As we are about to get into the production phase of our year with the first shoot merely a week away, I continue my furious pre-production, of writing, planning and conceiving how my (at the moment) mish mash of a film is going to come together from all the various ideas that seem to float around inside this crazy little thing I call my mind.
Film making, for me at least, is a terrifying and exhilarating experience, I try to make something that I would want to watch, and something that has a story, and it is that very thought that terrifies me because of the little voice that lives inside my head which questions me and makes me doubt myself...but on the upside it makes me ask myself Why? How? Why does that happen in the story? How is this going to work out?
What is my film about then? well I guess I should mention it somewhere on this blog since that's what this whole blog is about!
My story is an amalgamation of A Grimm Fairy Tale, A Christmas Carol and A Terry Gilliam Movie (think Brazil or The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus).
It is about a young man who idolizes his father to the extent where he has basically become a carbon copy of him with his attitude towards women, which is to say that he objectifies women and uses and abuses them once he has had his fill of them.
He does all this because he still seeks his fathers approval, even though his father hasn't been around for years, he still behaves this way because it is second nature to him, it was instilled in him at a very young age when he stayed with his father (which was sporadic).
As a young boy he lived with various aunts and his grand mother who where very strict on him to an unnecessary degree and tried to raise him to be a strict catholic, but it was when he stayed with his father and his father treated him like an adult that he started to imitate his father and rebel against his guardians.
His father Introduces him to drugs and clubs when he is only in his early teens and this bright shiny world compared to his quiet upbringing is new and exciting to him that he must experience all of it with no thought to any of the other repercussions.
Because of this he drops out of school and joins a sales team in a call center and now he has an income and met a group of like minded people he sinks even further into the folds of ecstasy and depravity.
I Initially came up with the idea for the story after listening to "Bobby Brown" by Frank Zappa which is a song about a young jock who is a bit of a dick and treats women like sex objects and thinks he's gods gift to women "Oh God I am the American dream
I do not think I'm too extreme, An I'm a handsome sonofabitch, I'm gonna get a good job n be real rich".
Using this I developed the idea further (and keep developing) to give him a bit more of a back story and what perhaps is the cause of why he is the way he is and what path got him to there. Was there more to his arrogance then perhaps is on the surface and what might be the deeper reason for him being this way.
Stay Tuned Loyal Reader, More Will Follow.
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