Post by Jordan on May 25, 2007 2:46:43 GMT -5
Alright ladies and gentlemen,
Let's discuss the clue we've been handed. If you didn't have a peek at it in the Exile 4.5 thread then have yourself a click:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KgTvzaAt08
In the description Sam wrote:
"*ALL credit goes to the Spies for creating this video!*
More taunting straight from the Spies to the Citizens in Spies 3: The Collective"
I would like to be the first to point out that the mere existence of the video is a mark against me. As I have told a number of you, I plan to attend film school this coming September and I currently have the skills to complete a video of that nature.
In my defense, I would never have produced such a horrible looking piece. I take much more pride in my video editing because it is a passion of mine and something that I take very seriously. Video editing is a skill that more and more people are gaining and this person clearly does it for fun.
Let's look at the video, by the numbers:
The video is two minutes, five seconds.
A lot of the audio is cuts from the Batman TV series.
It opens with the title of the game and then fades to the most updated cast image that we currently have available. Meaning Judith has an "X" but not Jennipher. The audio over this is a riddle. Probably meaningless, but it's the voice of The Riddler from the 1966 Batman television series. The riddler was played by Frank Gorshin.
When I was looking at Frank on IMDB I saw this photo:
When I saw that picture I was reminded of the costume party. There was a pretty heavy Batman influence there too. There was a Batman, a Batgirl, and Harley Quinn. As I looked through the costume party posts a second time I noticed the Battle Axe posted the following picture:
Is it possible that as a running joke among the spies they've taken to familiarizing themselves with characters from movies or television? Especially groups of five? With the "evil" side of things bringing us back to Batman villains? "But there's five of them" you say! Well we have;
Which is also a very likely male to female ratio and of course, one of the costumes WAS Harley Quinn.
Bit of a tangent there, ANYWAY.
The voice of The Riddler speaks this riddle:
"There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?"
The solution is:
"They threw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter"
Ha ha ha! Hilarious! I've got nothing for this. Any insights?
The video continues on pointing out the various victories that the spies have earned and even keeps a tally of points while playing Queen's "We Are The Champions".
At the 14 second mark we see an image of a book titled "Disguise Techniques: Fool all of the people some of the time" by Edmond A. MacInaugh. spysite.com describes the book; "With Disguise Techniques by Edmond A. MacInaugh learn from a true disguise master how to disguise the mind and the body to create a new personality, use your mental powers to blend chameleon-like into your surroundings or create any number of characters for a quick change or long-term disappearance. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, softcover, illus., 88 pp."
The 1966 Batman theme music is over this.
X on Jakub.
Score again, "We Are The Champions" again.
Then we see Leena with bars with The Riddler's or possibly the Joker's giggling. Pretty positive this is The Riddler again though.
Score, Tyler X, more Batman music.
Then at the 41 second mark we see the word "LYING"
At 0:42 we see a shot of MAD Magazine's Black & White spies hugging happily while pouring out what I'm assuming is poisoned coffee which cats are licking up.
At 0:44 we see a picture of a radio controlled air plane and it's controller. This seems completely out of place and wouldn't have been put into this thing for no reason would it? Thoughts?
At 0:45 the word "DECEIT".
Audry behind bars and then another score board. This one is a little different though. In place of the usual zero for the citizens is a large circle with text inside.
below that are additional zeros.
For a total of seventeen zeros. Plus the word zero... There are currently 18 people left in the game.
Sujata, scoreboard, and another book: How to Hide Anything by Michael Conner.
Amazon.com: "With little effort and expense, you can hide cash, armaments and even family from the menacing eyes of burglars, terrorists or anyone. Learn how to construct dozens of hiding places right in your house and yard. Here are small hiding places for concealing money and jewelry and large places for securing survival supplies or persons. More than 100 drawings show how to turn ordinary items into extraordinary hiding places."
The one minute mark gives us the word "BETRAYAL". New audio is also occurring with giggling, static, and then (also at the 1:00 mark) someone says VERY clearly "Jack". This is followed by a lot of other sound and static. Someone says something that sounds like "Lisa" twice. There's also what appears to be very slowed down version of something. Is there anyone out there more talented than I who could maybe bring that into a program and play with it? Back-wards, for-wards, faster, slower? There's a lot of possibility there.
Judith X and then this image of a Panasonic hand held tape recorder:
Then we have empty bars followed by a scoreboard with a .5 citizen win on it. Below that in what I can only imagine was typed by someone with down syndrome is the phrase:
"It's about god damn time... too bad we new it was coming!"
Then the image of the board's Spy Headquarters:
Right after that it's Jennipher with a big red "X" over her face.
Next up is another score board, the only significance that I can see is that the colors have been inverted. Used to have a red background and now it has a black one. Letters used to be black, now they're red.
We're at 1:23 and we see the word "Manipulation". This time only the first letter is capitalized and the colors have been inverted here also.
"Double Agent" appears in the same format.
"Mislead"
Then we've got the spy word jumble that we can see at the top of the burg right now.
More grammatic mastery in the next image with the phrase:
"Every body jump in!"
Below it is a warped and non-animated image of the bandwagon:
accompanied by Adam West's voice shouting "To the Batmobile!" and the ensuing turbines to speed and whatnot.
At this point we're flashed with all of the vanquished citizens as the Batmobile gets moving on the audio side of things.
Then an already outdated tally of number of citizens who are out of the game, the number left, and the number of spies. Followed by: "Who will win?"
The credits roll with more taunting.
There's a LOT of info here. Let's dig deep!
Let's discuss the clue we've been handed. If you didn't have a peek at it in the Exile 4.5 thread then have yourself a click:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KgTvzaAt08
In the description Sam wrote:
"*ALL credit goes to the Spies for creating this video!*
More taunting straight from the Spies to the Citizens in Spies 3: The Collective"
I would like to be the first to point out that the mere existence of the video is a mark against me. As I have told a number of you, I plan to attend film school this coming September and I currently have the skills to complete a video of that nature.
In my defense, I would never have produced such a horrible looking piece. I take much more pride in my video editing because it is a passion of mine and something that I take very seriously. Video editing is a skill that more and more people are gaining and this person clearly does it for fun.
Let's look at the video, by the numbers:
The video is two minutes, five seconds.
A lot of the audio is cuts from the Batman TV series.
It opens with the title of the game and then fades to the most updated cast image that we currently have available. Meaning Judith has an "X" but not Jennipher. The audio over this is a riddle. Probably meaningless, but it's the voice of The Riddler from the 1966 Batman television series. The riddler was played by Frank Gorshin.
When I was looking at Frank on IMDB I saw this photo:
When I saw that picture I was reminded of the costume party. There was a pretty heavy Batman influence there too. There was a Batman, a Batgirl, and Harley Quinn. As I looked through the costume party posts a second time I noticed the Battle Axe posted the following picture:
Is it possible that as a running joke among the spies they've taken to familiarizing themselves with characters from movies or television? Especially groups of five? With the "evil" side of things bringing us back to Batman villains? "But there's five of them" you say! Well we have;
Joker
Riddler
Penguin
Catwoman
Harley Quinn
Riddler
Penguin
Catwoman
Harley Quinn
Which is also a very likely male to female ratio and of course, one of the costumes WAS Harley Quinn.
Bit of a tangent there, ANYWAY.
The voice of The Riddler speaks this riddle:
"There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?"
The solution is:
"They threw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter"
Ha ha ha! Hilarious! I've got nothing for this. Any insights?
The video continues on pointing out the various victories that the spies have earned and even keeps a tally of points while playing Queen's "We Are The Champions".
At the 14 second mark we see an image of a book titled "Disguise Techniques: Fool all of the people some of the time" by Edmond A. MacInaugh. spysite.com describes the book; "With Disguise Techniques by Edmond A. MacInaugh learn from a true disguise master how to disguise the mind and the body to create a new personality, use your mental powers to blend chameleon-like into your surroundings or create any number of characters for a quick change or long-term disappearance. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, softcover, illus., 88 pp."
The 1966 Batman theme music is over this.
X on Jakub.
Score again, "We Are The Champions" again.
Then we see Leena with bars with The Riddler's or possibly the Joker's giggling. Pretty positive this is The Riddler again though.
Score, Tyler X, more Batman music.
Then at the 41 second mark we see the word "LYING"
At 0:42 we see a shot of MAD Magazine's Black & White spies hugging happily while pouring out what I'm assuming is poisoned coffee which cats are licking up.
At 0:44 we see a picture of a radio controlled air plane and it's controller. This seems completely out of place and wouldn't have been put into this thing for no reason would it? Thoughts?
At 0:45 the word "DECEIT".
Audry behind bars and then another score board. This one is a little different though. In place of the usual zero for the citizens is a large circle with text inside.
below that are additional zeros.
For a total of seventeen zeros. Plus the word zero... There are currently 18 people left in the game.
Sujata, scoreboard, and another book: How to Hide Anything by Michael Conner.
Amazon.com: "With little effort and expense, you can hide cash, armaments and even family from the menacing eyes of burglars, terrorists or anyone. Learn how to construct dozens of hiding places right in your house and yard. Here are small hiding places for concealing money and jewelry and large places for securing survival supplies or persons. More than 100 drawings show how to turn ordinary items into extraordinary hiding places."
The one minute mark gives us the word "BETRAYAL". New audio is also occurring with giggling, static, and then (also at the 1:00 mark) someone says VERY clearly "Jack". This is followed by a lot of other sound and static. Someone says something that sounds like "Lisa" twice. There's also what appears to be very slowed down version of something. Is there anyone out there more talented than I who could maybe bring that into a program and play with it? Back-wards, for-wards, faster, slower? There's a lot of possibility there.
Judith X and then this image of a Panasonic hand held tape recorder:
Then we have empty bars followed by a scoreboard with a .5 citizen win on it. Below that in what I can only imagine was typed by someone with down syndrome is the phrase:
"It's about god damn time... too bad we new it was coming!"
Then the image of the board's Spy Headquarters:
Right after that it's Jennipher with a big red "X" over her face.
Next up is another score board, the only significance that I can see is that the colors have been inverted. Used to have a red background and now it has a black one. Letters used to be black, now they're red.
We're at 1:23 and we see the word "Manipulation". This time only the first letter is capitalized and the colors have been inverted here also.
"Double Agent" appears in the same format.
"Mislead"
Then we've got the spy word jumble that we can see at the top of the burg right now.
More grammatic mastery in the next image with the phrase:
"Every body jump in!"
Below it is a warped and non-animated image of the bandwagon:
accompanied by Adam West's voice shouting "To the Batmobile!" and the ensuing turbines to speed and whatnot.At this point we're flashed with all of the vanquished citizens as the Batmobile gets moving on the audio side of things.
Then an already outdated tally of number of citizens who are out of the game, the number left, and the number of spies. Followed by: "Who will win?"
The credits roll with more taunting.
There's a LOT of info here. Let's dig deep!
But half of the people in the game were too... I'm sure I could've trumped it myself for sheer batshit!