REJECTED - with text commentary
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2011
- One of the many strange special features from the now out-of-print BITTER FILMS: VOLUME ONE DVD collection. REJECTED was a 2001 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short. This director text commentary dates back to around 2005. More recently, REJECTED was remastered in high definition in 2015 for the Blu-ray that is now available here: www.bitterfilms.com/
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as soon as he said ad corporations actually stole his ideas, i realized just how similar the pop tarts ads are in a weird knockoff sort of way
+Jinxitor that was my first thought as well
similar art style
Jinxitor Came here to say the same thing. I remember seeing this before RUclips existed, and that ad campaign started in early high school and wondering if it was the same guy. Sucks to get ripped off.
It's a cheap unsatisfying fascimilie, not unlike Poptarts themselves
I always thought poptarts had some good ads every once in a while
The on-campus therapist/counselor at the Art Institute of Seattle in the year 2004 handed out sheets at orientation that gave out information on how to access various mental health resources at the school. Along the bottom was a chain of the dancing thingies. I went up to her after and congratulated her for being an animation nerd and asked her where she had seen Rejected originally. She was confused and had no idea who Don Hertzfeldt was, she just liked her "little dancing cloud duders". I saw her a week later and she had looked up the cartoon. She told me I was a horrible person who had ruined everything for her, because she had been putting them on handouts for years, and now all she could think about was bleeding anuses ... I'll remember that moment on my deathbed.
She got that ptsd
This is the best thing I’ve ever read on RUclips.
The lore of his work itself deserves an aware for breaking space and time in the real world.
MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!
I returned to say I meant "award".
the comentary is in itself a work of art
Víctor Báez
a-fucking-greed XD!
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@@randomsquidproductions4061 @LibertyScholar did you ever consider combining them jj jo jjj jooo ooj oj jo jo joojo jojo oo? Very nice.
When it's mentioned that actual ads tried to use this style and humor I immediately remembered the Pop Tarts commercials from some years back.
Some kind of wheat chex cereal has most recently used odd little squares with little stick feet and arms. Not much humor, though.
Holy shit!!! Yessss!!!
+Kyle Decker One thing I also thought of.
Gushers.
They use similar convoluted situations now and then that have nothing to do with the product itself for the most part.
That's what I thought when I first watched it.
They still do actually, though the style has devited a bit so there are more differences now than there used to be.
"He performed the vacuum cleaner sounds with a bottle and a pear"
LMAO
The absurdity is amazing
Why did i expect Don to do a fucking normal commentary...
+ISureDoLikeCats Indeed, why?
Oh shit, I was here?
Okay ok
You underestimated his ability to craft lore flawlessly and without restraint, such that it affects us on a personal level. We all make mistakes at different points of our lives.
The commentary at the end was too magical for words...
it was written in words.
Bleenderhead There are no words to describe those words.
ferd617 You described them.
ferd617 Should they have sent a poet?
You know that didn't happen, right? He was just trying to jazz up the story.
I like how the commentary is just as surreal as the rest of the movie.
Okay
Don Hertzfelt has got be the craziest, artistic genius ever to animate. bizarre on top of bizarre. I still must watch everything he makes; is involved in; threw away in the trash for being to colorful than me going through his trash to frame, look at, and chuckle silently to myself after every read; wrote.
You should check into Bill Plympton. A different kind of bizarre...
Terry Gilliam was pretty awesome at it.
I think he's tied with David Firth at the very most.
Okay y
I just discovered Don Hertzfeldt, I absolutley love this stuff
good for you... you should watch all other stuff he's made... I strongly recommend the "intermission in the 3rd dimension", if you hadn't watched already
"It's like I can touch you!!!!!"
brckamikaze I will!
That's me right now
This was actually one of the first animations I'd ever seen on the internet.
I'm glad it was.
It's been said before, but it warrants being said again: I'm never going to Rylak.
+DaemonPrimarch but your on rylak, right now
+Kavik Atwood They finally did it! DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL
This is an identical timeline up until the late 20th century and the one thing which was kept in existence by the sheer accident of burning mud to create a spectacle the eyes cannot forget, no matter how much you want to.
But really, great work. The commentary just added to the depth of the creator behind the absurdity that is the Failed Cartoons.
You can fade into my obscure traffic of time any day ;))))
You taught me the importance of the internet with this film...
Pop tarts copied you.
rapper250 Woah, I'd assumed he'd done those commercials. Wow, what a screw.
Only 83414219 kids remember this.
i originally thought "the family learning channel" was a parody of TLC. Perfect satire for it.
he really came at pop tarts throat in this video lmao i fucking love this man
That drunk guy puke-laughing anecdote is everything! XD Also I totally relate to the ear ringing thing. SKEEEEE *dies*
This was the most 2016 comment I’ve ever read
Your commentary cracks me up! Bravo.
one of my favorite animated shorts of all time. love the fluffy things.
comentary is just as good as the movie xD
This has been burned into my memory for 7 years. Time to watch again.
I have come to these videos through a RUclips rabbit hole and have subsequently realized that I had watched this at such a young obscure age to the point of being subconscious and that this is literally the foundations for part of my sense of humor. I'm kind of at a loss for more words. You may never see this, but thanks for helping to shape me, man.
I feel like “Rejected” is a huge fever dream and I am honestly kind of jealous because I could never think of anything like this from my regular mind.
"you never want to lie to your audience.you can trick them, disturb them, annoy them, but you can never lie to them. to me commercials are nothing but lies".
i so agree. i can understand why japanese commercials are so weird now. they'd rather be annoyed than lied to.
What's the story on using "Nu är det jul igen" as the background song for the anus bleeding fish stick bit? I'm assuming you didn't know it was a Swedish Christmas song when you decided to use it?
As a Swede, it makes the scene even more bizarre and random hearing a tune i associate with Christmas play while a fish stick has his ass bleeding out xD
***** Perhaps one does not have to think and certainly not apply logic to art.
But it'd none the less be nice to learn of the story behind how he came upon the song, and why he chose that one in particular. Because i'm sure there is one, even if it's just something along the lines of "well i found it on a random sound library website, and i liked it so it went into my video. That's the story".
CrossfacePanda sadly, I associate this with a woman's monthly
He's Swedish, so I'm assuming he heard it at some time growing up
I asked him that during a public appearance once. He grew up with Swedish ancestry and it was a merry tune he had heard a lot growing up.
CrossfacePanda it’s also a Norwegian Christmas song!😄 I was wondering the same thing😂
"i can't really think of anything more to say here so i'm just going to type the letter j"
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"jjjjjjjj j j j j j j j jj j j j jj jjjjjjjjjj j j j j jj"
*true artistry.*
the letter o is also a good letter
ooooooo o o oo o o ooooooooo o o o o o oo
Thank you Mr. Herdtzfeldt for all the great entertainment over the years. & personally the most influential to my own art style. Fantastic stuff!
The commentary is great too!
The commentaries make the short a lot funnier
4:54 Hey Don, where exactly did you find this version of "Nu är det jul igen"? I've look all over the internet and Itunes and had no luck finding it? Can you tell me the album if you can remember?
Some Random Guy yee i kneed to no 2
and 7 years later, neither of them ever knew...
watched it's such a beautiful day on netflix, look up don's name and go "oh shit he did rejected"
I just watched "It's such a besutiful day" on netflix. and i thought that the animation style looked super familliar. It wasnt until i googled Don Hertzfeild that i finally realized he made REJECTED, and i was so happy.
6:10 It sounds like your voice actor is trying so hard not to laugh during the recording.
q is the worst letter. it's dumb. think about it.
"kew"
+Altus Boren
Not on Kin-Dza-Dza
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No, W is.
Kaffeebohnson agreed. In English language it was read "double u" but in our language it sounds more like "whey" and it's more sensible that way
It's so simple, I can't even believe it. When the cloud thing says "YAYYY!!!" and his mouth doesn't move, it's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen
Perfect, commentary on this film was absolutely perfect. Bananas
Thank you for this!
Such talent. lol I love this with al the info. TY again for such entertainment.
Loved reading the commentary to the making of this masterpiece.
Dude. The ending had me choking on my drink. Good work man!
Hahahaha fucking loved the crab ape epilogue, had not seen the commentary before
You don't even know how in many fucking ways you complete me srsly you are a truly inspiration, i grow up seeing this, i saw all of them and i love you with all my heart
I could watch this forever.
:') I still come back to this every year.
Don Hertzfeldt, You are an animating God... These are the greatest animations since the beginning of .... well... time probably
Thank you for giving us your art.
Lie to me, sweet man. Whisper them in my ears.
My small business of twenty years in named for one of your skits. It’s brick and mortar and has an oddly stellar reputation.
I feel like the very last bit of commentary perfectly sums up my life.
hey, don. love this n jim series n others soooo much!
you r amazing!
Fantastic commentary
your nonsensical fictional universe of southern squid lords and crab people and dogworms reminds me of mine, with flying squids, sacrilegious penguins and the westernmost potato people.
Westenmost potato people is now the name of my... band? if what we do is music.
i am disappointed with my life.
Amazing! Thanks for uploading it :D
Lol the everybody dance part has a REALLY old Swedish Christmas
how does this not have 1000000 views already its been ages and this is a classic
Fish sticks huh? I thought they were chicken nuggets...
Also, fairly sure Don will never see this comment, but on some off handed chance he will, PLEASE continue to create comedy. I appreciate your more artistic works, but your comedic animation are just the best damned things ever. Really love your work, please, please, please keep it up.
Finally, the commentary, OMFG, so wonderful. It's like watching it again for the first time.
REJECTED made the rounds at my highschool in 2001 and was an instant cult classic. i think every english teacher on planet earth (and probably other planets) emailed this to each other. If i remember right, it was on a CD that someone had made. i remember i had it on a zip disk at one point. the good ol days
I will never tire of this :)
Still makes me cry from too much laughter, after all this time.
i think it's cool how an artist whose name usually appears in sentences that include the word "genius" got his big break with a work that's mostly full of juvenile shock, violence, and obscenity, all of which are good qualities.
I wonder if Rob made a career out of Foley artistry. That bottle and pear idea was genius. Would not have guessed that was the sound of the vaccum cleaner
I loved the commentary, especially about the guy that laughed so hard he threw up
Don hertzfeldt is one of my favorite modern animators
You are a Genius!!
I still have this DVD
Don was clearly channelling Douglas Adams towards the end of that commentary
great great commentary
Genius. Bravo
I can't buy the dvd's, so thank you so much for uploading this!
🏗️ Thank You!
this is the single most amazing thing i've ever seen o.O
The last bit reminds me of some answers I gave on my ceramics final. Question: What are resists, and how do they affect the glaze? Answer: Dissidents that might provoke the glaze to counterrevolutionary action. I watched this before I must have been subconsciously influenced.
+Blaine Drummond Hope you got an A!
That howling metal noise at 7:20 is one of the most unsettling things I've ever heard. It sounds like you're in some colossal structure in the throes of unraveling.
the last one minute or so of this video is better than any stories ive read
One of the best things I've ever seen.
I love this man, the way his mind works is beautiful and horrifying.
Regarding that weird, oddly familiar stock baby sound at 4:26, like most people plugged into the media, I may have heard it in a dozen different contexts before realizing and remembering it. After that moment of realization, it became unmistakable. In one unexpected appearance, the baby sound is used to punctuate a dance move in an SNL Halloween sketch ruclips.net/video/rS00xWnqwvI/видео.html in which Tom Hanks plays a character named "David S. Pumpkins." (Come to think of it, the "baby" in that recording must be old enough to drive by now ...) The surreal ending of this film put me in mind of "Koko's Earth Control" by Max Fleischer ... this is so great I love your work.
that was fantastic.
Rejected was years ahead of its time in terms of style and humor.
Don I have found a whole new respect for you and I'm never eating Pop tarts ever again.
Is "Johnson and Mills" just supposed to be a combination of Johnson and Johnson and General Mills?
i dont know how much of this might just be a meta joke but man it really looks like pop-tarts just took your shit
ahahahahhaha am i the only one who loved the commentaries ? especially the last ones!! felt like straight out of the Hitch Hickers book of the universe!
What a wild ride that was.
the end comentary was HILARIOUS!
The Spring of 1999? That's when I was born. Fuck yeah!
Same here. Perhaps that's why I'm so strange...
I can't believe that film historian,comparing that scene to Nazi Germany,does she even know what Nazi Germany was.People these days.Anyways,nice work man I love it!
utter genius!
The creator of this video has done a good job on making the video
I bought this DVD a long while back. At the time, I had thought that its unexpected title, "REJECTED," referred to the fact that they were nominated for but didn't win an Academy Award.
This is so trippy
In the 90s I saw a billies balloon at a Spike and Mike show in a small theater. I was 16 or 17, at least 3/4 of the people there were smoking weed in the theater. I will never forget that night.
Why am I laughing my ass off on most of these little skits? XD
Wow, Don Hertzfeld is so random! Just like me!
When I first saw this in 2000 I had the impression it was just one guy who had a gift for flipits and sound-byte composition. I wasn't aware that it was such a production, or that it won such accolades.
6:10 aged pretty well got a modern audience's sense of humor
Nu är det jul igen, nu är det jul igen och julen varar ända fram till påska! A Swedish song about christmas!
Best commentary
Being used to wash cow tumors might not be considered to be as highly acclaimed as an "Academy Award" may be, it can still be considered a high achievement none the less.