Monday, March 7, 2011
Happy Accident For A Film Geek
went to The New Beverly last night- great spot for double features. It's a place for rabid movie geeks for sure, and they had a doozy of a lineup. Big Trouble In Little China, followed by They Live- two John Carpenter films. I was especially excited because my buddy Alex had never seen They Live, which of course is notorious for the 6 minute fight scene between Roddy Piper and Keith David, also parodied by South Park in the, "Cripple Fight" episode.
We laughed our asses off and really enjoyed Big Trouble in Little China. Fun times. They Live is slower paced, but I love it all the same, and still think it's great movie.
About half way thru the film, I saw something on screen that made my eyes bug out. I couldn't believe what I was fucking seeing. IT COULDN'T BE.
then I went home to make sure. take a look at this.
I shot the dream sequence, for my first feature film, in the middle of the fucking alley where the FIGHT TOOK PLACE! I know only movie geeks would give a shit about this, but I almost cried. On the day of the shoot, our original alley was blocked off and I didn't think we'd ever find a better location. We were a crew of 5 wandering downtown looking for something- ANYTHING, and we ended up here. More than a year later I find out that I'm shooting on cult film territory and i would've had no idea until I watched that movie again- so I'm extremely happy I went tonight. What a boost. The running time of my film is about 2 hours now and one of the scenes I cut out was the alley dream sequence. Man, this makes me want to put it back even more, it was hard enough a decision!
The location has never been listed online that I know of, so stumbling onto this was just sheer luck- I didn't even remember it being set in LA. Anyway, that made tonight extra special, knowing that we shot on a little piece of cult film history- everyone should watch that fight scene, it really goes on forever.
We laughed our asses off and really enjoyed Big Trouble in Little China. Fun times. They Live is slower paced, but I love it all the same, and still think it's great movie.
About half way thru the film, I saw something on screen that made my eyes bug out. I couldn't believe what I was fucking seeing. IT COULDN'T BE.
then I went home to make sure. take a look at this.
I shot the dream sequence, for my first feature film, in the middle of the fucking alley where the FIGHT TOOK PLACE! I know only movie geeks would give a shit about this, but I almost cried. On the day of the shoot, our original alley was blocked off and I didn't think we'd ever find a better location. We were a crew of 5 wandering downtown looking for something- ANYTHING, and we ended up here. More than a year later I find out that I'm shooting on cult film territory and i would've had no idea until I watched that movie again- so I'm extremely happy I went tonight. What a boost. The running time of my film is about 2 hours now and one of the scenes I cut out was the alley dream sequence. Man, this makes me want to put it back even more, it was hard enough a decision!
The location has never been listed online that I know of, so stumbling onto this was just sheer luck- I didn't even remember it being set in LA. Anyway, that made tonight extra special, knowing that we shot on a little piece of cult film history- everyone should watch that fight scene, it really goes on forever.
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