minions, marriage, and time-mangement ~

man, i don't feel like working today. long fight sequence on the queue and fights are soooo boring to write. just sucks all the strength out of me. bleh. usually i can knock out about 5 or six minutes of dialogue/action in an hour. after an hour this morning so far: 2 and half minutes. pathetic. if they would just fight silently, i could cruise through, but there's foley on every single shot (arghhhh!).

sometimes you just get an episode that makes you want to put your own eyes out. the consolation is, i guess, that when i go back to finish the text, i can just scroll through all that (because it's done!).

and you know the morning's off to a bad start when you find yourself lj-ing about work. yuck.

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in writing: last night two of my characters eloped.

it wasn't entirely unexpected ~ i knew they were getting married ~ i just didn't realize they'd forego the whole wedding ceremony, etc.

of course, now that i look at it, it makes perfect sense.

( long ramble about technicalities of marriage in the 19th century )

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i had thought to get a little ahead on the work today, but so far it's not looking like it's going to happen. i'm going to try to push through for another hour or so and then fergit it, i'm on to something (anything!) else. maybe when i get over the hump, it will flow more smoothly.

beautiful crisp post-rain morning. i threw open all the windows and am slightly cold, but it feels good.

oh yeah, hitchcock ~

after a long day of boring fight script, barfing dog, and too much sodium, i fell into a television series coma from which i have only just recently awaken.

i was going to write about Hitchcock, but i don't feel like it. I Confess has (by today's standards) a fairly hackneyed plot (priest is suspected of a murder which was confessed to him, etc. and there's an old flame involved), but i think it's the most beautiful of Hitchcock's films. Montgomery Clift is ridiculously good-looking (oy vey!) and the cinematography is phenomenal.

what else can i say. watch the movie. it's not hitchcock's greatest film story-wise, but visually i think it beats the pants off almost all of the others. what a feast! the film was shot in quebec ~ so not surprisingly, the exterior shots in particular are amazing!





if you want to see a whole slew of stills from the movie, check out this great site ~ it's got wonderful shots from all throughout the movie (warning: spoilers!)

it's really too bad about Monty Clift (he's one of those actors you just don't want to read about because his life was just such a mess). so sad. and i suppose equally hard to watch him in a film like this when he was young and still gorgeous (before the car accident). there's a really disheartening extra on the dvd of this in which someone (i forget who) recalls a screening of the movie years later to which Clift showed up and watched from the back. it was clearly hard for him to watch too, the interviewee said, and Clift more or less said as much as well. meh.

i'm looking for a copy of The Heiress but haven't tracked one down yet. seems like it's not available easily, but I'm determined.

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