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Name: Boy Birthday: 6/6/1966
Interests: metal-hiphop-starwars-art-comicbooks-movingpictures-hiphop-metal-boyfiend Expertise: evil Occupation: Military Industry: Art
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5/7/2004
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| From An Interview With Mr. Payne:
You’ve spoken elsewhere about how Scorsese talks about a film being composed of five sequences rather than three acts?
I think it’s good to get away from thinking about three-act structure when you’re writing films. When you see Scorsese movies or Fellini movies you just see episodes. At the same time, you know that Robert McKee could go and say, “Yes, but it still responds to the three-act structure and here’s how…” Howard Suber, who taught film structure at UCLA and is a proponent of the three-act structure, used to say that in pretty much every film, no matter what structure, at the one-hour mark there is usually a major change. I’ve kept that in mind when I have watched films and you can almost set your watch to it. Within plus or minus three minutes of the one-hour mark there is some major turning point, a reversal or something. But that’s more about making an observation than it is about making a film… When I give screenwriting seminars or classes and they ask me, “What advice do you have for young screenwriters?,” I say, “Don’t read any screenwriting books.” I actually think the whole three-act structure is so deeply ingrained in us from living in this culture and watching movies that in order to come up with new movies – which is what I want to see – you really have to fight what you have innately learned. When you’re writing, you will find yourself being drawn naturally by gravity into doing something which corresponds to all of these things that you have seen. You have to fight that instinct in order to come up with a new movie.
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| In No Order Of Merit:
Inglourious Basterds Memento L'Enfant The Dark Knight Moon Primer Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind In The Mood For Love The Lord of The Rings Amores Perros Dancer In The Dark There Will Be Blood City of God Before Sunset Oldboy Requiem For A Dream The Fountain Let The Right One In The Squid and The Whale Adaptation The Prestige Lost In Translation Traffic The Bourne Ultimatum District-9 Juno Closer A Beautiful Mind Sideways/About Schmidt The Royal Tenenbaums/The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou No Country For Old Men Shaun of The Dead Children of Men City of Life and Death The Host 25th Hour Brick Pan's Labyrinth Eastern Promises The Incredibles Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Grindhouse Donnie Darko Ghost World Hedwig and The Angry Inch Zoolander X-2 : X-Men United Bowling For Columbine Fahrenheit 9/11 Infernal Affairs Mystic River 21 Grams/Babel Underworld Downfall (Der Untergang) Be With Me Sin City The Proposition Transformers Milk In Bruges Cloverfield The Ice Storm Y Tu Mama Tambien Dogville Songs From The Second Floor Memories of Murder State and Main Time of the Wolf The Wrestler The Man Who Wasn't There Match Point Gladiator Irrerversible 28 Days Later American Psycho Team America: World Police
LOOKING FORWARD TO: Where The Wild Things Are, Avatar, and UP (Yeah, missed it) | | |
| right now. but that's okay. i'll be back, and better than before. yes sir.
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| Really weird day.
Started off with my feature film acting debut on Wee Li-Lin's new movie 'Forever'. Got groped by an old woman, gross!
Then met up with the guitar team from AVA who are helping to produce my film, along with Aikland and Hanshen Sudderuddin. I love having such supportive and generous friends, love keeping it in the family--making movies with your friends is the best.
Off to KL tomorrow for Ayana Saunders' shoot! Good times. Best week all semester.
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| I think I finally cracked the "Devil" script today. Unfortunately I am 10 days away from my shoot. Happy days are here again. I'm so excited right now--that magic feeling when you know you have a story to tell is amazing...
PERSONAL NOTE: Time Ellipsis is a wonderful wonderful thing for a writer.
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