Al Pacino is the Devil
So, today is the day that Gabe gets my notes for the first Nice Guys Finish Last cut. He’s been camping for a week straight. I hope his arms didn’t get ripped off by a bear or something. That would suck. How would he edit? Now that he’s back though we can really get to work on this thing.
I just realized this weekend that I’ve been referring to Nice Guys Finish Last incorrectly. The title isn’t Nice Guys Finish Last, it’s Do Nice Guys Finish Last?. That totally screws up my acronym for it too. It’s not NGFL, it’s DNGFL. I like the first acronym better. Meh, it doesn’t matter.
Right now in LA, the Crazy 4 Cult art show is going on. It’s all art that people have done based off of cult classic films. Check out the web site here. There’s all kinds of stuff there. If you check the web site, you can see what’s for sale. Prices range quite a bit. There’s stuff for the casual enthusiast for like $25 and stuff for the hard core art collector for like $4000. I haven’t checked it out yet, but I hope to make it out there sometime this week. I’m a big fan of cult classic movies. Fight Club is my absolute favorite movie of all time. What actually defines a movie as “Cult Classic” though? I suppose it’s a movie with a small, but loyal following. I guess it’s like comparing Transformers to The Big Lebowski. Transformers made a shit load of money, but nobody really talked about it after it was released. The Big Lebowski has Lebowski Fest, which happened in Long Beach this year, which I attended. The Big Lebowski was released in 1998. Ten years later, they are still holding a festival to celebrate it’s release. In ten years will anybody really even be talking about Transformers? No, probably not. Some cult classics actually bomb in theaters. Fight Club, Super Troopers, and Donnie Darko are all good examples. All bombed in theaters, but look at them now. I think I’ve had 4 hour long conversations about Donnie Darko before. That movie is amazing, for that very reason. It only made $517,375 in theaters. It probably killed in DVD sales. I bet it did so shitty in theaters because, really, how do you explain that movie to someone?
“OK, there’s this kid and this guy dressed as a rabbit and he can possibly see in to the future. He’s taking medication and because he sleep walks the plane engine that falls through the roof of his house doesn’t kill him and then he meets the guy in the rabbit suit…. No, wait, the rabbit tells him to sleep walk, so he knew the rabbit before that…..Or something.”
After trying to explain that movie like 3 times I finally gave up and now if someone asks me what it’s about, I just say
“Just see it, it’s an awesome movie.”
Maybe what saved it is it’s movie channel debut. That’s where I first saw it. It has some really interesting shots. The first time I flipped to it, it was at the point where Donnie is looking in the bathroom mirror and stabbing it with a knife. After watching that scene for like 20 seconds, I immediately went to my On Demand thing and started from the beginning. That one scene just brought up way too many questions. I couldn’t resist.
I ordered Dexter Season 3 from Amazon on Sunday. It’s on sale right now for $21.49. It’s not out yet, but I preordered it. I love that show so much. I will see Gamer just because Michael C. Hall is in. When he’s playing Dexter he plays it with a touch of sarcasm when he’s hiding who he really is. It’s also a touch of “I’m acting.” Not acting, like acting on a show, like putting on an act just to please everyone else. It’s very subtle, but I think it makes the show. If you came in mid show and started watching it at a point where Dexter is in front of normal people you would probably think “something is up with that guy.” It makes it, because something is up with him. He’s a serial killer.
Directing actors is always my favorite part of film making. It’s never the same experience. You’re always trying to convey something differently. I bet Martin Brest(director) had a giant grin on his face when he was directing Al Pacino in the scene from Scent of a Woman where he’s in the auditorium. That is without a doubt on my list of top 3 monologues ever performed. One of the other ones on my top 3 is the scene in The Devils Advocate where Al Pacino is giving that speech about mankind and God. At one point during that scene I actually thought to myself “Wow…. I never knew that Al Pacino was the Devil. That’s awesome.”
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