I Am An Inarticulate Psychic
I Think My Thought-To-Speech Processor Is Broken
So I've begun editing my short film My Eyes Were Clearer On Sunday (where the f***?! who the...?! what the...?!) and I came across a sound byte of me saying quite possibly the most inarticulate thing ever uttered by a director on set. As a testament to Mr. Rikky Manocha's divine acting prowess, he nailed it the following take despite my garbled directions. I can only assume I was rather successfully telepathically telling him what I meant to say while I burbled:
"Okay, how about we - we do the same shot we just did, okay? Okay, so you look at - down at your bag, okay? And then when you look at him... (long pause) then, like... give his bag a glance, okay? And then you'll just turn back to normal. Okay, no you won't turn back to normal, cause... s'v's'v'say(???)... so don't worry about it, yeah (really long pause) okay?"
Apparently, it was okay.
My Random Oscar-thing, Part III:
I've been posting here on an incosistently frequent basis and as such shall get through less categories than I had originally intended before Sunday's Oscar ceremony in the States. But now to add to Star Wars for greatest ever single-film Achievement in Special Visual Effects and North By Northwest for Best Original Screenplay, I'll finish up with a completely pointless, sparsely-commentary-ed quickfire list of other movies I'd award shit to in an entirely hypothetical all-time Oscar-type scenario that has no reason to exist.
Best Picture: Apocalypse Now (still only seen Redux)
2. American Beauty
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Godfather: Part II
5. The Godfather
Best Director: Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back)
2. Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)
3. Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
4. Ridley Scott (Alien)
5. Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation)
6. Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia)
7. David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
8. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
9. Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)
10. Stanley Kubrick (The Shining)
11. Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo)
12. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
13. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
14. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather: Part II)
15. Sergio Leone (Once Upon A Time In America)
Yes. In my opinion The Empire Strikes Back is the greatest directorial effort of all-time. Flawless. And while I had to stop somewhere, Tarantino comes in at 16 for Pulp Fiction (the film is really, really, REALLY well directed (pacing, music, shots all come together really well at times) but I think it's screenplay overshadows that a bit as it is truly the driving force of the film. He's still one of the three or four best in the business overall though, in my view. Spielberg's another one up there who hasn't had any individual effort really stand out enough for me.
Well, that was nice and incomplete. Adapted Screenplay? Who knows. Actors? Maybe next Oscars. Must go do finances / edit On Sunday My Eyes Wer - whatever I called it. It's a really random name. Or is it? Only time will tell what deeper meaning it holds and what secrets of the universe it shall unlock.
So I've begun editing my short film My Eyes Were Clearer On Sunday (where the f***?! who the...?! what the...?!) and I came across a sound byte of me saying quite possibly the most inarticulate thing ever uttered by a director on set. As a testament to Mr. Rikky Manocha's divine acting prowess, he nailed it the following take despite my garbled directions. I can only assume I was rather successfully telepathically telling him what I meant to say while I burbled:
"Okay, how about we - we do the same shot we just did, okay? Okay, so you look at - down at your bag, okay? And then when you look at him... (long pause) then, like... give his bag a glance, okay? And then you'll just turn back to normal. Okay, no you won't turn back to normal, cause... s'v's'v'say(???)... so don't worry about it, yeah (really long pause) okay?"
Apparently, it was okay.
My Random Oscar-thing, Part III:
I've been posting here on an incosistently frequent basis and as such shall get through less categories than I had originally intended before Sunday's Oscar ceremony in the States. But now to add to Star Wars for greatest ever single-film Achievement in Special Visual Effects and North By Northwest for Best Original Screenplay, I'll finish up with a completely pointless, sparsely-commentary-ed quickfire list of other movies I'd award shit to in an entirely hypothetical all-time Oscar-type scenario that has no reason to exist.
Best Picture: Apocalypse Now (still only seen Redux)
2. American Beauty
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Godfather: Part II
5. The Godfather
Best Director: Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back)
2. Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)
3. Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
4. Ridley Scott (Alien)
5. Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation)
6. Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia)
7. David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
8. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
9. Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)
10. Stanley Kubrick (The Shining)
11. Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo)
12. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai)
13. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)
14. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather: Part II)
15. Sergio Leone (Once Upon A Time In America)
Yes. In my opinion The Empire Strikes Back is the greatest directorial effort of all-time. Flawless. And while I had to stop somewhere, Tarantino comes in at 16 for Pulp Fiction (the film is really, really, REALLY well directed (pacing, music, shots all come together really well at times) but I think it's screenplay overshadows that a bit as it is truly the driving force of the film. He's still one of the three or four best in the business overall though, in my view. Spielberg's another one up there who hasn't had any individual effort really stand out enough for me.
Well, that was nice and incomplete. Adapted Screenplay? Who knows. Actors? Maybe next Oscars. Must go do finances / edit On Sunday My Eyes Wer - whatever I called it. It's a really random name. Or is it? Only time will tell what deeper meaning it holds and what secrets of the universe it shall unlock.
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