gillyloves69OPlondon, Greater London, England UK7,359 posts
immanuelle: Hi Gilly,
I don't think we have met yet. Pleased to meet you. The first film that came to mind for me was 'To Kill a Mockingird'. It is based on a book by Harper Lee and directed by Robert Mulligan (I didn't know that part, had to research it). It starred one of my favourite actors - Gregory Peck. All involved were American. The whole production is great in my opinion because of the realism and the very powerful yet simple story that is told. It made me feel like I was in that little bit of southern American while I was watching it, and I think gave a very real depiction of what life was like there and then. JMO.
Imma
hi immanuelle !
welcome to the thread !
why was gegory peck your favorite actor then ? what did you like about him then ? i remember him in guns of navarone
and what was the story behind ' to kill a mocking bird ' ?
did you see ' in the heat of the night ' with sydney poitier ?
gillyloves69OPlondon, Greater London, England UK7,359 posts
offshorewinds: The Marx brothers & the three stooges.....what ever they did was pure ferkin genius.... America Movies comedy zany stuff lost and gone forever.....non audio humour !!!! who can do that today ?
hi offshorewinds
welcome to the thread man !
i just wanted you, ghost, rodolpho and quiriman to know that i'm really interested in the people that you're all talking about
and look forward to talking to you all about it soon
so please 'keep the fire burning 'until i catch up with everybody
so we started sharing ideas and put them on the group website to get feedback before we went too far ..but nobody answered
i basically disagreed with the title of the film and the way that they were applying for permision for us to film there because i thought it was;nt deep enough or patrisising enough to actually get us in there..so came up with new title ideas and deeper prosal to get them interested in the type of film we could make long term, and carry on filmming outside college time after the course was over !
most of the group thought that i was crazy , ignored my advise and stuck with the person who came up with the original idea's way of doing things
OUR PROPOSAL AND PERMISION FOR FILMMING WERE REJECTED BY THE ORGANISATION FOR THE REASON I WARNED THE GROUP ABOUT
NOW IN WEEK TWO WE HAVEN'T GOT A FILM PROJECT
AND A SIMULAR THING HAPPENED TO THE OTHER GROUP THAT WAS PINNING ALL THEIR HOPE ON ONE MAN THAT WAS TOO BUSY TO BE FILMMED IN THIS COUNTRY UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF JUNE SO THEIR PROJECT CRASHED AS WELL
the teacher now says " right folks you've all got 2 more weeks to complete your scripts , agreements, interview arrangements, filmmaking applications and prove to me that its going to work in time to start filming in two weeks time...in fact i know that you can't do that so this is now the two films you're going to be working on...the two films everybody voted against ..but they're the only two films we've got time to make now..because you made your proposals too tight in the first place"
....
AND A BIG PART OF ME FEELS THE SAME WAY
I know exactly what you mean ... but isn't that just real life that the teacher's giving you? Are you rich enough to only work on stuff you really like?
gillyloves69OPlondon, Greater London, England UK7,359 posts
guiriman: I know exactly what you mean ... but isn't that just real life that the teacher's giving you? Are you rich enough to only work on stuff you really like?
hi quiriman ! this is going to sound strange to you ..but the answer is certainly not..BECAUSE OF THE BACKDRAFTS...its difficult to explain..but it wil make me ill
i worked on many proffesional tv shows documentary and news shows with non creative input so to speak AND THATS FINE because you're too busy for a day or so doing your job that you get paid as a lighting guy all about electrics etc
but to work on something for two months and talking to people about every week can be very expensive on the mind because of what type of person your are unstoppable streams of consiousness once theyt get going etc,
its like saying to an artist "i want you to paint a picture of your mother dying every tuesday for 2 months and don't worry you can switch off from it at 5pm "
some of us and got trippy minds with a lot of enrgy that just does'nt switch itself on and turn itself off like that...and if you go on the wrong trip as an imaginary it can make you very ill quiriman because where some people can ..................
anyway thanks for your interests mate i've decided not to talk about it any deeper on this thread
gillyloves69OPlondon, Greater London, England UK7,359 posts
guiriman: I know exactly what you mean ... but isn't that just real life that the teacher's giving you? Are you rich enough to only work on stuff you really like?
it looks like the problem's solve now quiriman so far 4 out of 6 of us have decided to defie the teacher
YES MUTINY !
( we've stolen the spaceship steering wheel from the teacher )
we've decide to do enough research and arrangements about a film looking at the interesting protest campaigns outside the british parliment ( including profiling people thats protesting outside parliment for 7 years protesting about the war in iraq ) the tamil protesters. and do research on other protest stories ( including visiting speakers corner at hyde park in london tommorow and arranging to film interviewees before we see the teacher in the class on tuesday and declare
" ITS ALL IN THE BAG and nothing can go wrong this time ! AND ITS SOMETHING WE CAN ALL QUITE HAPPILY GROW INTO AND WILL BE HAPPY THINKING ABOUT EVERYDAY IF NEED BE OVER THE NEXT 2 MONTHS " a positive trip for everybody with no backdrafts
and we think the other two members of the group will agree to it all as well
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I don't think we have met yet. Pleased to meet you. The first film that came to mind for me was 'To Kill a Mockingird'. It is based on a book by Harper Lee and directed by Robert Mulligan (I didn't know that part, had to research it). It starred one of my favourite actors - Gregory Peck. All involved were American. The whole production is great in my opinion because of the realism and the very powerful yet simple story that is told. It made me feel like I was in that little bit of southern American while I was watching it, and I think gave a very real depiction of what life was like there and then. JMO.
Imma
hi immanuelle !
welcome to the thread !
why was gegory peck your favorite actor then ? what did you like about him then ? i remember him in guns of navarone
and what was the story behind ' to kill a mocking bird ' ?
did you see ' in the heat of the night ' with sydney poitier ?