Off to the Moon

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The new sci-fi moonbase film is now plotted out to my satisfaction (thanks to some useful feedback from Tom, who stopped me taking in a direction that it probably really didn’t want to go).  So now the writing begins.  I’m aiming at 90 pages, mainly to keep the story tight and the budget down.

I’m really on the buzz to get the film made – I’ve been working my way through a new book on Jean-Luc Godard called ‘Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard‘ by Richard Brody, and a good read it is too.  It’s really got me inspired at the moment. I got the first part of the Jean-Luc Godard Collection for Fathers day (amazing how the kids knew what I wanted!) so I’m working my way through his films as I read the book.

I’d already watched ‘Pierrot Le Fou‘ and really enjoyed it.  I liked the way Godard messes with film and isn’t afraid to a) push it to extremes/break the rules and b) get deep and meaningful at times.  I also watched ‘Breathless‘ the other night.  Again, strangely enjoyable, though you do wonder at that stage of Godard’s career how much of the rule breaking (crossing the line, looking into camera, jump cutting etc) was as intentional as Brody makes out it was in his book.