Describe That Other Rusty And Masquerade Movie here.
...Where to begin?
That Other Rusty and Masquerade Movie is a profoundly ridiculous short film written and directed by high school film nerd Phill Skokos. Originally created at the short film department of his theater camp, it was later posted to YouTube
in late 2007 and has since played a handful of film festivals. The story follows a young man named Masquerade, who is betrayed by his childhood friend Leningarb when the latter begins his plot for world domination. Masquerade winds up in a backwoods village where he pulls a giant spoon out of a muffin, only to discover that the spoon is magical, and part of a set of arms called The Order of the Square Meal. He meets a walking, talking blue walrus named Rusty, and the two of them team up to fight Leningarb, and his evil associate Sir Knight Lordington.
So... yeah.
This film contains examples of:
- As Himself: Phill Skokos appears as himself in two scenes, in which he is depicted writing the script. Cam Stewart, who plays Lordington, appears the second time, looks at the
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment Phill just wrote, and says "Plot, Phill. Get back to the plot." - Deus ex Machina: One second Masquerade is just sitting there in jail, asking Rusty how they're going to escape. The next minute they're walking out of a tunnel and it takes them a few seconds to realize they have no idea how they got out.
- Turns out it was God.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Averted. That guy who looks kinda like "Weird Al" Yankovic is supposed to be playing "Weird Al" Yankovic.
- Old Shame: Not-Weird Al's line "You ever done crack?" was thrown in as a joke by one of the film makers, with the actor unaware that it would wind up in the final film. He was not happy when he found out.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping:
- Every now and then in sounds like Phill Skokos (as Rusty) is trying some kind of accent, but damned if you'll ever figure out what it is.
- Leningarb is also unable to maintain his already-poor Russian accent some of the time.
- Secret Handshake: Masquerade and Leningarb have one that seems to be the same move repeated for over and hour.
- Shout-Out: Oh so many, to oh so many different sources...
- The scene in which Sir Knight Lordington struggles with the "infernal" fax machine, Leningarb is shown sitting in a chair, randomly wearing sunglasses, with his hands crossed in front of his face.
- When they reach "the mighty palace of Leningarb":
Rusty: "No, it's only a model."- Leningarb tells Masquerade about his plan to use the Butterfly Effect to Take Over the World, to which Masquerade replies, "I'm pretty sure that was just in Jurassic Park."
- The villager played by Gabriel Schleifer sounds an awful lot like Bullwinkle.
- Take Over the World: Leningarb's stated goal is actually one step beyond this: conquer all reality!Masquerade: "You know, I sniffed a lot of glue once, and I tried to conquer all reality. Tore up my grandma's kitchen..."
- Training Montage: After the first one, Rusty says "Wow, we still suck at fighting", whereupon Masquerade says "Let's do another montage!" and the film cuts to the exact same montage again.
