The Gaps

So you've given it a go, and by now you realize some things really aren't adding up.  Just want everyone to know that I'm not trying to stall for too long.  It's just that Wright really did pull a number on this one and I think really hard about the way to go about revealing things.  I've got a life too, so.  Try not to worry, there's a reason for everything... even if it's a twisted one.

The first thing you should know, is that this monstrosity is probably going to frustrate the crap out of you.  You want to see it work but you reach a point where things just fall apart.  The answer my friends is not one that's going to make you happy, but does add a little adventure to it all.  That's the reason why I'm breaking this up into pieces.

It's hard to make sense of an artist's taste absurdly combined with a major broken arm, but there's a reason why no one has found this out and that is because of two things, one is THE GAPS.  If you have an actual CD, stick it in your computer, and play it on your Winamp, you're going to listen to the program's predefined rules of playback.  Typically this means it's going to ignore the gaps in between tracks.  What's a gap?  It's just a space of time, usually a few seconds, that fills in between the tracks.  It carries no track number, even though it CAN be used to play sound.  Generally it is a manufacturing trick after the mastering process of the album itself, helping define parameters between songs they don't want to "start too early".  

At least that's the best explanation I can come up with.  There's not a whole lot of info on the web about why they're even there, but you will find that on a lot of major label album CDs, they're there.  When you play an original CD in nothing but a standard CD player, it will recognize the gap and begin the next track with i.e. -03, -02, -01, 00.  CD-ROMs will as a basic player I believe, but a media program will ignore them.

What does this mean for S.P.vs.S.P. (Scott Pilgrim VS Smashing Pumpkins as I like to call it)? Well, you have to know that Edgar, in all of his master planning, seems to have included these gaps.

You know what that means?  In case you've tried to start out the movie already, and been somewhat successful playing your MP3s, AS SOON AS YOU GET TO ZERO, IT IS NO LONGER IN SYNC.

Because between track 3 and track 4 there is a gap on the CD.  And while it may appear to keep going, you will be missing the major changes happening together.  If you follow the instructions to the tee on the post titled "Zero", you will see, and hear, the way it should actually sync with the movie.

Now that you know this, just imagine what kind of bloop this has to be with the second reason that has destroyed the tangibility of a fan's reconstruction of this hidden gem... the last big screw to turn, and a subject for a later date ...the secret of the track switch.

An Ode to No One

How do you know how to play the game if you don't know it exists?  If Edgar didn't want to play an easter egg hunt with everybody,then what's this basket of them doing here?  It looks somewhat to me as though Edgar had a plan he was willing to share, at least at one point, but instead he just left the whole thing to spoil.  It almost appears that some of the eggs are cracked or deformed even (to put it in metaphor).  It's a very ridged and daunting task he's cooked up to have just laying around.  Obviously there has been no leads provided, nothing easily detectible anyway, and E.W. has never slowed down on the way to his next film.  Maybe he's expecting someone to just come out with it (tried that) and I guess that's a little of what I'm doing now, but what can I say?

Not much in regards to that.  I have no idea, and my suspicions are all that account for anything during the process of this discovery.  This is more of an invisible puzzle than an easter egg hunt.  I discovered this via "weird coincidence" that turned into speculations.  One of which is that all parties or individuals involved in this movie were under contract NOT to say anything.  That's the way the movie industry works after all. 

Actors and every participant are forced to sign their name, waving all rights to talk about the film until after it's release typically.  In this case, somehow I feel there must have been a clause scripted about it that may mean even the actors know but can't say a word.  There's no telling until this has become proven by enough people that it becomes fact, but it makes sense to me. 

Could it be that Edgar did the final editing himself, so as to mask his creation under utmost secrecy?  That's really not likely.  A director's cut is still only coupled with the skills of the film editor, and to have full control over the final product without anyone else "in" on it is a pretty ridiculous notion.  The final cut is laid out very precisely with the musical backdrop in play, and it has still taken ME many, many hours to just sync it up correctly.  Video editors will know what I'm talking about.  And a sound technician knows that a millisecond can make all the difference in the world.  In other words, that's a ton of work for one man who doesn't want anyone to know what he's doing.

But this just furthers the strangeness of it.  It's been 4 years and not a word.  He had to have had helpers and there must be some circle who know.  That's enough to incite conspiracy in the mind isn't it?  Is it possible this project was dropped?  Or did Edgar not expect it to be so long for someone to find out?  Why are there no leads?

To be honest, I would still like to get a word from Edgar Wright before it's all completely out there.  Alas I am but a silent star who's mail get's put in a stack with the others.  If I was more on my game I'd be riding his coat tails as much as the next trendy, but as I said before I'm not that pop savvy.   

"Love"                                         courtesy of Jerology

 

Even without any foreknowledge as to how this came into existence, the evidence is there, and it does not detract from the experience earned when seeing it come together.  I WILL post a detailed map of the whole thing and how it works, eventually, but I really think unless you do the hunt yourself, you won't get the pleasure of discovering it on your own.  This is kinda like the new Wizard of OZ and Dark Side of the Moon.  The only difference is it's not an accident, and in many respects it's going to be way cooler.

Wright was very specific about the scene changes, amongst everything else, so you might want to do some experimenting with what appears to be the video to the music.  Ultimately this will lead you to find out a major discrepancy with the track layout, and once that happens, hopefully something will click and you will find the missing piece of the invisible puzzle. 

So I got a new method for you to find out how this all works.  The scene above depicts where the song "Love" appears in the film.  But before this battle comes into play, I want you to start ahead of the game with one of my favorite MCIS pieces, "An Ode to No One".  You're gonna have to feel it out some.  Maybe you'll get it wrong the first few times, but you'll see something going on.  There are obvious theatrics playing a part of the music if you can just get it to be in harmony.  The setting of where to start will be when Scott and Ramona first spend the night together after their first date, on the morning after...
  
Good luck

Zero

When I first "fell" upon my discovery I went searching online for support only to find that there was actually NO talk about this whatsoever... besides that E.W. likes to do weird movies ...Specifically that he took special care with this particular film, which for some reason most assumed it to be of an unimportance.  (I'm guessing this because no one has come up with any idea why.) 

The Internet is full of talk about the video game mostly, which is something I still have never looked into.  All the information that seems to surface across various websites are quotes about Edgar Wright stylizing his films by placing hidden Easter eggs in them, so people could uncover them and point them out, trending as people do about trivia and whatever.

The merchandise and consumerism have almost created a wall between the deeper content laying hidden beneath the slapstick heroism performed by Michael Cera.  The role of his character is in a play, a musical drama if you will, and a shrouded and non-detectible one. 

Following the film, The video game's release takes precedence over other topics.  Fan's have looked more to the "spin-off" game as the continuation of the film's legacy. I have to say, those are just distractions to the real underpinnings this film was being envisioned as.

Underpinnings...
or maybe under-torpedo. Take your pick.

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