The animation style was an homage to the cutout works of one Terry Gilliam ( there’s that Monty Python callback), and the short was for their own amusement, mostly. The Spirit of Christmas was a four minute cartoon where the titular snowman proceeds to terrorize four young school children before baby Jesus steps in to save the day: Kenny (who is a child with a green poof-ball hat and a red jacket) and an unknown kid in an orange hooded coat get the worst treatment and die amidst all of this. Even from then, the two knew exactly what they would contribute to their partnership.īefore all of this, however, came a little animated short film, back when Parker and Stone were still students. They pitched the unsuccessful pilots of Time Warped, and would go on to make Orgazmo in 1997 the latter is interesting, because you can spot Parker as the director/writer of the project, Stone as one of the producers, and both guys as stars of this project. The film would be released years later, but they both caught the filmmaking bug. Classmates failed some of their film class because they were busy working on Cannibal! The Musical (the real one, this time). So “Trey” Parker and “Matt” Stone got to conceiving a trailer for a fake film for Cannibal! The Musical, which drew enough of a crowd that this vision could actually be financed and an indie feature was born. They were destined to be making projects together, and this includes an assignment of theirs: to make a trailer for a film. Their absurdist senses of humour was the immediate click-into-place for the two aspiring filmmakers, particularly their love of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (there’s a particular part of this iconic series that inspired them, but we will get back to that in a minute). Once upon a time, there were two boys by the names of Randolph Severin Parker III and Matthew Richard Stone who met each other at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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