Second Month of Production

Haha, well... things are the same as they were last month - in that nothing has happened. Now that sickness and the holidays are behind us, though, things should start up again soon.

I hope.

I really, really hope.

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In other news, though, last week I finally sat down and read the script for The Dark Knight. Even just reading the script left me in awe at the end. It's a wonderfully written movie. A few days after that, Nick told me we should be rehearsing this coming weekend, so I picked up the Get Back script to go over my lines. As I read through, I fell in love with the story all over again. I'm not tooting my own horn, but I really love the layers that are in the script. It was a good story, that became a better script, that has improved even more so with rewritten/additional scenes. I wouldn't dare compare ANYTHING I've done to what was done in The Dark Knight, but in some ways, I find a similarity. Both deal with personal, human issues while in the setting of something more grand and potentially cliche. When people ask me what Get Back is about, I can't sum it up by saying it's a "revenge movie," because there is much more to it than that. I know I wrote it, so it's hard to not sound arrogant, but believe that it is only because of how proud I am of it that I talk like this.

As an actor, I can't wait to give life to this flawed, lost character. As the writer, I can't wait to see the wonderful nuances of the various characters and dialogue come to fruition as we shoot. And as a movie lover, I can't wait to see the final product. I hope we can put together something that isn't just "good for our level," or "better than what we've done before," or at the very worst a "cool" movie, but something that stands on it's own simply as a good, solid movie.

I hope.

I really, really hope.