STAR VEHICLE | Omeleto
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- Five actors wait for a sixth.
STAR VEHICLE is used with permission from Tiffany Yvonne Cox. Learn more at tiffanyyvonnecox.com.
An assortment of "day players" have been hired for the day on a television show. There's a "gay black man," a "black woman," a "tall girl, an "angry guy" and "Middle Eastern guy." These bit-part actors are waiting to be called to set, but they're still waiting for a mysterious sixth actor who will be playing "hot girl."
They've all spent time playing bit roles on other shows and movies -- and as they chat, they reveal their industry experiences and touch about the frustrations and foibles of trying to carve out a career filling in Hollywood's "diversity" imperative.
Directed by Tiffany Yvonne Cox and written by Will Allan (who also plays the role of "Angry Guy"), this acerbic short comedy is an affectionate yet sharply observant love letter to the Hollywood day player, a class of actors who are hired for small roles, have few lines and are only on set for a day or two. With roles so small they often only get a basic description like "Tall Girl" or "Gay Black Man," they often forge careers in the face of uncertainty, anxiety and needling feelings of invisibility.
Shot with the bright, gleaming look of a well-appointed Hollywood show or movie, the film starts quickly, capturing the friendly professional camaraderie between the bit-part actors in an industry where inside intel and networking often lead to the next job or opportunity. The witty, observant storytelling right away notes each actor's role, flattened to basic descriptions like Angry Guy, Tall Girl or Black Woman, though those descriptions don't capture how specific and uniquely personable each character is. The Angry Guy is self-deprecating and funny; the Black Woman is smart, reserved and slyly sarcastic; Tall Girl is well-informed, well-meaning and friendly. The writing crackles with their different perspectives and wit, delineating each character well, even in the short format.
As the group quickly bonds and chat about their industry experiences, what emerges is a well-layered, funny dialogue that captures what it means to play an identity and not a character for these actors. Some express a resignation at the stereotypes they get reduced to, with little room to make them dimensional. Others find humor in the ridiculousness, shrugging off the pretzel act that comes from trying to fit a multifaceted person into a label.
The ensemble cast -- actors Londen Shannon, Angela Alise, Clare Cooney, Behzad Dabu and Allan -- bounce well off one another, their reactions often providing humor at occasional moments of cluelessness. What emerges as the discussion develops is how these small roles reflect larger societal discomforts about how we talk about -- and often around -- identity and diversity in general, all while slyly skewering Hollywood's shallow approach towards broader representation in general.
Yet ultimately, these actors make a living in an often cut-throat, profit-obsessed business, and at the end of the witty, entertaining STAR VEHICLE, they shrug off the discontents and retreat into their stinky segments of a trailer, separated from one another. It's a wry, almost ironic ending that has notes of wistfulness -- almost like a missed opportunity in forging connections that could lead to genuine solidarity, the kind needed to make change in an entrenched industry. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
I liked this, lots of subtle humor, and HOT GIRL didn't even get any face time.
Was she not given face time, because of irony? That was weird.
I didn't enjoy this film.
FACTS 😂. We have no idea what hot girl looks like 🤔 😆
The future of Hollywood... oh, wait, the continuance of Hollywood.
Everyone in this short was insufferable lol
I think that was part of the humour, which I did't find funny.
I skipped a lot of the film, so I didn't see what tall did that was so bad.
@@eugenetswong Yeah I understood the intent but, not my thing. It was awkward and annoying.
@@pathetic2399 Honestly, it felt like a demo reel for each actor and actress.
I'm disappointed, because I thought that it was scifi when I first saw the thumbnail.
I love how awkward and uncomfortable it is, it really makes you feel like you're there! I was in pain watching this the whole time but in a good way!
it really does have the kind of cast roll you’d see in ncis credits
This was such a fun short. Loved how the snappy dialogue kept flowing with no lulls. Nice job! 😊👍🏻
i am in love with the middle east guy
I am here
So realistic. Actors are so weird.
Very symbolic and...expressing frankly how we all intuitively memorize people according to their most saillant feature.
I think that in the case of Hollywood, they just don't want to bother naming the characters.
I guess it is worthy to be "Hot Girl"...
Decent enough, felt like a series teaser. Always good to see new faces.
I like that idea. We never see what they're filming, just the behind the scenes stuff that we never think about. Maybe a gaff and key grip (whatever they are) talking about their days to the silent, menacing Black man and precocious teen.
Nice work Angie! ❤
P.S. Very irritating that we can't rate or comment on this film on the IMDb. What's up with that?
She didn't think tall girl was that tall... are you kidding me?!
She didn’t 🤷🏽♀️
5'9" and taller qualifies as tall for a woman, maybe even 5'8", but not 5'6".
@@12thDecember She appears to be a half a head to a head taller than the other cast members.
She was just acting like a crabby black girl. It was weird but normal, I think. She was disrespectful to 1 of the guys in my opinion.
@@eugenetswong That too.
This was awesome…
I miss the 80’s/ and im brown
@mlbonfox8199 I thought it was funny and liked it. Why would it not be funny?
I love this as a show
Hilarious!
Great job, all!
We never see what hot girl looks like 🤔 😞😭
The actor struggle is real. Luckily I don't have any artistic talent and just work on servers.
More from gay black guy, please 😂😂
Clearly filmed during the pandemic.
ik, They had a 'Covid compliance' person.
😎
Oh Boy! Another DEI condolence of ineptitude.
This is 2020 Identity Politics nightmare 😂
This is funny and that’s a compliment.
Script and acting were a bit too unsubtle for me.
Starve hicle. :-)
I clicked LIKE from the first couple of minutes!
Most of these comments stink. This short was hilarious
Love from Namibia🇳🇦
Netflix set?
They didn't show us the hot girl till the very end but somehow we all knew she's gonna be a short white lady idk why
FACTS 😂
Are all actors this shallow?
Part of the point of the story, I think. They're stereotypes. They have no depth.
The story isn't about actors. It's about the character cliche's Hollywood trots out and the personification of them as story devices.
Obviously not
@@justingary5322 you didn't watch the movie
It sucks people are sensitive
I gave up on this show when they started talking about race with the usual nonsense. Perhaps the rest was OK, but I am just fed up with it all.
Dont get it, other then that people still have problem expressing themselfs and at the same time everybody takes everything as an cultural insult.
It was just making fun of how pretentious Hollywood is, I think.
This is why I'm anti-woke
Define “woke”.
@@Tanyalakergurl Weighing every word that could possibly offend others, often for the most silly reasons.
@@the_notorious_bas wrong.
@@Tanyalakergurl Then why not give your definition?
@@the_notorious_bas if you say you are anti-woke, that means you are for discrimination and prejudice. I wouldn’t be too proud of that, but then again, I wouldn’t like my own comments either.
I normally like Omeleto productions, but like the Star Vehicle this stinks.
Omeleto does not make any productions, the films all have their own directors and producers. Omeleto is just a TH-cam channel that curates the films.
three minutes of hello - the writing is so poor on this one.
Oh, you missed it! That was the beginning of the funny. That's the exposition of what cliche's they're going to be mocking.
Not a fan. Felt like virtue signalling
nice. I think thats what this short was about :)
You missed the forest through the trees. It shows how faux diversity can be guilty of what it's trying to cure.
Woooooooooosh
That's what it's supposed to be about