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Watermelon: A Cautionary Tale is an All-CGI Cartoon short film by Kefei Li and Connie He that they directed while attending Ringling College of Art + Design.The three-minute short features Jimmy, a young boy that swallows a watermelon seed, despite his mother’s warning. What follows is a series of Body Horror events involving him turning into a watermelon.The short can be viewed here. |
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I Taste Delicious |
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I Taste Delicious: Jimmy discovers that his blood is now watermelon pulp and seems to quite enjoy the taste. |
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And Then John Was a Zombie |
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And Then John Was a Zombie: Jimmy, despite being warned this would happen, eats watermelon seeds and then becomes a watermelon. |
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I'm a Humanitarian |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Played with seeing as how alive you're supposed to consider watermelon-Jimmy is up in the air, but after he cracks into watermelon pieces, he is immediately eaten by the other kids at the playground. |
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Balloon Belly |
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Balloon Belly: Before turning into an actual watermelon, Jimmy's stomach swells large enough for him to slide across the floor on it, resembling this trope. |
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Death of a Child |
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Death of a Child: After Jimmy completes his transformation into a watermelon, he falls and cracks open, effectively killing him. Then his classmates eat the watermelon pieces. |
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You Are Who You Eat |
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You Are Who You Eat: The short's entire theme as Jimmy eats a watermelon, then turns into a watermelon. |
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Terminal Transformation |
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Terminal Transformation: Over the course of the short, Jimmy becomes a watermelon-human hybrid, concluding by transforming into an inanimate watermelon. This might result in a Death of Personality, but it's left as a moot point as this final transformation occurs at the very moment that Jimmy jumps from a swingset: unable to course-correct, he hits the ground and bursts into pulpy chunks. And then the other kids eat him. |
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Body Horror |
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Body Horror: Jimmy’s transformation into a watermelon is shown to take place over the course of a day, and is shown to be very painful for him. |
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Crazy-Prepared |
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Crazy-Prepared: Why the nurse has a chainsaw to deal with plant vines growing out of students' orifices is anyone's guess. |
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Bookends |
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Book Ends: Ends with Jimmy's fellow classmates eating his remains, seeds and all. |
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Chainsaw Good |
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Chainsaw Good: So many watermelon vines grow out of Jimmy's nose and ears that the school nurse pulls out a chainsaw to deal with them. He runs away before she can use it. |
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Horror Hates a Rulebreaker |
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Horror Hates a Rulebreaker: Jimmy chomps down on a slice of watermelon, seeds and all, even though his mom warns him not to eat the seeds or they will grow in his belly. He ends up transforming into a watermelon and gets eaten by his classmates. |
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Dissonant Serenity |
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Dissonant Serenity: Jimmy is wayyyyyy too happy about vines growing out of his nose and ears, his blood turning into watermelon pulp, and his entire body turning into a watermelon. Right until he flies off the swingset and gets an Oh, Crap! expression on his face as he realizes what's going to happen when he hits the ground. |
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Here We Go Again! |
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Here We Go Again!: The short ends with the playground kids eating the watermelon-Jimmy pieces, seeds and all, with cartoon vines appearing over their heads as the screen turns to black, heavily implying that they too will turn into watermelons. |
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Silence Is Golden |
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Silence Is Golden: Jimmy's mother has a couple of lines at the beginning, but otherwise the short lacks dialogue. |
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Nasal Trauma |
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Nasal Trauma: Jimmy starts growing vines out of his nose and when he is sent to the principal's office, she pulls one out causing him to have a Nose Bleed...that Jimmy immediately tastes to discover that his blood is now watermelon pulp. |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Jimmy's mother serves him watermelon at the beginning of the short, warning him not to eat the seeds. He does, starting his terrifying transformation into a watermelon. |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The metafictional variety in that it's not clear whether or not Jimmy is still alive and sentient when he fully transforms, which adds a layer of horror to the ending due to the ambiguity of just how human we should still consider him. |
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All-CGI Cartoon: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. The animation in the short is done almost entirely in CGI. |
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Plant Person |
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Plant Person: Jimmy becomes a watermelon-person with vines growing out of his ears and nose. He shifts closer to the plant side later on, becoming more like an anthropomorphic watermelon with arms, legs, hair, and a face before he completely turns into a watermelon. |
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Doomed Protagonist |
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Doomed Protagonist: Jimmy is warned if he eats watermelon seeds, he'll turn into a watermelon. He does it anyway. If there was any guess as to where this was heading, that quickly gets resolved when the first vine pops out of his nose. |
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Accidental Suicide |
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Accidental Suicide: Potentially two, depending on your perception of when Jimmy stops living. Eating the seeds counts if you believe him to be no longer living the second he turns into a watermelon. Jumping off the swing while he was still transforming is the other if you think he dies on impact with the ground. |
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Exotic Eye Designs: In the middle of his transformation, Jimmy's pupils become watermelon seeds. |
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