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Integral Kill Bill
I haven't been to a Tarantino fansite in years, but Kill Bill made me want to find out what the guy's up to lately, so I searched around a little. It's odd that one of the first sites to pop up on Google is the Tarantino page of God Among Directors, which hasn't had a redesign ever, as far as I can tell, and has nothing on Kill Bill. I guess for this guy, Tarantino's godhood ended after Jackie Brown or something. For news, I recommend www.tarantino.info, which has this story: http://www.tarantino.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=369&Itemid=2. I had been wondering why there wasn't a box set of the two Kill Bills with extra stuff, as the single discs are pretty skimpy, and it looks like there's some good and bad news on that front, or at least good news delayed. With the Weinsteins leaving Miramax to form a new company, Tarantino has little hope of releasing the "integral" four hour cut of Kill Bill with Miramax, as it's a Disney company and this would be an NC-17 film now. So it may end up at the new company, with a theatrical release of this cut, with intermission, and then of course it would head to video. Sounds good to me, and I guess I'll just have to wait. Also, with Clive Owen probably replacing Brosnan for the next Bond, Tarantino's lost interest. Nothing against Owen, I'm sure, but he really likes Brosnan as "this generation's Bond". So it looks like he's off writing his WWII epic, Inglorious Bastards. Even though this has been rumored for years, he apparently is just starting the first draft, though he's written many scenes already. A little peek into his process.
As for mine, I did some Gnosis research last night, pasting a bunch of stuff into one document and printing it out. Read half tonight and highlighted some things. This Gnostic poem, "The thunder, perfect mind", is pretty interesting, in that it's just a lot of contradictions and I'm always attuned to those, but as many ancient documents do, it makes its point early and then keeps beating it into the ground. I'll use some of it for The Solution but will "punch it up" quite a bit, I think. I took the eight issue outline and prepared files for issues #1 and 2 to break the existing script up for revision. I got Irregular Joe #3 ready for writing as well. Nothing too complicated; essentially I just write the beats I want to hit in the respective issue at the top of the page, so I don't veer off track. It's been a while since I wrote what will be #1 of The Solution, but I don't think it will change too much. I need to read it again, though, to be sure. I think it will probably stay at the 24 pp. mark rather than 22, though other issues can be 22. Just breaks up better this way.
The disk that should have had all my old Final Draft scripts was blank. Odd. I'll have to try again next time I'm at the ex's house.
Began BUDDY DOES SEATTLE, collecting the first 15 issues of Peter Bagge's HATE. Really well-written, especially that first issue. I was amazed at the details and nuances in there. One thinks of Buddy Bradley as a pretty simple guy, but he's got dimension. He may be cheap, yet he is generous to the unseen guest with his beer. As ADD put it, he's not unlike either of us in that we may be a bit selfish, but once we've got our shit squared away, we can be magnanimous, too. I also noted how he had nice things to say about Stinky when he wasn't around, but that they fought like an old married couple when they were together. Bagge's a great observer, and the comics are still very funny. It's interesting that he feels the last five issues of HATE are his best, because that was right around when I checked out of the book. It got too homey and quaint, I thought, but I'm older now and may feel differently once I see the second collection, especially when I don't have the homey, quaint shit in my life right now, anyway.
Nice Roger Ebert interview by Chris Ryall at www.moviepoopshoot.com. It felt like maybe Chris could've gotten a few more interesting questions if he had more time (I know his schedule is buh-rutal), but all of Ebert's answers are gold. I keep forgetting to get those THE GREAT MOVIES books, yet I've always liked Ebert's writing and have a few of his books already.
THE INCREDIBLES, BAMBI, and KRAMERS ERGOT 5 came. I'm keep to read the latter but have committed to Buddy Bradley for the time-being.
As for mine, I did some Gnosis research last night, pasting a bunch of stuff into one document and printing it out. Read half tonight and highlighted some things. This Gnostic poem, "The thunder, perfect mind", is pretty interesting, in that it's just a lot of contradictions and I'm always attuned to those, but as many ancient documents do, it makes its point early and then keeps beating it into the ground. I'll use some of it for The Solution but will "punch it up" quite a bit, I think. I took the eight issue outline and prepared files for issues #1 and 2 to break the existing script up for revision. I got Irregular Joe #3 ready for writing as well. Nothing too complicated; essentially I just write the beats I want to hit in the respective issue at the top of the page, so I don't veer off track. It's been a while since I wrote what will be #1 of The Solution, but I don't think it will change too much. I need to read it again, though, to be sure. I think it will probably stay at the 24 pp. mark rather than 22, though other issues can be 22. Just breaks up better this way.
The disk that should have had all my old Final Draft scripts was blank. Odd. I'll have to try again next time I'm at the ex's house.
Began BUDDY DOES SEATTLE, collecting the first 15 issues of Peter Bagge's HATE. Really well-written, especially that first issue. I was amazed at the details and nuances in there. One thinks of Buddy Bradley as a pretty simple guy, but he's got dimension. He may be cheap, yet he is generous to the unseen guest with his beer. As ADD put it, he's not unlike either of us in that we may be a bit selfish, but once we've got our shit squared away, we can be magnanimous, too. I also noted how he had nice things to say about Stinky when he wasn't around, but that they fought like an old married couple when they were together. Bagge's a great observer, and the comics are still very funny. It's interesting that he feels the last five issues of HATE are his best, because that was right around when I checked out of the book. It got too homey and quaint, I thought, but I'm older now and may feel differently once I see the second collection, especially when I don't have the homey, quaint shit in my life right now, anyway.
Nice Roger Ebert interview by Chris Ryall at www.moviepoopshoot.com. It felt like maybe Chris could've gotten a few more interesting questions if he had more time (I know his schedule is buh-rutal), but all of Ebert's answers are gold. I keep forgetting to get those THE GREAT MOVIES books, yet I've always liked Ebert's writing and have a few of his books already.
THE INCREDIBLES, BAMBI, and KRAMERS ERGOT 5 came. I'm keep to read the latter but have committed to Buddy Bradley for the time-being.
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Hey Chris, nice to see you've got a new home,looks great. Alan recommended Eberts Great Movies to me and I picked up the first volume, now it has become like a faithful companion, I never leave home without it. Good, good stuff, and not too expensive either.
You never leave home without it? Wow. I'll have to get these. I also recommend Peter Bogdanovich's Who The Devil Made It, which contains dozens of interviews with directors like Howard Hawks and Fritz Lang. He's also done a sequel that focuses on more current directors, which I have yet to read.
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