Thursday, June 28, 2007

Update on NY Premiere


Here's the TV spot for the festival
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Tickets for the festival were supposed to be sold yesterday, but apparently the bad weather is not only hitting Texas, but NYC as well, as they are having power outages... so I will keep everyone posted on this, so you can get your tickets early...
Tickets: www.nylatinofilm.com

The roller coaster is still going, but it seems like it's going faster and scarier... but just like a roller coaster it's always a fun ride...
Yesterday, we got a "not interested" phone call from a shocked and appalled producer in Beverly Hills... He was very polite, but he seemed disturbed by what he experienced, he said, it didn't go with the "philosophy" of the company, but the doors remained open in case I wanted to submit anything else...
TWO positive things stood out:
  1. The film's goal is to incite a reaction (which it did). A mediocre film will cause indifference. And that is worse reaction.
  2. I was asked about a specific scene, that was so shocking I had to return the call to tell him that what he saw wasn't real, and it was all movie magic, fake, make-believe... This point attests that our film is so realistically and well produced that even a hollywood producer had no doubt that what he saw was real... I thought this was hilarious...
I also received several crucial emails for the continuation of DWS...

T : What are we then?
N : ...Consumers?...
T: Right. We are consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty. These things don't concern me. What concerns me, are celebrity magazines. Television with 500 channels. Some guy's name on my underwear. Rogain. Viagra. Olestra.
N: Martha Stewart.
T: F*ck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's all goin' down, man. So F*ck off with your sofa units and string green stripe patterns. I say, never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let the...let's evolve. Chips fall where they may. But that's just me, I could be wrong, maybe it's a terrible tragedy.
N: No...it's just...just stuff.
T: Well you did lose a lot of versatile solutions to modern living.
N: F*ck you're right. ... My insurance is probably gonna cover it.
pause
What?
T: The things you own, end up owning you.

FIGHT CLUB (1999)

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