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Poor Luke Seviere.
He injures himself getting out of bed, gets the shit kicked out
of him, gets fired from work, and becomes the target of a government
assasination conspiracy, all in one day. Some guys just don't
have any luck.
 Notes
from Matt: Unluckiest
Man in The World is my favorite of all my film work. I think it's
my most ambitious in text, in entertainment value, and I think
it's a good showcase for Miller's bizarre attempts at what some
might refer to as "acting." It was my "Film 1" Final Project at
KSC, was offered a spot in the New Hampshire Film Festival and
was referred to by a Senior Student as "The best Super-8 film
I've ever seen." (Thanks, Darin!)
It was also guerilla
filmmkaing at it's finest. We had no permission to film anywhere,
really. An MBTA commuter rail stop subbed for a Dallas train depot.
We just walked into a building at random on a Saturday and shot
the footage of where Luke (Chris' character) works. An abandoned
building was used for the Dallas Book Depository; which we almost
set fire to when a crew member tripped over a tota-light.
The film is also notable
for what isn't seen, like the "Hitwoman" played by Casey Knight.
Her footage was cut because I overexposed the f-stop, rendering
it useless. You see, there were FOUR assassins gunning for Luke,
and he was in the middle. He ducks, they shoot themselves. Geograhically,
it doesn't work with only three shooters -- but nobody seems to
mind. Also you miss the original ending (we ran out of film before
we could shoot it), where after all the trouble we put our hero
through he is hit by a bus and killed. See what happens when we
try for irony?
All in all this was
the political, slapstick action comedy I'd wanted to make for
a while, shot in an attempt at the John McTiernan "Die Hard" photgraphic
style and editing, using classical techniques to tell a subversive,
absurd (and hopefully funny) story. ...and a word of advice to
you filmmakers out there thinking of hiring Chris Miller as an
actor: watch out if he takes a laughing fit on the set. He'll
hold production up for DAYS...
Notes from Chris:
I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for my awful acting in
all of these silent movies. For some reason I was under the impression
that because it is silent film I had to mouth my words instead
of say them out loud. Also that "laughing fit" was the best wake
up scene and yet it was cut from the finished product. I smell
another conspiracy.
on older versions of
the site the unluckiest man ran without its accompanying soundtrack.
and at 10 minutes, our longest movie to date, it was just too
slow for me. i felt that the music spiced the movie up and against
the wishes of matt decided to include it with the sound. so if
there are any legal repercussions as matt thinks there will be
i take full responsibility.
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