Comments on: Feed me back

By: pthompso

pthompso — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:54:46 +0000

After I read the script, then looked back at the title, I thought “oh, I know, he needs to wake up and find his phone ringing”. Then I read Tim’s comment. It sounds like you already had that discussion. And I totally agree with the conclusions of it.

In regard to Patrick’s comments re: sauce. At first I thought “he means production, not pre-production, right?”. But then I realized, you can’t get your shots if you haven’t planned your shots. This would be a movie to have a detailed storyboard for. And its going to take some casting and acquiring of props and locations.

For the end, I can imagine a shot sequence that builds suspense and then a sudden cut to black, maybe even in the middle of or before the word “hello”. For some reason I’m thinking of the look and feel of Primer.

Of course, the movie that I am guessing helped to inspire yours is The Science of Sleep. Rented it. Haven’t watched it yet. I’ll get back to you.

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:23:27 +0000

That last comment had a lot of sentence fragments, sorry.

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:22:42 +0000

I am sure you will have graphic continuity and whatnots. Because you were hinting at it in your screenplay. I wouldn’t worry about it. I think you just need to make sure the lack of narrative structure doesn’t make you get lazy and bring the sauce when it comes to pre-production. It seems like this might be a lot of work. But you can totally pull it off. I dunno, I guess it really depends on what you are trying to achieve. Also what is the estimated run-time. Sounds good, and Artsy, not so much on the fartsy though.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:20:35 +0000

Weird, but i like it and i really want to see it. I think it would be cool if he had a shape or color or something going through the story to give it some continuity. And if you do that you can pretend it represents something really deep and profound. Which is always fun to do. “Rabbit” (See what i mean)

By: Timmy

Timmy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:31:03 +0000

Ben, following our discussion I think you’re fine. This isn’t a movie about a real life guy who dreams, it’s about the world of dreams and how disjoint they can be. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.