Public Safety

Public Safety

This little skit was the third thing Davin and I ever shot together.  In many ways this is one of my all time favorite skits of ours.  It's fast, makes no sense and has the most jovial walk you'll ever see on film.

We shot this while we were filming "Paper Trail".  Creatively and physically we were exhausted from the gruelling pace we had set for ourselves on "Paper Trail" and we needed to clear our heads and do something less physical, well for me at least I was sitting in the car the whole time.

I don't really recall who came up with the premise of running over Davin...I seem to remember a conversation about how sometimes I just wish I could run over certain pedestrians....and that most likely led to us talking about how funny it would be if someone stopped their car to let a person cross, wait for the right moment and then just hit the gas.  Seems funny to me.

We didn't script this thing at all.  We made it up as we went (we really didn't start scripting until years later with "That Ain't White")

Public Safety didn't take too long to shoot and the only part that gave us any trouble was the actual hit.  There must be a dozen takes of Davin getting nailed by the car and screaming for his life. His screams are so funny that I'm sure we could turn that into a skit somehow.

I also remember the reason we have the camera planted in one direction for so long is because there was about a dozen kids playing just down the street.  At this point the kids were used to us shooting on the street because of "Paper Trail" (which took months to shoot) and were kind enough to be quiet while we were filming.  

Travis