Finished my script!
On the subway on my way to school today, this guy comes over and sits by me and starts talking to me, like, "Hey how have you been?" And I'm just like "Good..." thinking he's nuts, and thinking I'll get off at the next stop and switch cars. And then he mentions JCS, which was my elementary school, so I realize that he actually knows me, but I still can't place him. Then he finally interprets my balnk look correctly and just tells me who he is. And then I was like "OMG! I so did not recognize you!" Which he had already realized, of course. He's gotten much chunkier since grade 8. We were totally antagonistic when we were in school together, but we chatted on the subway like we were old friends. It was kinda cool actually.
In other news, I finished the script for the pilot episode of the TV series
blueanddollsome and I are developing. Yay! It's probably gonna get a couple more rewrites, but I'm pretty darn happy with it. The premise is, the goddess Diana has had a serious falling out with her father. Bereft of her supernatural powers, but aided by an Oracle with a vendetta against Zeus, they come to Toronto, hoping to hide until they can find a way to kill him, but he's not far behind. Diana has to swollow her pride and live as a human if she wants to stay free, but the surprisingly large and active supernatural community in Toronto makes it difficult for her to be "normal." It's a story about tolerance, identity, friendship, and learning to be human. I'd really like to get as much feedback on it as possible, so I'm thinking of putting it on here in a locked post, if anyone would be interested in reading it. (ETA: the characters and concept of the show are copyrighted by us, and that if anyone steals it, WE WILL HUNT THEM DOWN AND SUE THEIR ASS TO KINGDOM COME!!!)
Also, here's something I got from
stewpotc:
"It's a list of IMDB's Top Ranked Movies, you put an X beside the one's you've seen. At the end of each "section", give the total of how many X's you have so far. Best you can do is 250!" I got 118.
I was raised on moives. My mom had a Columbia House membership and got all the classics. We also used to watch Saturday Night at the Movies with Elwy Yost on TVO, and during the summer we would sometimes rent 7 movies a week. Going through this list, I started remembering fondly of all the movies I've seen, so then I had to add in notes and commentary for some of the movies I''ve seen...
(X) The Godfather
() The Shawshank Redemption
(X) The Godfather: Part II
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
() The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(X) Casablanca - Haven't seen it? See it. Now. Drop whatever you're doing and see it now. There's a very good reason the AFI (American Film Institute) ranks Casablanca as the second greatest movie ever made, next only to Citizen Kane, and Humphrey Boggart as the #1 screen legend (male) of all time: This movie ROCKS! And the more you watch it the more you love it. It's got romance, violence, intrigue, Nazis and dialogue that's witty as hell. Peter Lorre has a stand-out performance in a bit role. The "duel of the songs" scene kicks ass; I challenge you not to cry when Rick's band stikes up "La Marseillaise." Captain Renault is my hero. When the old movie house in my neighbourhood closed down this summer, Casablanca was the last film they screened. I went to see it, and watching it in a theatre packed full of other movie lovers was just an awesome experience.
(X) Schindler's List
(X) Pulp Fiction
(X) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
() Seven Samurai
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(X) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(X) Star Wars
(X) Rear Window
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(X) 12 Angry Men
(X) Raiders of the Lost Ark
(X) The Usual Suspects
( ) City of God
(X) Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Funny as hell. Peter Sellers is a genius. Andrew's "They'll see the big board" comment from "Get it Done" is a quote from this movie.
(X) Goodfellas
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(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
() Psycho
(X) Citizen Kane
() Once Upon a Time in the West
(X) North By Northwest
() Memento
() The Silence of the Lambs
(X) Lawrence of Arabia
(X) It's a Wonderful Life
() Sunset Boulevard
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(X) Amélie - Who doesn't love Amelie? Crazy people, that's who. It's such a charming fairytale of a movie.
() Fight Club
() American Beauty
(X) The Matrix
(X) Vertigo
() Apocalypse Now
() Taxi Driver
(X) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
() Se7en
() León
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( ) Paths of Glory
(X) Chinatown
(X) To Kill a Mockingbird
() American History X
(X) The Third Man
(X) Downfall
(X) The Pianist
(X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(X) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
() M
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(X) The Bridge on the River Kwai
(X) Spirited Away
() Alien
(X) Das Boot
(X) L.A. Confidential
() A Clockwork Orange
(X) The Maltese Falcon
() Requiem for a Dream
(X) Hotel Rwanda
() The Shining
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(X) Double Indemnity
() Metropolis
() Reservoir Dogs
(X) Saving Private Ryan
() Rashomon
(X) Singin' in the Rain - IMO it's over-rated.
() Sin City
(X) Raging Bull
(X) Modern Times
() Aliens
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(X) The Manchurian Candidate
(X) Rebecca
(X) Some Like It Hot - Officially the funniest movie ever made. For good reason. Crossdressing, gangsters, and Marilyn Monroe. What's not to love?
() The Great Escape
() Pan's Labyrinth
() The Departed
(X) All About Eve
() 2001: A Space Odyssey
(X) Touch of Evil
(X) Amadeus
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() Million Dollar Baby
(X) Life is Beautiful
() The Seventh Seal
(X) Forrest Gump
(X) Jaws
() The Sting
(X) Strangers on a Train
() Terminator 2: Judgment Day
() Batman Begins
(X) On the Waterfront
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() Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(X) Braveheart
() The Elephant Man
(X) The Wizard of Oz
() Full Metal Jacket
() Kill Bill: Vol. 1
() Blade Runner
(X) The Apartment - I really like this movie. For a while it was my favourite. Jack Lemmon's character is so pathetic and endearing.
(X) The Incredibles
(X) City Lights
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() Cinema Paradiso
(X) The Big Sleep
(X) High Noon - It's right up there with Casablanca for me. It's an incredibly affecting study of human nature. It's got a tight script and is beautifully shot in stark black and white. Gary Cooper breaks my heart. The theme is one of the best songs ever.
(X)Notorious
() Ran
() Donnie Darko
(X) Fargo
(X) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
(X) The Great Dictator
() Crash
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() Once Upon a Time in America
(X) Finding Nemo
() Cool Hand Luke
(x) Princess Mononoke
() The Sixth Sense
() V for Vendetta
(X) Unforgiven
() The Wages of Fear
(X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(x) Ben Hur
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( ) Oldboy
(X) Back to the Future
() Annie Hall
() Kill Bill: Vol. 2
() Yojimbo
() Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
() The Killing
() The Green Mile
() Life of Brian
(X) The Princess Bride
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(X) The Deer Hunter
() Platoon
() The Graduate
(X) It Happened One Night - It's funny and Clark Gable is hawt.
() For a Few Dollars More
(X) Gladiator
(X) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
() Nights of Cabiria
(X) Gandhi
(X) The African Queen
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() Kind Hearts and Coronets
() Love's a Bitch
() The Bicycle Thief
() The Battle of Algiers
(X) The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938] - Errol Flynn at his swashbucklingest. I prefer him in Captain Blood though.
() Diabolique
(X) Toy Story 2
() 8 1/2
() Shadow of a Doubt
() Stand By Me
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() The Night of the Hunter
() Brief Encounter
(X) Run Lola Run
() The Wild Bunch
() The General
() Die Hard
(X) Harvey
() Children of Men
() The Conversation
() Wild Strawberries
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() Dog Day Afternoon
() Patton
(X) Duck Soup
() Glory
() Nosferatu
(X) The Day the Earth Stood Still
(X) Gone with the Wind
(X) Groundhog Day
() Hero
(X) Spartacus
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() The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(X) The Gold Rush
() Trainspotting
() Finding Neverland
(X) Toy Story
(X) The Grapes of Wrath
() The Exorcist
() Magnolia
() Heat
() Mystic River
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() The Big Lebowski
(X) A Christmas Story
(X) Twelve Monkeys
(X) King Kong [1933]
() The Prestige
(X) The Philadelphia Story
(X) Shrek
() Beauty and the Beast [1946]
(X) Cinderella Man
(X) Big Fish
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() Before Sunset
(X) Ed Wood
(X) Judgment at Nuremburg
() The Hustler
() Snatch.
(X) The Terminator
(X) The Best Years of Our Lives
(X) The Lady Vanishes - an early Alfred Hitchcock film, it's got some incredibly likable characters and witty dialogue to boot.
() Bride of Frankenstein
() Walk the Line
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() Grave of the Fireflies
() Out of the Past
(X) In the Heat of the Night
(X) Stalag 17
() Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
() Witness for the Prosecution
() Sleuth
(X) Little Miss Sunshine
() Bonnie and Clyde
(X) The Thing
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(X) Young Frankenstein
() Talk To Her
() Rosemary's Baby
() Manhattan
() Scarface
() Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
(X) Frankenstein
() The Straight Story
(X) Arsenic and Old Lace
(X) Anatomy of a Murder
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() Sling Blade
() High and Low
() Rififi
(X) All Quiet on the Western Front
() Throne of Blood
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(X) Monsters, Inc.
(X) Roman Holiday
() The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
() The Lost Weekend
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() The Four Hundred Blows
(X) Doctor Zhivago
() The Searchers
(X) Bringing Up Baby
() United 93
(X) A Streetcar Named Desire
() Planet of the Apes [1968]
() The Lives of Others
() Come and See
() Sweet Smell of Success
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() Brazil
() Stalker
() Infernal Affairs
() The Ox-Bow Incident
() Great Expectations [1946]
(X) Dial M for Murder
() Umberto D.
(X) Inherit the Wind
() In Cold Blood
() Mulholland Drive
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