Ok, this thread born from spam. Spam always says pick me pick me, but there is no body hearing at the other side.
I just have one thing to say. I love to make provocative and shocking animations, but here I really can't explain everything because it's most about Chile and Spanish language.
A couple years ago with my friends we made
Super Mario Chile, a 30 seconds animation which had a real success on my country: a thousands of visits, mass media interviews, winning awards, Tv shows commenting it, etc. A local success.
The idea was pretty simple, tell the official story of our country (which is what official education teach us on the books) but with a Mario Bros atmosphere. ¿But why this simple idea was so famous?, we put a lot of little jokes on each detail and character appearing, that's one reason, but the second is more important: we made the bad guy win.
Ok, a little context here. If you don't know, in Chile recent history we had a dictatorship ruled by Augusto Pinochet for 17 years. He took the power on 1973 and produced the dead of the socialist president Salvador Allende, the destruction of our government house and the disappearing, death and torture of thousands of people.
In 1990 the government of Pinochet ended and we returned to a democracy.
Today, for most people the figure of Pinochet represent pain and shame and he forms part of the bad guys of our official history.
Paradoxically, our country organization is based on what was constructed on his dictatorship, so we have a lot of democracy limitations which are inheritance from this 17 bad years. The mayor example is that our current Political Constitution was created by Pinochet, without a legal vote or opponents political parties, so we haven't chosen anything of our own rules.
Back to the short. In the final battle -which correspond to Mario v/s Bowser- we put Pinochet as Mario and Allende as Bowser. Finally, obviously, Bowser die in the lava and Mario destroy his castle.
Much people felt offended, they said How Pinochet can be the hero of this story when actually he is the bad guy?
That was shocking, people didn't expect to find this in a funny video, much of them called us "fachos" (which is an apocopation of fascists), thinking we were supporters of Pinochet. It was heretic. But we had just one answer for all: this video is just like our history was, Pinochet (lamentably) won, Allende died, the House of government was destroyed and today our country is based in what he constructed.
It was a very interesting debate of our history and still being in some forums, all from a 30 seconds animation.
Ok, I know it's a too close example and this sound egocentric, but what I mean is that you can do something shocking, but in several ways. Things become interesting when you tell things in a new way. Maybe to make children wash their teeth you should tell them exactly the opposite, who knows. It's great you be trying to be shocking, but you must be intelligent too.
