since we last spoke, much has happened. i'm on task to work two jobs. well, three, kindof. you see, i've been working at this rehearsals.com place, for about three months, but it's always been a night here, and day here, and another night here. not really solid, steady work. so, i was looking into getting other work. putting the feelers out there. so this job happened upon me, it's at fiftyfootfilms and it's a friend of a friend from church, who reccomended me to him. and we've talked a few times, he's had my name for a long time. well, i called him up and was like, i'm free, got any work? and he was like....leave a message after the beep. so after some fono tag, we gathered at the same place and worked there for a few days. it was a great time. his editor was away, so i worked during the days, doing assistant work. then, xlt calls me back, and they are like, we're doing a sequel, and we want you back. so now i'm working there, full time, and i may be working part time at fiftyfoot, starting next week.
i'm quite excited about all of this. it's good to be working. good to be excercising my brain.
question that i thought of today, would you rather see a movie, or hear a story about, extraordinary people in normal situations? or normal people in extraordinary situations?
there are two more combinations, normal people in normal situations, and extraordinary people in extraordinary situations. the latter is probably what normal people in extraordinary situations often becomes...
my gut reaction is i like extraordinary people in normal situations. but then i think about normal people dealing with crazy situations, i'm quite appealed to that as well. which are you drawn to?
i was just thinking about my movies that i've made, and then, the screenplay that i wrote, and they fall into a lot of, normal people in normal situations. although the screenplay is more a normal person who becomes extraordinary and wants to be normal--thrown into normal situations. but i think it'd be better if he had to be in extraordinary situations, if didn't want to be extraordinary. does that make any sense?
i have the vincent gallo cd that my good friend matthew gave me when i visited him once, and whenever i hear the first song i think, i know that song, where i have heard that song before. once i was in the car and was almost freaking out about, and jasmine was like, i don't know! and then i realized,
it was in my first lafsc movie. how pathetic is that. and weird. to be driven crazy by your own music tastes.
herman is well. i came home early from work today, which was a pleasant surprise for him i think.
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i think, depending on how it's done, i enjoy all of those different types of movies/stories. but i think i probably like normal people in extraordinary situations best. but maybe because of the way humans are designed, we often make normal situations/life into extraordinary stories/films/artworks. and i think that's ok sometimes.
i'm going to call this the slashy/slash post.
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i think that extraordinary people are really just normal people in extraordinary situations. Normal people are just the best. we can all relate to them. and when you make a movie about extraordinary people. like superhero's or mutants or something, you try to make them as normal and human and possible, right?
oh, jack, why aren't we able to have this conversation in person?
I'd be interested in reading your screenplay. if i ever finish any of the projects i've got going, i'll send them your way.
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when i think about it...first i think about the movies that i like and what i've seen them in...and i have to go with either normal people in normal situations (like in motorcycle diaries) or normal people in extraordinary situations. i think it's right to say that extraordinary people are just normal people in ordinary situations. we relate to normal people. so give me normal people, but mix up what kind of situation they're in, and it will be entertaining.
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ethan, & nikki,
i think you have a good point, that when you make a extraordinary person, you try and make them as normal as possible--so that they have the same problems that a normal person would have--ie spiderman and girl problems.
***v for vendetta possible spoilers...so if you haven't seen it, maybe skip this paragraph***
what i think is really interesting, in say v is for vendetta, natalie portman's character is "normal" in that society, alway afraid and whatknot. and she needs to become extraordinary in order to survive--she was associated with v, therefore was a terrorist. if she was to stay normal, she was to stay in his lair for a year. but if she became extraordinary, she was able to leave and be semi-normal again.
***read again***
so what is interesting is if a character has to be both, extraordinary and normal, and deal with being the other. does that make sense? deal with being extraordinary with normal people, and deal with being normal, whilst being extraordinary.
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i recently watched Junebug, and loved it. it's about normal people in normal situations, but then again so is A Prairie Home Companion, and it's my favorite radio show. it must be about us connecting with more of us, and therefore making us feel not so alone, knowing that there are more us out there, going through the same situations. i also really like movies like Good Will Hunting or A Beautiful Mind or The Aviator, because they're all about someone dealing with an obsession, and we all (ok, at least i do) have some of that too. Well I love pure math and am slightly obsessive compulsive, but I never store my urine. in the end, at least for me, a story's main character has to have traits i recognize in myself.
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