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Couldn't stop laughing
Overall Recommendation:
5 stars
Premise:
4 stars
Story structure:
4 stars
Character:
5 stars
Dialogue:
5 stars
Emotion:
4 stars
January 28, 2011
I could not stop laughing. Very funny and props to those who acted and made this.
Granted it wasn't all perfect and hilarious throughout. There were some dead portions during the reading here and there (like when they lost their place in book or during the long scene directions) but as far as a "Table Reads" go, this one's got my vote. I've got a short attention span and if I had the choice to watch something as ridiculously hilarious as this or sit through 2 hours of watching people sit around a table reading from a script, I'm going to choose this one. You can tell they put some time and effort into bringing the reading of Ben Franklin to life.
When I read the first script, I got a good sense of Jason's writing voice and a good sense of these characters and how they interact in their world, but it wasn't until after watching the table reading I could fully grasp the world of Ben Franklin (not in it's entirety obviously because it's just a cold read, but for the most part). With a script like this, I don't think a lot of the jokes would have come across if it was just someone behind a table with his/her nose buried into the script. You could tell they had fun interacting with each other and the silly props.
Granted it wasn't all perfect and hilarious throughout. There were some dead portions during the reading here and there (like when they lost their place in book or during the long scene directions) but as far as a "Table Reads" go, this one's got my vote. I've got a short attention span and if I had the choice to watch something as ridiculously hilarious as this or sit through 2 hours of watching people sit around a table reading from a script, I'm going to choose this one. You can tell they put some time and effort into bringing the reading of Ben Franklin to life.
When I read the first script, I got a good sense of Jason's writing voice and a good sense of these characters and how they interact in their world, but it wasn't until after watching the table reading I could fully grasp the world of Ben Franklin (not in it's entirety obviously because it's just a cold read, but for the most part). With a script like this, I don't think a lot of the jokes would have come across if it was just someone behind a table with his/her nose buried into the script. You could tell they had fun interacting with each other and the silly props.
Five stars all the way. Good luck.