Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny
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Directed by | hitRECord |
Distributed by | hitRECord |
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Running time | 6 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4,000 (estimated) |
Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny is a 2010 short romantic silent film directed, edited by and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It co-stars Lexy Hulme.
It is Gordon-Levitt's directing debut. A sequel entitled Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo was released the same year.
Plot
The silent film, except for narration throughout by Gordon-Levitt, follows the first date between Morgan M. Morgansen (Gordon-Levitt) and a young woman named Destiny (Hulme). Backed up by a sour-turned-sentimental waiter - or the "foodpenguin" (Brewster) - and a band of cartoon feline musicians (among others), Morgan ultimately manages to woo Destiny. After meeting with Destiny at a restaurant and ordering a cooked rabbit, Morgan discovers Destiny's vegetarianism, and decides to eat only the vegetables around the plate rather than eat the rabbit meat and appall his alarmed date. Appreciative of Morgan's sacrifice at dinner for the sake of her comfort, Destiny begins to kiss him in the street, overlooked by the approving foodpenguin. The two rush off to Morgan's abode and it is stated that Morgan, lying in bed that night, needed no longer feel alone.
Cast
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Morgan M. Morgensen / Narrator
- Lexy Hulme as Destiny
- Lawrie Brewster as Food Penguin
Production
The short was produced by Gordon-Levitt's online production company
With homages to influences as varied as Lewis Carroll, Sigmund Freud and Georges Méliès.
Premiere
The short film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
See also
References
- ^ "Sarah Daly's Short Script Realised". Film Ireland. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
- ^ "From Dysart to Sundance Film Festival ..." Fife Today. 2010-01-27. Retrieved 2015-09-08.