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The Visitor |
This time, they've gone too far...
...and I'm not taking it anymore.
So last Sunday I was in for a special treat: my girlfriend was buying me dinner at the Japanese restaraunt in Mid Valley, the one near the cinema. It's one of my fav's, thanks to the fact that it's one of the few (if not the only of) resteraunts there that have a smoking area inside, as opposed to shoving you out on the streets like a stray gerbil. This was also going to be the first full meal I'd be having since the whole 'remove the wisdom tooth' thing: udon noodles, a bento set consisting of chicken tepanyaki, tempura, sushi, miso soup and watermelon and some gyoza.
Yum.
Before we went to the resteraunt, though, we were walking about Mid Valley like mallrats when I noticed something very odd on the preview screen at the cinema: a trailer for a Malay film was playing, and it has influenced me more than ever to go out and do my own damn movie.
If anything, to prove to myself that a Malay film AP (After P.Ramlee, one of the most kickass filmmakers in Malaysia ever) is not always a pile of stinking kancil poop.
If I'm not mistaken, the movie was called "Hip-Hop:Skateboarding:Mobile Phone".
Oh, dear.
The trailer featured hip-hop kids rapping in some dodgy venue, college girls being bitchy, some hip-hop kids skating quite badly and to top it all of, one kid 'acting' like he's trying to pull some trick on a make-shift bank, bailing quite softly then focusing his board.
Except it looked more like someone who didn't know how to skate going up a bank, falling, then trying to act like he was pissed off.
Oh, dear.
The thought of 'I Know What You Did Last Raya' being an actual movie as opposed to a really crap joke (or an even worse Senario sketch) was already mind-boggling enough as it is. But "Hip-Hop:Skateboarding:Mobile Phone"?
The mind's been ticking away furiously, trying to figure out something viable, possible, do-able.
First on the list is a horror film, but my main worry there is that of cinematography. I know that whatever I shoot will be on digital, and horror movies almost always involve shooting at night, meaning proper lighting. There are exceptions, though, like Dawn of the Dead, which brings me on to the next question:
If it was a zombie movie, how could it be a bit more original than all the zombie movies that have passed?
The other route was a movie focusing on one man slowly deteriorating a la Taxi Driver or Pi. Keep the cast small, keep the concept cool, use voice over a lot, settled.
But still.
All I know is I'm definitely going to go B-movie route for my first film. Peter Jackson did it. Sam Raimi did it. Robert Rodriguez did it. Worked out for them. They both got to do kick-ass adapations of known classics. If all goes well, maybe some bigtime Hollywood producer will come a-knocking asking me to adapt Gen13.
Or Transmetropolitan. That'd be kick-ass like a rather large ass-kicking device designed to kick ass on a daily basis with optimum force.
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