"The sky's all gibbled..." is what Dan seems to be thinking to himself in this screen grab (above) from part 2 of the movie 'FARM NEWS' (1976). Playing the simple, discombobulated farm worker caught up in a series of bizarre non-farmlike situations that were way over his head and not entirely of his own making, Dan created a character that, for better or worse, we will fondly remember him for, no matter how many decades removed from his 'hay' day he gets.
In all honesty, the framework of the non-traditional movie plot (like 'FARM NEWS' and 'ATOMIC SANDWICH') encouraged me to use a free wheeling, anything goes style of filmmaking that eventually became the hallmark of my career. With Dan and his rake for a prop, we could have easily pumped out another dozen or more episodes of these farmyard misadventures featuring his dim-witted, rural, straw-hatted character. I suppose we could even be making new episodes of FARM NEWS today if we wanted to; because in terms of understanding the problem and then deducing the outcome, there clearly wasn't much progress being made by either the farmer OR the filmmaker.
"The sky's all gibbled..." is what Dan seems to be thinking to himself in this screen grab (above) from part 2 of the movie 'FARM NEWS' (1976). Playing the simple, discombobulated farm worker caught up in a series of bizarre non-farmlike situations that were way over his head and not entirely of his own making, Dan created a character that, for better or worse, we will fondly remember him for, no matter how many decades removed from his 'hay' day he gets.
In all honesty, the framework of the non-traditional movie plot (like 'FARM NEWS' and 'ATOMIC SANDWICH') encouraged me to use a free wheeling, anything goes style of filmmaking that eventually became the hallmark of my career. With Dan and his rake for a prop, we could have easily pumped out another dozen or more episodes of these farmyard misadventures featuring his dim-witted, rural, straw-hatted character. I suppose we could even be making new episodes of FARM NEWS today if we wanted to; because in terms of understanding the problem and then deducing the outcome, there clearly wasn't much progress being made by either the farmer OR the filmmaker.
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