Some years ago, I saw an interview on TV with the warden of a jail. He said that in his experience the only thing that reformed criminals was time and “growing up”. I mention this to a lawyer I knew and he agreed. He added that you could see the different stages. In first stage,… Read Article →
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One of the old clichés of Hollywood movies is the singing Mountie. Rose Marie with Nelson Eddy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028207/ is the best-known example. I had an idea for movie about a very different kind of singing Mountie. A true story I read about back in high school in Winnipeg about 1970 or 1971 inspired my idea…. Read Article →
I came across a good article about making movies cheaply. http://letsmakebetterfilms.hopeforfilm.com/2010/08/writing-for-a-low-budget-the-disappearance-of-alice-creed.html Since I got into making films, I have been very concerned about finding ways to do it without spending much money. I’ve talked about some of my thoughts on this in a couple of articles I’ve posted: Note: The original posts have been taken… Read Article →
Whenever people talk about plagiarism and copyright, some one always points out that you can’t copyright and idea. What the author can copyright is how they express that idea in a story. Many years ago, I came across a good example of how two authors took the same idea and did very different things with… Read Article →
The other day I was reading Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, when I came to a passage that reminded me of the movie Last Year at Marienbad. I saw it years ago, or at least I think I did. Maybe it was someone else that saw it. Through some convoluted path that led me to… Read Article →
This is a thought that first came to me years ago while I watched the O.J. Simpson “low speed chase” on TV. I was at my cousin’s wedding. We all sat and watched the “chase” for hours that evening while we waited at the hotel for the wedding the next day. Other people have told… Read Article →
Earlier today, Joie Schmidt, posted a question on her Facebook page about which movies people thought we the best. She asked why people liked them. After I posted a response to her, I decided that I wanted to share some of my thoughts on my blog. I’ve edited and expanded my comments below. Note: Her… Read Article →
“They” say that there are really only seven stories. Anyone can tell a story, but if you want to make a difference, you need to add something special that only you can give. I have been working on several projects over the last year or so and I have started to think about what is… Read Article →
I have been mulling an idea for a while now. Video websites like YouTube have been very successful financially by selling advertizing. Meanwhile, most of the people who post their videos on the sites get little or no money for their contribution. I thought about creating a website for my own videos, where I would… Read Article →
I’m one of those people who always thinks of a good comeback, the day after the conversation. One of the nice things about doing a blog is that you can talk about what you would have said. About nine years ago, I did a workshop talking about my films. In the workshop, I wanted to… Read Article →
