Random Blog 1

Well, seeing how I ended up writing my article about “The Lion King” remake, I thought it’d be fitting (or convenient) if I just wrote this random blog on the other article idea about young successful people. I actually have vague knowledge of Rich Chigga, so I guess this random blog could be all about Ralph Sepe Jr. Why not?

I first discovered ralphthemoviemaker during this year’s Oscar nominations. He had done a collaboration video with young filmmaker Bobby Burns in which they reacted to the nominations (the means in which they did this are intentionally left out in this blog to avoid ruining anything). This kind of humor carried over when I started binging his other videos. He falls in the category of content creators who can sell a bad movie to viewers who will want to watch it to see how bad it is. Part of how he does this is through certain memes or characters that he associates with each film. He can turn a meaningless line like “They got T” into a meme and have his fans immediately want to watch the terrible movie “Sleepless” just so they could yell the line when it’s said in the film. He can persuade his fans to watch “Batman v Superman” just so they could make jokes about the Turkish Airlines product placement and remind themselves of Ralph becoming the film’s director Zack Snyder through a Snapchat filter. I think the success of his humor comes from the fact that he is younger. He seems more energized and eager to make people laugh.

However, even his quick wit is not what makes him so great; it’s also the immense effort that he puts into his videos. Even though he gives quick thoughts on films through his review show “Reel-It-In,” his most renowned videos are intricate breakdowns of films in which he analyzes the specific problems of the film. He segments one video into the various reasons as to why a movie was bad. He has also displayed this hard work through the various short films that he has made. His first film “The High” earned him the “Emerging Filmmaker” award at the 2015 Queens World Film Festival while his second film “King Candy” is one of my favorite films of all time. This cinematic quality has also been utilized throughout his videos, as he creates various skits or characters to give the videos much more personality (see his Childhood Trauma video). His efforts so far will culminate with his first feature film “Lover.” His channel actually rose to its 316,000 subscribers count (and rising more) because he publicized his film and asked his fans to donate money to a KickStarter page for the film’s $10,000 budget. As if this blog wasn’t already a shameless plug to have you check out and subscribe to his channel, I would recommend watching “Lover” when it comes out, as I am confident that this upcoming project will be a great promise for his future career.

UPDATE: If you want to see his most recent work, he uploaded a new 4-minute short film after I originally published this blog.