This campus is tough, but I’m tougher. The Streaking Gun is what I made for this digital assignment. I wanted to base it on action movie trailers I had seen in the past, as well as parody the existing parodies, and I think I did a pretty good job. Making unlocked memories that I had really not thought of in a long time: making silly movie trailers by myself or with friends was one of the main ways I bonded with the kids in my neighborhood, as well as discovered my love for the medium.
So who is the Streaking Gun? Well, he’s a lot of things, but he’s definitely not James Bond. James Bond likes his martini dry, not stirred. The Streaking Gun likes his wet and stirred. Is he Tom Cruise? Well, kinda, minus the whole Scientology thing. As the story goes, the Streaking Gun was born to parents Colt and Winchester Gun in 1979, out in Amarillo. Yes, he’s Gen X. He first cut his teeth as a low-level narcotics officer in Chicago in the 90s, before he was called up to the FBI for major crimes work. Gun never misses a case; in fact, he averages around 15 hours a day on the job. That could mean anything from pulling grandmas off the road to revoke their licenses to gathering dirt on a senator that the president really doesn’t like.
Usually, the situations he’s in aren’t actually that urgent; he just sprints everywhere to assert himself as being the most urgent person in the room. Your problems do not matter; his do! But this takes a toll on his personal relationships. Gun’s lover, Esmerelda, rarely ever gets to see him because he’s always running off to be on the case. The film focuses on this dynamic of an extremely busy, important man and a woman who is very one-note in nature and does nothing throughout the plot, truly innovative and empowering stuff.
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