“You Got Red on You”

So I’ve been busy, I’m sorry. I was one of the Production Designers on a film. So I was either on set, playing with set decorations or building a set. Anytime between 8 am and..midnight. Afterwards, I was pretty tuckered out sooo I just watched an episode of Scrubs, and then went to bed each night instead of coming here and talking to you. Do forgive me.

 

We built an I Love Lucy mock Bedroom set, it was awesome. took apart a lot of school furniture and dragged it to the studio. We weren’t technically suposed to do that…but we put it back…both school beds, all five of the bookcases and the sixteen milk cartons from behind the cafeteria. It was amazing.

Built up the wall, did the wallpapering (sort of cheated with that) lose the tree and that’s the set. It was epic.

Today I had a twelve page research paper due, it was due on a director, I picked Billy Wilder, so I watched a lot of movies on Sunday and wrote the paper yesterday. ANYWAYS, time for MOVIES!!

Double Indemnity (1944): Film Noir, My very first Film Noir. It was AWESOME. Loved, just LOVED the lighting. Story was fantastic. Set during the Production Code era, so for anyone who knows what that means, you basically know the ending…I love Venetian blind lighting…it looks soo cool. Absolutely amazing.

Sunset Boulevard (1950): I am buying this movie. Blockbuster isn’t getting it back. NEVER. I am going to keep it. That’s how awesome this movie was. It’s about a down on his luck writer in Hollywood who comes into contact with an old Silent Movie actress whose career is over. The writing is very much in the style of Film Noir, but they didn’t light it that way. There are some fantastic lines in this movie, it’s a fantastic movie.

Stalag 17 (1953): A War movie, WWII. Set in a POW camp, kinda like The Great Escape. Despite the very depressing surroundings, this movie is actually really funny. I feel like they did a great job making each of the characters an actual character with his own personality etc. I’m very tempted to buy this one too.

Sabrina (1954): An Audrey Hepburn movie, cute movie. Didn’t feel that original, but it was done very well. Loved the intro, the way it unfolded, the lighting the costuming. All very good.

Witness for the Prosecution (1957): Honestly, I was a tad distracted watching this one, didn’t pay full attention at the begining but DUDE the ending was EPIC. LOVED IT. I can’t speak of it any more, it’s a secret.

Some Like it Hot (1959): Marilyn Monroe, I have never seen a Marilyn Monroe picture before. I mean, I know who she is. I’ve just never seen something she has been in. This was very good. Lots of really fun predicaments and I said to myself, how the heck are they getting out of this? and it was funny, very funny.

[Scrubs] Season One (2001): Dude, yay for Scrubs. This show is awesome. I think the Janitor is almost my favorite character. It’s like…Modern Day M*A*S*H soooo basically, it rules. Brendan Fraiser was in two episodes, thats fantastic, especially for a show in it’s first season…someone has connections.

[Scrubs] Season Two (2002): Also great. Fun character development from Season one, yay for the Janitor again. He is still my favorite. Mostly, I was most excited about the development actually, looking forward to the next season.

Shaun of the Dead (2004): I’ve always loved this movie. Love LOVE LOVE the editing. This group always does an amazing job. Great dialouge, great everything.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951): One of the early early science fiction movies, it was very similar to the begining of War of the Worlds, but after they come out of the spaceship it’s all different. Still a fun movie, I can see its influence in more recent movies.