CIAO
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Thursday, April 05, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
FOXTROT
Because of my gut feel that nobody is reading this blog anymore, I have decided to become a rooster prick and create a new one. Still on blogger, I just wanted to find out who still reads the shit I write and yeah, also to accomodate the fact that I'm living a new chapter of my loser life. This time though I won't be telling you "explicitly" where I am moving to. The catch is, if you do care about my trash words, then you'll do the honor of spending time looking for it. (Well not unless I am gracious enough to give it to you personally or "your common sense is enough to figure it out". Haha) Anyway, for the loyal reader, here are some clues that might help you:
-It's a phrase from one of the films that I frequently refer to (God this is a no brainer)
-It's the "alternate" for milkshake in one of my favorite scenes in that film
-I have used that phrase in one of my (most) recent entries
Well, if you think I'm a prick and don't want to play like an asshole in my dumb game but you still want to know the URL and continue stalking me, then you can still do so by becoming a bigger asshole through writing a one-page reaction paper (Arial, 10, 1 inch margin on all sides, 1.5 line spacing) about your favorite entry from this blog and send it to my email. Yes, I am a prick indeed.
Well actually, the new one's still under construction (meaning, I might still be posting here for a while) but if you're wise enough to get there now, do leave a message in the tagboard so I can link you and like you a hundred times more. The first five readers who would get there would win free tickets of my first theatrical feature, to be released 50 years from now.
-It's a phrase from one of the films that I frequently refer to (God this is a no brainer)
-It's the "alternate" for milkshake in one of my favorite scenes in that film
-I have used that phrase in one of my (most) recent entries
Well, if you think I'm a prick and don't want to play like an asshole in my dumb game but you still want to know the URL and continue stalking me, then you can still do so by becoming a bigger asshole through writing a one-page reaction paper (Arial, 10, 1 inch margin on all sides, 1.5 line spacing) about your favorite entry from this blog and send it to my email. Yes, I am a prick indeed.
Well actually, the new one's still under construction (meaning, I might still be posting here for a while) but if you're wise enough to get there now, do leave a message in the tagboard so I can link you and like you a hundred times more. The first five readers who would get there would win free tickets of my first theatrical feature, to be released 50 years from now.
Kram's cut at 9:36 AM |
Sunday, April 01, 2007
PART DEUX?
After having watched Before Sunrise and Before Sunset for the one hundred and sixty fourth time, it finally came to me that if indeed I want to experience meeting my own Celine, I should start riding the train more often, or so at least the LRT. On the contrary, I'd rather not for all I know, I'd just end up seeing familiar faces which I'd rather not see most especially if I'm having an I-want-to-castrate-a-person-because-humanity-sucks kind of day. But then again, Jesse wasn't at his best when he met Celine, after just having broken up with his girlfriend from Madrid.
The truth of the matter is, the one true realization that came out from this one hundred sixty fourth viewing is the possibility of making (a) sequel/s for my cult baby Oneironauts. Despite having shunned this idea even before wrapping up the film, making a sequel in a situation where I am in isn't really about fame and fortune (a la Hollywood) more so. After having seen Jesse and Celine meet up again, and the fact that the sequel is better than the original (in my taste, so to speak) intrigues me. At the same time, it challenges me to do the same thing. I just love the idea of a character's recurring appearances in the works of a filmmaker (like Truffaut's Antoine Doinel), showing not just multiple stories of each phase in the life of that character rather it builds up to form one story in a life of a person.
Creating a sequel at this point in time would be a big risk. It opens the idea of limited creativity and originality as I know it would also raise a few eyebrows from some people critical of well works of other people (haha). But that doesn't matter. After all, my creation is my own decision. And of course, I always remain open to any criticism and suggestions. It's really a challenge I'm game facing.
This move is really more of an homage to Jesse and Celine (which I assume is a fact for the avid reader of this soon to be closed blog) and to love and life as well. As much as possible it is my goal to make a sequel that could stand alone, to prove also that my creation of such is really for the sake of telling my story. Perhaps through this, if I make it right, I might be able to show Mano Po a thing or two about the art of creating sequels (well, if indeed they consider those as art [Note by FM radio character: It hurts! It hurts you know!]) But then again, the cast might not even be back this time around. Hahaha! Well, this is after all a long term endeavor. And of course I wouldn't just be spending my entire filmmaking career (can I say that? career? haha) doing just this. Having said that, pre-production for 2/30 begins this week. Haha!
The truth of the matter is, the one true realization that came out from this one hundred sixty fourth viewing is the possibility of making (a) sequel/s for my cult baby Oneironauts. Despite having shunned this idea even before wrapping up the film, making a sequel in a situation where I am in isn't really about fame and fortune (a la Hollywood) more so. After having seen Jesse and Celine meet up again, and the fact that the sequel is better than the original (in my taste, so to speak) intrigues me. At the same time, it challenges me to do the same thing. I just love the idea of a character's recurring appearances in the works of a filmmaker (like Truffaut's Antoine Doinel), showing not just multiple stories of each phase in the life of that character rather it builds up to form one story in a life of a person.
Creating a sequel at this point in time would be a big risk. It opens the idea of limited creativity and originality as I know it would also raise a few eyebrows from some people critical of well works of other people (haha). But that doesn't matter. After all, my creation is my own decision. And of course, I always remain open to any criticism and suggestions. It's really a challenge I'm game facing.
This move is really more of an homage to Jesse and Celine (which I assume is a fact for the avid reader of this soon to be closed blog) and to love and life as well. As much as possible it is my goal to make a sequel that could stand alone, to prove also that my creation of such is really for the sake of telling my story. Perhaps through this, if I make it right, I might be able to show Mano Po a thing or two about the art of creating sequels (well, if indeed they consider those as art [Note by FM radio character: It hurts! It hurts you know!]) But then again, the cast might not even be back this time around. Hahaha! Well, this is after all a long term endeavor. And of course I wouldn't just be spending my entire filmmaking career (can I say that? career? haha) doing just this. Having said that, pre-production for 2/30 begins this week. Haha!
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