In response to the previous novella entry... I want in... I have a burning desire to create cinematic glory. But have no means... I work cheap. Dirt cheap. And I can hold a boom mic.
My song... Taking Back Sunday - Ghost Man on Third
You can do it Swoo if you have the vision in your head, get it out, have you thought about maybe a short series. After Cowboy Bebop I couldn't help but think how greedy American producers are, if a show or movie shows any sign of sucses they have to franchise it till everybody hates it. Cowboy Bebop, 26 episodes, all they wanted to tell the story they wanted to tell no more no less, I still cry every time I see any of the last three shows. Show the nay sayers and greedy Hollywood types what it is all about Swoo. If you need a stuntman or somebody who knows how to get shit done drop me a line. I worked in video production since the 8th grade so I know a few things, I feel the same way and I plan on starting shooting snowboard videos this winter. Together we crush plastic imagerey of a psuedorealitie
I completely understand and sympathize with your love of cinema. I desperately want to do something with film; the things that can be accomplished with the medium astound me sometimes (and then always make me despressed when I realize how little ambition most movie makers have). The ideas of what are possible -- the stories that could be told, the ideas that could be expressed -- run through my head whenever I see a halfway decent film. And it really pisses me off that it has to be a business. Granted, without the business aspect it would be impossible for movies to be made, but it really annoys me that they can't exist for artistic sake; that an actor is put in a role not because he was the best one for the role but because he's a proven draw; that good movies are constantly dumbed down and hacked up to appeal to a wider audience or to get a better opening weekend.
CGI has never quite sit right with me. I mean, when you look at a piece of really good CGI, you don't think, "Is that real?" You think, "Damn, that's some really good CGI." To me, that's not a good special effect. Maybe it'll get better, but I doubt it.
Trilogies are nice and offer great oppotunities for storytelling, but I've always wanted to see a planned quintology of films. Five films. I know Mathew Barney's Cremaster cyle was a planned five films, but I'd want something a little more sequential and less pointlessly artsy. Something suitably epic where no film would really feel like a weak bridge between two other films, which seems to happen sometimes with the second film in trilogies (which could mean either the third film or the second and fourth films in a quintology would be weak, who knows).
Current song melting my brain: "Strangelove Addiction" - Supreme Beings of Leisure
CGI??? Damn you're making me feel old. When I was in film school, we had to walk three miles in the snow to splice on frickin' Moviolas.
Well...
Maybe not...
But we sure as nutz weren't CGIing.
Watch Cowboy Bebop in order of the episodes, and it won't let you down. Some episodes are silly fun some let you know the characters. And when it ends we will see if you don't have a lump in your throut.
my song is boom boom {lets go back to my room} - paul lekasis or some shit. fuck yeah!
you're emo? i think i'm gonna take you off my friend list now...