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chite's journal.
The folks that I am interviewing to SM a tour for keep calling to confirm I'm coming to the interview. So that's turning into a more likely turn of events which I am slowly forcing myself to be more comfortable with.
And I bought my bus ticket to Texas. Because of all the connections and what not, stretched out it's taller than me -- I need to take a picture of it.
The Two Towers extened edition is a masterpiece -- all the editing issues and pacing concerns are gone thanks to the restored footage, and Jackson proves himself to be both an utter genius and the campiest little horror-movie obsessed freak at the same time. I'm not keen on all the restored footage, as I feel it eases the emotional pressure at the end of the film too much (I like the feeling of choking at films, it seems), but watching it has really blown me away, as it's a much more daring film than the first one stylisticly, and for the most part it works very very well. I am very very impressed. As a side note, I've never seen Sean Bean actually play a character that was happy, until I saw the restored footage in TTT -- the degree to which he absolutely forces your attention at a point in the film when you're nearly too tired to care, is quite a thing.
Also mindblowing on TTT, is the degree to which they made Tolkein's language work -- there are so many lines of nearly biblical oddity that work because of great performances, a great score, and very very judicious scripting. I haven't watched most of the extras yet -- but Andy Serkis rocks, and so does the stunt team (which I might add has one unbelieveable hottie on it, but I may just have been done in by his accent).
Definitely at about 90% on doing something about my name. And I feel really good about it. Because while it's a lovely melifluous name, it's also full of swallowed sounds (and there's the branding issue). Sounds that actually have to leave my mouth would please me more, and make me more confident, and that's okay.
Recently I had a wonderful conversation with someone, who asked me, "What film that already exists would you have made exactly as it exists?" Which is to say, don't tell me your favorite movie, but tell me what movie reveals your stylistic quirks. I'm still puzzling over it, although I have some halfway decent answers (with the usual caveats and explanations).
That's about all I can think of right now.
chite's journal.The folks that I am interviewing to SM a tour for keep calling to confirm I'm coming to the interview. So that's turning into a more likely turn of events which I am slowly forcing myself to be more comfortable with.
And I bought my bus ticket to Texas. Because of all the connections and what not, stretched out it's taller than me -- I need to take a picture of it.
The Two Towers extened edition is a masterpiece -- all the editing issues and pacing concerns are gone thanks to the restored footage, and Jackson proves himself to be both an utter genius and the campiest little horror-movie obsessed freak at the same time. I'm not keen on all the restored footage, as I feel it eases the emotional pressure at the end of the film too much (I like the feeling of choking at films, it seems), but watching it has really blown me away, as it's a much more daring film than the first one stylisticly, and for the most part it works very very well. I am very very impressed. As a side note, I've never seen Sean Bean actually play a character that was happy, until I saw the restored footage in TTT -- the degree to which he absolutely forces your attention at a point in the film when you're nearly too tired to care, is quite a thing.
Also mindblowing on TTT, is the degree to which they made Tolkein's language work -- there are so many lines of nearly biblical oddity that work because of great performances, a great score, and very very judicious scripting. I haven't watched most of the extras yet -- but Andy Serkis rocks, and so does the stunt team (which I might add has one unbelieveable hottie on it, but I may just have been done in by his accent).
Definitely at about 90% on doing something about my name. And I feel really good about it. Because while it's a lovely melifluous name, it's also full of swallowed sounds (and there's the branding issue). Sounds that actually have to leave my mouth would please me more, and make me more confident, and that's okay.
Recently I had a wonderful conversation with someone, who asked me, "What film that already exists would you have made exactly as it exists?" Which is to say, don't tell me your favorite movie, but tell me what movie reveals your stylistic quirks. I'm still puzzling over it, although I have some halfway decent answers (with the usual caveats and explanations).
That's about all I can think of right now.
