Up and Coming

Being done with Scene 28 means that I have made rough cuts of 57 pages, and have 40 pages to go. 

Unfortunately, my all-day sessions have basically come to a close, as I'm running rather low on gelt and will need to start whoring my time and brain Very Soon.  Plus, dont' tell anyone, but I am getting pretty darn sick of this movie.

Anyway...

The scenes yet to come:

• Sarah and Amy argue about the validity of their respective political positions (how do we see each other?  how do we see the world?  what do we believe about what we see?  how connected are we to what we see?  how connected are we to each other?  how do we see each other?)

• Marissa upsets Larry by insisting that they "play the game" even while Larry is clearly unhappy at the prospect and asks her to stop -- discovery of the dinosaur in the piano bench

• Down-and-out man screams at Marissa at the park

• Larry encounters Frank on his lunch break and they discuss "people watching" and being "people people"  and wonder what That Guy (known to us as the "low-fat mayonaise" guy or the "sex with monkeys" guy, depending on the day) is thinking about.  Jack gets his cameo in this scene as "Somebody" who wants to know what time it is.  

• The "frazzled" scene -- Marissa's meltdown -- a tough scene I've mentioned before -- had to shoot it twice.  Fortunately it is six pages, not nine pages.  Six is still a lot, though, what with the crying.

• Marissa walks on the beach and has her "there is love in the world" epiphany, as evidenced by the "montage of humanity," much of which Katelyn is doing.

• Second dinner sequence - 7 pages.  This includes a long stretch of Amy and Sarah reading Marissa's story out loud -- I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that.  Maybe I should go for something like in _Tree of Life_ with dinosaurs and the explosion of the sun?  (ha ha ha!!  I was not a fan of that sequence in Tree of Life, FYI -- I approved of the intention but not the execution).  One of my favorite lines in the script is in this scene.  :)

• The showdown!   Greg's hand-held tour de force.

• The suicide sequence.  With the real-looking blood in way-too-small-and-polite quantities.

• "I'm gay."  "I know."  "You could have told me!"  (this scene will have tone challenges similar to Scene 28's)

• Visiting-Larry-in-the-hospital sequence (a challenge because I'll have to use the DAT for sound as the camera sound cut out in the hallway scene for some reason -- should probably use the DAT for all the sound, actually, but I don't know how to do that in the digital age -- synching mag stock and celluloid on a Steenbeck or Moviola I know how to do, but the 1's and 0's mean nothing to me.  Someone else is going to have to do that).  

And that's basically it!! (i.e., plus a couple long-take transition-insert thingies)  It's a daunting set of intense scenes -- but it WILL GET DONE, by gum!!

We definitely will have some structural challenges because a couple of the transition shots are, er, were not, I mean, were not exactly shot, per se.  Ahem.

La di da, la di da....