Feature
At the moment I am writing my first feature. This is the first time I’ve actually admitted this to someone besides Rachel and Rupert. To be perfectly honest, I have finished writing the feature already and am on to the 3rd draft.
It has been an incredible thing to do. I originally wrote the treatment, and then sat down, and for four days straight I wrote the script, all 76 pages of it.
It reads well, I’m not going to lead on about the plot etc, not because I don’t want anyone to steal the idea, but because I am more comfortable with a project when less people know about it, so don’t ask me anything about it.
When I make this feature, I want to Direct it, I already have the key principles in mind, but I have only officially asked one person to be a part of it.
I’ve learnt a lot from writing the script. I have learnt to maintain the character traits within the order of a movie. I hate seeing a movie when a character performs an action or says something that he/she would never have said/done in the beginning of the film. Hence the reason I wrote it over 4 sleepless days, to maintain those traits.
I listened to a lot of music, something I never did with Old Man Time, now I have a clear idea in my head about the music, and also the characters. I think my writing is definitely influenced by Tarantino and to a lesser extent the Coens. There is also a lot of cockney style phrases, as Rupert put it, “That’s how its gonna be, see”.
The movie is my own idea, but the themes draw from Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Sexy Beast’, which is one of my favourite films. The themes are drawn directly from personal spaces as well, what’s the old adage? “You only write what you know”….. I don’t know about that, what about Star Wars?
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