Sometimes you read things in the paper that just blow you away. I recently read in a newspaper that the earthquake disaster in Haiti created an acute need for gender scientists in the area. Fortunately, we were able to deploy a team within days.

It didn't strike me as the most crucial sort of expert to send to a disaster area, but as I read the ( Read more... )

I had a dream.

It was a dream that could have been yet another crap action movie out of Hollywood based on a book by Tom Clancy and starring Ben Affleck but no, it had to invade my sleep cycle. Admittedly, it's lower budget this way.

The basic action of the movie can be summed up pretty quickly. The hero and heroine are being chased through a large ( Read more... )

Vi börjar med filmversionen, med Mikael Persbrandt i rollen som Pontius Pilatus. Vi ser honom iförd lagerkrans och toga, han har rasande tryckt upp en blodig och sönderslagen Jesus mot väggen med vänsterarmen, och hotar honom med högerarmens knutna näve ( Read more... )

No, seriously... A very fun, tongue-in-cheek, all out, sci-fi action movie concept...

A montage of newspaper clippings regarding the alien invasion is show, with a narrator saying something like this:

In A.D. 1898, an invading fleet from the planet Mars descended on the Earth to subjugate it's people... They were quickly repulsed...

Fade to a ( Read more... )

I picture a battle between two intensely magic using sides. When the battle starts, both armies charge at each other, but of course the footsoldier's swords are burning, their shields shine with magic, the archers shoot magic arrows, mages by the hundreds lob fireballs, put up walls of ice, golems and elementals lumber across the battlefield, ( Read more... )

I picture a scene from a bizarre war movie. A joint UN force is ambushed in some dogforsaken African village and a confused battle ensues. Unfortunately the commander of the UN troop has been bitten by some poisonous insect, has received an antidote, but unfortunately a little too much, so that he is prone to hallucinate under stress. In his ( Read more... )

Everyone's seen "Matrix", and you can say that the heroes in "Matrix" fight like a Brazilian soccer team. Each individual is a brilliant technical player with a lot of showmanship.

I want to direct a gunfight where the heroes fight like a Swedish soccer team, or rather like the Swedish national handball team under Bengan. That is, while every ( Read more... )

I'm back in school again after nine weeks of not being here. I looked it up in my schedule yesterday and was surprised ( Read more... )

Yes I do. It's a fun mental exercise. I like to picture myself as one of the antiheroes in a B movie. I have a lot of B-movie-anti-hero:ism that I need to get out of my system.

I like the characters that make those little speeches you know. This is my gun. There are many like it, but this one is mine etc ( Read more... )

Picture your ordinary fantasy setting, one largely (insofar as it is possible) untainted by Tolkienesque orcs and elves and whatever... At least initially ( Read more... )