Diverging

Saturday April 1, 2006 | Comments now closed

As many of you probably know, I am a big fan of movies. I mean, a REALLY big fan of movies. In fact, there was a time when I dabbled in the gilded profession, creating extremely low-budget trailers for unfilmed epics with titles such as Dumb Guy Forever and John Woo Style (the latter refers not to director John Woo’s famous love of slow-motion gunplay and overwrought sentimentality, but rather, the courtship techniques of one John Woodward, a childhood acquaintance who made his way through the cheerleaders of Rockland High School like Brad Pitt at a Mary Kay convention).

Pooling our resources of a video camera, $29.55, a ski jacket and a pair of Wal-Mart sunglasses, my friends and I filmed flashy trailers based on the scripts I wrote. There was only one film I actually tried to make in its entirety: a little thriller called T... Continue reading »