Update 123-01
Update 123-01
Auditions
5th January 2007
11:25 PM

I went down to the Malaysian Counsel-General today to do some admin work. Not to be racist or anything but its amazing how cultural values are held even by those living overseas. I ended up waiting 4 hours for the fat, donut-eating security guard (Cliched but true!) to come back from his lunch break clutching a week-old copy of the 'Straits Times'. I am then informed that they were already closed and that I would have to come back the next day to see the Counsel General.

The guard then tells me to 'relac lah boi. Amerika got many many things to do yah...'

What a helpful sod.

Anyway, I heard that people had to AUDITION and go through rigorous interview sessions in order to join ACDC this year. How do I know? Well, this trailer is a testament to it.



As such, in light of how elitist AC Drama Club has become, I have decided that I myself am not exclusive enough with my own organization. Therefore, I decided to hold auditions for our group on Sunday.



Only after undergoing the process myself did I realize why ACDC did it – It really is such a kick! The immense power and discretion it grants those folks behind the desk is something fascinating. We started out humbly enough – Only snickering slightly when they started doing stupid things (Unknowingly).





On the whole, we tried our level best to keep a poker face. After a while, we got bored and start making them do stupid improvisations and cold reads.

Like this guy whom we did an interesting improv session for:

“Pick a fight in a Southern bar”



And this dude who we forced to act like a retard as part of our 'casting process':

“Convince the owner of the local McDonald's that you're a not THAT retarded but you actually are.”



Interestingly enough, we even had a John Travolta look-alike try out.





As well as an extra from 'That 70s Show'.



And Dr Xavier miraculously healed without his wheelchair.



After a while the people coming in became more and more bizzare. Firstly this dude came in that was like the William Hung of film auditions:






I would actually love to put all their auditions up but I'm too lazy. Sorry.

Then this guy came in and did an impressive and spectacular monologue that could've came right out of a 'Scarface'.

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I thought he was putting on a Tony Montana accent to enhance his role. Then, we discovered he was an Italian guy (Yes, all the way from Rome) auditioning to act. I suspect he's gay (Not that I'm discriminatory, of course). He put 'No problems with nudity' in bold, capitalized fonts all over the audition form. Go figure. Oh and wierdly enough, EVERY SINGLE person we auditioned claimed they had 'Kung Fu Skills' and fired 'Shotguns' before. One guy even told us he could 'throw peanuts' like no one else could'.

After a while we couldn't take it any longer. My friend brought along metal – Yes, METAL guns for us to play with. Following which, we effectively became a gun club meeting with each of the members trying to shoot each other. Muhahaha. No more crappy Chinese blackmarkets! Woots! Oh by the way, Desert Eagles are friggin HUGE and HEAVY. I can't imagine anyone in real life actually shooting that damn hand-cannon.

Being the professional, well-versed, and trained pros that we are, we even had a disclaimer on the back of all the audition forms which stated:

We got them to sign and date all of them.

Muhahahaha. The things power can do.

This is a sign that we should audition more people.


- posted by BLT @ 7:25 AM