tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post729615275024378932..comments2024-02-04T20:57:58.093-08:00Comments on Sex In A Submarine: Random Thoughts On Artwcmartellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18075242897910568801noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-31109106361809729212021-05-23T07:27:29.803-07:002021-05-23T07:27:29.803-07:00Hello there, here is one person i know you can act...Hello there, here is one person i know you can actually have a private session and have your marital status resolved within a twinkle of an eye, that person is the ever compassionate Doctor Egwali, a spell caster that has used his magic spell to help change the lives of so many I know today. You just name it, is it a Love spell, Job career pursuit, ailments of different kinds,whatever the case may be he's right on time to attend to you and bring peace of mind to your home just as he did to mine. You can contact him via WhatsApp/Viber+2348122948392 Mail:dregwalispellbinder@gmail.com. Have a private session with him today and be happy. All the best!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17200680151910425281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-84480812759702435532010-10-03T14:28:11.746-07:002010-10-03T14:28:11.746-07:00When I look at a comment like the one about the st...When I look at a comment like the one about the statue, I think "What could I put in that hand that would cause the most wonder?"<br />A Soviet flag would be odd, but limited, as the Soviet Union no longer exists, and the point would necessarily be limited.<br />Same applies to, say, a gay rainbow flag - the story implied is limited.<br />How about a vibrator? A slightly different implication rises there, and might lead to a different story.<br />So - what pro or line of dialogue, or tag line, or piece of costuming or ... whatever leads to the most interesting "What the hell is THAT?" reaction.<br />And what prop (such as the American flag) leads people to just turn away and feel like something has been cheapened, or given rein to the blatantly obvious and predictable?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-88581357526863221752010-09-30T18:25:54.106-07:002010-09-30T18:25:54.106-07:00The ending of the mist was not good. The idea of h...The ending of the mist was not good. The idea of humans becoming the bottom or thereabouts of a new food chain is very interesting. But that is a question not of ends, but new beginnings, however awful they may be. By the way, most of my stories are about such awful prospects.<br /><br />Other thoughts on art:<br /><br />Did you know that a poll of artists identified Marcel Duchamp as the most influential artist of the twentieth century, not Picasso, Dali, or Pollack?<br /><br />In retrospect, it is obvious: Duchamp was more committed to the moment and the long excruciating moment that was the 20th century was all about the destruction of meaning.yyyyyyyyyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05179753891510842870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-64687937362782006822010-09-30T02:57:10.544-07:002010-09-30T02:57:10.544-07:00From your script tip:
"In fact, when Ben com...From your script tip:<br /><br />"In fact, when Ben complains about his job, instead of feeling sympathy... I think he's a wuss complainer and I actively dislike him. I'm not sure that's why the writer intended."<br /><br />Totally agree both with what's written and my own personal reaction to characters like this. I hate them and actively root against them.<br /><br />It got me thinking though -- about producers and agents. When they talk about making a character "likable" or "relatable" they LOVE shit like this.<br /><br />Often, I will write some very a-holish dudes. And a note I will get on these guys is to make them more "likable."<br /><br />My problem is that -- I like that they are such big aholes. Usually, the screenplay doesn't work if you soften them and usually what producers and agents are responding to in terms of liking the screenplay as a whole is how distinct the characters are. I like watching movies with aholes in them. And scenes when you have aholes petting a kitty or some crap like that proving "they aren't such a bad guy" make me want to vomit. <br /><br />Sometimes what makes a character likable is consistency. <br /><br />Seems to me, movies prior to the 80s, the protagonist could be a real prick in one department or another, but you still love him. Somewhere along the lines political correctness filtered in and made for a horde of these boring Ben-type characters that have no real color.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16897402622057966364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-52632159082291833392010-09-27T14:07:10.570-07:002010-09-27T14:07:10.570-07:00The irony of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is when mos...The irony of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is when most people think about it, I'm not sure they see it as a bleak film. (It is. Incredibly so).<br /><br />I think that because it has become such tradition, something that seems to have always been, something that plays endlessly on TV during Christmas that people just equate it with other heart warming Christmas tales, without giving much thought to what the story actually depicts -- pressure is too much, never realizing my own dreams, wanting to kill myself aspect of the film.<br /><br />The only reason I think this film was put in heavy rotation at Christmas time has nothing to do with its content, but rather because the copyright lapsed.<br /><br />The lapse of copyright made it cheap filler to put on TV made by a master storyteller. Some smart (prolly smarmy too) producer saved some network a ton of money putting this on the air. And in turn created a tradition.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16897402622057966364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-78229430621468038722010-09-27T13:47:20.471-07:002010-09-27T13:47:20.471-07:00Great post, Bill.
And I loved the ending of The M...Great post, Bill.<br /><br />And I loved the ending of The Mist, even though I know I'm in the minorty. But I will disagree with Steve Axelrod's assertion that these things couldn't be stopped by "GI Joes in a tank."<br /><br />The only time the monster cannot be defeated by the military is in the movies. Even the Hulk would be toast with some of the weaponry we have. Quite frankly, it's just a matter of physics.richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10800073076600326187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20291006.post-36397185174395704672010-09-27T09:27:07.820-07:002010-09-27T09:27:07.820-07:00Many good points in this post, but I have to take ...Many good points in this post, but I have to take issue with your view of The Mist. The original novella was a strict end-of-the-world scenario, with our dimension being overrun with the life forms of another dimension, placing us at the bottom of a new food chain. No way to fix it; no way to survive, long-term. The story had a kind of nihilistic exhilaration, a giddy masochistic hopelessness. It ended with the rag-tag band of heroes driving away from the grocery store, and encountering a moon-crater sized footprint of something sequoia-tall, sending SOS signals in to the fog and hoping there was some place where they might be received. <br />Darabont's cheesy finale brings to life all those bogus morality party games (Destroy the Pieta? Or save the kitty??)we played when we were stoned at college. The worst part is it assumes that this overwhelming inundation of our world by another one could be stopped by some GI Joes in a tank. No big deal. Like many 'twist' endings, it just invalidates the earned emotion of the rest of story and leaves you feelibng cheated by a stupid 'gotcha'. <br />Too bad. It could have been a great film.Axelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627668511171741211noreply@blogger.com