Fancy New Laurels
First off, I would like to apologize in advance for this one. I went on sort of a Harry Potter binge this weekend and watched all five movies over the course of two days and my brain is a little scrambled. I can’t believe that after five movies, Ron still hasn’t made a move on that Herminy (did I spell that right? Don’t really care.) chick. Christ man, what do you need, a written invitation?! Also, there’s clearly not enough drug use for this to be a movie about a bunch of kids. Although, I’m convinced that, the divination teacher has got to be on something. I wonder if there’s a deleted scene where she’s smoking out Dumbledore? In all seriousness though, for what they are, those movies are amazing. They are all really well done. Pretty much every aspect of those movies is at the very least, great. Anyway, sorry again.
In my last post I talked about an old short film that I did titled The Wake Up. It really got me thinking about my first short film, Firework De La Muerte. What a pile of crap that short film was. It was roughly an eight page script with the same joke told four times. Really, the joke wasn’t funny the first time and it sure wasn’t funny the 4th time. For that one we shot in a department store which shall remain nameless, without asking anyone. We just sort of got somebody with a red shirt and went with it. That was gorilla film making to the extreme. To be honest, nobody really cared. If I was an employee making minimum wage, I don’t think I would really care either. I think the worst part about Firework De La Muerte is that when it was done, I thought it was great. But then when other people watched it, they didn’t laugh. At first I was in denial. Like there was something wrong with everyone else. Finally, I realized that it really did just suck something awful. It was kind of a slap to the face. But it was necessary. I remember the first time I watched it, without my head up my ass. I just sat there watching it in absolute shock at how bad it really was. After watching it, I actually said out loud.
“O my God…… That sucked.”
There is no place to see Firework De La Muearte, nobody will ever see it. It belongs in the depths of a hard drive, where nobody will ever find it. I think I might of actually deleted it off of my external hard drive. I do still have the prop firework though, made of cardboard, that egg crate stuff you put on a mattress, and duct tape. The prop was actually kind of glorious, I have to say. It was a giant somewhat rocket shape covered in duct tape.
While Firework De La Muearte is an awful short film, it really was something that I needed to do, to get where I am. Now, Censored is playing in festivals all over the place, I’m close to finishing Do Nice Guys Finish Last, and I have a lot of big and exciting projects on the horizon. This sort of leads in to my next topic. I finished up fancy new laurels for Censored:
Technically, the SoCal Film festival hasn’t happened yet, but we have been selected.
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