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Big Hit Productions is an idea that film needs to change.
Scott and I categorically reject nearly everything that
has been taught to us as filmmakers.  To put the
philosophy simply – you can’t get anywhere by playing by
the rules.  Big Hit Productions is a company founded on
marijuana smoking, plain and simple; and while Scott and
myself will spend days arguing with you about how drugs
like caffeine and nicotine are much more dangerous than
this herb, that is not the point.  The name of this
company comes from the clarity that you get after a
massive hit from a bong, when your eyes are watering and
you are coughing up a lung.  At that moment (which may
last for one or several seconds) you have clarity.  Now
the clarity may be that you are about to fail calculus,
or that she really doesn’t love you... but at that
instance with your lungs burning and your eyes watering...
you know it is the truth.

We wish to bring that level of illumination to people in
the cinema.  A film by Big Hit is a bowl of the dankest,
stankest weed your homey can get ya.  Just as the hit is
unapologetic, so are we.

We often get “advice” that sounds like this: “you guys
are kind of talented but all the marijuana references are
hurting your career”... that shit is laughable.  If you
have a problem with weed references then how will you
handle the pot shots we will take at President Bush?  Or
the litany of profanities that I lace in each line of
dialogue.  The Big Hit logo is a warning and a promise.
It is an uncompromising vision to completely invert the
paradigm, to flip da script on these bitches.  It’s not
about film school, or lattes or connections or the
trendiness of your script.  It’s about an attitude that
people can count on.

You can be assured that Scott and Marcus will always be
provocative and are quite dangerous in front of an open
mic.  There are no delusions of coke, and hookers, and
SUV’s and three picture deals.  We wish to let all these
other people know that they suck... and that we are the
shit.  Ok that’s a little bit arrogant and I promised a
certain individual that I would work on my humility so
let me rephrase that.  We believe that our contemporaries
are afraid to take real artistic chances in either
shooting form or dialogue.  We believe that most of our
peers view filmmaking as an occupation; for us it is all
that matters.  Ask our ex-girlfriends and our parents,
there is nothing that will stop Scott and myself from
shooting.

Big Hit Productions has the mission of giving generation
X subjectivity.  We wish to make their plight and their
demographic visible as characters in the cinema.
Additionally, we cast real women.  The females in
Hollywood represent less than 4% of the planets
population (demographically) and that to me is rather
absurd.  Furthermore, BHP always has strong female
characters for two basic reasons.  That’s the type of
woman I respect, and that is the type of woman that is
absent from Hollywood narratives.  While the rest of
the yahoos wish to sell women chick flicks and
demeaning introspections on why it’s hard to find a
man... we give them three dimensional characters who
make the decisions that the females of other scripts are 
forbidden to think about.   Also, since Hollywood likes
to put female actors out to pasture when they are about
35... that means that some of the most qualified and
experienced actors in the business are disenfranchised.
If BHP is the sole entity committed to writing and
shooting roles for real women (a majority of which are
over thirty) then BHP will have not only its “pick of the
litter” but if successful, will force other production
companies to act accordingly to gain market share.

And that is all we really want, a level playing field with
diversity.

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