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Mood:
- Humorous
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Plot:
- Musician's LifeContests and CompetitionsArtists and ShowbizRivalryMusic BandPerformer's LifeAmbitionFriends
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Genres:
- AnimationFamilyMusicComedy
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Place:
- EuropeItalyVillage
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Audience:
- Family OutingKids
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Praise:
- Highly Acclaimed Short
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealisticFast
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Score:
- Orchestral
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Look:
- Computer Animated
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One Man Band, 2005
Profile of One Man Band
The mood of One Man Band is humorous. The plot centers around the life of a musician, contests and competitions, and artists and showbiz. It is an animation, family, and comedy short film. In approach, One Man Band is realistic. The pacing is fast. It takes place, at least partly, in a village. One Man Band is set in Italy. Visually, it is computer animated. The musical score is orchestral. One Man Band is known for being a highly acclaimed short. It is especially suggested for kids and a family outing.
Summary of One Man Band
In this animated short film, we see Bass, a street performer playing a routine tune on a deserted Italian village square one fine afternoon, waiting for a pedestrian to tip him in his rusty iron cup. Soon, he spots Tippy, a humble peasant girl clutching a big gold coin, with the intention of dropping it in the piazza fountain to make a wish. Bass, seizing the opportunity, immediately plays an impromptu track, capturing the young girl's attention. Just when Tippy is about to drop the coin into Bass's cup, a newcomer steps onto the scene. Treble, a suave and flamboyant street performer, plays a more attractive sound, effectively stealing Tippy's attention, much to the anger of Bass. Not to be outdone, Bass ups his ante, with Treble daring to take it even further. As the two rivals unleash their arsenal of musical weapons, trying to vie for the attention (or rather, the tip) of Tippy, the girl cowers in their wild musical cacophony, and in the process, drops her sole gold coin, which falls down a drain and gets lost in the sewers of the village.
Heartbroken, Tippy sheds a single tear, but then angrily demands from Treble and Bass a replacement coin for the one they made her lose. When the two musicians come up empty-handed, Tippy insists she take one of Treble's violins and Bass's iron cup in an attempt to get her money back by playing solo. She then tunes the violin and begins to play it like a true virtuoso, prompting a passing pedestrian to drop a large bag of gold coins into her cup. Elated, Tippy hugs the bag and approaches the fountain, but not before she pulls two coins out of her bag and tempts Treble and Bass. But as they eagerly reach out to grab them, she tosses the coins into the top of the fountain, out of reach, to the dismay of the two one-man-band units. A post-credits scene shows that it is now nighttime, with Treble standing on Bass, trying to reach for the coins in vain. As the two start to fall backwards, the film ends.
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