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Monday, August 22, 2005
Now my dreams are blogging
If cartoonists like David B. and David Heatley can come up with comics through their dreams, why can't I come up with blogging through my dreams? It's not exactly comic related but it is geeky pop culture related.
This goes back to something that, through no planning on my part, has become a theme for my blog. Yet again I am sitting in the director's chair adapting someone else's material. This isn't a comic book movie, though. No, in my dream I have been picked by Lucasfilms to helm the remake of the first Star Wars. This time, it is not a space opera but a western.
We are shooting in parts of California that still have that desert feel to them. The set is something that looks like it is out of High Noon or a Sergio Leone film. A lot of things have been changed so the same basic story fits into the 1800's ("A long time ago in a galaxy not so far, far away"). C-3PO and R2-D2 are not droids, but just an effeminate man and a guy who incoherently mumbles respectively. Luke is still a hick kid from the desert area, but now his friend Ben Kenobi is the town priest with a secret. The Mos Eisley Cantina is now one of those dangerous saloons that always show up in westerns. Han Solo is a "Man With No Name" type whose only friend seems to be the strong man he hangs out with the speech impediment (actually an injured larynx), Charlie Bacca.
This being a post-Deadwood western, The Empire are those trying to incorporate the state this all takes place in (I don't know what state that was. My dreams sadly don't do historical research). Vader is a Swearengen-like leader, but not as complex because this isn't HBO, it's Star Wars (the name remains on this remake for some reason).
As you can probably guess trying to turn the sci-fi movie into a western was becoming very awkward. Directing the picture was becoming stressful but all the studio people kept pushing me on, pressing me forward and buttering me up. I was still unsure whether this project, which sounded interesting at first, was going to work.
Then I woke up while I was in the middle of a phone call with one of the studio people. I swear I didn't go to sleep that night hoping for a blogable dream.
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Since there's something of a Simpsons discussion in the comments section of my last post, I have to ask this: how are the rest of you people finding the new packaging for the 6th season box set?
I'm all for change if the change is good but I'm just finding more flimsy paper stuff, cheap plastic, a shoddy looking sleeve and a box that's hard to open. It's a shame because I like the smaller, thicker booklet and the "Who Shot Mr. Burns" theme to it. There's a number to call for those who are "anal-retentive nerds who like their DVD boxes to line up perfectly on the shelf" so you can get "a very derivative, old-style, just-like-before box with almost nothing new or creative to annoy or terrify you" (these are the enclosed notice's words, not mine).
I don't like to think of myself as someone "who fears change," is an "anal-retentive nerd" or even someone "who dislikes storing their digital media inside a hollowed-out human head" because I know I'm not any of those things (does this come off as sounding like am one of those things? I hope not). I was just disappointed in what one of my favorite Simpsons seasons got as packaging. I probably won't call the number because it will be too much hassle; I just thought I'd get some other people's input through the internet.
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