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Creating a stoner movie -- it may sound easy, right? Well, it is not! First, you'll need a wise decision, and you require a, uh... hey, maybe you have, like, checked out your hands? I am talking about, really checked out it. You think there might be a whole world living beneath your finger nail. Oh, sorry: I acquired distracted. Creating a stoner movie! Right! Well, every stoner flick includes a totally unscientific formula that should be adopted so as for this to become effective. So, in recognition of 'A Very Harold and Kumar three dimensional Christmas,' which opens today, Moviefone provides you with a short user guide regarding how to Create a Stoner Movie. You'll need... A pothead that's a lot more stoned and stupid compared to relaxation of his buddies: There's Jim Breuer from 'Half-Baked,' ordering pizza, Funyuns, water, celery and grape jelly Rory Cochran of 'Dazed and Confused,' speaking about how exactly George Washington accustomed to grow their own secret stash within the fields of Mount Vernon. You usually need one stoner who's too stupid for their own good to create the relaxation from the cast seem like Einstein. One psychedelic scene that's totally, 100 % crazy and makes simply no sense whatsoever: There is a scene in each and every drug-related film in which the protagonists finish up stumbling on some totally absurd substance. Then, the strange stuff begins to occur -- rainbows come out of trees, buddies start to look like animated figures, hands become some living, breathing creature that may choke them out at any second. Good quality good examples of the would be the bowling dream sequence in 'The Large Lebowski,' where Shaun Bridges's The Dude pretends he's a bowling ball, and also the bar scene in 'Fear and Loathing in Vegas,' where Johnny Depp's Hunter S. Thompson Raoul Duke imagines he's encircled with a crowd filled with gigantic lizards. The stoner hero who eventually ends up saving your day even though he's, well, stoned: Seth Rogen saving James Franco from the burning barn in 'Pineapple Express' and Ice Cube beating in the neighborhood bully in 'Friday' are two perfect good examples of stoner heroics. It's difficult to feel motivated by anybody who sits around and smokes pot the whole film, but -- ultimately -- they manage can provide relief. A scene such as this: Quotables: Lines that fellow pot people who smoke can quote to one another is mandatory. For instance, 'Up in Smoke' has "Hey guy, am I driving OK?" After which obviously there's Matthew McConaughey in 'Dazed in Wrongly identified as "You have some pot? ... Well, it would be a great deal cooler should you did." These movies might not have resided on whether it were not for that memorable quotes -- it isn't such as the audiences are likely to have the ability to remember anything as complicated being an actual story. An incredible soundtrack: No stoner movie will get by with no awesome soundtrack. An ideal illustration of this really is 'Easy Driver,' with a murderer's row of awesome tunes (Steppenwolf's 'Born to become Wild,' The Band's 'The Weight,' Jimi Hendrix's 'If 6 Was 9,' etc.). A great soundtrack can overcome any plot inadequacies. An existential question: That scene in which a character asks an issue that actually enables you to think. These existential moments is often as jokey because the reason for 'Knocked Up,' when Katherine Heigl first meets Seth Rogen's buddies after discovering she's pregnant. This is when she eventually ends up getting asked about her developing fetus "stealing" her food. References to marijuana: Finally, probably the most apparent factor about this list. 'Up in Smoke,' includes a vehicle scene where Cheech and Chong smoke some pot how big their arm. For some thing recent, let us opt for the primary character in 'Grandma's Boy,' that has a huge bong he attempts to play off like a flower vase. ### So, that's it: the key stoner movie formula. Now, all that you should do is log off the couch, write a script, gather financing, hire some famous stars along with a director. Hm, really, on second thought, that seems like it may be demanding. Before you begin, you might like to take something which will awesome your anxiety... [Photo: Everett Collection] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED