REJECTED - with text commentary
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- 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...
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".
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.
the comentary is in itself a work of art
Víctor Báez
a-fucking-greed XD!
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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
"He performed the vacuum cleaner sounds with a bottle and a pear"
LMAO
The absurdity is amazing
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.
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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.
Same
Pop tarts copied you.
rapper250 Woah, I'd assumed he'd done those commercials. Wow, what a screw.
You can fade into my obscure traffic of time any day ;))))
"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.
i don't know... japanese advertisements go pretty hard, have you seen the Sakura Gummy advertisement story arc for "Long Long Man"?
it's beautiful, i wish more adverts were like that X'D
i originally thought "the family learning channel" was a parody of TLC. Perfect satire for it.
Only 83414219 kids remember this.
one of my favorite animated shorts of all time. love the fluffy things.
"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
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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
Your commentary cracks me up! Bravo.
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.
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
comentary is just as good as the movie xD
This has been burned into my memory for 7 years. Time to watch again.
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!
6:10 It sounds like your voice actor is trying so hard not to laugh during the recording.
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 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.
Hahahaha fucking loved the crab ape epilogue, had not seen the commentary before
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 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.
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.
Don Hertzfeldt, You are an animating God... These are the greatest animations since the beginning of .... well... time probably
Dude. The ending had me choking on my drink. Good work man!
The Spring of 1999? That's when I was born. Fuck yeah!
Same here. Perhaps that's why I'm so strange...
Lol the everybody dance part has a REALLY old Swedish Christmas
Loved reading the commentary to the making of this masterpiece.
Don was clearly channelling Douglas Adams towards the end of that commentary
Rejected was years ahead of its time in terms of style and humor.
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.
Still makes me cry from too much laughter, after all this time.
I still have this DVD
Such talent. lol I love this with al the info. TY again for such entertainment.
Don I have found a whole new respect for you and I'm never eating Pop tarts ever again.
Perfect, commentary on this film was absolutely perfect. Bananas
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.
I've used that stock baby cooing SFX in my own stuff, then to suddenly revisit REJECTED and hear it here is kinda surreal
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.
I first watched this film in 2002 and I could not control the volume of my voice. After reading you commentary, it reinvigorated some sick, evil funny bone of mine. I have but one question, however... what happened in 9999999999 and 1?
Honestly don't get why this was nominated for an Oscar; this is literally every flash cartoon ever.
+BetterLateThanNever Because this was done before explosion of internet flash animation and internet humour. Cartoons you're referring to are inspired by Rejected, not the other way around.
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
If i get to meet this man at any point in my life i will die happy
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.
Is "Johnson and Mills" just supposed to be a combination of Johnson and Johnson and General Mills?
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!
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.
how does this not have 1000000 views already its been ages and this is a classic
This seems like the father of ASDF movie. I remember seeing it in a theater.
Thank you for giving us your art.
and seeing how he does this commentary..its confirmed..he's absolutely crazy...awesome but crazy
The creator of this video has done a good job on making the video
Wow, Don Hertzfeld is so random! Just like me!
Nu är det jul igen, nu är det jul igen och julen varar ända fram till påska! A Swedish song about christmas!
2663 was a glorious year.
Fantastic commentary
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.
9:35 this is something called back to in the simpsons couch gag he did
I would like to call this deeply disturbing, but while watching I disturbingly found a deep calling.
Oh no. Not like there isn't a thousand different uploads without it.
Thank you for this!
5:03, i always thought they were pieces of popcorn due to the animation show and the scene with "let's all go to the lobby". i dunno why my brain made that connection however, the first time i watched the animation show was when i was like 5 so i guess that sorta explains things?
I just realised... Those Pop Tart commercials they're playing nowadays. Those seem like the kinda ads you were talking about when talking about how commercials imitated Rejected, no?
That ending is fucking hilarious with the crab apes and stuff. XD
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!
asdf movie 11 sneak peek found
What a wild ride that was.
near the end i thought that this commentary box would have to be last and that he couldn't possibly think of anything else. that was 3 dialog boxes ago...
I once had a life drawing model who had a tattoo of the little fluffy guy on her arm. Wonderful model :)
It probably had something to do with applying a band pass filter to the prerecorded sound and making the center frequency really low and the band narrow so that you only hear the lowest pitches of the original sound. How he got that airy sound I have no idea but I suspect to make the original sound the pear and the bottle were somehow bumped or clanked together in such a way that the sound reverberated through the bottle.
Altogether its brlliant sound design.
Why am I laughing my ass off on most of these little skits? XD
@ProFunTampa that's where i recognized this style of animation! damn you kelloggs...
08:14 - I laughed hard at what Don wrote here XD
this comentary track is one of the most distubing things I've ever read, naked lunch got nothing on this.
the last one minute or so of this video is better than any stories ive read
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!
Star Control 2
it's a free download now called the Ur Quan Masters, it's a pretty old game from the early 90s that Mass Effect got half it's ideas from.
I can't buy the dvd's, so thank you so much for uploading this!
My spoon is too big!
I love this man, the way his mind works is beautiful and horrifying.
I'm feeling fat and sassy!
hey, don. love this n jim series n others soooo much!
you r amazing!
This is so trippy
Some of the commentary reminds me of EVERYTHING WILL BE OK and I think that's really pretty.
Teachers always say not to use the word pretty but when Don uses it... it works amazingly.
I think the part with the beating of the non-silly hat wearer works well with the inserted card.
showed this video to a friend... oh boy, even if their reCtion was in text form...
it was
W O N D E R F U L !
Insanity was never visualized better. The drunk guy vomiting thing made me laugh real hard xD
Genius. Bravo
5:21 lmao I died laughing when I saw that part of the commentary 😂
Wasn't sure if the text was really going to be from Don. Then I read it.
Yup, that's Don.