The Coin Bros, also known as "The Coin Bros. - Korean Memorial" was a school project on the Korean Memorial made by Adam Katz and Brian Koch during the March of 2011.
Plot[]
Two coins, Quarter and Penny, are in a stage. Quarter explains that they got mail after waiting for 27 hours for some. He then reads the mail which is about a project on the Korean Memorial that a person named Shaniquwa doesn’t feel like doing it, and the person asks if they could help them. Penny asks what a memorial is. Quarter explains to him that a memorial is a building, monument, or a statue to celebrate a war or victory, or to commemorate those who served and bravely died in the war. He then says that the Korean Memorial is a monument.
Quarter then explains a bunch of information about it, and that the Korean Memorial commemorates those who died in the Korean War. To answer Shaniquwa’s question, the monument is to honor members of the United States Armed Forces who served in the Korean War, particularly those who are killed in action are still missing in action or held as prisoners of war.
Penny says that it’s great, but he still doesn’t know what the Korean War is, and that the information is irrelevant, and he should get to the point where explains about the Korean War, but Quarter tells him to stop ranting and that they’ve talked about that. Quarter then explains about the Korean War, and it was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) supported by the United Nations (UN), and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), which was supported by the People’s Republic of China, or the PRC for short, a military material aid from the Soviet Union. He explains that it began on June 25, 1950 and kept going vigorously until an armistice was signed on July 27, 1953. He was about to say that it is located in some place, but Penny interrupts him and says that the Korean Memorial was located in Korea, but is actually in the capital city of the United States, Washington D.C.
Penny is shocked about this but Quarter is being serious about it. He explains that when viewed from above, the memorial is a circle intersected by a triangle, and the first thing that the viewer would see when they visit the memorial would be the triangular field of service. He also explains that a black granite wall is found on the south side, which is so polished that it actually mirrors the statues bringing together faces that are etched in the granite with the statues, and it provides and overall reflection of how determined the US forces were and answering the country’s call of duty. Penny hears this and he was thinking about the game, but Quarter says it’s not that kind of “call of duty.”
Quarter explains more about the Korean Memorial adjacent to the faces, and it is the Pool of Remembrance, which is encircled by a grove of trees and is really quiet. He then explains that a stone nearby, numbers of people killed, wounded, missing, in action, or held prisoner of war are vets. On the opposite side, another message is on a granite wall that says "FREEDOM IS NOT FREE", but Penny interrupts him once again by asking a question about how Quarter knows all of this stuff, and Quarter explains that in his "life outside of this" he reads the encyclopedia for fun, and Penny is wondering what Quarter’s "life outside of this" is, but he is exhausted to explain what it is.
Finally, Quarter explains a bit of final information on what the viewer could see when they go to the Korean Memorial, and that three of the 19 stainless steel statues are located in the woods, so that if the viewer is at the flagpole looking through the troops, and there is no way to tell how many there actually are, which gives the illusion that legions could be emerging from the woods. Quarter also says that the statues have ponchos built into the statues that blow and give moisten to the soldier, so that the viewer can feel the cold winter wind at their backs as they walk up the hill talking with each other, and at nighttime the front of the statues are illuminated with a special white light, allowing us to see the finer details of the sculpture, and explains that they look like ghosts, so a screaming sound plays.
Penny finds it kinda creepy, and Quarter says that it is, and explains to Shaniquwa that he hopes that they found this helpful for their project, and the coins are glad that they could help. Penny wants Quarter to see another paper from Shaniquwa, that they realized that they could Google the Korean Memorial, so they did it all for nothing. Quarter says that he put up with all this work just to try to be a good person just like the spinning image of Washington that he is for nothing. Penny tells him to calm down, but he won’t, and says that he wasted four minutes of his life that he can’t get back, and not to mention the years he wasted studying just about everything there is to know about anything, and he decides to quit, and exclaims to Shaniquwa.
Cast[]
- Adam Katz as Penny
- Brian Koch as Quarter
Trivia[]
- This video was uploaded in the Adamationz channel.
- This was Adam’s project for school he worked on with Brian.
- Both of them were in eighth grade when they created it.
- This is the second sub-amateur level animation created by Adam Katz, the first being "The Stupid Trailer."
- This is also the second animation to use Anime Studio mouths.
- The mouths are inaccurately lip-synced, but in "A Lemony Lesson” the lip-syncing is a little more accurate.
- This is the first animation to use curved closed eyes.
- "The Stupid Trailer" uses triangular closed eyes, as well as "The Crappy Cliff" (except for most shots with MePhone4).