A quote which has made me...

...change the way I want my script to go.

"The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art" - Chuck Palahniuk

This made me think, will my film have an impact? Will my film make even one single person wake the fuck up and look at their life (or the lives of the people around them) objectively? I may need to go back to the 'ol drawing board. Lucky for me I have no dead line! (except for, presumably, death itself). So I should be Ok. Since my script is based on my own experiences, the issue is not the content. I could write page after page but have stopped because what I lack is a story arc or at least something meaningful to tie it all together. One of my ideas was writing a series of events reducing in extremity until the final scene where the protagonist, supposedly knowing what will soon follow, takes the path of destruction with the knowledge that he will essentially become a better person from all the experiences. Convoluted? Let me know... Too much like Donnie Darko or more so Eternal Sunshine? Maybe... Again it's all in the works and some ideas are brilliant one minute but horrific the next so I'm unsure how to continue... This is why I need feedback! Until next time...

The only film I have seen in the past three days is The Children (2008) by Tom Shankland. This British horror focuses on a bunch of kids plotting to kill their parents for no apparent reason other than the 'something in the air' syndrome. Sure it's disturbing to watch kids kill (and be killed) with malice, but ultimately the film gives us nothing more than what I have just described. An American reviewer remarked on how creepy the whole concept was, but honestly I felt that films like Carpenter's Village of the Damned made the whole idea scarier, even if it was slightly cornier. It's a daring film in terms of certain scenes showing a 5 year old girl slamming a pencil into her mothers eye, but by the end the novelty wore off and I developed regret for ever putting it on =P. To be honest, and if we're sticking with quotes, I deserve to have this said: "He shoulda fuckin' better known better" - Vincent Vega