"Escape from Tomorrow" movie filmed in Disneyland secretly

[Stitch626626]

I would love to see this film...Of course Disney would never allow it to be released anywhere to the general public.

[bigcatrik]

I wonder if any Mice Chatters are in it!

[calsig31]

To attempt to describe the plot of “Escape” is to go down a rabbit hole as disorienting as any amusement park ride. Basically, the film is about a down-on-his luck fortysomething father (Roy Abramsohn) on the last day of a Disney World vacation with his henpecking wife and their two angelic children. As he takes his children to various attractions, the father is haunted by disturbing imagery; he is also, in the meantime (and with his children in tow), tailing two young flirtatious French girls around the park. Airy musical compositions you might find in classic Hollywood films play over many of these scenes, giving a light shading to the darker moments.

This sounds horrible.

[Retrocool]

This guy's got cojones. A lot of other filmmakers would film at another park and WISH they could film at Disneyland & WDW. This guy just went ahead and did it, and it worked out for him. That's gutsy.

Honestly, if I were in charge at Disney, I'd contact the guy, congratulate him on his ingenuity, make an offer to distribute the film for him (probably through Miramax), and see if he'd be interested in signing a first-look contract. The likelihood that he'd ever make another guerrilla film at a Disney park is pretty much zip, but he might have a lot of other really interesting ideas for movies, scripted or not, and Disney, if they're smart, will see the potential in him, rather than act out of spite.

[The International]

Yeah, this is awesome. It's kind of crazy that he spent three years on a movie that may never receive a commercial release but that's some serious commitment to art. I think the chances of Disney working with this dude are pretty much zero, I mean they've been known to send C&D letters to preschools with images of Mickey on the walls so the idea that they'd be connected in any way to a macabre film incorporating actual imagery of Disneyland seems pretty hard to believe.

I have a feeling this will make it to the internet at some point, if nothing else.

[calsig31]

Honestly, if I were in charge at Disney, I'd contact the guy, congratulate him on his ingenuity, make an offer to distribute the film for him (probably through Miramax), and see if he'd be interested in signing a first-look contract. The likelihood that he'd ever make another guerrilla film at a Disney park is pretty much zip, but he might have a lot of other really interesting ideas for movies, scripted or not, and Disney, if they're smart, will see the potential in him, rather than act out of spite.

This assumes, of course, that the movie is good enough to distribute. From the description, it sounds terrible.

I don't, however, see Disney doing this as it would send a message that they condone this type of behavior.

[frollofan]

I found this on youtube

[FigmentJedi]

Like Disney executives, for example.

[Pizzapants]

I found this on youtube

Well that was... definitely a clip. It didn't sell me on anything. I was bored.

[Meville]

Pretentious as anything. And was that guy seriously creeping on those teenage french girls...

I don't agree with this in the slightest. You want to make a movie? Fine, but you should go through the proper channels to do so. Putting unsuspecting "extras" in a feature movie, that you intend to showcase in a major film festive, for monetary gain is wrong. Also, would anyone care about this movie if it were filmed at 6 Flags? doubt it. He can complain about Disney all he wants, without the "corporation" he would have nothing for a subject.

[Pizzapants]

So this guy is boobing about corporations, so he takes his indie film to Sundance to do what? Try to sell it to a major studio?

[Mr Wiggins]

I don't agree with this in the slightest. You want to make a movie? Fine, but you should go through the proper channels to do so. Putting unsuspecting "extras" in a feature movie, that you intend to showcase in a major film festive, for monetary gain is wrong. Also, would anyone care about this movie if it were filmed at 6 Flags? doubt it. He can complain about Disney all he wants, without the "corporation" he would have nothing for a subject.

Bingo.

Brilliant creative concept and great execution or not, the narcissism and hypocrisy at the core of the project is repugnant.

[The International]

That's funny, his opinion of Disneyland is something that comes up on these forums quite often.

“I have nothing against Disney,” Moore said when asked if he saw his film as political. “It’s just upsetting that it was about a one-man vision, and now it’s like so much of the world in how corporate it’s all gotten,” he said. “I look at Apple and Steve Jobs and my biggest fear is that something like this will happen there."

The idea that Disneyland began as Walt's vision and has since become Disney The Corporation's vision is a completely apt criticism, and one that I've seen here quite a bit. He's not anti-Disney at all, it sounds like he was a fan of Walt's work and isn't too thrilled with the corporate direction since his death.

[mratigan]

I know I'll see it

[Pizzapants]

That's funny, his opinion of Disneyland is something that comes up on these forums quite often.

“I have nothing against Disney,” Moore said when asked if he saw his film as political. “It’s just upsetting that it was about a one-man vision, and now it’s like so much of the world in how corporate it’s all gotten,” he said. “I look at Apple and Steve Jobs and my biggest fear is that something like this will happen there."

The idea that Disneyland began as Walt's vision and has since become Disney The Corporation's vision is a completely apt criticism, and one that I've seen here quite a bit. He's not anti-Disney at all, it sounds like he was a fan of Walt's work and isn't too thrilled with the corporate direction since his death.

You mean the part where the people delude themselves into thinking that this company isn't based on Walt not being in it for the money, because he had no concept of money and if it weren't for Roy to keep him in check, then there would be no company and making it a corporation is just a natural evolution of a big business and Disneyland is actually better today than it was on opening day? That opinion?