tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792850.post560032171765083317..comments2023-06-09T08:14:55.315-06:00Comments on sheep go to heaven: the curious case of jeffrey gustafson--jeff *http://www.blogger.com/profile/10924343100485992100noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792850.post-79445991432572050842012-09-30T10:53:46.970-06:002012-09-30T10:53:46.970-06:00i once built up "children of paradise" a...i once built up "children of paradise" and was later informed that i'd messed up the reels in some way by whomever was first showing the movie. (i've still never seen it, despite it being a staple of world film.)<br /><br />i also botched mel gibson's "hamlet." i was actually down in the theater, sitting in my usual seat in the back, when a reel change happened and suddenly there was no sound because the image was reversed and the soundtrack was now visible on the right side of the screen.<br />i bolted upstairs as fast as i could and tried my best to fix it with a theater of people down below watching me and wondering how hard is it to run a piece of film through a projector.<br />i think that's the one that got me fired.<br /><br />there was also the occasional beat up old russian print that would jam in the machine and catch on fire, but that's a different analogy. ; )--jeff *https://www.blogger.com/profile/10924343100485992100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792850.post-4528702806519179422012-09-30T08:54:25.686-06:002012-09-30T08:54:25.686-06:00I really like this analogy. And I can't imagin...I really like this analogy. And I can't imagine how stressful it would be to have to spool reels of film like that.<br />What International Cinema film did you unintentionally make ”extra avant guarde”?The Former 786https://www.blogger.com/profile/11836226718839989687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21792850.post-28988871580354863802012-09-21T09:55:30.146-06:002012-09-21T09:55:30.146-06:00dang.
i like this a lot.
i'm gonna start t...dang. <br /><br />i like this a lot. <br /><br />i'm gonna start thinking of my whole life as a story now, rather than just a bunch of stories and see where it's spliced. i'll probably realize that there are some sequences that seem like they're out of order. <br /><br />but you're right; that's part of the excitement of storytelling. i think joseph campbell is onto something, but i'm pretty sure our journeys are much more exciting, even at the "boring" parts, because they're <i>not</i> scripted; they're real. at least, not scripted by us. <br /><br />#faith<br /><br />(also, the robot word was logiron, but i got it wrong so it gave me a new one...#datingirony) ;)kwistinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12687225380171299948noreply@blogger.com