The Dog. (Taken with instagram)
… on Melrose in Hollywood is a great place to write. A nice, chill atmosphere, seemingly made for creatives to spend hours brainstorming and generating ideas. I’m pretty sure 70% of the people in here are writing some kind of story.
Heading to LA. Super pumped. Been a while. Networking, pushing limits, and getting new film projects off the ground. All followed by my future brother-in-law, Ray Smegal’s bachelor party in Vegas. I’m lucky… he’s not so bad. A solid man and he happens to engineer magnetically powered waterslides! Whoa. Revved for the journey!!
Meant to post this a LONG time ago. It takes a little while to adapt to the film’s “silence” but it’s amazing how well it keeps your attention once you do. A dream sequence halfway through stood out at one of the most memorable scenes I’ve seen in the past few years. The timing couldn’t be better for a movie like this. In the age of facebook, everything moves at the speed of a bullet. What an experiment to release a film like this in the era of short attention spans and they’re only getting shorter. The Artist proves that it’s not all about a 45 second YouTube fix. Good storytelling and real emotion are timeless. The format is only a detail.