Alien vs Predator
I saw the rerelease of Alien the other night and the pacing is one of the most obvious elements in that film. On the radio announcement they were hyping up the new sound and enhanced print but to be honest it didn't make too much of a difference in my eyes or my ears especially in some of the voice over when Rippley is talking to Ashe in the mess hall the sounbd cuts are so harsh you swear they lost half the sound every time Rippley stopped talking and they would cut.

But it is the pure presence the Alien has off screen which makes it so incredible, we tend to fear it more off screen than when we actually see it and Mr Scott does such an amazing job creating that fear on screen.

Anderson has his work cut out for him because to be honest I think if resident evil would have had alternate direction and a second draft of the script the movie could have been something. I just don't see PA's style fitting this genre, it is like asking hitchcock to direct something about marry, PA was given the ultimate chance to scare the crap outta us with RE and it flopped, not because of production design, not because of the script, not because of the talent or lack there of but simply because his directorial style does not create that type of atmosphere for the audience which is crucial when it comes to making the characters of Aliens and Pred a believable and frightening presence.

This is what I see: PA sitting there thinking "ok now we can open up the can with the predators, give them all of these sweet weapons and abilities to create the action. Then we have the humans, the empathy that they are in alot of trouble, we will make them the underdogs so the audience roots for them to survive through brains and cunning. Then we have the fear factor, the Aliens, make them bigger, faster, and darker, oh and the drool LOTS OF DROOL! We mix it all up into the Aliens becomming an epidemic where the preds and the humans almost have to team up to save themselves and the human race."

I pray for all that is good this does not happen...What I do pray for is this

Predators bite off more than they can chew. They come down to hunt, it is a young group of Preds on a first hunting trip and they get their ass's kicked, so now we are left to clean up the mess, we have to go further than the preds and solve this little problem. A group uses the pred technology to help them in the clean up and salvation of earth. Us vs. Aliens in the end, if the preds die by the second act we know we are in a boat load of trouble and have to come up with something quick to deal with this. Maybe we don't, maybe we have to fall back as a race and leave the door open for a sequel.

Just a thought

So I hit a major breakthrough with the script this morning. It is so funny, I am so productive in the morning, I am usually up by 6:45 am then drive into town, be sitting with coffee and a bagel by 8am and write until about 11:30 then off to work, I hate to see what would happen if I didn't have to go to work.

So the back story is done...almost. No, it is done...almost. AHHHH, I wish I could just settle, finally relax and simply be content with this creation but I fear that will never happen. Dialogue is such an easy thing to deal with but structure and character just consumes me. I am sure I will know when it is right...I hope.

The bright side is some of the cue cards will come down which is a good thing because I am running out of thumb tacks.

I just don't get this motivation, where it is comming from. I know I should be burning out by now, maybe I have and I am in denial, lol. I think I just have so much to go for now, more than when I started and that will probably keep going. Sometimes I think half of it is just to keep myself occupied so I don't think about my fiance being away. Maybe that is why God is keeping us apart, to keep me ontop of all of this.

All I need is a 36 hour day so I can do more previsual designs.

Ok back to it, if anything comes up I will update again tonight.