10 films that made me who I am today
This isn’t the complete list, but most of these fed my existential crisis at a time when I looked to motion pictures to make sense of this life. It was a dark time and all I did was download and watch films that had similar themes and characters I felt empathy with. I can’t say they did me harm, but they did make me, for a period of time, lose my grasp of reality, of what I had, and made me want to do radical decisions my parents would have gone berserk about. A lot of my friends in real life don’t have any idea of this phase because it was all in my head.
But it’s all right now. We take the good times with the worst.
Sam Riley as Sal Paradise in the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road (2012).
I’ve never been this excited for a film since Inception. I’m currently reading the book and I have this vision in my head of how Sal, Dean and the guys were like when the actual events happened along Route 66. Sometimes, I get too engrossed with that vision that I can almost feel the heat and the sweat of the desert during their many hitchhike adventures along America. I hope the film delivers because I have this genuine (emotional) attachment to the book. It has become my go-to daydream when life falls short of being colorful. To see that on the big screen and leave disappointed will be heartbreaking.
I think the more challenging part when doing a film adaptation of a book is the screenplay. Which parts to include? Which parts to leave out? How will this chapter translate in front of the camera? I hope Jose Rivera (also the writer of Letters to Juliet) did Jack Kerouac’s writing justice because it is one influential piece of American literature I deeply respect.
I can’t believe I’d feel all warm and fuzzy from a video of puppets. Filmmaking does wonders.
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Tracianne and Trasienne twins of Your Evil Twin.
They’re pretty cool. Their style reminds me a little bit of Rumi Neely and a rated PG version of Terry Richardson. Ah, the idyllic life of wearing your hair down, photography + traveling.
I feel the jealous feeling of seeing the life you always wanted being lived by somebody else. I settle for wishful thinking for now.
Jonathan Safran Foer released the book Tree of Codes back in 2010. It is a complete work of art. I saw a copy of it in Fullybooked just this afternoon and I couldn’t get over it. What he did was that he carved an entirely new story out of his favorite book, Street of Crocodiles. He cut out majority of the words from the original story in order to create a new one. Being an artwork, more than a book, the challenging part was left for the publishers. It’s definitely a first of its kind. Here’s a video of the making of Tree of Codes.
Moonrise Kingdom, 2012
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola once again team up as writers for this film (I think they co-wrote The Darjeeling Limited?). The trailer looks like a typical Anderson movie. I like everything about it - the typeface, the scoring, the sepia tint, the vintage ’60s feel. Promising, indeed.
Hi Anon! It’s so funny that you unearthed that video. I’ve been meaning for the uploader to take it down. Hahahaha. It’s like my own “Robin Sparkles video”, that one recording nobody has to see. Sadly, that embarrassing time of my life is immortalized on Youtube and it just keeps on resurfacing every now and then. Nevertheless, I’m glad our little silly debate entertained you. :)
