Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.

'Ariel'


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P.M. Marc - Mar 02, 2005 12:06:22 pm PST #9628 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Nah, I think it's the one where Vin has the scary OMGWTF hair.


erikaj - Mar 02, 2005 12:06:25 pm PST #9629 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I was thinking the same thing because then that is not cock-sucking that is full-on salad-tossing.


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2005 12:07:24 pm PST #9630 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Find Me Guilty.


Sean K - Mar 02, 2005 12:07:55 pm PST #9631 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Please just tell me this is not the scary duck babysitting movie Sydney Lumet is talking about.

No, it's some forthcoming courtroom drama that Lumet is making right now. They showed snippets of it during the Oscars.

IMDb says it's in post, and called Find Me Guilty.


Jesse - Mar 02, 2005 12:08:18 pm PST #9632 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Anyone who saw Boiler Room, one of the Greatest Movies Of Our Time, would not be surprised that Vin is not just muscle.


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2005 12:10:25 pm PST #9633 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Seeing Iron Giant should help too.


Vonnie K - Mar 02, 2005 12:12:57 pm PST #9634 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Apprently Diesel is directing himself in a costume epic drama, Hannibal. I know he's made short films before, but for a debut director on feature-film, this strikes me as somewhat over-ambitious.

But then, we had Costner and the Wolves movie and Mel Gibson with Braveheart, so he's following an actor-turned-director trend, I guess. Oy.


§ ita § - Mar 02, 2005 12:15:11 pm PST #9635 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He's having a fun time of it (from IMDB):

Action man Vin Diesel has been forced to scale down his epic labor of love, Hannibal The Conqueror, after learning his ideas would cost a studio more than $210 million. The XXX star has been working on the film, about heroic Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca, for years, and admits he's now struggling to rework the project to make it an affordable option for a leading Hollywood studio. He tells movie website Moviehole.Net, "I got a budget back from a studio that said it would cost $217 million. So I said, 'I know I'm not the smartest guy in the world but $217 million, doesn't that mean that this film will never get made?' There's no way in the world that this film will be made at $217 million, and I am already committed to this character, channeling this guy. So I'll go into soft pre-production, and think about sequences, and think about ways to shoot sequences that would have the same story about it but cost a lot less." Diesel insists his latest draft of the film will cost just $50 million. He adds, "If you are thoughtful and creative, you can cut down a scene, and have the same story, the same emotional and action impact, and not spend so much money."


Jessica - Mar 02, 2005 12:17:23 pm PST #9636 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

The XXX star

They really need to be more careful about spelling that right.


Sean K - Mar 02, 2005 12:17:49 pm PST #9637 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

He adds, "If you are thoughtful and creative, you can cut down a scene, and have the same story, the same emotional and action impact, and not spend so much money."

Budgeting is hard.