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movie caption challenge

Think you're good enough to tell a story using captions alone? Then you are cordially invited to slip those creative brains into high gear and join a captioncompetition.co.uk site experiment.

On Saturday 20th June I will post the 1st and 2nd captions, containing scenes one and two of our movie. Your challenge is to dig deep into that grey matter and help keep the story moving ever forwards, using any of the site pictures..chopping and changing genres as and when you choose, but keeping it relatively coherent. Here's hoping that several of you are keen on a challenge.

Include the text #moviecaption in your caption and it'll be displayed on this page

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Steve Wright Vote score: 627Steve Wright

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#moviecaption Caption Competition Challenge

‘An Incident At Luxburry’
Scene Six

Sally's house was shaking apart, it was Tim Westwoods 'Pimp my oil rig' experiment and was charging out of control, hell bent on killing young Sally. If only she knew what the machine wanted, for she only had little time before it would reach her.
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20/06/09
05:03pm
Steve Wright Vote score: 627Steve Wright

#moviecaption Caption Competition Challenge
‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’

Scene 9 act 3

It was a trap!!! Reg had hired a nut from the asylum to kill Barney.

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21/06/09
12:20am
Joe T Vote score: 2705Joe T

#moviecaption Caption Competition Challenge
‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’

Scene Ten act 3

After the funeral Reg needed some new direction. He went to his local pub "The Human and Alien" for a swift half. Here he bumped into his old sparing partner Ted.

Seeing Reg in this state had Ted worried. He sat him down and been the sage he was he offered the following advice.
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24/06/09
10:04am
Joe T Vote score: 2705Joe T

#moviecaption Caption Competition Challenge
‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’

Scene Eleven....Act 2 - Personal Shopper.

Reg's luck was beginning to run out. He made it to Tibet without issue but when he arrived he discovered to his horror that all the Sherpa guides in the country were on a 5 day unofficial strike to support their campaign for a better work life balance.

Reg needed to get to higher slopes where High Priest 'Barry' lived.
He went into a nearby camping store to get kitted out. He was greeted by Betty, Tibet’s one and only cross dressing "camp" personal shopper.

As they talked Betty learned of Reg's quest. Betty agreed to accompany Reg on his voyage as he/she to needed to see High Priest 'Barry'.

The secret Betty had about High Priest 'Barry' was getting to hard to carry alone.
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26/06/09
03:57pm
Steve Wright Vote score: 627Steve Wright

#moviecaption Caption Competition Challenge
‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’

Scene Eleven....Act 4 - The road to Barry.

Major Tom turned up at the double with Private Dancer as back up. After an epic battle the Sniper Squirrels were finally captured, tortured and slaughtered. Reg and Betty could continue safely on their way, getting ever closer to the almighty high priest Barry. They started to get a move on because Reg was dying for a crap.
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27/06/09
12:26am
Joe T Vote score: 2705Joe T

#moviecaption Caption Competition Challenge
‘An Incident In An Alternate Luxburry’

Scene Eleven....Act 7 - Calm Down Barry.

half a Million Euros in Tibet is a lot of money. it could feed a half a million Tibetans for a year. personal shopper Betty knew what shops were open late. Within the hour they had purchased a laptop with a wireless network card. 2 minutes on twitter had secured Barry's location. Barry was at his Teach English as a Foreign language course. The community center was only 2 donkey stops away. They had enough time to stop off at "Ducks or Us" and buy the top of the range duck 2000.

Reg named the duck Chuck. He hoped A) that Barry would like Chuck the Duck and B) Barry had a shoulder capable of taking Chuck.

They arrived at the community center and entered with trepidation.
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27/06/09
09:28pm

This challenge is open to anybody on site who thinks they can keep a story moving onwards in a follow-my-leader kind of way. The captions needn't be funny but must be fairly coherent and forward the story from the previous scene number. I have given you the first two scenes just to give you a flavour as to the layout/format to follow.I have started it off in the mystery style but you may choose to change movie genres at any time. Just keep in mind that someone has to forward the story from what you write, so try to leave a little scope.

Please only enter one caption at a time and then allow someone else to respond. I was initially going to set up a list of participants and take turns in posting the captions, but doing it that way would have been awkward for people having to be on site at certain times. So I suggest we just go with the flow and see what happens. There is no time limit to this challenge so you have plenty of time to come up with very passable efforts. I'm sure we won't come up with a literary masterpiece like Citizen Kane..but hell, I've heard that Orson Welles was lousy at funny captions. Please don't forget to add the title and subsequent scene number when posting your caption.

Ron Allan