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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Grasping the Cup in the Dark
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
City Life
Friday, November 9, 2007
Man With Bike
This, just, well it came out of nowhere. The only real inspiration for this had to have been the face. Which looks like Kyle MacLachlan a bit, because I was watching Blue Velvet (in preparation for meeting Hopper) when I was drawing this.Labels: Sketches
Dennis Hopper is Quite Calm
I have to say that I never honestly thought that I would feel comfortable face to face with Dennis Hopper. I thought that his performance in David Lynch's Blue Velvet or, any other role he has played, would scare me away from him. It turns out that Dennis Hopper has to be one of the most comfortable people to be around. He is thoughtful, quiet, and always looking, searching, and seeking for inspiration. For two hours he spoke to my screenwriting class and we listened, talked, and discussed everything from Easy Rider to Danger Mouse.
Hopper started off the class with a question: "So you guys are screenwriters?". To which our response was silence. I guess none of us had ever thought of ourselves as screenwriters. But then again, we might ask ourselves what we have been doing for the past three months. The class started off talking about his directorial debut: Easy Rider. We had screened easy rider 5 days before and had time to dwell on it. We talked about situations to deal with on location, inspiration for the film, and improvisation versus a script. Most of easy rider was structured improv, with Jack Nicholson's scenes being the only few actually scripted.
From there the conversation's took off into other grounds, everything from being on the legendary set of Apocalypse Now, to his involvement in True Romance. We talked about Tony Scott and I eventually had the nerve to ask him why Tony Scott's work has gone downhill. Hopper talked a bit about how both Ridley Scott and Tony Scott have a lot of trouble keeping up with work and still keeping artistic merit (it was at this time that I realized that they were brothers).
As the conversation continued the class became more comfortable with Dennis Hopper. Until it became more of a conversation and less of a class. It got particularly exciting when, at the end, we started discussing Banksy, the Gorillaz, and his involvement with Danger Mouse.
My personal response wasn't as strong as it was to Werner Herzog, but it was still amazing to meet Dennis Hopper. I never thought that I would meet either of these two filmmaking legends and talking with them as only solidified my confidence that I am a filmmaker. It's dinner time right now. I've got some more sketches coming up and hopefully a new series of Films in the next couple of weeks.Labels: Film
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Getting Started.
I am very excited to see this article and I am very excited about the film society. So far we have had two screenings and while small, the idea is growing and I am slowly getting people interested. My eventual dream is just to be making movies as often as possible at Wheaton. More later. Very Tired.Labels: Film, Film Society
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