Favourite Directors

We all have our favourite actors but those actors have a little help and guidance by some brilliant minds behind the camera. If someone asked me who my favourite Director was the list would be massive as I look up to so many different directors for different reasons. If it's technological attributes then  that award would go to 

James Cameron, think what you like about him but The Terminator to say it was an indie before becoming big budget film franchise giant was amazing with even the skeleton that makes to laugh my head off is outstanding. He also has got a lot of patience to come up with a film idea and then having to wait over 15 years to make it is unreal ... Avatar was put on the back burner due to the fact that the technology available to Mr Cameron at the time when he thought up of this idea, he could've made it but instead choose to wait to make the film one of his best. Also who can forget Titanic which was in some way Cameron's most famous and biggest hit at the box office (until Avatar smashed it's record and blew it out of the water quite literally!) with the CGI effects of the boat sinking and Kate Winslet and a very young and sexy Leonardo Di Caprio (I have a thing for him) it's no wonder he's on my list. 

Christopher Nolan is someone who I admire and look up to as he's a British director who just makes amazing movies... every time I sit and watch Inception, Batman,Momento and The Prestige  i'm stunned by his style... most Brit directors do have a gritty dark side to them which makes films more dark anyway but the way he took on a massive DC Comic like Batman and made in opinion a Masterpiece of a trilogy from start to finish with the use of amazing actors which I have to say includes the mighty Gary Oldman and Sir Michael Cane as well as Christian Bale in these dark and slightly deeply disturbing eerie films. The Dark Knight happens to be my favourite although The Dark Knight Rises is also one of my other favourites as it just kicks butt! Christopher Nolan is just a legend and a treasure to my little country! 

Stanley Kubrick is another director I look up to... whether it be his adaptation of The Shining which author Steven King absolutely detested or the strange and wired A Clock Work Orange which was banned by the BBFC for extreme violence on it's UK release which is just silly as i've watched it and to be honest compared to modern day Horror films that is nothing in the way of Violence ... I digress Stanley Kubrick is from the Movie Brat era and is a Movie Brat himself and sometimes overshadowed by his counter parts Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola who are some of my favourite directors and writers on to Scorsese in a bit, Kubrick's way of finding quirky and oddball subjects makes him unique and thats what I love about him really... he reminds me of George Orwell and maybe even Salvador Dahli in a way with the use of slightly more strange techniques to enhance the visual aspects of his films.  

Stephen Spielberg is to me an inspiration, he is the father of the modern blockbuster creating a shark as a villain who's soundtrack is just two notes. His beautiful and heart warming tale of a an extra terrestrial who has a bond and loving friendship with a little boy in California to taking us to a war with Saving Private Ryan which scares the hell out of me. But it isn't all about his films to why he is my favourite Director it's to do with him as a person as I share something with Mr Spielberg I am Aspergers. 

Not many people really know what Aspergers syndrome is.... it is a high functioning form of Autism that 

effects lots of people around the world and when I found out I had the condition I researched who else had it and he came up. Being in love with films to know that you share a condition or a way life with someone who you look up to is amazing and gives me hope. So other than the fact that he is an amazing director I have looked up to him for that reason as well. 

I mentioned Martin Scorsese before... he is a Movie Brat Legend... Taxi Driver is an amazing film but my favourite has to be Shutter Island. This film is again an adaptation on a book which is sinister, freaky and damn right confusing... again it's the Inception moment at the end of the film where you just go What?? The way he actually directed it and the use of colour and camera shots was amazing .. and to create a film with such complex narrative and plot ideas is just mind blowing.

I've only mentioned a few there as the list would go on and on .. but I know that there are some amazing people on that list ... who have changed cinematic history or developed cinema in a positive light. All I know is without the Director's, Producers, Writers and Actors films would not be what they are today. 

Inception- A good Way to blow your mind !

It's understandable that when this film came out there was some confusion over the narrative, but never in a million years would I think after watching it numerous times I still don't understand the ending!!! Yes thats right I still get confused although I have watched the film over and over again but it is the writing of this film that makes it spectacular and so so confusing. In a way Christopher Nolan knew that this film would be as confusing as his earlier film Momento (don't get me started on that plot I can't even get my head around that!) which is still confusing to this day.

Another thing that played on my mind was the lead actor Leonardo De Caprio has not yet won an Oscar for any of his performances although he is a brilliant actor. Within this complex narrative it may have the effect of swamping the actors but no everyone rises up to the challenge with amazing results.

So why is it so confusing?

Well this is about people who extract information mostly secrets from your dreams but creating a dream within a dream that the mind thinks is real. So when the challenge rises to actually place an idea into a person's mind by creating 3 dreams to do it then the mind goes WHAT!!!! This is insane?
Inception's success is how the catalysts in the narrative is that Leonardo's character is on the run and can not return to America due to the fact that his wife is dead. We later learn why she is dead and why Leo can't go home!  With clever twists and turns the ending does make the film what it is.... but the ending is the most confusing part.. the build up is amazing through the second and third act (as a script writer or learning how to construct a script your second act is the most difficult as you tend to waffle and not put important information that is not actually relevant to the script) with you actually clinging to your seat hoping to god you don't fall off it... but then the ending hits and thats the point where everyone who has ever watched this film whether they be into films and how they work or just a regular everyday viewer we all together go I don't get it!

Is he actually dreaming or is it real life???

That is the burning question that has been eating me up since I first sat and watched the film... and it was the most annoying thing that has still puzzled me to this day.

From pen to page... from Computer to screen

Ok so you all know I have just begun to write scripts well this time I have moved away from serial killers and moved on to another script. it still has a dark and twisted theme that came to me in a dream.

Anyway I have just finished my first draft of act 1 which is amazing as I'm unsure that I have got it right but instead of over thinking it i'm just going with my instinct!!!

Anyway why bother sharing this with you???


Part of me wants to make a 2 part drama and then send it off and see if it'll get commissioned in the UK for Television... no way can I write a film yet thats for next semester !

I'm excited but nervous as well as only a close friend and my family are going to see it at this stage, but thats all i'm going to say for the moment...

Is it time to make a Friends Movie???

After nearly 20 years of being on the small screen and 10 seasons, is it time to bring Monica, Rachel, Pheobe, Chandler, Joey and Ross back together for 1 very special film???

Well this is the question if Sex and the City can do two blockbuster films is it time for the most iconic TV show of the 1990's to come back to the big screen although Joey was a flop (sorry Matt Le Blanc) can we reunite the girls and boys back together with Janise thrown in!?

I think Friends defined popular culture in the 1990's and the early 00's(the show ended in 2004 when we all finally said our teary final goodbyes) but it left it open, Ross and Rachel got back together, Chandler and Monica got their babies and moved to the suburbs, Phoebe married Mike and well Joey did what Joey always does and chases his dreams and goes to LA.

The guys haven't had bad careers after Friends, they have all appeared in TV shows... Courtney Cox is now famously in Cougar Town where she plays a cougar! Jennifer Anniston is in loads of Romantic Comedies including Marly and Me and she also starred along side Gerard Butler (by the way i'm so jealous!) David Schwimmer is now a director ... famously directing Run Fat Boy Run (starring Simon Pegg) and appearing in The Iceman (2013),Mathew Perry starred of course in 17 Again the teen comedy flick where he plays a divorcee... Lisa Kudrow has been in many films but in small roles and Matt Le Blanc has in TV shows. 

Would it be a crime to bring back Friends  just 1 more time ??? 

That is the question on every fans lips.... 

Kick Ass 2 Trailer

Are sequels always as good as the first?

It is known throughout the film industry if you're going make a sequel it better be good or awesome!
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the humble sequel ... due to narrative... it doesn't alway live up to the original... the same can be said for the remake ... you know it was made 10 years ago and a film company goes hey we'll make another version.

Problems can stem from critics down to the normal cinema goer with fans posting on the internet their utter disgust or lovefor  the second film.
So when the exciting news that Kick Ass 2 was going to be released this year, part of me leapt in the air whooping like the little geek that I am!
But then it dawned on me, Kick Ass 1 was epic enough and also shocked a lot of audiences when they heard a 12 year old say the 'C' word numerous times on screen, Chloe Mortez admits that she never swears herself so swearing on camera was a little bit more difficult than we imagined, but then there is Arron Johnson (who to most girls is known as Robbie, the rockstar 'Sex God' from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging!) playing the teenage misfit Dave who's mother who has just died, still grieving he  decides to become a vigilante having his first major hollywood role after being in a few British Teen Films.

The difference with this is it is an adaptation of a book, sequels only work in this way normally ... Harry Potter and Twilight (think what you like ) only work as their is always a continuous narrative. 

One of the most successful film franchises in history!

It's harder to follow on a narrative that hasn't been written previously... or if they are a trilogy but with example of The Matrix ... number 2 was a flop with fans not to happy about the narrative although the third and final instalment in the series made up for it's mistakes.








But why should the third film make up for the second films mistake?


The only example of a sequel that has rocked and not needed the third film to save it from the bargin bin at your local supermarket is The Terminator. Judgement Day had a bigger budget than the first film which to be fair allowed it to go further in the CGI and technology department... and it just made sense with Arnie coming back, John Conner now a troubled boy and his mum Sarah banged up in a mental health unit by the FBI and the CIA. The thing with The Terminator was that although number 2 rocked... 3 and 4 didn't live up to it... really it should've stopped but who is to argue with James Cameron?

What ever you may think about the sequel there is always room for one somewhere... you just have to hope it'll do justice to the original.

Dreams and Scripts

Lately when i have been sleeping I have been having the weirdest dreams that would make fantastic scripts and films or TV shows.

I do have a sinister mind so everything is twisted with a earth that isn't the same and over controlled with mutated people and animals running around and society that is trying to cope.

Or my favourite band being kidnapped and on the brink of death due to a crazy fan.... 

I always write  them down as if not i'll forget and when i am awake i do actually think about them more and pad them out a bit ... yesterday on a coach to Barcelona as you do... and I saw this image of four coffins with the band member in each one and the lids closed shut one by one which was completely scary to imagine but it looked brilliant ... just how the story could develop. 

what i'm trying to say is creativity spans conscious thought ...