Beat the Devil - The Devil Starts Paying His Dues and Other Shenanigans
There's a lot going on with me right now, so I'll start with the
So, we began shooting on the fourth entry in the Sam Hall, Private Eye series, Beat the Devil. We shot a couple scenes, and I have to say... I am really, really happy with it. The day started with some menial crap, stuff where Hall is driving. Nothing at all to it, but later in the day... the magic started. We shot one of what will be several death scenes in the movie. Beyond just explaining the plot (go in the past entries for more on that), I'll just say the movie is based in different sketches. It is kind of segmented in that way. Drew McNally, one of my friends, was here and wanted to be in the movie, so I asked him to come up with a character, and over a little bit of time, we figured out a sequence that we could just let happen. It is all improvised and all really nutty. It is also completely unlike anything seen before in a Sam Hall movie. It's just insane, but I think ridiculously funny. Just hoping I can cut it together well.
Then, we shot a scene between the villian of the movie, Lucky Ferona, and my sister, who continues to play the elusive Lynn Baker. She's a character that only makes the remotest sense to anyone watching. She makes more sense to me, and more will be explained, but I have fun letting her be this unexplained force in the realm of Sam Hall. The scene, though, was vastly different from what we did in the other scene, but still improvised, only differently. Here, I was the one doing the improvising. It is like writing a script live, and I had a lot of fun with it.
These two scenes, I think, are two of my favorite scenes that have happened, and I couldn't be more happy with how they turned out.
But in other news, this has been a bit of a new and sometimes confusing time for me. This semester is just wild, and I really don't know how it will end. Part of that is exciting, when it comes to these movies I'm making or my future career, but other things are still with me. I don't want to be too vague, but suffice it to say there is a burning in my heart and a feeling I just can't shake. It isn't bad. I don't even know how to explain it, which is part of my problem here. But I'm not at all sure where it might go, and I pray that the path will be lit before me. There's something about having that love in your heart that is beyond some realm of comprehension, or at least beyond putting its way into words that would truly, deeply convey what it is to feel this way. It is one of those things where you really don't know unless you've been there.
That's enough rambling from me. Take care everyone.
"Love, sweet love, how I cry
Make me, break me, take me
This is my cry."
-from Cry by Jesse Gilstrap circa 2003
So, we began shooting on the fourth entry in the Sam Hall, Private Eye series, Beat the Devil. We shot a couple scenes, and I have to say... I am really, really happy with it. The day started with some menial crap, stuff where Hall is driving. Nothing at all to it, but later in the day... the magic started. We shot one of what will be several death scenes in the movie. Beyond just explaining the plot (go in the past entries for more on that), I'll just say the movie is based in different sketches. It is kind of segmented in that way. Drew McNally, one of my friends, was here and wanted to be in the movie, so I asked him to come up with a character, and over a little bit of time, we figured out a sequence that we could just let happen. It is all improvised and all really nutty. It is also completely unlike anything seen before in a Sam Hall movie. It's just insane, but I think ridiculously funny. Just hoping I can cut it together well.
Then, we shot a scene between the villian of the movie, Lucky Ferona, and my sister, who continues to play the elusive Lynn Baker. She's a character that only makes the remotest sense to anyone watching. She makes more sense to me, and more will be explained, but I have fun letting her be this unexplained force in the realm of Sam Hall. The scene, though, was vastly different from what we did in the other scene, but still improvised, only differently. Here, I was the one doing the improvising. It is like writing a script live, and I had a lot of fun with it.
These two scenes, I think, are two of my favorite scenes that have happened, and I couldn't be more happy with how they turned out.
But in other news, this has been a bit of a new and sometimes confusing time for me. This semester is just wild, and I really don't know how it will end. Part of that is exciting, when it comes to these movies I'm making or my future career, but other things are still with me. I don't want to be too vague, but suffice it to say there is a burning in my heart and a feeling I just can't shake. It isn't bad. I don't even know how to explain it, which is part of my problem here. But I'm not at all sure where it might go, and I pray that the path will be lit before me. There's something about having that love in your heart that is beyond some realm of comprehension, or at least beyond putting its way into words that would truly, deeply convey what it is to feel this way. It is one of those things where you really don't know unless you've been there.
That's enough rambling from me. Take care everyone.
"Love, sweet love, how I cry
Make me, break me, take me
This is my cry."
-from Cry by Jesse Gilstrap circa 2003