From the monthly archives:

May 2008

The “Oral History” format

May 27, 2008

I am currently in the midst of reading Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, by Chuck Palahniuk. This is the second book that I have read in the last year that utilizes the oral history format. The first one was World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (which [...]

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Larger than life ~ characters we love

May 26, 2008

When I heard there was going to be a new Indiana Jones movie many moons ago, I groaned.  I was not happy with what Mr. Lucas did with the new Star Wars movies, and I just couldn’t see a new Indy movie being anything other than a train wreck. I wanted it to be good [...]

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Rambling Rant Recap and Recommended Reading

May 25, 2008

The five part series was originally concieved as a single post.  I thought I would be able to make a few pithy comments on each movie and have a nice tight list like you see on cracked.com.  It became obvious pretty quickly that I wasn’t going to be able to do that.  Maybe I lack [...]

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Slow zombies or fast? Know your rules.

May 19, 2008

In my recent screenplay class, one other student was working on a pretty slick idea that involved zombies.  I won’t get into the details other than to say when he got to the details of the zombies getting around, a battle broke out in the class. True connoisseurs of the brain eating undead grew up [...]

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Movie Adaptations That Work for Me: Part 5 of 5

May 14, 2008

The ‘Illiad’. The most classical of classics. An epic in every sense of the word. And best of all, no copyright. Nobody owns rights to this thing! Let’s make a movie! Troy: (some guy named) Homer, David Benioff I got into Greek myths at an early age. I don’t know how many kids go running [...]

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