Source: freaksnerdsmovieIt’s 2AM on a chilly mid-October evening in 2003 and I am spraying three of my friends with a garden hose while they scream at each other and fight on the muddy, trodden mess that was, hours prior, my mother’s impeccably-kept front lawn. The night is going very well. We are 15 months into…
Ah, the Doug Field scene. It was so hard to shoot this because we’d be in the middle of a good take, and some bystander would turn the corner, look directly at the camera, and awkwardly get out of the shot!
Source: freaksnerdsmovieFreaks Nerds & Romantics - Clip #8 “Quarter-Life Crisis”.
Jim Shearer’s character Doug Field is based on my boss when I interned at The Metro Channel’s in the early 2000’s. Young, cool and a little bit dorky - Lucy (Jamie Frevele) looks to Doug for guidance while she writes her article of which the movie is named after.
“The quintessential quarter-life crisis”. This evolved into what ultimately became the main theme of the movie. “Now they’ve got to figure out - what can I keep? what can I get rid of? and grow up.”
This scene was added in the script when Lucy’s character was changed to become the glue that linked the movie together. While filming the movie, punk legend Joe Strummer of The Clash had passed away. This mural by graffiti artist Zephyr and Dr. Revolt was created in the Spring of 2003. It can be found on the wall of the Niagara Bar on Avenue A in the East Village.You can now watch “Freaks Nerds & Romantics” for free streaming in it’s entirety through the end of September:
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Source: youtube.comCheck out this movie clip “Good Old Days” from my movie “Freaks Nerds & Romantics”.
The story of the “rich fat kid” stealing his father’s credit card is based on a true story of how 48 in the basement financed their first CD release. Also, the Penis Pump story is completely true too.
We shot this scene on October 27th, 2004, which was a mercifully unseasonably warm week which reached a high in the low 80’s on Halloween a few days later! For authenticity, we shot it in the same Tower Records parking lot that the subsequent “Kickball scene” was filmed in. While this scene was being filmed and directed by Pete, I was working my night supervisor shift inside Tower Records and kept stepping out to help oversee takes!
It was the night of a spectacular lunar eclipse, which we were hoping to catch on camera, but started filming while the moon was fully obscured, so we had to “CGI” it in later. Also, this scene features the only moment of the film that’s in stereo (at the 48-second mark). We couldn’t control traffic in the parking lot, and we found that one passing car, which was blasting obnoxious clubby music, was causing the audio levels to peak, so I had Max Santoro, our intrepid editor, fade the audio from right to left in order to keep both channels from being overloaded by terrible music. Sweetest ghetto Doppler Effect EVER!!!
Freaks Nerds & Romantics - Clip #5 “Good Old Days” (by petebune)
I can confirm that this really DID happen in real life, word for word because I was there. I will always love co-writing this movie for the opportunity it presented to turn a crazy moment into fiction :)
Source: freaksnerdsmovieFreaks Nerds & Romantics - clip #3 “Van Smoke Out”.
“This is one of my favorite scenes for many reasons. 1) The acting. This is over 3 minutes of the most natural acting these 3 close friends of mine have ever done on camera for me. 2) It’s all done in one take. I tried a few times to do several one take shots in the movie, mostly while the camera was moving. This was the only one that made it in the final cut. 3) This was a real conversation I had word for word. Including what happens next in the movie. This all happened to me in real life.
I love the chemistry between Scott (Sean King), Dean (Mike Koscik), and Talia (Barri Keim) in the film and this is the best scene they share together.
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Source: freaksnerdsmovieI made a movie once. It was about the Long Island punk/hardcore music scene. Here’s a short clip from it.
Freaks Nerds & Romantics - clip #4 “Pushing Thirty”
A clip from the movie “Freaks Nerds & Romantics”.
“PAF, you’re pushing 30. You have no job. You still throw parties at your parents house, but only when they’re away.”
I remember writing this when I was around 25 years old and feeling this way about myself. This scene was actually shot in my bedroom at my parents house at the time.
The line “I feel like we’re going out” is a based on something that Jacob Stebel (co-writer) overheard someone embarrassingly say at a party one time. We were dying to put it in the script somewhere and couldn’t stop laughing when we finally got PAF to awkwardly say it outloud.
Note: In the background is an acoustic version of “Say Anything” that Greg Attonito recorded for the movie.
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Shot in my basement in September, 2004. Pete had to do multiple takes because the rest of the cast and I were upstairs watching Family Guy and our raucous laughter was bleeding through the ceiling. We’re professional.
Source: freaksnerdsmovieFreaks Nerds & Romantics - clip #2 “Basement Meeting”.
A clip from the movie “Freaks Nerds & Romantics”.
“Okay, the way I see it — this movement goes in waves. One minute it’s fucking huge, the next minute it’s nothing, non-existant. That’s the way it’s always been for 25-30 years, ever since punk began!” - Scott Flynn
Scott Flynn (Sean King) discusses the state of the music scene with Lucas Hansen (Danny Holmstrom) and Jeff Tiu.
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Source: freaksnerdsmovieNow for a limited time only, you can download and watch “Freaks Nerds & Romantics” for free. Just click on the poster or the link below, wait for the countdown and download the movie!
In anticipation of the forthcoming DVD, we’ve decided to release a low-res web screener for your viewing pleasure! We’ll only keep this file up until the end of September, so download it now and tell your friends! This file is perfect for watching on mobile devices: not bad for a movie that was shot when consumer-grade HD was but a beautiful dream!
Pete’s reblog is prettier, so I decided to re-reblog ;)
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In anticipation of the forthcoming DVD, Pete and I decided to release a low-res web screener for your viewing pleasure! We’ll only keep this file up until the end of September, so download it now and tell your friends! This file is perfect for watching on mobile devices: not bad for a movie that was shot when consumer-grade HD was but a beautiful dream! :P
Source: freaksnerdsmovieBouncing Souls set list from The Downtown, Long Island April 21, 2005.
The night we filmed for “Freaks Nerds & Romantics”.
