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Stupid butterflies :( Anyway, one I have thought about is this: What if Sirhan Sirhan had been distracted for a moment, maybe something boiling over in the kitchen, and had entered that hall a moment later, and was, this time, off, by a fraction, by enough. And Bobby Kennedy survives. Bobby...

I don't know, but I imagine, if you don't want an actual dramatization of the incidents, but rather, a narrator, it would be a pretty easy job for Nate, his pipeline, and one of his robots. It could be a simulacra of Churchill, of a Churchill-inspired android, or, probably of anything-- a...

What a blast! What's not to love about Arlo Guthrie. Thanks for the link :) And, by the way, the bio-pic of Woody, Bound for Glory, with David Carradine, is a nice piece of work. This is American history, which carries through Woody and Arlo, that some people don't like (never liked...

I know you all find my stream of consciousness endlessly entertaining, but I do have things to do. However I did find a MHP (mental health professional) on-line who, in a video conference, wrote me a scrip for a pill to make me a better (and by better I mean more skillful) person. So far, on...

But, Sean, when they harmonized. Maybe I'm just in a mood, tonight, but this got to me.

Yup. It's a judgement call and I'm sure not an easy one: a little ambiguity is, I think, fine, but you don't wan't to lose anyone with too much. So yea, I think testing it out a few ways, and getting a little feedback from your crew and peers, is a good idea. As I said, this was just an...

A personal reaction, probably, I want to note, uneducated--my credentials are only as someone who has watched a lot of stuff, and not as anyone with any real expertise in, or even knowledge about, independent filmmaking. So first. I was initially a little impatient at the lingering in the fist...

Hey! In the last seven months I haven't done much but work on my spreadsheet, a master self-categorizing to-do list sorted under various acronyms: TCB, take care of business--contact student loan people. It's been 30 years and I think they're beginning to realize it is a blood/stone situation...

Thanks, Mara. Jack is telling a story, which becomes dramatized instead of told. Which, now that I think about it, is an odd convention peculiar to movies. The voice-over is an attempt to introduce and explain this. But I suppose I could have him just say, in present time, "I had waited for...

Thanks Nate, again, for taking the time and thought. I appreciate it. (Although "appreciate" is a little tepid. :) ) You wrote: " It felt like an afterthought, as if jack delivering his flashbacks was the headline, and the robot's malfunction was tertiary." And this is exactly right. The...

I feel like posting (for, I think, a short time) another one of these, from the PKD (Philip K. Dick) adaptation. I think it gives me the illusion that I'm doing something, lol. I've invented the incidents and the dialogue (with the exception of a few lines) but I try to follow ideas in the book...

Yup, lol. I liked those brothers who made Stranger Things. For the first time we are offered an unprecedented look at their notebooks, in which we see that they made . . . notes! Also we learn the secret to success: imitate, as much as you can, the greatest movie ever made--Goonies! But yea, as...

Yes! Good. I think this was what Mara was suggesting, in dropping lines, subtracting rather than adding, a shift in perspective, from the writer to the audience.

I'll take y'all's word for it, but is this really true? Probably for commercial viability it is, but I don't care about that, It's not my primary motivating thing. It's somebody else's decision. I just want to do what I can, do what seems correct for the thing, whatever that thing is, I...

Ahhh. It makes sense now. A little dry, but in context, i think this would be apparent. Interesting. As I said, at first i thought it was something real, and then . . . I didn't want to be unkind, and so didn't go on about the writing being a little sophomoric, lol. As parody it works...

Ah good. At first i was afraid this was another ecological nightmare that I was somehow unaware of, skimming by "welcome to the future," until the dude told me about the monster crabs in 2471. Whew. Anyway, I love the colors of this, and I'm not usually that visually sensitive. And the waves...

I like this a lot. It should have that feel. It's Philip K. Dick, part of that generation but as unique, and I think as important, as Kafka, reifying dense philosophical and existential concerns in pulpy SF. Heinlein liked him (probably felt sorry for him, as a kind of troubled nut) but found...

Thanks Nate. I was looking forward to your, and to Mara's, thoughts (and of course to anyone else's who wants to bother). I think you both found it too slow (but not badly written, which means a lot). While this is a little disappointing it is certainly understandable, and I take it to heart...

Thanks, Mara. This is what I was looking for, and it is helpful. Some of this makes more sense with what precedes and what follows. There are a few little plants, Arnie's little flirtation, Sharp's little shy smile, which will be revisited. And I'm trying to show that Arnie has a kind of...

I posted this once before, had second thoughts and deleted, and now have second second thoughts and am posting it again, because I would really appreciate some feedback. It's from a screenplay adaptation of a novel that I want try to get in front of the intellectual property owner, to see if it...