Here’s a sneak-peek preview of the first 10 minutes of my upcoming film for the indie-film, underground and cult-movie icons at Troma!
‘Bordello Diaries’ is a hilarious mockumentary-style look behind-the-scenes at a seedy (and not completely legal) urban brothel. Come inside and sidle on up to the gorgeous, and scantily-clad, women of the Iron Ranch Brothel! The laughs are free, the sex isn’t…
Enjoy!
Thought you all might like to see a short scene from my upcoming Troma-film ‘Bordello Diaries!’ This is one of my favorite scenes, and despite what it may appear, it was all done in one single - 3 minute long - take!
Enjoy!
‘Bordello Diaries’ the film is coming soon from the cult-movie masters at Troma!
A short teaser clip or trailer for Robert D. Brooks’ upcoming mockumentary comedy feature film ‘Bordello Diaries’ soon to be released by the cult-film masters at Troma Entertainment!
When I first put The Dildo Song (a short comedy video I wrote and directed) online, it was way back in mid-summer 1999 (a year after we shot it as a joke video and as an editing project for a film school assignment). YouTube didn’t exist back then, so I just uploaded the short comedy film-spoof-parody to another little viral video and comedy short film site. That was it. I didn’t advertise it at all, I didn’t even tell my friends. We did no marketing or promotion whatsoever. But, that didn’t matter…
Just a few months later, by word of mouth only, The Dildo Song was one of the 3 most downloaded internet videos ever! Not one of the three most downloaded comedy videos or comedy short films, but videos altogether! By the end of the year, The Dildo Song joke video had become more popular every Hollywood film, television or internet video offering in history!
To give you an idea of just how popular this little short comedy film is: Just the other day I decided to check out how it’s held up against some of Hollywood’s blockbuster films from the same year. That year, Pedro Almodovar’s classic All About My Mother won the Best Foreign Film Oscar. It was released around the same time as The Dildo Song. Yet today, for every single person that searches the internet’s major search engines (google, yahoo, etc…) for the title of that film - 5 to 10 people search for the title of The Dildo song!
The Dildo Song comedy video even gets more searches every day than some of the films in Hollywood’s top 10 highest grossing films of that year!
Over the last 10 years, The Dildo Song has been viewed between 1 and 2 hundred million times. To put that in perspective, Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time was seen by slightly less theatre-goers… I always wonder what it did for sales in the sex toy industry? I know just some of the internet’s viral video web sites have made hundreds of thousands of dollars pirating it over the years. It probably did sell more than a few vibrators and other adult toys and novelties over the years…
Here’s a new 10th anniversary cut of the viral video comedy classic “The Dildo Song.” This is the highest quality version of the short film every released. Just click play above and see why it’s one of the most popular and beloved viral videos or comedy videos in internet history!
Yes, everyone knows it’s dildo…
Vancouver writer and director Robert D. Brooks’ feature film debut, the hilarious, adults-only comedy ’Bordello Diaries’ has been picked up for international video distribution by cult-movie icons Troma Entertainment. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz (The Toxic Avenger, etc…) founders of Troma Entertainment, the longest running independent film studio on Earth come onboard as executive-producers.
‘Bordello Diaries’ is Canadian writer/director/star/editor/executive-producer Robert D. Brooks’ first feature film, and only his second dramatic production (the first being international viral video sensation ‘The Dildo Song,’ one of the most popular internet videos in history). A man of many hats, Robert D. Brooks took on the roles of writer, executive producer, director, co-star, editor and set-designer on this, his first film.
‘Bordello Diaries’ stars Canadian acting talents Ross Tweedale, Elena Esovolova, Karoline Brix-Filholm, Brianna Mason, Carly Brandel, Wendy HH, Dave Chisholm, Mare Shephard, Philip Cabrita (DJ Flip Out), etc… - and is shot by Canadian cinematographic legend Paul Mitchnick (Hookers on Davie, Fantastic Four, X-men 2, Highlander, etc…).
Sometime in the early 2000’s, viral video classic ‘The Dildo Song’ by film director Robert D. Brooks surpassed 100 million views across the internet, festival audience and television & cable viewership!
Produced for a budget of around $100, The Dildo Song has gone on to become one of the internet’s earliest and most popular viral videos! Within just 6 months of the short film’s release in 1999, The Dildo Song was one of the top 3 most downloaded internet videos in history!
To this day, almost 10 years later, The Dildo Song still sees dozens of even hundreds of people search the internet for its title every single day (to put that in perspective, the Academy Award winning best foreign language film All About My Mother by film-making icon Pedro Almodovar (released at approximately the same time) only receives one tenth that amount of daily searches (and there are even movies in the top-10 at the US box-office that year that receive fewer daily searches today than The Dildo Song)!
The Dildo Song has been invited to numerous top international film and comedy festivals around the world. It has been played on television all over the Earth. It is a fixture on UK television screens and the world’s best blooper shows. And, soon, it can be seen in Troma’s upcoming cult-classic ‘Bordello Diaries.’
Now in it’s 10th year, the Dildo Song is still free on the internet!
You always hear people say ‘just do it’. Just go out and make a movie. I’m now firmly in that camp. This story should really be an inspiration for all you untapped film-makers out there:
We shot ‘Bordello Diaries’ using two cheap video cameras (well, I say cheap in the film-making sense - under ten grand each). Shot for less than a week, using a lot of friends as crew. I did all the post-production myself - on my home computer (and all using software costing a total of around a thousand dollars). In HDTV and 5.1 stereo. And, shit, it’s in a genre that is virtually unsalable (are there even 3 theatres in all of North America that would even consider playing an NC-17 low-budget indie sex comedy?).
So, if I can get a movie like that released (heck, I’ve got my choice of distributors), then ANYONE can do it! Literally. And, shit, I’m not even a very good writer… Just go out and do it!
Heck, look at the budgets Robert Rodriguez is working with now! And, he started by shooting a 16mm home movie for six or seven grand. If I remember, they couldn’t even afford to do second takes (considering the cost of film alone, that rumor probably has a basis in reality)!
So, really, you could shoot My Dinner with Andre for less than the cost of a crappy used car. Just do it. Why not?…
What’s the worst case scenario? You’re out a few thousand bucks, but you’ve still got a crappy movie you can release on the internet! A calling card…
Oh, and I’d warn you away from Super-8 or 16mm. There’s still a few places where you can get film cheap. But, it’s prohibitively expensive to transfer to video (typically costing as much as a hi-end color timing session with a 35mm film transfer) - and the resulting quality is often not much better than you’d get yourself videotaping it off of a screen. Go video. Go HDTV (720p or 1080p). Maybe even wait a couple years until HD camcorders are ubiquitous and even cheaper than they are now.
Even you can make a movie! All you have to do is try…
Just a quick announcement to let you know that the viral video phenomenon ‘The Dildo Song’ has just been named one of the top viral videos in internet history by the UK television series ‘Rude Tube!’
The Dildo Song shall be featured prominently in the second installment of Rude Tube, the compendium of hit viral videos and internet videos that has swept British television by storm!
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