The night before thanksgiving
January 2018
Inspired by the 1975 film, our short film is a reenactment of “Monty Python and The Holy Grail”’s killer rabbit scene where we are captivated by the antithesis between the stark contrast of the rabbit’s preconceived gullible and innocent characteristics and the atrocious assault that it strikes on the knights.
The plot twist of an archetypal benign object unexpectedly emerges as a hostile villain. A marinated chicken starts plotting revenge against Jiayi, while she prepares for Thanksgiving night. Sharpening the blade, the chicken starts slashing Jiayi rampantly as the knife ends her life in violent blows. Outraged by its inability to relive its youth, the chicken reminiscences it’s early blitheful days in the farm as it murders Jiayi despite her endeavors to escape.
This 3 mins film as a rapid response to the brief a practice of low budget film effect, it produced by a group of five, and the took total a week.
The Night Before Thanksgiving from YIFAN LIU on Vimeo.