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3 | ''Give Up Yer Aul Sins'' is an animated short film (5 minutes) from Irish studio Brown Bag Films. |
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5 | In the short, a film crew arrives at a school to interview the children, and film them telling Bible stories. A little girl named Mary, the first to be interviewed for the camera, tells her own memorable story of the beheading of John the Baptist. |
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7 | The voice of the little girl is taken from a real audio recording, dating back to the 1960s, of a little girl at Rutland Street School in Dublin telling the story of John the Baptist. Thirty-odd years later, it was rediscovered and made the basis of an animated short. |
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12 | * AnArmAndALeg: One of the miracles Jesus cites to prove his divinity, according to the little girl, is the healing of lepers. This is accompanied by a shot of a happily smiling ex-leper waving around an arm that fell off. |
13 | * BaldOfEvil: Salome, who asked for the head of John the Baptist because he pissed her off, is shown to be an ugly lady with only a few scattered hairs on her head. |
14 | * BornInTheTheater: Invoked. At the end of the little girl's story, the picture goes out of frame, the "film" having supposedly come off the reel as the camera is turned off. |
15 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: The entire cartoon was done in sepia tones, presumably to evoke an old-timey 1960s feel. |
16 | * DemandingTheirHead: It is the John the Baptist story! As the little girl relates, Salome catches the king by surprise by demanding the head of John the Baptist on a plate. The king gives in. |
17 | * FramingDevice: A TV interview of children at school is the chance for a little girl to tell the story of John the Baptist. |
18 | * FunetikAksent: The title represents a little girl with a thick Dublin accent saying "Give up your all sins." |
19 | * MeaningfulAppearance: Most adaptations of the John the Baptist story would probably depict Salome as a seductive temptress. But the animation is meant to represent the imagination of a little girl, so the girl shows Salome as a witch-like figure, with an ugly, hair-sprouting mole on the right side of her face. |
20 | * MinimalistCast: There are only two voices in the cartoon. The voice of the little girl is from an actual 1960s recording of a little girl. To this the animators added the voice of actress Maria [=McDermottroe=], playing the teacher. |
21 | * RealTime: An excited little girl breathlessly tells the story of John the Baptist in her own unique way, for a camera. |
22 | * WalkOnWater: When a messenger from John approaches Jesus to find out if he actually is the son of God, the messenger finds Jesus standing on top of the Sea of Galilee, fishing. |
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