Posted by Lucifer Lyndon Razoodock at spider-mtc-tc041.proxy.aol.com on August 03, 2000 at 03:54:27:
I no you dont reed peoples movies, but mine is really good and original!!
Swear!!
I even writen parts for Jay and Silentbob.
Plese respond to this...I need to know how to make it...
Do you, perhaps, identify with the above statement?
Even if you'd never express yourself that way, do you understand the sentiment?
Well, here's a wee nugget I've decided to plagiarize from David Mamet's "On Directing Film" which sums up Kevin's approach to "clerks." and a good starting point for filmmaking in general:
"Learn this, and go out and make the movie. You'll get someone who knows how to take a picture, or you learn how to take a picture; you get someone who knows how to light, or you learn how to light. There's no magic to it. Some people will be able to do some tasks better than others--depending upon the degree of their technical mastery and their aptitude for the task. Just like playing the piano. Anybody can learn how to play the piano. For some people it will be very, very difficult--but they can learn it. There's almost no one who can't learn to play the piano. There's a wide range in the middle, of people who can play the piano with various degrees of skill; a very, very narrow band at the top, of people who can play brilliantly and build upon a simple technical skill to create great art. the same thing is true of cinematography and sound mixing. Just technical skills. Directing is just a technical skill. Make your shot list."
Fairly dry truisms, just as Mamet is known for.
You might want to put "The Edge" out of your mind when considering this particular bit of sage-ism...
Here's something else to think about.
Imagine that you, like myself, are an aficianado of Julia "Butterfly" Hill.
You know that you can't endorse imperial evil such as Home Depot, Austrailia's Maxxam Corp., Pacific Lumber and other pawns of the Partnership for a Tree-Free America.
Now, imagine that you've less than an hour left before work and you need to get a couple of Chrysler keys cut and Home Depot offers you the only oppurtunity to do so.
What to do?
I suggest that you go about your business in the Dantesque labyrinth that is the leviathan-like interior of a Home Depot, and cheerfully inform the key-cutter that you, as a devout Druidic environmentalist should inform him that high priestess, Julia "Butterfly" Hill has proclaimed a fatwah on the lives of all Home Depot employees and their masters.
Then, grin, and assure him that you'll look the other way this time and forget that you ever saw him since he's helpfully cutting your necessary lock-cylinder phalluses.
Under no circumstances should you imply that this is some kind of joke or that you are only kidding.
If you're feeling particularly brazen, on the way out, you might Zippo as much innocent plywood and lumber as you can come across so that you might set the tormented tree spirits free and please such New Age Druidic types as Enya and Don Henley.
One last thought: Where the hell is Argo City s'posed to be located? It's obviously not Krypton since Kal El as already emigrated to Earth. It certainly seems to leave Kryptonians seeming mortal...and yet Kara seems able to fly back to it with her yellow-sun-enhanced omnipotence at the end of her somewhat flawed feature flick?
Would she not asphyxiate? Why wasn't she super to begin with?
...oh, and where did she come up with her outfit? Did Zaltar fit the Binary Ship with a super-tight suit just her size?
I don't understand...
Oh, and considering some folks around these parts have bumped heads with Supe's current legal handlers (I think that's how it went), could anyone here that may know, please tell me where the film rights to Supergirl are right now?
I'm not asking about the existing flick (that's now Anchor Bay), but the rights were one to pitch a new Supergirl film? Since it's D.C., I'd imagine that Time Warner has first dibs, but are any of their uber-producers actually holding the rights at the moment?
Please, inform me, he that may (or may not) know...
--tom
Merde is Francais "argot"