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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
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3 October 1997 (USA)
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What do an elderly topiary gardener, a retired lion tamer, a man fascinated by mole rats, and a cutting-edge robotics designer have in common...
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A work of genius. No one can sculpt the documentary form as brilliantly as this man
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(Complete credited cast)| Dave Hoover | ... | Himself (Wild Animal Trainer) | |
| George Mendonça | ... | Himself (Topiary Gardener) | |
| Raymond A. Mendez | ... | Himself (Mole-Rat Specialist) (as Ray Mendez) | |
| Rodney Brooks | ... | Himself - Robot Scientist |
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Rated PG for mild thematic elements.
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Discussed in Episode 97 of the popular radio program This American Life. The subject was "Death to Wacky" and it originally aired on March 20, 1998.
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[On creating topiary]
George Mendonca: This is all done from memory. If you know what a animal looks like, you just, well, you just start making an animal.
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George Mendonca: This is all done from memory. If you know what a animal looks like, you just, well, you just start making an animal.
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Referenced in Ten Minute Flick School: Fast, Cheap and in Control (2004) (V)
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This movie is a work of genius. It asks as well of answers to some degree most major questions of life as we know it (and don't know it) all through interviews and visual juxtapositions. The real-life people are astoundingly interesting and passionate and when Errol distorts our minds using subjective imagery such as old 40's films and intercutting between interviews to enhance its meaning, he conjures welcome associations of human nature. No one can sculpt the documentary form as brilliantly as this man.