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High Strung 1991
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High Strung is an independent film that stars and was written by Steve Oedekerk. It features Oedekerk as a short-tempered young man, Thane Furrows, who spends his whole time getting annoyed at basically everything around him all while getting mysterious messages about something coming to him at 8:00 pm that night. It was directed and produced by Roger Nygard.Other cast members shown in the movie are Thomas F. Wilson as Thane’s friend Al Dalby, Thane’s idealistic friend. Denise Crosby as Melanie, Thane’s despicable boss. Fred Willard as Ray, a polite insurance salesman who visits Thane. Jani Lane as Vol, Thane’s obnoxious rock-star wannabe neighbor. And Jim Carrey (who was uncredited) as Death itself.It was released in several film festivals that took place in January and February of 1992. It did not get any video release date, but is available to watch on YouTube. | |
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The Cynic | |
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The Cynic: Thane spends a majority of the movie giving bleak descriptions of mundane activities. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Melanie publishes books that children make children happy and doesn’t approve of anything that would either confuse or upset children, despite the fact that those upsetting aspects could be helpful to them. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Thane is called by an artificial intelligence answering machine of a carpet cleaning company has said machine at least four times (though the fourth time was Death manipulating the call to remind Thane of 8pm). | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Thane in no small part criticizes Death's rule about only being allowed to wish for death 18,000 times, deeming it to be ridiculous (and admittedly, anyone wishing for death at that rate is rather fantastical). | |
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Age-Gap Romance | |
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Age-Gap Romance: Marvin is old enough to be Melanie’s father. Lampshaded by Thane as he describes Melanie as half Marvin’s age. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Death is pretty creepy all things considered since he’s been harassing Thane all day, but once he drops his scary act, he can be polite if socially-impaired. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Among Melanie’s many vices is that she looks down on people with different nationalities. | |
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Bottle Episode | |
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Bottle Episode: About 95% of the entire film takes place in Thane’s apartment. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: A Motor Mouth jerk he may be, Thane brings up some good points, like how his neighbor plays his music too loud or how Melanie approves of books that are geared more to 5-year-olds or younger (like Happy the Clam) and not approving more practical books. | |
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The Shut-In | |
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The Shut-In: Thane almost never leaves his apartment, most likely to avoid coming into contact with everyday annoyances. | |
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What Does She See in Him? | |
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What Does She See in Him?: Gender-inverted as Thane says this word-for-word regarding Marvin’s marriage to Melanie. | |
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Freak Out | |
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Freak Out: Thane does this so many times it's almost criminal. | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Thane isn’t so much unsympathetic as he does suffer through many misfortunes, it’s just that he’s pretty belligerent about life and can’t stop complaining about every little inconvenience. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: After a scene where Melanie basically establishes her bitchy attitude and Thane's Inner Monologue hesitates to reprimand her, we get a scene where Thane puts his foot down and tells Melanie off. We see it's actually his inner monologue practicing but the real Thane does nothing of the sort, much to Inner Thane's dismay. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: The fly that’s been harassing Thane all day drops dead when it stares Death in his face. Note that whenever the fly appeared, Thane would lose his temper about something. Now that the fly is gone and Thane has told Death off to the point where he decides to leave Thane alone forever, Thane has lost his cynicism, at least mostly. | |
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Ceiling Banger | |
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Ceiling Banger: Thane does this to his upstairs neighbor Vol on account of the latter playing music too loud. | |
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Benevolent Boss | |
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Benevolent Boss: In contrast to Melanie, Marvin is rather kind and friendly. Thane even describes him as. A boss who was tolerable. | |
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Take This Job and Shove It | |
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Take This Job and Shove It: After telling off Melanie for her bitchy behavior, she silently leaves, and Thane sees this as a sign of him getting fired. He gets upset at first before deciding that he wasn't big on the job anyway. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: Thane really likes cereal and refuses to eat anything else, though he does mention liking popsicles. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Thane at one point says that book publishing companies ;like the one he works at are trying to shield reality from children due to wanting to keep their innocence. | |
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Not Afraid of You Anymore | |
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Not Afraid of You Anymore: Thane to Death at the end. | |
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Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Thane's griping and refusal to shut up caused him to do this to Death himself. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Al, Thane’s friend, is an idealist who tries to get Thane to see the best in life. Ray, the insurance salesman seen at the start of the movie, is also pretty polite to Thane, despite Thane’s passive-aggression. | |
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Soul-Crushing Desk Job | |
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Soul-Crushing Desk Job: It’s implied that Al works in an office, but he is anything but worn down by the mundanity of his job. | |
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Lonely Bachelor Pad | |
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Lonely Bachelor Pad: Thane’s apartment is pretty much built for a bachelor such as himself. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Thane gripes about his mother constantly talking when he is no better in that respect. Vol gets on Thane's case for banging on his floor as it disrupts his music, even though Thane only did that to stop his disruption. | |
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Everything Is Big in Texas | |
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Everything is Big in Texas: It’s implied that the movie takes place in Texas since Thane at one point says he went to a Texas State Fair, but we are mostly limited to the confines of Thane’s apartment. | |
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The Load | |
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The Load: As Death states, Thane spent his whole life griping instead of making himself useful. This doesn’t stop Thane from using his trademark complaining against Death however. | |
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Satellite Character | |
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Satellite Character: A majority of the secondary cast have their characters revolve around Thane. | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: A majority of scenes are framed in one shot, most notably one scene where Thane is seen screwing around with an answering machine in his bedroom that lasts for about a minute. | |
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Don't Fear the Reaper | |
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Don't Fear the Reaper: Since Death is played by Jim Carrey, could you expect anything else? | |
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Talking the Monster to Death | |
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Talking the Monster to Death: Thane does this to Death. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Thane is quite belligerent and often acts anxious and impatient to everyone, including people who are remotely nice to him. Melanie, Thane’s boss, is quite the bitch who is dedicated to publishing children’s books to make money rather than anything that could be useful for children. Vol, Thane’s neighbor, plays loud music which annoys Thane and has the gall to complain to Than when he bangs his ceiling. Death spends a majority of his screen time scaring the bejesus out of Thane. | |
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Lower-Class Lout | |
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Lower-Class Lout: Thane is this in spades. He’s abrasive, lives in a sustainable but admittedly small apartment, works as an unappreciated children’s book author, and barely has a social life. | |
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Dartboard of Hate | |
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Dartboard of Hate: Thane has one of Melanie in his room. | |
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