Butch aka Travis

Well, here I am again, in old Brisbane town, and I will continue my tradition of typing in a blog from my ma’s laptop when I am incredibly drunk.

Well the last 3 days have been a blur, when your ole man is buying a carton of beer each night, i feel it is my duty as his son to drink it down, but here i am wasting time before the Socceroos match and I have been on the turps since 5pm, waiting patiently for 1am to arrive. I will make it.

I have been wasting time watching foxtel and catching up with some old friends, namely Allo Allo, Only fools and horses, The Vicar of Dibley and of course Father Ted. Tonite the episode where they dared him to kick the pope in the ass was on, i have a feeling, that is there best episode of that particular show.

I am also once again contemplating film film and more film, and today i have the fortune to switch on Fox Classics, and to my unvelieveable luck, there was Arthur Penn’s movie “Bonnie and Clyde”. For those of you who are familiar with the movie, it was the first american movie of the New Hollywood, it was based on the principles of Goddard and Truffaut, and it showed for the first time that content can overcome form, and that an art movie (or critically acclaimed movies) can make money, in fact this one film almost single handedly sunk the studios. It was only after Bonnie and Clyde (which was made in 1967) that the huge bohemeth studios that were leacking money all over the place, realised they were out of touch, a similar situation to the AFC maybe??? But i have had my say on that, and I say no more, however i will post my essay on here in a few weeks time when i return home.

I have no beefs with Bris Vegas this time around, I am even considering meeting mr Chrissy G in the flesh if i have the time, and I am even going out to meet a guy who I want to play Joe in my upcoming feature Jack and Joe (Jack et Joe for the European audiences), alas he is not an actor, however he has the look, and I kinda wrote the part for him anyways, a very Polanski-eque view I am sure you will agree.

I really have no more news, If i do i will blog again,

So lets just file this blog under “R” for R- ibaderchi”

Peace

T. S Williams (my producer name)

Well, Rupert and I have narrowed down from many contender the 6 best Directors ever, unfortunatley i have forgotten the 6th, but here they are, in no particular order

Francis Ford Coppola



Roman Polanski


João Monteiro


Stanley Kubrick


Terry Gilliam

Ill leave you kids to fight that out amongst yourselves.

In this blog, i also have an adition to my much celebrated
“Underappreciated Actors”

Ralph Brown

If you dont know who he is straight away thats okay, he is a changeling, he looks very different in every role i have seen him in (except two, ill eloborate on that later)

To the eagle eyed and the well viewed, he is of course Danny from Withnail & I. He has afantastic cockney lisp, and is quietly malicious in that role, and also as Miami Vice in one of my favourite TV’s series (which was also cancelled) Lock, Stock.

He later reprised his role as Danny for Waynes World 2 where he played ex Doors roadie “Del Preston”.

He has also acted in a lot of shit, just like all my underappreciated actors.

Next Up
Martin Scorsese seems to have found his testicles and reattached them. His upcoming film is “The Departed”

Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Boston State Police department and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy’s identities

Good too see him doing what he does best, however, there are two serious draw backs, that is his choice of stars

Leonardo Di Caprio
Matt Damon

On the other hand, he also has cast Jack Nicholson and Martin Sheen, so, I am interested to see this films already.

HOWEVER, that is not what is really exciting me, what is really exciting me (and I am sure will interest Rupert) is his announced feature “Silence”

Two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, travel to seventeenth century Imperial Japan (wish has isolated itself from all foreign contact) to see how the evangelical mission is going. There they witness the persecution of the Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government who wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Eventually they separate and Rodrigues travels the country-side, wondering why God remains silent while His children suffer.

Sounds like it is right up his alley, it is to be shot in Portugal and Japan, andit sounds fucking awesome, this will be ‘The Last Samurai” and “Memoirs of a Geisha” except done really well, this is the one for Scorsese, i can feel it in my bones, raw, rich and powerful, i have read quite a bit about it now, and it sounds like a masterpiece in waiting.

More still on Scorsese, i have decided to shoot another short film, it is based on one of the films that inspired me to make films. Its called ‘The Big Shave’. here, watch it.

Otherwise dawgs,…… peace.

And I leave Mr Owen with a rather intriguing photograph taken in 1967.

Well kids, Its been a long time, but dont worry, I am fine

Masters is more or less over, that does not mean this incredibly popuar blog, (which is worth millions on the blogshare market) will go under as well

I will get back into the swing soon, I have been living in oblivion with Mr Owen, busting my motherfucking balls shooting a feature, so look forward to more Polanski reports and my popular ‘Under rated Actors’ section.

Also, if you type my name into google, you get a whole bunch of returns, and Rupert ever gets a picture in Google Images.

As a closer, check out this blog, Its by a fellow Melbournite, I aint never met him, but it makes for an ……….. interesting read.

Peace