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Fan theories and embarrassment at Star Trek screenings
Brief news time. I am hard work on a brand new podcast that will supplement the blog, tumblr and my newsletter. It will be a mix of a talk-show format (with guests down the line) and scripted storytelling. I promise absurd satire and super dumb, dark comedy. Keep an eye out for the launch in the next two weeks-ish. Nonsense post time. Let's talk about ways one can use their 'director's eye' to embarrass themselves. The 'director's eye' is the ability to break down stories into their base protein building blocks, to separate the cloth and see the color and texture of the individual [...]
Frozen: the Best Line in the Movie
So, I finally saw Frozen, and I loved it. Disney has had a good run of late. There is a favorite line of mine in Frozen for its ability to explain away magic rules that do not matter in the context of a story. It's a marvelous line that ripples and flares with life the more you think about it. It's so effective at what it does that that one line spares the movie entire explanatory sequences and songs. Early in the movie, a character with magical abilities taken to a sort of shaman. The little old rock guy walks up to the character [...]
Catching Fire and Place
I think Catching Fire is really, really good. A marked improvement on the so-so technical execution of movie one. I think it's better than the book on which it is based, even. No, Katniss does not really do anything in this story either, but it's still an entertaining yarn. And this time around she actually struggles with killing people consciously. Movie one bugged me because, while the performances, effects, etc. were all pretty good, the camera work and editing made the first forty-five minutes of the film incoherent. I was denied any sense of place and for some bizarre reason, the characters rarely had [...]