Nudity should be for everyone like summer.

In the final scene of Cleo 5 to 7 Cleo and the man are walking together in the park everything is calm and easy going. Then, all of a sudden they take a turn and they are on the street with cars moving all around them. This is similar to what we want to do with the scenes before the car gets moving and  once the car gets started. When the car is still in the parking lot the shots that we took are more still. But, once the car is moving there are quick turns around corners and the footage is a little shaky. When I watched it a even got a little car sick. The quick turns represent that feeling of awkwardness when you have a moment with a person that changes your relationship forever. You don't know where you are and you don't even know how it came to be.

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I think the scenes that happen with Linas and the man that asks him for a ride are very similar to the circumstances in the scene that we chose to work on. It's an awkward car ride and nobody knows what to say. Sometimes it's better if you don't say anything at all. In the scenes where Linas and the man are in the car there are several shots where the camera is on the man for a long while, the man isn't doing or saying anything, then there is a quick shot back to Linas to show how he feels about this strange man in the car. The longer shot on the man doing nothing enhances the awkwardness. Also Lina uses a back shot so we can see both of the men at the same time. It's a great shot because we can see the spacial relationship between the two men.

Shoot the Piano Player

I chose to watch the french new wave film Shoot the Piano Player directed by François Truffaut. One particular moment that demonstrated Mise-en-scene in the film was when the one of the bad guys was showing off his scarf that was "made of metal". Fido didn't believe that it was metal so the bad guy swore on his mother's life. Cut to his mother in her house. She falls down and dies. I also really enjoyed the scene when Charlie (or Edward at the time) goes to the rich guys office to play piano and hopefully become rich and famous. A woman is leaving the office with her violin case. Instead of showing Charlie playing the piano and the man looking impressed. Truffaut decides to keep his camera lens on the violin player as she walks away from the office. We hear Charlie's fantastic piano playing and can tell he got the job by the crest-fallen look on the poor violin players face. This film exemplifies the movement because of its rejection of classic film form (They even take a jab at John Wayne) And the film had numerous "long tracking shots" Such as the scene I just mentioned with the woman and the scene where they are driving the car to the cabin in the woods. The film also was focused on an individual character (Charlie) and his struggle with whether he was meant to become a criminal like his brothers. All in all it was a very good movie for a rainy Sunday afternoon. 

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I'm really into the scene where the boy in 400 blows is running and running until eventually he reaches the sea. Just the idea of running until there is no where else to run is both beautiful and sad. Which brings us to where I am now.

This scene reminds me of the movie Into the Wild when Alex sets out on his journey across the continent
Which then takes me to my need for adventure and desire to not end up in Billings, Mt for the rest of my life. So I set out for Seattle.
Although I didn't hitch hike like Alex I did carry a HUGE backpack like his.
Zoom in on his back pack then zoom out to realize that it's not his backpack anymore but mine.
The difference is that he leaves the city for the Wild while I leave the wild for the city.

Which brings us to where I am now.
Longing for the wilderness of Montana, but still loving the life in the big city.

In my last rush I had the scene take place on a night out at the F.O.E. But, maybe it would be more interesting if it was more broad and compared adventures between Montana and Seattle

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I would focus on the hijinks of my past Punk life. It was a time when I always wearing the plaid shirt and, like most angsty teens there was a lot of unrest between me and my parents. There was a very masculine feeling about the clubs that I went to and the music that the bands played. I might even show the movie from the perspective of the shirt. I know that's kind of literal but hopefully, that would make the movie slightly less cliche. It would show the travels of the shirt as it's sleeve hung out of my '78 Thunderbird's window, as it had beer spilled all over it, it gets drenched in sweat from the mosh pit, it gets a cigarette burn on the shoulder from a careless smoker, it lays in the grass to look at the stars and at the end of the night it gets shoved to the bottom of the hamper in hopes that Mom won't be able to smell the booze and cigarette stench when she comes to do laundry. All the shots could be super zoomed in so the audience may catch and hand or a strand of purple hair, but never the full picture. That's how my life was back then. Very myopic. Never really looking at the whole picture. I chose sides in an instant.
Music and sound would play a big part in clarity of location. But, the music would always be louder than people's voices. Every once in a while the audience would catch a snippet of dialogue through the music.

"A film that weaves through the threads of a lost generation. Looking through the buttonholes of an unexpected, but familiar protagonist."

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Alright, I'm going to start with the plaid shirt. In the movie 400 blows the boy was wearing an almost plaid jacket. To me, plaid is rugged and working class. Plaid is for the hoi-polloi. A high class snob wouldn't be caught in plaid (at least not in certain time periods).The lead character in the movie commented several times that he would like to just go out into the world and start earning his living. He really had no interest in school. His family was very working class as well, unlike his best friend from school. Plaid is also very masculine. Around Shakespeare's time, plaid was only worn by working class men. So it makes sense that the lead character is a boy wearing plaid. In a way, it shows his status in the world.


Though there is no actual chopping of wood in 400 Blows, a family does get chopped to pieces. The boy's mother and father abandon him at the military school (observatory), his father disowns him and his mother must admit to him that his father is not his biological father. Everything the boy has ever know is ripped to shreds. By the end, his life has completely done a one eighty. He escapes the school and runs toward the sea in search of a new life.

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...I hope I'm doing this right...

In the movie My Effortless Brilliance the two manly men characters chopping wood remind me of the time I tried to chop wood at my cabin in Red Lodge, Montana. My nearly 60 year old mother is able to do it, so I should be able to do it as well...right?...wrong. After a few miserable attempts I gave up and decided to carry the wood inside and begin starting the fire. My brother continuously brings this fact up whenever I am in town during the winter, thus making me feel inadequate whenever I see someone successfully chopping wood. I could certainly feel for the guy with the glasses when he was unable to exert his manliness through the decimation of stumps (though I do think that he should have at least tried to do it).

Also, the plaid shirt that is worn by the guy who owned the cabin, was his name Dylan? I think so, is very similar to a plaid shirt that I own and love. I've had it since I was in high school and just recently I ripped a huge hole in the back of it. However I still wear it quite often despite the rip. Actually the worn in quality of the shirt makes me love it all the more. Whenever I see a plaid shirt I think woodsy comfort and it reminds me of the many shenanigans I committed during my surly youth. I particularly remember wearing the shirt to a punk show I went to at the FOE. The floor was sticky with beer and the band, Tattoos and Scars, was so drunk that they couldn't tune their guitars.

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I would love to go the Original Works track and possibly write a script for a movie, or maybe even actually making a piece of a movie.
 I don't know what I would write about, but I suppose I would figure that out a little farther into the class.
I have been really interested in how insane people see the world, but I don't know if that has anything to do with anything.
The Citizen Lebowski project interests me as well.
If I were to do that I would be most interested in directing (I've never directed a film that would be exciting...maybe?), writing or acting.
All in all it comes down to time. I don't know how much time I will have towards the end of the semester and if my creative energy is all washed up I might end up writing an analytical paper.
But that would be a last resort.
Right now I'm really feeling the possibilities of option #2 and writing a script.

The first post

 1) What are you doing at Cornish?
I'm a junior in the original works program and loving it! Right now I'm in a play called Tom Thumb and it is excellently absurd.
 2) What's going on outside of Cornish?
There's a life outside of Cornish? heehee. I live in an apartment with my boyfriend of four years and I like to sew and...that's about it.
3) What's your experience with film?
I don't have much besides watching. But, this one time I was an extra in a movie for some guy's college portfolio and it was really great because I got to miss school and hang out in a headshop.
4) Any hopes or expectations for this course?
To learn more about cinema. Particularly french film. I always want to watch it but I never have time. Also the mumblecore movement is interesting to me because I am intrigued by generative work and would enjoy seeing it from a film point of view.