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Chinatown

July 18, 2007 — 1 Comment

If you’re willing to respond to this blog-post and are short on time, perhaps reading the last two paragraphs of this post is enough because I’m really interested in what people think.

Chinatown is a really good film. The characters and the strange character relations are somewhat unique. Another particularly interesting element of the film is its structure, and it is discussed in Alternative Scriptwriting at some length. I’m probably inadvertantly spoiling the film for you in the rest of this post, so if you plan to see the movie (which you should) perhaps skip over this of this paragraph. The structure of Chinatown isn’t particularly noticeable,, seemingly framed almost standardly in the three acts, but then the last act of the film illustrates otherwise, revealing to the audience something classically unexpected. (more…)

jenny weight, RMIT » love and religion

May 8, 2007 — 1 Comment

jenny weight, RMIT » love and religion

Caste system . You’re not better than me.

The [constructed] relationship between love (or human connection) and religion is something I really want to explore in the script I’m currently writing.

I found Farah’s story while rummaging through Jenny’s blog in the Transient Spaces category. It’s quite sad that people can’t be together for reasons such as these, and I find it hard to understand in many ways. As much as I can intellectually understand the reasoning behind such relationship incompatibility I don’t really understand since I can’t relate to it personally. Sure I have prejudices regarding people in certain professions and often find amusement in stereotypes, but I really don’t see a person to be better or worse than me or anyone else until I get to know them. The class system is an abused system – something I want to look into and write about in a following post – and it is useless to me when determining the quality of a human being. I have a feeling that all this rubbish leads back to some sort of bogus interpretation and/or unquestioning acceptance of something written in scripture, or something said by a person of decent “authority.” (more…)

Words

March 21, 2007

Words…. Adrian’s task of a brainstorm forming a cloud of words… ended up with these words:

Solid

Appealing

Relevant

Provoking

Original

Engaging

Unconventional

Hole-proof

Educated

Academic

Entertaining

Universal

Stylish

Hard to come up with words – I think I had words like caramel in the big cloud…

Our work, our lives… our joy, our misery.

March 19, 2007 — 1 Comment

I’m watching Heat right now because it’s on Foxtel. I have a bad habit of watching television, or at least having it on while I do work. I eventually turn it off in annoyance because I can’t think straight. Heat is quite a damn good movie… It’s structured really well, and written with amazing thought. The semi-improvised bit with De Niro and Pacino is so relevant to so many things…. I suppose the film revolves around that scene. Even though some of the dialogue is corny, or too “cool” in my opinion, it fits with the genre and the kind of actors playing those characters…  Through writing and directing, I found that I really felt a connection to the main characters, and considering that they are opposing each other in the film, the tension hooked me. My point is, if you haven’t seen it, SEE IT! But it’s quite mainstream, so I assume most people who’ll read this will have seen it.

Anyway, this post is meant to be my comments on our wonderful abstracts :)

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