Posted by Flick550 at spider-th082.proxy.aol.com on March 08, 2001 at 22:28:57:
Hey Kevin, my name is Austin, I am 15 years old and live in a little city called Coral Springs near Fort Lauderdale. Thats not important. I just wanted to let you know that your an inspiration for me and i guess your actually a roll model, let me explain, i dont want to be cheezy. I too try to make movies, just something i love to do, and i wish that i can be soo lucky to get where you are right now because that would be a dream come true for me. I, like you, write, direct, and even play a roll in my very own movies. This is not a pitch, i no you dont like that. I just felt like telling you this. i recently just wrote a script, not a full movie probably close to 45 minuets in film time. With the help of my school, there giving me nice cameras and tripods, im going to start filming this movie soon. i have my two best friends playing the main rolls along side me. They actually act pretty well. There are three main female rolls in my script, and im having trouble filling those positions and i need to start filming very soon. i have plenty of people interested in being in it but only one girl whos commited. I think its funny how you ask some kid what they want to be when they grow up and most say a movie star but when you say "do you want to be in a movie?" everything changes. Well if you have some words of wisdom for me that would be much appreciated. Its also interesting to me, not to you, that you keep putting Ben Affleck in your movies, because he too is some one i look up to, you know wrote his own movie, got it made, made it big. I aslo joke arround and tell my friends that i am him, i dont know how that joke got started. Everyone tells me i dont look like him but my sick mind sees a resemblence. The script i wrote is no good will hunting, its not even allowed to share the same candel as Mallrats, no offense, but when i wrote my movie i didnt intend it to be good in that sense just fun, funny, and enjoyable and as long as its coherent it would be a masterpiece. My movie is just something to get started with. I have made other movies before but they never had a sturdy script or half as long as this on is going to be. You make low budget i make no budget. Well just in closing want to thank you for reading this and will thank you a thousand time if you respond to me. But you really are a roll model to me and i want to say i love your work. Also i never noticed that your direction wasnt very "mobile" untill you dissed yourself on the commentary on dvds, i thought you were being artsy, shows how much i know, but i'll learn. Also i have a feeling my post is allot diferent than the other posts. I think the other posts ask you questions did you purposely have banky blah blah blah in this scene blah blah blah mines not like that so whether you answer me on the post, which i dont know if i can figure out how to read but i'll try, or you can just e-mail me, which would make me gitty as a school girl at Alf5000@aol.com I also believe that you are shooting Sb&jSB right now so i can only imagine how busy you are. But if you write back say whatever you want and throw insome of your wisdom and direction. Well this is the end of my long post. Maybe if i make it big one day we can work together. Also excuse the numerous missspellings i type faster than i think sometimes, Im actually in "smart people" english im just spelling hadicapped. I Also dont understand that sentences are intended to end.
Your apprentice with out you knowing about it,
Austin Flickstein
(think i should change the name, you know for showbiz sake?)