Eastwood wasn’t a cigar smoker. Sergio Leone always wanted numerous takes in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. According to Eli Wallach, Eastwood would sometimes tell the director: “You’d better get it this time, because I’m going to throw up.”
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Post. 27 Sept 2019.
Test format A.
Post. 23 Sept 2019.
I was on the Acela from NYC to PHL in late 2007. The woman sitting next to me taught Comparative Literature at NYU. She was reading Postman’s book and recommended it. I just re-read it. Postman’s observations are timeless. Screenplay Writing Bambi 2.0. Test A.
Post. 23 Sept 2019.
Post. 21 Sept 2019.
Birdman, 2014. This was a great screenplay to learn about screenplays.
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Post. 18 Sept 2019.
“A child looks at a mountain and sees a mountain; a man looks at a mountain and sees many things; a wise man looks at a mountain and sees a mountain.” – Buddhist Proverb
Post. 14 Sept 2019.
Some were exercised about the paper’s claim that the pictorial arts preceded language in our evolutionary history. How do we know that? Here’s how we know that: The pictorial is a first order representation. A picture of a deer can be understood to be a deer without further explication. But the word deerrepresents another category. ItContinue reading “Post. 14 Sept 2019.”