Last night: pre-trip and geeking out
Jul. 25th, 2007 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideTook the Ninja Wizards to work today to drop them off. Trisky was hysterical and frantic all the way there and Jo-chan sat in the back with the two boydogs who were pretty good. We dropped them off (Dan taking one look at Jo-chan and commenting, "Whoa! You two look alike!" Yes, that is why she's playing Young Me in the movie!) and then we stopped for ice cream (soft serve with the hard shell, YUM) and discussed the movie. From there we went to Michael's for some prop / costumey kinds of things. Back home, we walked to the beach to film the second shot in the movie. I kind of wanted to rip off FF8 for this with the whole feather motif, but alas, it is windy at the beach. The other thing that kind of messed it up was this old lady in a bikini who was IN EVERY SINGLE SHOT. She stood behind us on the rocks in her teeny blue bikini (allow me to point out that she was pushing 70 and about 200 pounds, and her bikini was positively tiny--I mean, go you, for real, but PLEASE GET OUT OF THE SHOT.) Dude, she just absolutely stood there staring. It was surreal.
We came back and edited a bit, salvaging what we could and trying to cut Mrs. Blue Bikini out of it. Then we had dinner and I decided to shoot another scene, this one involving me falling fully clothed from a chair on the deck into the pool. I know that makes no sense now, but it came out pretty cool.)
I took a shower, then we sat down and watched The Crow. I think that's a movie that comes along at the precise moment you need to see it. At least it did for me and a few other people I know. For someone who grew up Goth Lite, at least in terms of really liking the visual gothic style, the movie just grabbed you. It came out in the early to mid 90s before we were on the internet or any of that, and it just sort of defined an era for me, or a way of thinking and feeling. So I showed it to Jo-chan and she really liked it, too. It was that or Donnie Darko, which I think is, aside from being a great movie, is also a movie that draws today's semi-goth crowd for whatever reason. I'm not sure why. the third choice was Dracula, the original, which I'll be honest, I still think is brilliant and probably always will.
One of these days I'm going to have to show her Night Of The Living Dead. That movie still spooks me to this day. It remains one of the scariest zombie movies ever made. My other really scary zombie movie was Mausoleum (but when I saw it it was called "One Dark Night.") My folks took my best friend Tracy and I to see that when we were ten (or eleven?) This was before ratings kept kids out of the movies. We saw it in the movie theater and it was my first zombie film. I so clearly remember being curled up on the floor, peeking over the top of the seat in front of me. I had a Hershey bar in my hand and I clutched it so tightly that it melted in my hand and I couldn't eat it. I had nightmares for weeks and had to sleep with the light on. It was one of the best movie experiences of my life.
Come to think of it, my other scariest and most beloved film of the early 80s was Poltergeist. When I was a little girl, I could recite the movie backwards and forwards. Dude, that movie scared the Christ out of me and probably still would. And Halloween, holy crap, the part where he is wearing the sheet and just standing there staring, dude, that gave me nightmares, too.
You know I'm going to say it: They don't make movies like that anymore. I'm such a geek. >_>
We came back and edited a bit, salvaging what we could and trying to cut Mrs. Blue Bikini out of it. Then we had dinner and I decided to shoot another scene, this one involving me falling fully clothed from a chair on the deck into the pool. I know that makes no sense now, but it came out pretty cool.)
I took a shower, then we sat down and watched The Crow. I think that's a movie that comes along at the precise moment you need to see it. At least it did for me and a few other people I know. For someone who grew up Goth Lite, at least in terms of really liking the visual gothic style, the movie just grabbed you. It came out in the early to mid 90s before we were on the internet or any of that, and it just sort of defined an era for me, or a way of thinking and feeling. So I showed it to Jo-chan and she really liked it, too. It was that or Donnie Darko, which I think is, aside from being a great movie, is also a movie that draws today's semi-goth crowd for whatever reason. I'm not sure why. the third choice was Dracula, the original, which I'll be honest, I still think is brilliant and probably always will.
One of these days I'm going to have to show her Night Of The Living Dead. That movie still spooks me to this day. It remains one of the scariest zombie movies ever made. My other really scary zombie movie was Mausoleum (but when I saw it it was called "One Dark Night.") My folks took my best friend Tracy and I to see that when we were ten (or eleven?) This was before ratings kept kids out of the movies. We saw it in the movie theater and it was my first zombie film. I so clearly remember being curled up on the floor, peeking over the top of the seat in front of me. I had a Hershey bar in my hand and I clutched it so tightly that it melted in my hand and I couldn't eat it. I had nightmares for weeks and had to sleep with the light on. It was one of the best movie experiences of my life.
Come to think of it, my other scariest and most beloved film of the early 80s was Poltergeist. When I was a little girl, I could recite the movie backwards and forwards. Dude, that movie scared the Christ out of me and probably still would. And Halloween, holy crap, the part where he is wearing the sheet and just standing there staring, dude, that gave me nightmares, too.
You know I'm going to say it: They don't make movies like that anymore. I'm such a geek. >_>
