School, American History X
I'm a big old mix of emotions at the moment.
I am incredibly happy because my class is going so well. We finished Chinatown, which was quite an intriguing film, and today we started The Grapes of Wrath.
Tomorrow we're going to take the scene where Ma Joad is looking through the box of photographs and other family things just before they leave to go to California, and rewrite it. Our professor gave us the passage from the book, and after we've seen the rest of the movie, we're supposed to rewrite the scene to make Ma Joad a "stronger" character, like she was in the book.
I got my copy of Lombardo's Law sent to me in the mail today (thank you, mommy!), so I'm going to start outlining ideas and stuff for the script tomorrow. Thanks to everybody who voted in my poll. :) I asked my prof. if we're supposed to write an entire screenplay or just part of one, and he said he just wants sixty pages (a lot of screenplays are around 120 pages long, apparently). He said we can write the beginning, the end, skip around to scenes we like, whatever, but advised that the middle part of a movie is always the hardest to write. Still, I think I'm going to go on ahead with this thing. I'll finish it out over the rest of the summer.
My other emotion at the moment is rather undefined, because it's sad and anxious and shocked all at the same time. I just finished watching American History X, and that's why I feel this way. My God. What a terrifying, beautiful film. It's very rare that I find films that touch me on such a level, to the point where I tremble and cry my eyes out, and can't stop thinking about it afterwards. It is an AMAZING film that touches on racism in such a realistic way. A lot of the film was hard to take, but I couldn't tear my eyes away. It was so compelling, so touching on so many levels. Edward Norton and Edward Furlong give phenomenal performances. If you haven't seen this movie, I would highly, highly recommend it.
I really, REALLY need an Edward Norton icon.
I am incredibly happy because my class is going so well. We finished Chinatown, which was quite an intriguing film, and today we started The Grapes of Wrath.
Tomorrow we're going to take the scene where Ma Joad is looking through the box of photographs and other family things just before they leave to go to California, and rewrite it. Our professor gave us the passage from the book, and after we've seen the rest of the movie, we're supposed to rewrite the scene to make Ma Joad a "stronger" character, like she was in the book.
I got my copy of Lombardo's Law sent to me in the mail today (thank you, mommy!), so I'm going to start outlining ideas and stuff for the script tomorrow. Thanks to everybody who voted in my poll. :) I asked my prof. if we're supposed to write an entire screenplay or just part of one, and he said he just wants sixty pages (a lot of screenplays are around 120 pages long, apparently). He said we can write the beginning, the end, skip around to scenes we like, whatever, but advised that the middle part of a movie is always the hardest to write. Still, I think I'm going to go on ahead with this thing. I'll finish it out over the rest of the summer.
My other emotion at the moment is rather undefined, because it's sad and anxious and shocked all at the same time. I just finished watching American History X, and that's why I feel this way. My God. What a terrifying, beautiful film. It's very rare that I find films that touch me on such a level, to the point where I tremble and cry my eyes out, and can't stop thinking about it afterwards. It is an AMAZING film that touches on racism in such a realistic way. A lot of the film was hard to take, but I couldn't tear my eyes away. It was so compelling, so touching on so many levels. Edward Norton and Edward Furlong give phenomenal performances. If you haven't seen this movie, I would highly, highly recommend it.
I really, REALLY need an Edward Norton icon.