Line #26 WebVideo/HeartsOfDorkness


1	"Hearts of Dorkness" is a {{Mockumentary}} {{web video}} about a teenager-produced, shoestring-budget short that chronicles four geeks attempting to create a 200 million dollar film based on ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' with [[NoBudget a budget of their pocket change]]. It can be viewed on Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8UOdFs5Go&context=C3de6871ADOEgsToPDskKNlqODDsL4mW0GosRCicuu here]].
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4	!!Provides examples of:
5	* AllJustADream: In the opening sequence, the Director receives an Academy Award in the category of Best Everything before waking up, fully clothed, with all of his friends in the room with him.
6	%%* BerserkButton: The music of Kyle's Pokemon games is this for The Director. Also, Kyle's is finding out that [[spoiler:the Pokeball that he donated was sold to fund the renting of an entire theater]].
7	* CameraAbuse: During The Director's second freak-out, the filming of the scene's last shot suggests that he slapped the camera out of Steve's hand as an enraged reaction to his statement that the film would never be finished.
8	%%* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Pokeball]]
9	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: A sepia tone effect is used for the flashback.
10	%%* DullSurprise: Joel.
11	* GRatedDrug: The Director becomes addicted to Red Bull.
12	* ItsAllAboutMe: The Director thanks himself four times in a dream award acceptance speech, and repeatedly refers to ''Skyrim: The Movie'' as "my movie" and "my big shot."
13	* {{Jerkass}}: The Director forces his only friends to fund his movie by threatening them with a spiked hammer, [[spoiler:sells one of said friends' prized Pokeball and uses the money to buy luxury items for himself]], and takes pretty much all of the credit for their collaboration, when his friends did most of the work.
14	%%* JumpCut: Practically every cut, {{Justified\|Trope}} due to the fact that it was originally a school project and the editor (one of the writers) had only two afternoons to do the editing. This was also partly due to the camera-man stopping the take too early.
15	%%* LargeHam: Steve as an Imperial Guard, naturally. Also, The Director as both the announcer in his dream and as himself.
16	%%* MadArtist: The Director is a toned down version of this character.
17	%%* {{Mockumentary}}: Naturally.
18	%%* {{Montage}}: The brainstorming scene.
19	* SmallNameBigEgo: The Director. This is established in the very first scene when the Director receives the Oscar in the category of "Best Everything" for his creation of ''Skyrim: The Movie''. The announcer voice-over is done by the actor that portrays the Director, and in his brief acceptance speech, the Director thanks himself four times. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Batman.]]
20	* TakeThat: At M. Nigh Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. "We could make an epic, Hollywood blockbuster, like Avatar!" "You mean the guy with the arrow on his head?" "No, that movie's stupid."
21	* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Kyle's attempt to hit the Director with his prop sword utterly fails.
22	* TooDumbToLive: The Director rents out an entire theater when he could've used that money to fund his film.
23	* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "You haven't actually played Skyrim, have you?" Suddenly, our story transitions from an obsessive, delusional fanboy recruiting his friends to help make a Skyrim film that he hopes will be a massive hit, to an egotistical {{Jerkass}} manipulating his only friends (all of whom actually like Skyrim) into helping him make a movie that he will take all of the credit for, so that he can receive all of the supposed fame and fortune that will come with it.]]

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