FADE IN:
The Sopranos final episode was all a hopeful dream of Tony's... hey, it is totally plausible if you think that each time David Chase wrote an episiode it had one of those wacky dream sequences in it, and the opening of the finale did have a surreal dream-like quality to it...
In this excellent interview with Chase there is a few blogger entries after it and RUTGERSBCS has a fabulous theory
"Tony falls asleep (in the second to last episode) in a barren room. No sheets on bed, no alrms clock, nothing. When he apparently wakes up, there are sheets on bed, a mirror, an alarm clock with music going off. None of that was in the end of last week's show. Tony dreams the whole last episode. A.J getting settled, Phil going down and agent harris cheering for him, Meadow becoming a lawyer and getting married. In the end, he sees himself sitting at the table. He is dreaming of having dinner with his family. Its ends when tony wakes up from his great dream. When A.J. says during the episode, "you are all living in a dream", that is a clue. sheets on bed, A.J's comment, and tony seeing himself at the end are all clues that the show really ended last week. This weeks episode was all a dream."
Here is the link to the entire interview: Interview
R.I.P. Tony and kudos to James Gandolfini for morphing David's character into the lovable hunk of stinging onion in the eye we grew to love
Fade Out
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Despite Being A Writer I Also Like Reading Screenplays
Fade In:
One of the best ways to learn the art of screenwriting is:
a) pay $500 for a two-day weekend to hear an unpublished/unsold writer pontificate off a pedestal, then make side deals afterward charging impressionable/gullible newbie writers an addtional $200+ to write coverage/critique their personal opus they have slaved over for the past 18 months
b) continually submit the same dusted off-slap a new cover on it script to contests that don't give feedback, never wondering why you don't make it past the first round, never change a word, keep thinking it's THEM not you and one day your one script will see the light of day
c) buy every writing book on the market, get the hat and T-shirt, hang out in writing groups and coffee shops saying you are a writer, and by osmosis, not actually completing anything always having a work in progress, will somehow become a writer by default
d) watch the Top 10 Rented Movies from Netflix and Box Office Weekend Champ only
e) hire a washed up ex-screenwriter ghost writer who really needs 1) drink 2)drugs 3)shelter, works for cheap and won't be missed when you kill them and submit for arbitration under your own name
Of course the answer is NONE of the above.
I think the best way to learn is do, and then see how it is done, otherwise WRITE and READ screenplays. Personally, I write every day, did a bang up job following last year's resolution, batting 100% for 2007 so far.
To feed my monster when I am in downtime, unwinding, sipping my martini waiting for the rap videos on VH1 Classics to finish playing so I can crank the volume back up, I enjoy reading professional screenplays.
I have a handful in PDF format I'd consider trading to any of my fellow blogpersons, if they are also interested?
Email me
Fade Out
EDIT: I guess I should list what I am looking for huh?
Atlantic City
The Descent
Silent Hill
Radio Flyer
Steel Magnolias
Scrooged
Point Of No Return
Terms Of Endearment
Thomas Crown Affair
Family Business
Trick Or Treat
One of the best ways to learn the art of screenwriting is:
a) pay $500 for a two-day weekend to hear an unpublished/unsold writer pontificate off a pedestal, then make side deals afterward charging impressionable/gullible newbie writers an addtional $200+ to write coverage/critique their personal opus they have slaved over for the past 18 months
b) continually submit the same dusted off-slap a new cover on it script to contests that don't give feedback, never wondering why you don't make it past the first round, never change a word, keep thinking it's THEM not you and one day your one script will see the light of day
c) buy every writing book on the market, get the hat and T-shirt, hang out in writing groups and coffee shops saying you are a writer, and by osmosis, not actually completing anything always having a work in progress, will somehow become a writer by default
d) watch the Top 10 Rented Movies from Netflix and Box Office Weekend Champ only
e) hire a washed up ex-screenwriter ghost writer who really needs 1) drink 2)drugs 3)shelter, works for cheap and won't be missed when you kill them and submit for arbitration under your own name
Of course the answer is NONE of the above.
I think the best way to learn is do, and then see how it is done, otherwise WRITE and READ screenplays. Personally, I write every day, did a bang up job following last year's resolution, batting 100% for 2007 so far.
To feed my monster when I am in downtime, unwinding, sipping my martini waiting for the rap videos on VH1 Classics to finish playing so I can crank the volume back up, I enjoy reading professional screenplays.
I have a handful in PDF format I'd consider trading to any of my fellow blogpersons, if they are also interested?
Email me
Fade Out
EDIT: I guess I should list what I am looking for huh?
Atlantic City
The Descent
Silent Hill
Radio Flyer
Steel Magnolias
Scrooged
Point Of No Return
Terms Of Endearment
Thomas Crown Affair
Family Business
Trick Or Treat
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