THE KATHERINE HEIGL PRINCIPLE
A new video on my youtube channel about how we can save Hollywood from bad movies. Hope you enjoy. :)
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I created a twitter account for the character of my future web series.
Imagine a cheap Canadian Rambo/Cop at war with Ninjas.
Do The Right Thing / Spike Lee
Decoding Hollywood: Chekov’s Gun
Remember in old James Bond movies, when Q was always coming up with the perfect set of gadgets for 007? This obligatory sequence in the Bond series is the perfect exemple for the narrative technique which we call “Chekov’s Gun”.
Just like any Hollywood producer, Anton Chekov believed in efficient storytelling. He thought that useful objects or pieces of information had to be mentionned a bit before they were getting used.
“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”—Anton Chekhov (S. Shchukin, Memoirs. 1911.)
Hollywood producers don’t complicate their lives with useless exposition. They go straight to the point. Here’s one of the most straight forward exemple, found in Spider-Man 2:
Source tvtropes.org
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I’ll try to post more original content for you, including videos. Your support is so appreciated, you can’t even imagine how much. I wish I could interact with you more.
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The Movie Theater Etiquette
I just want to let you know that I restarted my vlog on youtube. The Prescription is a series of movie suggestions. So hopefully if you follow my videos, you’ll discover a few hidden gems.
Your support would be really appreciated. :)
My second Prescription, eXistenZ.
Please watch/suscribe/comment, this is my youtube channel.
Not that I wanna spam or anything, but I’ve just completed my first vlog (in a while).
The Prescription will be a series of movie recommendations, so be sure to check it out.
20 Years Later: Cool As Ice
Here’s a simple rule in life: if someone/something proclaims itself as cool, that’s very uncool. For a brief moment though, during 89-90, Vanilla Ice was believed by some to be a rising star. We still don’t know on what drugs they were at the time, but his hit single ‘Ice Ice Baby‘ (or Under Pressure as some prefer to call it) was even nominated for a Grammy! Sadly, Vanilla‘s fame had to vanish because he was a character who couldn’t exist out of the early 90′s. White boys with flashy clothes and weird haircuts were already out in 1992. Continue Reading
Taxi Driver
Artwork from me. Greater scan next week.
