Duck! The Carbine High Massacre is a 2000 black comedy film about a fictional school shooting. It was the first Columbine-inspired film to be released. It is written, directed, and stars William Hellfire and Joey Smack. It is unrated. This article is about the year 2000. ... Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, etc. ... A school massacre is an incident of attempted mass murder, involving at least one actual death, that occurs at a school. ... For other things of this name, see Columbine (disambiguation). ... The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and territories and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ...

Plot Summary

The movie tells the story of Derrick and Derwent, two trench-coat wearing, neo-nazi "freaks". Both come from strange homes, one having alcoholic parents and the other having a father who appears to be a wife-beater. A wife beater is a man who engages in violent spousal abuse a slang term for a kind of undershirt: see Wifebeater (slang) A UK and Ireland slang term for Stella Artois. ...

When Derwent is severely assaulted by jocks, he and Derrick form a plan to open kill students at their school then commit suicide. It is implied that the day of their attack is April 20th, 1999, which was the date of the real-life Columbine High School Massacre. Wiktionary has a definition of: Jock People known as Jock include: Jock — a character in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends Things known as Jocks or Jock include: The Jocks — the British 9th (Scottish) Division Jock — a Scottish person jock — an athlete (a high school subculture) jock — a jockstrap jock... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Staff and students evacuate Columbine High School shortly after the shooting. ...

They buy two shotguns and several handguns from a black market dealer, which is probably a reference to the easy access of guns in America. The next day they open fire in the cafeteria, killing most of the secondary characters, and then down into the basement, where they kill each other simultaneouly. A police officer and the school principal then enter the school to find a bomb. When the cop attempts to diffuse it, it is implied that it exploded. A pump-action and two semi-automatic action shotguns, 20 boxes of shotgun shells, a clay trap, and three boxes of clay pigeons. ... A handgun is a firearm small enough to be carried and used in one hand. ... America is usually meant as either: the Americas, the lands of the Western hemisphere, usually subdivided into North America and South America the United States of America See also: Americas (terminology), Use of the word America, and Use of the word American. ...

The next scene shows several people trying to explain their theories on why the massacre occurred. This is a spoof of the reaction and conspiracy theories presented following the Columbine High Shooting. The word massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents, that would often qualify as war crimes or atrocities. ... A spoof is a humorous take on an established idea, cultural movement, television program, movie, play, or book. ...

Controversy

The film is the first post-Columbine film, and arguably the most offensive. It contains much blood and gore, nudity, innapropriate sexual references and somewhat racism (Not from the main characters, but rather from a black person who hates "white people") An African-American man drinks out of the colored only water cooler at a racially segregated street car terminal in the United States in 1939. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ...

The main actors/directors Smack and Hellfire were arrested for having weapons on a school campus for one of the shots outside an elementary school. They were jailed for a short amount of time[1].

Character Names

With the exception of main characters Derrick and Derwin, all other characters are credited as their stereotype; Note: This list is incomplete

• Goth Girl
• Bible Girl
• Goth Boy (Boyfriend of Goth Girl)
• Spam Jock
• Car Guy
• Jock
• Black Guy

Comparison to Columbine

The film references Columbine many times, including:

• The use of shotguns
• Two shooters
• Joint suicide
• A teacher is shot when trying to get kids out of the cafeteria, and dies later. His last words are: "Tell my daughters I love them". The character is a reference to coach Dave Sanders.
• The use of a propane tank turned into a bomb
• The last scene parodies the aftermath of Columbine, with conspiracy theorists, parents and witnesses all talking about the perpetrators and why they think the massacre occurred.

External Links

• Duck! The Carbine High Massacre at The Internet Movie Database[2]
• An anonomously-made Information Site [3]