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A couple of Emerson College students started a sketch comedy group in 2002. Their intention was to entertain some crowds. Instead, they entertained the nation. The group, Chocolate Cake City, gained national attention with their hilarious spoof, Brokeback to the Future, which altered footage from the Back to the Future movies to create a fake trailer for a gay love story. The groundbreaking mash-up started a new trend, but at the gang’s site, you can find tons of new videos, testifying to the versatility of their comedy and their intention to keep it alive in cyberspace.
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And you never know when these moments of college nostalgia are going to hit.
But I started to think about the first time I heard about YouTube. I was a young freshman, sitting in Budig 110. And my professor said, “So have you guys heard about this new site called YouTube?”
There were a few nods, and some grumbling, and then our Professor showed us the first YouTube video I ever had the pleasure of seeing.
“Brokeback to the Future.” Remember the mash-up of “Brokeback Mountain” and “Back to the Future?”
It’s still going strong on YouTube. The video he showed us that day has now been viewed more than 5 million times.
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Emerson College comedy troupe Chocolate Cake City’s mash-up of Brokeback Mountain and Back to the Future III set off a fervor
— Lowell Sun.
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“Back to the Future” was undeniably a Hollywood high point. “Brokeback Mountain” led this year’s Oscar nominations so it can’t be half bad either. The two together? Now this you’ve got to see.
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One creative genius has decided that if “Back to the Future” with 80s teen idol Michael J. Fox was good and “Brokeback Mountain” about two gay cowboys was even better, then the two together would constitute a fantastic addition to America’s cinematic heritage.
— Spiegel Online.
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St. Petersburg Times: “BEST MASH-UP.”
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COUNTDOWN w/Mr. Olbermann:
The center of the viral universe, youtube.com This free video sharing site launched just last December now with 6 million viewers watching 40 million clips each day. And in this world, the weirder, the better. There`s the guy who dances. The one who juggles. More recently, a “Brokeback Mountain” spoof, Brokeback to the future.
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La Repubblica:
Diverso, invece, il ribaltone di cui è vittima una delle saghe più famose della storia del cinema, quella fantascientifica e avventurosa di Ritorno al futuro. In questo caso, l’autore del fake trailer cambia anche il titolo del film: non Back to the future, come nell’originale, ma Brokeback to the future. E già questo gioco di parole (col riferimento a Brokeback Mountain) lascia intendere di che parliamo: il rapporto tra il giovane Michael J. Fox e lo scienziato semifolle Cristopher Lloyd diventa una grande love-story omosex. Con scritte che sottolineano come, nel loro tentare un difficile esperimento, avessero “dimenticato una variabile: l’amore”. E l’emergere di “una verità che non potevano negare”. Il tutto corredato da abbracci tra i due personaggi, e da un lanciarsi di sguardi sconsolati.
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Montreal Gazette:
Mashup: arguably a new art form, it’s the creative splicing of two different works for creative or utilitarian purposes. A fake movie preview called “Brokeback to the Future” …
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Hollywood Reporter:
(who hasn’t received an e-mail with “Brokeback to the Future”?)
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Instapundit and the Emerson College LJ Community.
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One sketch on Boston.com.
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The New York Times blogs “Tom Hanks is James Bond.”
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Mr. Hanks, too.
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The Trailer Mash.
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Stereogum.
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NPR.
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The New York Times writes up Brokeback.
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The Guardian.
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ABC News.
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Hub Arts.
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“And Chocolate Cake City’s Brokeback to the Future demonstrates what David likes to describe as ‘the spontaneous genius of the American people.’” (via.)
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Salon.com.
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The Emerson comedy group Chocolate Cake City recently burst onto the web – and made a name for itself around the world – with a trailer that spoofs the wildly popular movie Brokeback Mountain, about two cowboys who fall in love. The spoof uses the Back to the Future films, starring Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox as time travelers.
Emersonians in the News.
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Another Salon.com posting.
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BoingBoing.
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Time Magazine — Viral Videos That Swept the Nation.
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MTV.
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Gawker.
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Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish.
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The Boston Globe.
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San Francisco Chronicle.
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Seattle PI.
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The Age.
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Time — How To Get Famous in 30 Seconds.
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“… Brokeback to the Future (in our estimation, still the gold standard of mash-ups) …” (Defamer.)
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Is there anything subversive or transformative about the “Brokeback to the Future” trailer?
— University of Florida English Class, 2008.
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The Huffington Post — The 13 Best Mash-Ups the Internet Has to Offer.
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Here at the Blogometer, we’re quite the fan of the nascent genre of recut movie trailers. We’re also quite the fan of “Back to the Future” — at least the 1st installment. At least for us, “Brokeback to the Future” is now the greatest recut movie trailer that we know of.
— The National Journal.
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Video of the Day: Hysterical: Brokeback to the Future
— MSNBC’s “Clicked.”
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ABC World News, Best of 2006.
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God bless You Tube (www.youtube.com), an insane time-suck of a Web site containing approximately eleventy-billion video clips of pop-cultural ephemera. (For example, if you’ve yet to see the spoof Brokeback to the Future, now you know where to go.)
— SF Weekly, 2006.
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BBC.
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“… our favourite trailer remix of all time - the majestic Brokeback To The Future …”
— The Metro.
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Metafilter.
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Over dinner, members of Chocolate Cake City, a Boston comedy troupe, “started tossing out names - Brokeback this, Brokeback that. Pat’s Brokeback To The Future pretty much leveled the table. What were the other names we came up with? I only know of two,” recalls Evan Fleischer. “Brokeback Couch and Brokeback Charles River.” He paused and made a face. “It’s a process, I suppose.” (The Guardian.)
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L’Ecrans.
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Bob Gale.
