Sunday, November 9, 2014

Week 1 Blog





Title: Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Writer: Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, and Michael Vorhol.
Director: Tim Burton
Year: 1985
Actors: Paul Ruebens, Elizabeth Daily, and Mark Holten

Story:  Pee Wee's Big Adventure is a spin off of Pee Wee's Playhouse.  It shares the story of child-like, adventurous, and bike-obsessed Pee Wee Herman losing his treasured bike.  He goes on a wild goose chase in search of his bike.  Pee Wee finds himself in multiple sticky situations along the way.

Plot:  The film begins with Pee Wee Herman's quirky morning routine of breakfast, bike riding, and errand running.  With his bike tightly locked up in front of the bike shop, he goes inside to check out new gadgets for his beloved red bike.  After saying goodbye to the shop owner and friend, Dottie, he cheerfully leaves only to discover his bike had been stolen.
   
         Pee Wee frantically calls police to report stolen bicycle and is told there is nothing they can do.  The loss of his bike sends him into grief ridden downward spiral, until he spots Madam Ruby, a fortune teller to help.  She is a phony and only desires his money so she makes up a story how his beauty is in the basement of the Alamo in Texas.

        He immediately takes off on the road hitch hiking his way to Texas.  An escaped convict picks him up and quickly drops him off abandoned in the middle of nowhere.  Pee Wee then is rescued by a semi truck and is dropped off at a local diner by Large Marge, who is later revealed to be a ghost. He is forced to clean dishes after ordering a meal without having any money to pay for it.  A sweet waitress with a boyfriend with a mean temper, Simone, asks Pee Wee to watch the sun rise before he takes off to find his bike.  He obliges and quickly regrets it as her mean boyfriend discovers them and attempts to kill Pee Wee.  Pee Wee barely escapes by jumping onto a cargo train that he eventually jumps out of and lands in Texas.

         He quickly locates the Alamo and joins the group of tourists with a guide walking them through the Alamo.  Pee Wee is told by the tour guide there is no basement in the Alamo and his heart sinks as he nearly gives up his search.  He then calls Dottie to wire him a bus ticket back home, but then he spots Simone catching a bus to her life long dream of Paris then her boyfriend spies Pee Wee and the chase begins again.  Pee Wee escapes again to use the phone in a biker dive bear where he finds himself in an altercation with mean bikers.  He wins their favor by dancing on top of the bar in platform shoes he borrows from the bar chef.  The bikers give him a bike and he crashes, landing him in the hospital.

         Pee Wee awakes in the hospital and he sees his bike on the news.  A child actor in LA is donating to an orphanage. The trip to Warner Bros studios in Los Angeles immediately ensues. Pee Wee Herman breaks into the studios, locates his bike, and steals it back.  The lot security chases him and eventually gets him.  He explains the story to the Warner Bros CEO and the CEO is fascinated with his story and wants to make it into a feature film.  The movie is made about Pee Wee's adventure to get his bike and Pee Wee Herman is just happy to have his bike back.

Chronology:  This film was told in chronological order.  Without this order, Pee Wee's crazy encounters would not have made any sense.

 The weird people and circumstances he finds himself in make this story a complete adventure.  If it had not been linearly, the impact of these people and locations would not have led him to his beloved red bike.

Resources:

www.imbd.com - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089791/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers

Pee Wee's Big Adventure full trailer retrieved from YouTube.com - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9OCvQEQ30



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