Tuesday, November 23, 1999 - Gray Days

Wow, it's been months since I've updated the website. No I haven't been slacking filmwise. At least not too much. Let's see. Blue got an award at the Berkeley Video Festival, which is always a good thing. And a retailer has picked up the film for online ordering:

http://www.alessandrasmile.com/film.htm

I had a dream that I reshot the movie with a new cast and completely different dialogue, but the same story. Mary and Carol were symbols for the two sides of Michael's brain, an environment in which he slipped from one to the other at random intervals. This was all done in a visual fashion. There was Mary. Whoops, now there's Carol. Kind of like a merry-go-roun or carousel.

I'm not going to do this, but it is interesting. I'd like to make it a motif for the next film. Day and night, the two sides of human nature of the main characters. Their hopes (scholastic achievements) and needs (those nighlong yearnings, all the bar-hopping, cringing, looking for the one.)

Okay, no more crack smoking for today.

-George