Benny
Davis
Satire
and Sci-Fi
My
absolute favorite sci-fi satire would be, not The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, while that is quite a great
story. But it is, of course, “Spaceballs”. I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. I would
even go so far as to say he is the reason I got into filmmaking in the first
place.
When
I was about 11 or 12 years old, I saw “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the
Sith” and subsequently went through a long-lasting Star Wars phase. During which, I stumbled across a little film
called “Spaceballs”. It was all my
friends at summer camp could talk about. So my cousin and I watched it at home one
day, and suddenly we were obsessed with making parodies. We started making our
own Star Wars parodies with Legos and
claymations. For me, this evolved into a never-ending passion for comedic
storytelling and filmmaking. All thanks to Mel Brooks and his genius idea to
parody Star Wars.
-Benny
Davis
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