Okay so it hasn’t been dunked on over the years so much as it’s been memed into oblivion, and that’s sort of the same thing. Which means I’ve got a very important question to ask: Ya like jazz?
If you like jazz, then you like Bee Movie, and if you like Bee Movie — then allow me to introduce you to, drumroll please… The Free Movie. Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
If the title didn’t give it away, The Free Movie is an adaptation of Bee Movie that’s completely free – for now. In a twist of fate, fans of the original film decided to take it upon themselves to make things even more memeable with the help of internet art collective MSCHF, aka Miscellaneous Mischief.
Without making this all too complicated, here’s what’s really happening: MSCHF created a program where anonymous users could trace Bee Movie frame by frame in order to reproduce the film in an “open-sourced” homemade version. Sort of.
I say “open-sourced” because technically, even if it’s been recreated, Bee Movie is subject to all sorts of proprietary copyright laws — which could spell disaster for MSCHF and their plot.
Still, that hasn’t stopped the denizens of the internet from completing the task at hand and drawing all 65244 frames belonging to the film. Un-bee-lievable. (I hate myself.)
The funniest part of this whole thing is that an untold number of folks pitched in to help bring this to life. Busy little bees, working away on something no one really gives a crap about.
In the end, only time will tell whether DreamWorks will put a top to any of this harmless fun, and I for one think that this proves a much larger point. Fandom is, and will always remain, undefeated.