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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
The movie of the holiday season?
I see DP has visited The Grove.
DP, I hope you don’t mind me popping into this thread ot ask this, but it has been on my mind. How do you think Cameron will work AVATAR in its home video release? Obviously BD will be the preferred format, but how will they get the 3D into the homes? Do they make a home 3D player? I’ve never heard of one but, IMODP, I hope you don’t mind me popping into this thread ot ask this, but it has been on my mind. How do you think Cameron will work AVATAR in its home video release? Obviously BD will be the preferred format, but how will they get the 3D into the homes? Do they make a home 3D player? I’ve never heard of one but, IMO< I think the film wouldn't play as well on 2D as it does in 3D, so I plan to see it a few times in the theater to soak it up, just in case I never get to experience it that way again. BTW, can you imagine what SK would've done with this kind of tech if he had it when he made 2001?
“DP, I hope you don’t mind me popping into this thread ot ask this, but it has been on my mind. How do you think Cameron will work AVATAR in its home video release? Obviously BD will be the preferred format, but how will they get the 3D into the homes? Do they make a home 3D player? I’ve never heard of one but, IMO”
He’s already said that the first Avatar release on BD will NOT have 3-D on it, but there will be a version with sterescopic 3-D released once affordable 3-D TVS roll out a year or so from now. Good move, since at present the only 3-D possible on Blu-Ray (as used on Polar Express and Coraline) is the crappy anaglyph method with the carboard glasses.
I have seen almost all of the big 3-D movies since this tech came to the forefront, and this one is the one that SIMPLY DID NOT NEED IT! It’s cool, it brings depth to field, but good lord is it not need. Oh yeah, one word for you: FELUCIA
In space, in flight, high in the air-the 3d gave me that quiver of scared-of-heights. Plus the cool displays on everything.
The stunning thing about revisiting 2001 in Blu-ray is how absolutely amazing it looks using the technology of its time.
I think that for most people, this kind of tech is a waste and perhaps, a weight on their creativity. Not everyone can make something great out of it. Kubrick would find a way to use this stuff, but it is his moments of pure humanity that are by far the best. And when Cameron creates that humanity in this film, it is at its best.
Doug, I almost walked out of freakin King Kong because of that shit. Avatar at least featured a character with carbon fiber skin, that could handle a bump. So it did not bother me as much.