One-upsmanship

I did a search on Vimeo for “car­toon” and came across this nice lit­tle short:

The Artists from Giant Cre­ative on Vimeo.

It made me think about ani­mated shorts in which one char­ac­ter tries to outdo another char­ac­ter. It’s called “one-upsmanship”, and it’s a form of “reduc­tio ad absur­dum” The one that imme­di­ately came to my mind is “One Man Band” from Pixar.

Pixar — One Man Band from Ricardo Pereira on Vimeo.

Now I’m one-upping the car­toons. If you can top this next one, you could be an ani­ma­tion god. Please leave a com­ment if you can think of other ani­ma­tions or live action film that use this story approach.