Killer Bean Forever Game
| Killer Bean Forever | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jeff Lew |
| Produced by | Jeff Lew |
| Story by | Jeff Lew |
| Starring | Vegas E. Trip Bryan Session David Guilmette Matthew Tyler |
| Music by | Justin R. Durban Jeff Lew |
| Cinematography | Jeff Lew |
| Edited by | Jeff Lew |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Cinema Management Group |
Release date | |
Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | <$1,000,000[1] |
Killer Bean Forever is a 2009 computer-animated action film written, produced, and directed by Jeff Lew. Taking place in a world of anthropomorphic coffee beans, the film tells the story of a bean assassin named Jack Bean, whose alias is Killer Bean. It was preceded by two webshorts: 'Killer Bean: The Interrogation' and 'Killer Bean 2: The Party'.
Plot[edit]
The film begins at a warehouse party with loud music that is attended solely by gangsters. At 2:30 AM, Killer Bean is at a nearby hotel trying to sleep, and makes a phone call asking them to turn down the music. The gangsters refuse, and Killer Bean confronts them. After the gangsters fire a shot at Killer Bean and miss, Killer Bean ends up killing every one of the gangsters in an acrobatic strewn battle. The last bean killed is revealed to be the nephew of Cappuccino, a mob boss.[2]
Killer Bean is taken to prison, but Jet Bean manages to kill every police officer and find him in his cell. Killer Bean explains to Jet Bean that the Shadow Agency has gone criminal, but Jet Bean doesn't believe him. In the last fight scene, Killer Bean kills Jet Bean with much effort. Killer bean free download - Killer Bean Unleashed, Killer Bean Unleashed, Bean, and many more programs. Meet the newest recruit in the Killer Bean Vs Aliens Game: Major. Free Publisher.
The police, led by Detective Cromwell, investigate the warehouse shootings. The warehouse is known to be owned by Cappuccino. As the police investigate, Vagan, a lieutenant of Cappuccino arrives at the warehouse. After discovering the massacre, Vagan, who runs guns for Cappuccino, quickly informs his boss what has happened and that Cappuccino is Killer Bean's next target. Due to Killer Bean's skill, Vagan suggests hiring mercenary soldiers to kill him.
Killer Bean receives an encrypted call from his boss warning him that he is being reckless and that the attack on the warehouse should have never happened, and that only the 'target' should be killed. Killer Bean ensures his boss that the mission will succeed. Killer Bean goes to another of Cappuccino's warehouses but instead finds Vagan there, who attempts to kill him. The fight between Vagan and Killer Bean ends as a draw. Vagan leaves a note to Killer Bean which reads, 'Shadow Bean, you are too late'.
Killer Bean later goes to a bar across the street where Detective Cromwell finds him. Cromwell suggests they work together to bring Cappuccino down, but Killer Bean refuses his help. Later, Cromwell finds the note referencing the 'Shadow Beans'. After a call to police intelligence, Cromwell discovers that the Shadow Beans were a private organization that carried out secret government operations, but disbanded years ago.
Killer Bean locates a third warehouse, evidently attempting to find Cappuccino there. After killing the gangsters there, Killer Bean is confronted by mercenaries hired by Vagan. The mercenaries fail, but afterwards Vagan is able to capture Killer Bean. Cappuccino interrogates Killer Bean asking him why he wants to kill him, but receives no answers. Killer Bean escapes, and then reveals that he is not after Cappuccino, but rather after Vagan. Cappuccino is then shot by Vagan. Killer Bean explains that he has been sent to kill Vagan, a former Shadow Bean whose code name is Dark Bean. Dark Bean had betrayed the Shadow Agency and had stolen their secret database. Dark Bean then explains that the Shadow Agency had degenerated from an honorable agency into simply guns for hire, and that he was ordered to supply weapons to criminals. Dark Bean claims to have left the Shadow Agency and run guns for Cappuccino so that he could be knowledgeable of all weapon transfers, and thus could fight crime. Killer Bean doesn't believe him, and kills Dark Bean as he attempts to shoot Killer Bean first.
Detective Cromwell witnesses the entire fight, and orders the entire police department to capture Killer Bean. Killer Bean gives up, assuming that only the police can protect him from the Shadow Agency, and presumably because he would have to kill police officers. Meanwhile, the Shadow Agency has dispatched another Shadow Bean named Jet Bean to kill Killer Bean. Jet Bean, an assassin from the east, is one of the Shadow Agency's top Shadow Beans.
Killer Bean is taken to prison, but Jet Bean manages to kill every police officer and find him in his cell. Killer Bean explains to Jet Bean that the Shadow Agency has gone criminal, but Jet Bean doesn't believe him. In the last fight scene, Killer Bean kills Jet Bean with much effort. Killer Bean then contacts the Shadow Agency on Jet Bean's cell phone, and they suggest Killer Bean come in to 'talk things over'. Killer Bean says he will come in, but it won't be for talk. The film ends with Killer Bean finding a cache of police weapons, and driving off to confront the Shadow Agency.
Cast and characters[edit]
- Vegas E. Trip as Killer Bean, the anti-hero of the film, an extremely effective pistol dual-wielding assassin with a dry sense of humor
- Bryan Session as Detective Cromwell, a no-nonsense, clever police detective
- Matthew Tyler as Cappuccino, a crime lord
- David Guilmette as the leader of the Shadow Agency[3]
- Jeff Lew as Jet Bean and various beans
Production[edit]
The concept for Killer Bean came in a short produced by Jeff Lew in the late 1990s entitled 'Killer Bean: The Interrogation', which was later called 'Killer Bean 1'. Jeff Lew intended this short only to teach himself animation, and it only received about 3000 hits. After practicing animation for about 2 years, Lew started work on 'Killer Bean 2: The Party', a 7-minute short. 'Killer Bean 2' took about 3 years to create, and was released on iFilm in 2000. In about 6 months, it received about a million views, which was significant before YouTube.[4]
After receiving various calls from movie producers that never developed, Lew decided to make a full feature film himself. The first rough draft of the screen play took about 5 months. Previsualization (previz) took about one and a half years. One mistake Lew regretted was not making the concept art before previz, which meant that many of the previz shots could not be reused for final animation. Lew then posted an ad on Craigslist for voices, and auditioned about 20 people and cast four. The concept artist for the characters was Von Caberte.[5][dead link] By July 2005, all preproduction was completed.
The film took about 5 years to create, which approximately 1 and half years in pre-production and 3 years in animation. Killer Bean Forever had approximately 1000 animated shots.[1] Generally, animators are given 1–4 weeks to complete 1 shot, and thus to create 1000 shots would have taken 20 years. Lew thus used an inexpensive 2D motion capture system to speed up animation. (At the time, the cheapest 3D motion capture system was about $50,000.)[6]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Killer Bean Forever About'. Archived from the original on 20 March 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^'Youtube: Killer Bean Forever - Entire First Scene (Posted by Killer Bean Studios)'. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^'IMDB Page'. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^'Killer Bean Forever About the Director'. Archived from the original on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^'Killer Bean Forever: The Art of Cabertevon'. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^Killer Bean Forever DVD:Making of Killer Bean Forever (Media notes). Jeff Lew. 2009 [2009].CS1 maint: others (link)
External links[edit]
- Official websiteDead link as of 9/12/2015
- Killer Bean Forever on IMDb
- Killer Bean Forever at Rotten Tomatoes
- A Killer Bean Story, a postmortem documentation of Killer Bean by Jeff Lew.
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