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El Arthur Bey is a filmmaker from humble beginnings. Born in a Chicago winter at Cook County Hospital in 1971, El Arthur would come to depend heavily on his imagination to survive the tough terrain to which he was born in to. A gypsy baby that lived on all sides of Chicago by the time he was 9 years old; El Arthur garnered a vast look into the social landscape of a segregated city at a very young age from a poverty stricken level. His experiences as a child chased him into the movie theaters where he discovered Spike Lee and realized for the first time; black people can make movies too.
El Arthur pursued film studies at Clark Atlanta University where he achieved a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media. Having aspirations to follow in Spike's footsteps to NYU, El Arthur wanted to submit his application but was told by a professor of his, "You don't know how to write." Needless to say, whether if the opinion of the professor was valid or, not, El Arthur never attended NYU. But it never stopped his veracity for the knowledge of all things films, documentaries and movies. Studying the masters of storytelling; Oscar Mischaeux, Paul Robeson, Akira Kurosowa, Ingmar Berman, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese and countless others who would mold and shape the dynamic appoach and vision of the independent mind of El Arthur Bey. For the next ten years he would toil in small market productions in Chicago before he shot his first short film, PARKED in 2003 for $10,000. The short film was a social commentary piece which plot served as a metaphor of a society being PARKED and not DRIVEN to evolve from its present spiralling chaos. It was awarded Best Short Film in Nacional Music Hall Film Festival in Paris, France in 2005 and was selected for the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago, IL in 2006 and presently can be viewed on Vimeo under " A Sonny Arthur Picture".
El Arthur Bey would sharpen his skills as a storyteller over the next 15 years as a motion picture studio mechanic. There he would work in virtually every single department behind the camera on some of the world's most favorite tv shows, films and videos known to man. Having worked on both coast in production and recently settling in Chicago, El Arthur began a family consisting of a loving wife and daughter.
Having taking the time to live and study the world, El Arthur developed a stronger knack for social commentary through various art forms. He is a painter, actor and a musician as well. El Arthur Bey has found it prime to create another effort in which to reflect the times:
(Art work contribution to the film CHI-RAQ by Spike Lee)
Only this time, it will be filmed. 2017 has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride. The surreal nature of the news and our present chief and commander astounds all sense of commonality. We are living in unprecedented times and the art work, El Arthur believes, should represent every frame of our eroding morality in this country. And let's face it; Saturday Night Live can't have all the fun depicting this.
In the face of our current plasma 64 inch TV reality show comes El Arthur Bey's comedy spoof pie; DR. BEN CRAZY Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Seedless Watermelon. On the heels of Trumps 100 days in office, El Arthur saw a direct throughline between the reality we dwell in and Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, DR. STRANGELOVE Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.
Admittedly an homage piece and a tip of the hat to the originator, but with a very significant twist; the characters in El Arthur Bey's short film, will be black. The scenes will only consist of the interaction of only two characters and will take place in one room only. He realizes that he does not have the budget for a full on production but there are great hopes that the effort given at this juncture will spawn the curiousity to bring a feature to fruition.
A line from the screenplay carefully treads the similarity of the originator but with a radical racial undertone, "Do you know what Lincoln said about race?" A question posed by the lead character in the short film, General Colon Bowel, and a line that replaces General Ripper's "Do you know what Clemenceau said about war?" This indicates another zeitgeist side post in the world we presently live in. As General Ripper did in Dr. Strangelove, General Bowel, will do in Dr. Ben Crazy; Lose his mind and send the world into a tailspin crafted from the angst of living under unfit world leaders who constantly teeter upon world destruction.
The other character is Group Captain, Marcus Aurellius Drakeman and he will spend the entire time trying his best not to lose his nerve and retrieve the code from a general who has sent bombs to Russia autonomously because he feels there's an international white supremacist conspiracy to rid the world of black people through the ingestion of seedless watermelon.
This bizarre tale will add a much needed splash on to the canvas of our future in filmmaking which further pushes the needle to a much needed cultural center of understanding. El Arthur Bey's philosophy is that we should use the medium of filmmaking to expose the cancer blotting society's vision of a more perfect union. America, on the brink of it self destruction makes this piece almost as urgent as saving the world from itself.
"This is where you come in. I need your help. I liken you all to the role of the General in this instance and I, the Group Captain desparately pleaing for the code. I need the seed money to bring this project to life." You will be greatly decorated as a soldier who supported El Arthur Bey's dark comedy war cry against the madness we're all desperately shouting at.
Thank you for your consideration. "Please, help me retrieve the code." - Captain Drakeman
Take a look at the link below and see Captain Drakeman addressing the serious nature of the situation:
https://www.facebook.com/arthur.alexander.14
El Arthur pursued film studies at Clark Atlanta University where he achieved a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media. Having aspirations to follow in Spike's footsteps to NYU, El Arthur wanted to submit his application but was told by a professor of his, "You don't know how to write." Needless to say, whether if the opinion of the professor was valid or, not, El Arthur never attended NYU. But it never stopped his veracity for the knowledge of all things films, documentaries and movies. Studying the masters of storytelling; Oscar Mischaeux, Paul Robeson, Akira Kurosowa, Ingmar Berman, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese and countless others who would mold and shape the dynamic appoach and vision of the independent mind of El Arthur Bey. For the next ten years he would toil in small market productions in Chicago before he shot his first short film, PARKED in 2003 for $10,000. The short film was a social commentary piece which plot served as a metaphor of a society being PARKED and not DRIVEN to evolve from its present spiralling chaos. It was awarded Best Short Film in Nacional Music Hall Film Festival in Paris, France in 2005 and was selected for the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago, IL in 2006 and presently can be viewed on Vimeo under " A Sonny Arthur Picture".
El Arthur Bey would sharpen his skills as a storyteller over the next 15 years as a motion picture studio mechanic. There he would work in virtually every single department behind the camera on some of the world's most favorite tv shows, films and videos known to man. Having worked on both coast in production and recently settling in Chicago, El Arthur began a family consisting of a loving wife and daughter.
Having taking the time to live and study the world, El Arthur developed a stronger knack for social commentary through various art forms. He is a painter, actor and a musician as well. El Arthur Bey has found it prime to create another effort in which to reflect the times:
(Art work contribution to the film CHI-RAQ by Spike Lee)
Only this time, it will be filmed. 2017 has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride. The surreal nature of the news and our present chief and commander astounds all sense of commonality. We are living in unprecedented times and the art work, El Arthur believes, should represent every frame of our eroding morality in this country. And let's face it; Saturday Night Live can't have all the fun depicting this.
In the face of our current plasma 64 inch TV reality show comes El Arthur Bey's comedy spoof pie; DR. BEN CRAZY Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Seedless Watermelon. On the heels of Trumps 100 days in office, El Arthur saw a direct throughline between the reality we dwell in and Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, DR. STRANGELOVE Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.
Admittedly an homage piece and a tip of the hat to the originator, but with a very significant twist; the characters in El Arthur Bey's short film, will be black. The scenes will only consist of the interaction of only two characters and will take place in one room only. He realizes that he does not have the budget for a full on production but there are great hopes that the effort given at this juncture will spawn the curiousity to bring a feature to fruition.
A line from the screenplay carefully treads the similarity of the originator but with a radical racial undertone, "Do you know what Lincoln said about race?" A question posed by the lead character in the short film, General Colon Bowel, and a line that replaces General Ripper's "Do you know what Clemenceau said about war?" This indicates another zeitgeist side post in the world we presently live in. As General Ripper did in Dr. Strangelove, General Bowel, will do in Dr. Ben Crazy; Lose his mind and send the world into a tailspin crafted from the angst of living under unfit world leaders who constantly teeter upon world destruction.
The other character is Group Captain, Marcus Aurellius Drakeman and he will spend the entire time trying his best not to lose his nerve and retrieve the code from a general who has sent bombs to Russia autonomously because he feels there's an international white supremacist conspiracy to rid the world of black people through the ingestion of seedless watermelon.
This bizarre tale will add a much needed splash on to the canvas of our future in filmmaking which further pushes the needle to a much needed cultural center of understanding. El Arthur Bey's philosophy is that we should use the medium of filmmaking to expose the cancer blotting society's vision of a more perfect union. America, on the brink of it self destruction makes this piece almost as urgent as saving the world from itself.
"This is where you come in. I need your help. I liken you all to the role of the General in this instance and I, the Group Captain desparately pleaing for the code. I need the seed money to bring this project to life." You will be greatly decorated as a soldier who supported El Arthur Bey's dark comedy war cry against the madness we're all desperately shouting at.
Thank you for your consideration. "Please, help me retrieve the code." - Captain Drakeman
Take a look at the link below and see Captain Drakeman addressing the serious nature of the situation:
https://www.facebook.com/arthur.alexander.14
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