Top 10 Reasons Why Life is Infinitely Better Reading Books
…and not watching movies. (This is in reference to non-fiction books, btw — and quality reads, not crap).
Movies leave you under a spell; an illusory haze so you cannot see. Books give control of the haze others are under.
Movies manufacture illusion without you knowing it, while books allow you to choose experience illusion, without decoupling [...]
Tom Cruise Notes
Tom Cruise Notes
“I eat life” LOL such a great quote.
“Every actor has their own voice and what turns them on and what they like. It’s not analytical; it’s instinctual. It is their own voice…[and that is what is needed to make movies]“. AWESOME quote because
“What I want in a performance is I [...]
The Machinist Notes
Machinist INteresting b/c He has to seperate himself from all “potential relationships” (the hooker gf, the “quasi-friends at the plant, etc” so he can do himself justice and turn himself in. His compulsion for honesty is was intuitively causes him to sever all those relationships subconsciously. The severings (chopping off arms, throwing [...]
The Difference between Miramax, Universal, Touchstone Pictures, New Line and all that!
Are they production? Are they for film or productions? Who produces tv or film? How do they handle copyrights or distribution?
Why would anyone want to know this? Or who the hell cares? I DO!! If you’re watching film and have half a brain to think about the process of “How the [...]
Common Denominator: Phillip K. Dick
Alas, I cannot speak from the “literary front lines” of PDK as I have not read Androids nor Scanner, but have seen both film interpretations (Blade Runner and linklater’s). If I ever get around to reading PDK amidst the hundreds of other books on the to-read list, I think I’ll like Scanner the best, [...]
The Heroic Spirit of Manhood and Peoplehood
On July 1934, the messages, inherent style, and defining parameters of American cinema dramatically changed. “Under duress at the urging of priests and politicians, Hollywood’s “Hays Office” established a Production Code, dubbed the Magna Charta of decency, that would forever, “systematically and scrupulously” regulate elements of film such as “sex, vice, violence, and moral [...]
