Casino Royale Movie Review Analysis and Commentary - James Bond Films
November 26, 2006
For those of you who have ever enjoyed a bond film at any time in your life, stop reading this and see the movie. It’s the best bond film I’ve ever seen and the one with the most critical acclaim; beating out Borat and The Departed to become the highest reviewed movie of the year.
If you’re never really gotten into the Bond series, and the over the top stunts, then you can skip this one too. It’s good, but still full of crazy stunts, action sequences, and most the quintessential bond films characteristics, but this time without the clichés, a darker overtone, and a more bad ass main character.
I grew up with Bond. I remember watching the Sean Connery Bond films as a little boy and being childishly drawn to the fantasy of the super agent. As I grew older, the bond franchise lost more and more of it’s appeal until it represented exactly what I wanted to get away from in films. Pure fantasy movies with scenes so unbelievable and cliché ridden they fail to warrant any emotional response. I don’t even remember if I saw the last bond film before Casino Royale, that’s how memorable the films had become to me. Read more
Correspondence with Indie Filmmaker Aaron from Video VLOGBIZ
November 26, 2006
The following is an e-mail correspondance, I left the formating untouched:
Hi. My name is Aaron. I’m an indie film-maker like yourself. I’ve been pursuing this dream for awhile now.
While I have scripts shopping around in Hollywood, I wanted to make things happen for myself. Your own blog is pretty inspirational.
I’ve started a website for vloggers. They can customize their own vlog pages, share in the revenue generated by advertisers and accept or deny which ads are associated with their vlogs.
Its called www.MyVlogBiz.com
By creating this business model, I’m hoping to raise the revenue to finance my own feature film. Read more
Remastering the Sound for Boy Who Never Slept - Correspondence with Douglas
November 26, 2006
The following is an e-mail I recieved from Douglas concerning improving the sound for BWNS. My reponse is also posted below:
well i did enjoy the film where as the video quality is as good as its gonna get but your audio can be inproved alot and easily. If you are intrested I can remaster it for u or teach you how. I am not in it for the money but any lil bit helps, I think you got a great story and should be told the best way possible. Read more
Correspondence with a Teenage Screenwriter | New Writer Seeks Agent
November 26, 2006
The following is an e-mail message I received from a 17 year old screenwriter and my response.
Hi my name is Bridgette, i’m a 17 year old high school senior, and i wrote nine screenplays. I have completed and have copy written one of my screenplays. You were right about the screenplay agency. Can you help me or recommend a real agency i can send my work to, and agency that will accept new writers.
My response to the previous e-mail was:
Hi Bridgette,
There are a lot of agencies that accept new writers; of course you can’t just send them an unsolicited screenplay. The first step is the query letter or letter asking for permission to send them your script. As I haven’t sold any scripts as of yet, I ‘m not really qualified to give advice on pursuing the art of screenwriting, but with that said, I’ve read some excellent guides and resources on how to find an agent. Read more
Abuse of Backlinks Partner Program Placed Adult Links on this site
November 26, 2006
I use multiple services including a text link brokering service at backlinks.com to monetize this website. I know I could sell the links myself, but that takes a lot of time and I find it easier and faster to let a broker do this part of the work for me, while I concentrate on putting together more movies, writing in my blog, and all my web design and SEO work.
Everything was working fine, until I noticed links to adult porn sites on my homepage. Wow was I upset. I specifically unchecked the allow adult link box. I sent them an e-mail and made a telephone call. Below is our e-mail exchange including the response I received the same day. It appears there is no human check for the links, so if someone puts their adult site in a non adult category it can end up on any of the backlink partner sites. Could you imagine an adult website link on a site targeted at children? Read more
Interviewed by Filmmaker Chris Miller from Things Going Smoothly
November 20, 2006
I was recently (November 04) interviewed by Chris an indie filmmaker currently working on a feature film bearing the same name of his blog (Things Going Smoothly).
He asked a lot of questions about the intricacies of creating Boy Who Never Slept and about what I’m working on now. You can read the entire interview here.
Concerning Chris’s film “Things Going Smoothly”
I’ll post some info in my blog about the movie when it’s released. For now, know that it’s the title of a no budget movie scheduled for shooting at the end of November about a guy trying to accelerate the oncoming apocalypse.
Search for a Movie Script Agent | Sweet Taste of Rejection
November 18, 2006
I’m excited, I received my first rejection letter (actually an e-mail) in response to one of my movie script queries. Later on, I’ll explain the details of the steps involved in searching for an agent after you written a movie script, but for now you’re probably wondering why I’m so happy about receiving my first rejection.
The task of giving life to an idea, writing a story (movie script), and getting it successfully optioned and produced will take a large portion of your life and involves many different steps. If you look at the entire process and give it a timeline of say 3 years, it’s easy for everything to seem overwhelming and get stressed or frustrated at all the obstacles and difficulties inherent with achieving anything of value.
One way to stay focused is to celebrate the achievement of each major step as a success and fight the tendency of being overly optimistic. While Being optimistic is good, being overly optimistic leads to disapointment and frustration. One important step is the first rejection letter. What it means to me is that I made it to the marketing and ‘pitching ‘ stage. Read more
Horror Movie Script COMPLETED - Original Unproduced Screenplay
November 18, 2006
I finished my first movie script aimed at commercial distribution. It’s a horror script and in it’s final form ended up being 91 pages long.
I wrote the draft 7 months ago and since then have been rewriting, rewriting, rewriting and yes rewriting. It seems I spent about 5 times longer re-writing, polishing and editing then I actually spent developing the story and cranking out the first full draft. I wonder if most other screenwriters fit into this same category.
So what’s this movie script about?
Borat Movie Review, Analysis, and Social Commentary - Comedy Satire
November 4, 2006
Without giving too much away, think about a film with more racial slurs then you can count and a drawn out scene where a thin naked man chasses a fat naked man with a dildo. Now imagine that same movie achieving almost universal critical acclaim, even from the toughest critics. That film is officially called “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” and with a Rotten Tomatoes (a movie ratings site) score of 96%. and 100% rating from the cream of the crop critics, it’s the highest rated movie this year. How did that happen?
The simply answer is: it’s funny, and not just kinda funny, but hurt yourself laughing completely hilarious. I laughed so hard I found myself kicking the wall in front of me almost bent over with laughter and I wasn’t alone. This movie elicited the loudest and most extreme audience response I’ve ever seen.
The more in-depth explanation is that Borat ingeniously throws politically correctness and social tact out the window to create a social satire with stinging implications. It’s crazy and over the top to the point of absurdity, but doesn’t come off like “junk food” programming (say like Jackass). Instead it’s pointed social satire tears at the phobias and stereotypes of many Americans allowing you to laugh at some of the darker and taboo subjects of our culture through situational comedy. It’s the touchiest subject matter you can poke fun at, and it makes no apologies, no attempts at not being offensive, and is delivered flawlessly.
Power of the People’s Media - My Movie Review Ranks Above the NY Times and IMDb.
November 2, 2006
I was very pleasantly surprised when I discovered that a movie review I wrote for “The Departed” was ranking in the top 10 on Google for “the departed movie review“, “the departed movie analysis”, “the departed movie mistakes” and host of other related keywords.
This review, which really was just a quick blog post I put up here on October 8 was submitted to the website associated content (a user publishing site with articles, videos, profiles, and other web 2.0 features) is now ranked above hundreds of powerful websites with professional editorial reviews like the New York Times, Imdb, and TV guide.
This isn’t just a little thing, people have been heralding the arrival of indie content and the ability for unknown individuals to get their words and creative works out there. Usually though, behind all the ideology, the indie content producers who actually get read or watched are people like popular bloggers who have devoted large portions of their lives to developing their online presence. An online presence that rivals their professional competition.
