The Fatal Glass of Fields

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The first card conveys the tone of the following film--it is both a parody of the old Mack Sennet Star Comedy logo and a signal that a political satire follows. Close inspection of the title sequence clippings reveals that it is Election Evening and that the rising star of the Donkeycrat Party is undergoing intense media speculation as the campaign draws to a close. The Republiphant incumbent is not one to be dethroned by such trivialities as a lack of intellectual curiosity or complete comprehension of issues. His campaign has fully embraced each aspect of his troubled history while the integrity of every inquiry into his background is questioned. His unashamed admittance of a whole host of vices along with his support of prohibition (combined with condemnations of partisan policies and a newly-found populist platform) has actually raised his popularity in the polls, having resounded most profoundly with those who feel that the candidate with the least intelligence acts in the best interest of his constituency. As the Donkeycrats gather for a rally to celebrate certain victory, their candidate arrives amid a flurry of confetti and crowd of supporters. He offers to entertain the crowd with a song while he accompanies himself on his autoharp, but a small girl interrupts with her queaking toy. The shopkeeper blows his stack and shoves her into the street. WC launches into a ballad that explains the events that occurred earlier that evening. A short autobiography shows the trajectory of his political career from young, alcohol-abstaining activist to presidential candidate. The scene shifts to a local gin joint doubling as a polling place (the WeePUBlican NewSpeakEasy). We see WC immediately greeted by a group of Republiphant scrutineers espousing their arguments against the opposition party with flowery words and flowing alcohol. Their gripes against the Donkeycrats range from the egregious sin of adultery to the evasion of income tax to the bailing out of Wall Street. They condemn the media's role in the devaluation of the 'Republiphant brand' but it is clear from their information that reasonable debate is impossible and pacification quite unlikely. They offer our candidate a stein of beer but he initially declines, claiming never to imbibe. The heat of the moment gets the better of WC, however, and he finally accepts the fatal glass. He is instantly stricken with the shaking delirium, proving that he has been less than forthright with his previous denials of alcohol consumption (the DTs resulting from chronic alcoholism). As the trembling becomes more pronounced, hallucinations of pink elephants prance around his head while he is shoved, staggering into the voting booth. The visions continue: the red elephants on the ballot come alive and transform into pink ones, the hallucinations mingling with the symbols of the Republiphant party. Our character mistakenly confuses the 'W' and the 'C' of the 'Walrus & Carpenter'--Cheney & Bush, respectively (and disrespectfully)--for his own initials, so he accidently votes against himself. Emerging from the booth with ballot in hand, the politician places his paper in the box to the encouragement of his new acquaintances, who reveal how he was tricked into voting their way. Suddenly sober after realizing his mistake, WC stumbles out the bar (with a quick push from one of the mocking pollwatcher) and finds himself on the sidewalk with the Salvation Army girl who earlier attempted to join the Republiphants. Seething from the voting fiasco, the politician snatches her tambourine and smashes it, dashing it upon the ground. A detective inspects the scene and instantly recognizes the violent man, identifying and linking him to a string of recent tambourine-breaking incidents. The detective tries to apprehend our hero, but the spry character makes a quick escape. ... The candidate completes his song and heads toward the door as the detective forces himself through the doorway, ready to arrest the alleged criminal. They insult each other for a bit, then begin fighting, with WC soon getting the upper hand and tossing the detective out of the shop. Suddenly, the Salvation Army girl steps into the store and smashes her broken tambourine over the curmudgeon's noggin, knocking him to the floor and the dulcimer into his lap. The giggling little blonde girl makes a reappearance at the door and, seeing the man flat on the floor, throws at and hits him with a newspaper which falls open, boldly proclaiming the election results: the Republiphants take the White House by a single vote. WC hazily flashes back to earlier in the evening as he comes to the realization that he has lost the election; furthermore he was the instrument of his own political demise. Even in this condition, however, he is incapable of learning his lesson, ending our film with his take on the moral of the tale: "don't go 'round breaking peoples' tambourines."

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Uploaded: October 16th, 2008 @ 5:13 am
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