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Solar Wind
You might know that I love the Fox lot. I also like Fox Searchlight in general and I like their events, especially their genre events/screenings at the Little Theater on said Fox lot. These events are always intimate and enjoyable, and at night when the lot is delightfully empty, save the chance production here or there, the screenings are small and perfect and secret-feeling. After taking a purposeful hiatus I”ve recently resumed attending these events and have discovered that I also like the Searchlight publicity team out here. Since, at this point in time, their brand continues to be consistent in having more interesting, higher qualities of film, and due to all of the above, I”ve been doing my best to make it out when invited to a film I”d like to see.
Tonight was a screening of Sunshine with director Danny Boyle in attendance. You probably dig him as I do because, among others (Trainspotting), he directed 28 Days Later.
Oh how lives and times have swirled about since the premiere of The Fountain.
Tonight, the studio publicist had come around JSDC and Knew, and introduced me to Danny Boyle. As a filmmaker.
I asked him about creating visual themes in film and how he approached the visual theme in Sunshine.
He asked me about our production plans, my cinematographer and urged me onward toward shooting.
As for Sunshine, the script lacks the central glue that makes for a compelling narrative and ties the visual themes together, so of course the film couldn't make up for that and doesn't work. In terms of the make, I found it useful to (as I mentioned) examine some of the visuals and the sound design is also worth study. So maybe you”re thinking it now, too: That I”ve gone beyond all point of return when it comes to watching film and now all I see is production and I”m thinking where the camera is and how surprisingly challenging I find it to act being cold when it”s not actually cold and looking at how another actor does at it and wondering about the choice of formatting for the credits and things of that sort. I”ve become much more technical lately.
Danny Boyle himself is tops: Quite the gentlemen with a unique point of view and a keen memory. And I thanked him and told him what a necessary thing it was for me to be there tonight because, as I listened to him, I realized that I was in need of a break from pre-production, that I am exhausted, and just to hear a filmmaker, a respectable one who aspires to something and whose work I”ve enjoyed, just to hear him speak a little about the process as we stood about under the heat lamps in the cool Summer night with a great mural of Empire Strikes Back hanging in the background like the past and future legacies of our craft all spoken in an ever-present stillness, and his English accent and a few clusters of warm people here and there, having their go at the wine and cheese as he smiled cheerfully from behind his glasses because as I talked he of course Knew exactly what I meant, because he's been there, because he's a testament to low-budget filmmaking and growth in filmmaking and a science to, and in, filmmaking”
And the studio publicist who I”ve just met two months ago, turns to me as I go and says “good luck” and “call me if you need any help” and she means it, and I just may call her if I have the specific need, too”
People are rooting for us.
Then driving through the west side at midnight with the window cracked for air and a sun-orange, themed rose behind my ear that I plucked from a centerpiece and it's away from the quiet lot where all the stray cats are sleeping past the Thursday line and throngs outside of RAGE and cutting up the heart of Hollywood where all the homeless are sleeping and you can tell who the tourists are because they cross the crosswalk in shorts and chunky heels and obvious-choice clothes that co-eds wear to spring break in Florida”
There”s a bit of a breeze.
And that”s when you know to roll the windows down all the way, turn the music up and let it all ride.
It was helpful in the way that only moments can be.
Also, I found out that the bust of some guy is actually named Chris, and it”s totally not his fault that they made his torso look ridiculous as he appears fairly normal when facing me in person.
First four nerds to call it in the comments and then e-mail me a mailing address get an Official Icarus II Crew Insignia patch from Sunshine.
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