weekend seventeen: dancing in the streets

The Gods got together for a game of "No-Name Card Game" and cleared the skies for a wonderful backdrop this weekend. The cold breaths of winter had been shelved with the preserves. This weekend brought warmth and the much needed change of weather conditions that had to take place for a reasonable shooting environment. The only fear was that we would be "singing in the rain." Instead we were allowed to "dance in the streets." The warmth stretched smiles across everyone's faces... cast and crew alike. Happiness is a warm bum...
This was the weekend of "The Heist." The cast was dressed as though we had just escaped from a European Insane Asylum. It was precisely what was needed for the scene. We borrowed a "blimp" from Robert Saba and fell in love with the amazing ability of such a simple device. It slices the wind currents like a hot knife through butter... oh, and it gets great audio too. Since we were playing around the downtown area this weekend and the river is notorious for carrying tradewinds with it's downstream current, I knew that audio was going to be an obstacle. We actually had to re-shoot a scene from a few weekends ago because of a wind-noise rumble. I don't even like the word re-shoot... but it was necessary... and I believe it came out better because of the extra attention to detail.
Joe and I went through the "hand-signal dance off" in public this weekend. It came off as being even more humorous than originally envisioned and there was an added humor to everyone being able to hear the captions through a megaphone. It's amazing that we weren't bothered that much while shooting in public. I mean, we did catch the attention of a few beggars here and there but the passers-by didn't really mind that there were four oddly dressed people running around the downtown Main Street mall with a camera and crew in tow.
I haven't looked at the tapes yet but I'm sure that everything came off without a hitch. Arnold and Dayna did a great job as usual, Brad jumped back into action after a "butt flu," and your usual cast of characters rocketed through another manic Saturday afternoon movie shoot. One down, two to go. Yeah, only two weekends left on the production of this mother...
Sunday evening I got to catch Munich. Go see it. It's a fantastic film... a bit gory at parts but the blood is absolutely necessary. Spielberg shouldn't do press on his movies anymore. I think that negative review might have affected the turnout... but it's an amazing movie. I will make one comment that I want everyone to pay particular attention to.
DO NOT BRING THREE YEAR OLD CHILDREN TO AN "R" RATED MOVIE.
It's just bad parenting. I cannot possibly imagine how twisted that child's head will be once it's seen a fully naked woman spewing blood through a bullet hole in her neck. What the fuck is wrong with you people? You can't bring children to those kinds of movies!
On the other hand... all free thinking adults should go see it. The political message isn't really overwhelming.. it's just a good movie and I think that the director has done a fantastic job with telling "a" story... not "one side of" the story.
I hope all of you have a fantastic New Year. So far it's going quite well for Rusted Sun Films. 2006 will be our year. An eye opening year. A year of success and amazing dreams come true.
-B