 640 x 480 / 6,5 MB [german]
Story:

If you ever planned to travel to China, watch out! This film shows, what can happen to harmless people in a teahouse.
Especially for fans of the Kung-Fu genre, a must-have-seen!
Directors comment:

This film was made for "short film contest" by Amped-Productions on brickfilms.com.
There were only three entries for this contest ("a short fight sequence choreographed to any musical track") and this film made the second place.
For this contest I tried to do some special effects, that's why there are some 'jumping' and 'flying' film sequences.
It is the first time not only Lego is shown: there are printed banners with chinese letters on the walls and through the windows and doors you can see colored paper. I think with these details the set becomes more realistic.
And also new: an english and a german version of the film.

Did you noticed that ...
  • the sound when second ninja is thrown against the table is 'falling pins from bowling'
  • the chinese letters on the banners stand for (from top to bottom): luck, long life, love, beautiful, richness (taken from this page)
  • a 'cool' guest disturbed by some contentious men and leaving as winner can found in similar way in the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (I found that after I made the film script)
  • the 'standing on the sword' scene was inspired by "Kill Bill" (I saw a photo of that before)
Behind the scenes:


set with colored paper and lights
set with camera (camera is glued to a lego brick)

standing on the sword (Kill Bill version)
standing on the sword (Teahouse Trouble version)

guest sitting in teahouse (Tiger & Dragon version)
guest sitting in teahouse (Teahouse Trouble version)

how to make minifigs fly ... 1. film empty room
2. film each picture with holding minifig on long Lego

3. copy parts of empty room in pictures to erase Lego
4. add 'echo' effect with video edit software
- Dirk Boettcher - Am Gehegegraben 28, 21147 Hamburg, Germany - email: dirk.boettcher@gmx.net -
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