MOUSE Enters the Fight
- Oklahoma Ward
- Apr 29
- 8 min read
Updated: Apr 30
🔥 TRYHARD Protocol
"Plans bend. Tools break. But a TRYHARD never folds."
📑 TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Battle for Survival: TRYHARD COMPANY Update
Mission Briefing: Eyes Only - Sneak Peek
Code Red: Filmmaking - Director's Thoughts
Reconnaissance: Hidden Masterpieces - Cult Classics
Surveillance: Hidden Treasures - Underrated Series
Debriefing: The Mover and Shaker's Club - Meet the Game-Changers
Intelligence Gathering: The Vault - Past Highlights
Victory Report: Crawl or Die
🏆 We made CRAWL or DIE on nothing but grit, guts, and stubborn love.
When we see fans still talking about Tank — still rooting for her — it’s humbling beyond words.
Every frame, every battle behind the scenes, every sacrifice —
You made it matter.
Thank you for believing then.
Thank you for standing with us now.
⚔️ Battle for Survival: TRYHARD COMPANY Update
This week, the war moves back to set.
Tuesday, we roll cameras again — capturing the next brutal pieces of TRYHARD COMPANY: The CHRONICLES of TANK.
At the same time, the Command Center keeps grinding forward — nodes uploading, decryptions unlocking, and new intel preparing to drop.
SFX plates for the series edit are being applied.
SFX sound design is taking shape — the world of TRYHARD COMPANY is getting louder, sharper, meaner by the day.
And honestly — getting stoked with how well it's all coming together.
Even more fired up about the latest character reveal now live inside the Command Center.
➡️ Enter the battlefield by clicking the button below — decrypt what's waiting.
— for direct access to the secured intel archive.
Mission Briefing: Eyes Only
🔒 Decryption Protocols Engaged.
The first wave of character decryptions is almost complete.Soon — Access Granted signals will trigger inside the Command Center, unlocking full intel on key members of TRYHARD COMPANY.
🛠️ Meanwhile, several new interactive elements are preparing to come online —new nodes lighting up, hidden details activating, and classified click-to-reveal missions waiting to be discovered.
🎯 And that's not all:
The Episode Breakdown Transmission is about to drop —a no-bull, fully transparent backstage report showing how much of TRYHARD COMPANY is complete, what's left in post-production, and when the final war drums will sound.
For the first time — you'll see the real indie battlefield.
When it will all be done.When the PR campaign detonates.
It's all dropping soon.
🚀 Stay sharp.
Code Red: Filmmaking - Directors's Thoughts
Step into the mind of the director as we explore the creative process behind TRYHARD COMPANY, with personal reflections, insights, and inspirations.
💥 Let’s cut to the truth...
In indie filmmaking, there’s no luxury of "one thing at a time."
You shoot. You edit. You sound design. You build PR — all at once.
It’s like laying the tracks while the train is already moving at full speed.
Every day, every night, every piece that gets built — it isn’t separate.It's part of the same warpath.
This week, we're filming reshoots and recovering corrupted scenes —
(And for the record — reshoots aren't a sign of failure. They’re standard across every Hollywood film — and crucial in indie work.)
Scenes get corrupted. Missed shots get filled. New energy is captured.
Reshoots are about fighting for the story you meant to tell — no excuses, no surrender.
Filming these scenes isn’t the finish line — it's just one more battlefield.
And when it all detonates, the world won't see the sleepless nights, the blurred days, the thousand invisible choices.
They'll just feel the impact.
And that's the point.
🎥 Behind the Scenes: Reshoot Realities
Even Mad Max: Fury Road — one of the most meticulously planned action films ever — needed 10 full days of reshoots after filming wrapped.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story had major third-act reshoots — and it became a fan favorite.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy famously built "pickup seasons" every year to film crucial reshoots even after principal photography ended.
Indie films especially rely on reshoots to plug small story gaps, fix corrupted footage, or grab missing emotional beats — with no giant safety net.
Reshoots aren't a sign of mistakes.They're a sign that the filmmakers care enough to fight for the best story possible.
🎥 Reconnaissance: Hidden Masterpieces – Cult Films
🎞 The Elephant Man | 1980 • Biographical Drama / Historical • 2h 4m
🧠 Why I Love THE ELEPHANT MAN:
I love this movie because of its boldness. The decision to go black and white. The bravery to use heavy film grain. To un-pretty the film — to challenge us to look past aesthetic and really see the story. And that’s what we do with The Elephant Man, too. I had a hard time looking at him at first.The way he breathed — viscerally — made me sick. But by the end of the film, I didn’t just like him. I loved him. I look around this world and see beautiful people, fancy clothes, nice cars... And still, I’ve rarely seen anything as truly beautiful as Joseph Carey Merrick. I went to see the film with my mother.And I practically had to carry her out — the ending wrecked her... in a beautiful way. I held it together.Until that night — when I woke up bawling. Don’t tell me art can’t change how people look, feel, or think. The Elephant Man did. It changed me. Forever. And for that — I am grateful this story was made, told, and shared.
📜 Summary: Directed by David Lynch, The Elephant Man tells the haunting true story of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man struggling to find dignity and humanity in a society that treats him as nothing more than a sideshow curiosity.Shot in stark black and white, the film explores cruelty, compassion, and the quiet strength it takes to survive when the world sees you as an oddity.
🧩 Two Interesting Facts about this Grand Fan Favorite:
The Elephant Man earned 8 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Its impact led to the creation of the Best Makeup Oscar category the following year.
🎭 Interesting Fact About an Actor:John Hurt, who portrayed Merrick, spent up to eight hours a day in makeup, delivering one of the most emotional performances ever captured under prosthetics.
🎬 Iconic Scene from the Film:Merrick, cornered by a mob, crying out:
"I am not an animal! I am a human being!"
🗞️ What the Critics Say:
“A haunting film of great sympathy and sweeping humanity.” — Roger Ebert“David Lynch’s most restrained — and arguably most emotional — work.” — Variety“A devastating masterpiece of compassion and courage.” — The Guardian
🎥 [Watch the Trailer]
📺 Surveillance: Hidden Treasures - Underrated Series
🎞 Twin Peaks | 1990–1991 • Mystery / Drama / Supernatural • 2 Seasons 📣
☕ Pick up your coffee cups...
Why I Love: TWIN PEAKS
Twin Peaks is the perfect blend of abstract art that's still accessible.
And that's important — because while I’ll watch pure abstract films or series, most general audiences usually won’t.
Sometimes I love pure popcorn entertainment too — and that frustrates some people.But Twin Peaks didn’t choose between art and entertainment.
It set a genre.
David Lynch nailed it — the tone, the mystery, the performances, the incredible imagery, the haunting music, the atmosphere filling every inch of the screen — and it worked.
It wasn’t about spoon-feeding audiences.
It was about trusting that if you built something deep, beautiful, and unsettling — people would rise to meet it.
Twin Peaks changed everything.
It expanded what general audiences were willing to accept.
It proved you could be abstract, surreal, and still connect — if you did it right.
And Twin Peaks did it right.
📜 Summary:Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, Twin Peaks rewrote the rules of television storytelling.Set in a sleepy logging town full of bizarre characters and dark secrets, FBI Agent Dale Cooper arrives to investigate the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer — but quickly discovers something much stranger beneath the town’s surface.What begins as a murder mystery spirals into an exploration of dreams, nightmares, and the thin line between reality and horror.
🧩 Two Interesting Facts about this Grand Fan Favorite:
Twin Peaks was one of the very first shows to create a full serialized mystery on TV, paving the way for shows like The X-Files and Lost.
David Lynch insisted that the show’s surreal dream sequences were written based on actual dreams he had — not scripted traditionally — giving the series its famously unsettling tone.
🎭 Interesting Fact About an Actor:Kyle MacLachlan (FBI Agent Dale Cooper) became one of David Lynch’s favorite collaborators after Twin Peaks — later starring in Lynch’s films like Dune and Blue Velvet.His portrayal of Cooper — quirky, brilliant, and relentlessly optimistic — helped redefine what a TV hero could look like.
🎬 Iconic Scene from the Series:Agent Cooper’s dream sequence in the Red Room — backwards-talking figures, zigzag floors, and cryptic messages — became one of the most iconic and unsettling sequences in television history.
🗞️ What the Critics Say:
“A hypnotic masterpiece that changed TV forever.” — Rolling Stone “David Lynch at his most brilliantly baffling.” — The New York Times “Still one of the boldest, weirdest, and most addictive shows ever made.” — IndieWire
🎥 [Watch the Intro]
Debriefing: The Mover and Shaker's Club
Meet the innovators, game-changers, and trailblazers in the entertainment industry, with interviews and insights from the people making things happen.
🧠 Decryption in Progress: Grace Randolph
🎥 Role: Film Critic, YouTuber, Comic Book Writer
📺 Channel: Beyond the Trailer
👥 Subscribers: 936K
🌐 Platforms: YouTube | X (Twitter)
💥 Why I Consider This a Mover and Shaker:
🎬 GraceRandolph: Grace Randolph is an American film critic, YouTuber, and comic book writer. On YouTube, she hosts her channel Beyond the Trailer. She has written numerous comics, among them issues of Justice League Unlimited and X-Men: Nation X, as well as creating the original comic-book series Supurbia
As an ultra-low-budget independent filmmaker — not Hollywood independent, but truly independent — I think it’s important to recognize the value in learning from the industry that's actually making it.
You can argue Hollywood doesn’t make movies like it used to, but it’s simply not true — they’re still the best at one thing:
📣 Promoting what they create.
Whether it’s movies, film stars, or content, Hollywood knows how to generate interest — and that's not by accident.
They spend millions on PR companies for a reason: because reaching audiences is extremely difficult.
As an indie filmmaker, you quickly learn how hard it is to get even 100 people to show up, watch, and care.
🎯 Promotion isn't optional. It's part of survival.
That's why I regularly tune into Grace Randolph.
She’s controversial — some people love her, some don’t — and I don’t always agree with her takes either. But I respect her.
She’s smart.She’s unapologetically opinionated.And most importantly — she doesn't belittle you for having a different view.
💬 Respectful discourse matters.
I especially enjoy her Movie Math series, where she breaks down how and why Hollywood releases products when they do, where the money flows, and what strategies work (or crash).
📈 Understanding timing, budgets, and audience reactions is crucial — especially if you want to carve out space in today’s crowded world of content.
I’m living proof:
With CRAWL or DIE, I learned — with the help of mentors like Peter Broderick (more on him soon) — just how powerful smart promotion can be.
Grace provides insight into that battlefield.
She’s funny. She’s sharp.And if you’re serious about art, film, and business —
🛠️ Open your mind. Study how others succeed.
Create fearlessly.
Intelligence Gathering: The Vault
Take a trip down memory lane with us as we explore the archives of our past content, with forgotten gems and timeless insights.
Classified Files Pending...
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Create fearlessly,
Oklahoma Ward
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