It was just as soon as I put my mind to it, weird words came out. So just wrote it all down. Sometimes coffee helps, or exercise, or the right kind of tiredness. And it does seem like there are always opportunities.
I know people, let me talk to them. And they did. And there was some good back and forth. Then he was having more meetings and had a bunch of meetings on my behalf. England, America. He was writing TV piss-takes and angry snarky satire. He also allegedly beat the man to death in his Hubert Cumberdale persona.
It's also believed that SF had a wife whom he then murdered in his Hubert Cumberdale persona, and later cooked her in the oven. The woman's name was believed to have been Baxter, which means "baker. More letters may be revealed later on. A common plot point of the series is the Great War.
Salad Fingers would constantly mention this war throughout the series, and what this war was and when and how it started is currently unknown. One theory about this war states that this war was most likely nuclear. This war was believed to haveworld-wide conflict, and it resulted in the deaths of billions of people.
This may also explain why the characters of Salad Fingers are how they are. They may have been mutated during the nuclear fallout of the nuclear war, and this may also explain the desolate appearance of the show, and may also be the reason as to why Salad Fingers may be the only living creature for miles, and the reason as to why he has finger puppets as his only company.
Most of the characters are unable to speak, mostly likely too mutilated to even do so. This might also explain why SF is so shocked when he hears the little girl speak in episode 5, for he most likely hadn't heard another voice in a very long time. Another example that supports this in the end of episode 7 where SF says to Kenneth's corpse "Back to the trenches with you.
At the onset of the episode, Salad consumes his puppet friend Jeremy Fisher before taking his horse toy on a trot so he can have a chat with a toilet. When Salad returns to his home, he finds himself sitting in the corner waiting for him. Then Salad eats himself the same way that he ate Jeremy Fisher earlier in the episode.
Throughout the series, Salad uses a variety of implements to mar himself, and usually by the next scene, he's okay. Even if he sustains abrasions or fractures, these issues never last longer than one episode, making him more like Wile E. Coyote than any other character from the last years. In the first episode , Salad shoves a rusty nail through his finger, and in episode three , he produces a rash by rubbing himself with nettles. An episode later , Salad winds up caught in a bear trap while chasing down an errant rusty tap.
Salad Fingers would be nowhere near as affecting without its soundtrack. Sometimes, it is made up of ambient tones, and other times, the episodes feature music by popular electronic artists like Aphex Twin. Episode 4, called "Cage," uses the aforementioned artist's "Avril 14th" at the five-minute mark.
The opening song heard in the first episode of the series is "Beware the Friendly Stranger" by British electronic duo, Boards of Canada, and it sells the series's creepy atmosphere. In , when the Daily Dot asked series creator David Firth about whether or not these huge electronic artists have contacted him about the soundtrack to his work, he said that he's never heard from them. Firth also makes a lot of original music. Much of his dark ambient pieces act as a sound bed for the episodes.
Though there are plenty of parallels between David Firth's Salad Fingers and the work of experimental filmmakers like David Lynch and Don Hertzfeldt , Firth told Former People blog writer Steven Michalkow that he draws most of his inspiration from author William Burroughs. However, Firth isn't jamming his face into the work of Burroughs all day. Instead, he holes up in his studio and does his best to block out pop culture, whether he's interested in it or not, to ensure his work stays unique.
Of his self-imposed pop culture exile, Firth said :. I don't really pay attention to the arts. I just sit in my room and make things that I don't think other people have made. The only thing I really think about is how I can do something in my own way, without being too influenced by other works.
While the visual art of Salad Fingers is crucial to the creepier aspects of the series, perhaps the most important facets are Salad's voice and the sounds that play throughout each episode. Firth voices Salad with a high-pitched grumble that requires subtitles for even the most eagle-eared listener to understand - it's this voice that makes Salad both spooky and wholesome.
Meanwhile, the sound effects and foley add a level of unease to each episode - for example, the sound of Salad rubbing his fingers on a rusty spoon and tea kettle in the first installment of the series.
It's unlikely that anyone's going to knock down David Firth's door and beg him to make a live-action version of Salad Fingers. If someone were willing to put up the project, however, Firth has some ideas about who that actor would be. He explained to Vice :. I'm not really a live-action actor, but I don't think anyone could do the voice and me other than me. Maybe someone quite old, like the Gandalf guy from The Lord of the Rings.
Although, Salad Fingers is actually very visually similar to the Smeagol character in a way. He's kind of green with big eyes. I tend to think that older actors would be more suited to my work.
The one question every creator hates to answer is, "Where do you get your ideas," but Firth is ready for it. He told Vice that his ideas for Salad Fingers and the rest of his animated works tend to come straight out of his dreams - especially the more archaic visions.
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