Awesome stuff. A great read. What a score!
There are SOOOO many things I'd like to comment on. Here are just a few that jumped out at me.
"It's about a feud, a long standing feud between these two old guys on an island, where it should be safe and it's away from most of the chaos that's happening on the mainland. But these two old guys can't stop shooting at each other and that's more important - the feud is more important to them than trying to address the crisis."
I like the sound of that. It re-enforces a them that I think you can't repeat enough: we are our own worst enemy. It won't be the zombies that get us, it'll be each other.
"Basically what I want to say is forgive me. I guess the basic thing that bugs me, the biggest thing that bugs me is that fans want me to do either the last movie I did or do another Dawn or do another this or do another that - and that pisses me off! That's not what I'm about! I'm gonna make a movie, look at it, if you don't like it that's fine. If you like it, then I love it. In other words don't punish me because this was not as good as Dawn. This is what I'm thinking right now, I'm making this movie right now, this is what I'm thinking, give it a break! Look at it, maybe it will take you two or three times to look at it, but look at it. All I can say is that I'm trying my best and don't punish me because it's not as "good" as Dawn, because Dawn was not even "good", it was fun, but it wasn't "good". I think this new movie, Blank of the dead, is much better in a cinematic sense than Dawn, but I worry that a lot of people might think it's not."
And you hope that at least your fans will come around and say 'Woo, cool man we're with you still'. Except that even your fans, even the 19 fans that you have, are split. 19 doesn't split evenly, so it's 10 - 9 liking it, not liking it. C'mon boys, I mean I did this, this was the idea that I had, I did it. C'mon stick with me."
I'm gladdened & saddened to hear this at the same time. Hopefully George knows that there are still fans out there that are willing to give his films a fair shake & see what he comes up with next. That not every film has to be as "good" as Dawn (what a loaded & subjective term THAT is...) I for one am glad he's still making movies as long as he want's to make them & look forward to seeing them. I hope I'm not alone in that opinion & I hope that that he realizes that there are fans who still feel that way.
"It's not that special! I look at a cheeseburger B-movie on Turner and whoever made that movie was more professional and did a better job than I did on Night. Yet all of a sudden I get these accolades for Night. I know why - there was a black guy, there was social commentary, I know why - but the movie is not that well made. It is not well made AT ALL!"
This I would SOOOO disagree with. It really shows the humility of the man. There is SO much more to Night than that. I think it's a really artfully made film, given the limitations of of budget, cast, you name it. Some of those opening shots leading up to & in the cemetery? The shots in the house of the stuffed animals & the play of light & shadows? Barbra & the music box? All great stuff. Beyond that, this was a true example of the sum being greater than the parts, of making something out of nothing, whatever. They really captured lightning in a bottle with that one. It's a real perfect storm of events that lined up just the right way to produce something extraordinary.
So don't sell yourself (& Night) short George!
|
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by 3pidemiC
Bookmarks