This year’s Sundance hit “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” rode into cinemas last week on a wave of glowing reviews, one of which comes from The Playlist. One of the central elements in the film's story about the relationship between Greg (Thomas Mann), a young movie nerd, and Rachel (Olivia Cooke), a classmate dying from stage 4 Leukemia, is the slew of no-budget parody movies Greg and his Bff Earl (Rj Cyler) make to pay tribute to some of the biggest classics in film history. Read More: 2015 Sundance Awards: 'Me & Earl & The Dying Girl' Wins Best Drama, Best Doc Goes To 'The Wolfpack' The film’s animator Nathan O. Marsh created 21 posters for the fake movies the pair produce within the movie, and ten of them have been released online via EW. Some of the ideas behind the parodies are very cheesy, relying on simple wordplay to execute their concepts,...
- 6/22/2015
- by Oktay Ege Kozak
- The Playlist
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