HEY ANOTHER TWO PAGES
I'm never going to meet this deadline.
I got another two pages of Aeon Babel out. I really should stop putting movies on in the background and absently looking up to them every so often.
Tonight, following my trend of "watch all of Cameron's films chronologically" that I've for some reason set instead of actually working on this thing, I noticed one of the "little things" that I do so adore about his films and gushed all over in the previous entry like a staked vampire bleeding out in its coffin:
Toward the beginning of the film, the focus character Bud gets angry at his soon-to-be ex-wife Lindsay and throws his wedding ring in the chemical toilet. He has a change of heart and fishes the ring out, staining his hands blue in the process.
Throughout the whole movie, Bud's hand remains blue, even after three scenes where he's swimming underwater, hands very clearly exposed to the sea. In the sequence where he's reviving the intentionally-drowned Lindsay, you can still see the blue residue from the chemical toilet around his fingernails and the creases in his knuckles.
That's devotion to detail, one of the dumb ridiculous little things that most people would overlook. Hell, that was just one dumb little thing to overlook out of thousands of dumb little things in the movie.
Outstanding work. I honestly cannot wait for Avatar.
Next entry: In which I watch True Lies instead of working.
I got another two pages of Aeon Babel out. I really should stop putting movies on in the background and absently looking up to them every so often.
Tonight, following my trend of "watch all of Cameron's films chronologically" that I've for some reason set instead of actually working on this thing, I noticed one of the "little things" that I do so adore about his films and gushed all over in the previous entry like a staked vampire bleeding out in its coffin:
Toward the beginning of the film, the focus character Bud gets angry at his soon-to-be ex-wife Lindsay and throws his wedding ring in the chemical toilet. He has a change of heart and fishes the ring out, staining his hands blue in the process.
Throughout the whole movie, Bud's hand remains blue, even after three scenes where he's swimming underwater, hands very clearly exposed to the sea. In the sequence where he's reviving the intentionally-drowned Lindsay, you can still see the blue residue from the chemical toilet around his fingernails and the creases in his knuckles.
That's devotion to detail, one of the dumb ridiculous little things that most people would overlook. Hell, that was just one dumb little thing to overlook out of thousands of dumb little things in the movie.
Outstanding work. I honestly cannot wait for Avatar.
Next entry: In which I watch True Lies instead of working.