Two films in three days
It's a wrap: 1st Annual 'Creative Spirit' shoots, screens and scores"Pow Wow Dreams," written and directed by Lucaj, tells the story of four sisters (played by Delanna Studi, Elena Finney, Thirza Defoe and Lucaj) who live life on the road going from pow wow to pow wow, but face a crisis when one of the sisters decides to leave the group.
"He Can't Be Caught," written by Bordeaux and directed by Lujan, tells the story of a young couple (played by Eva Thomas and Ian James) who, on their way home from a Halloween party on the reservation, come across a fallen figure in the darkness (Mark Reed) who may or may not be Bigfoot.
11 comments:
Writerfella here --
Oh, boo. The first film MUST be yet another version of 'SMOKE SIGNALS'. Obviously, in the second film, 'Bigfoot' MUST turn out to be SIMPLY another Native in a Hallowe'en costume, thus reducing the intention of the film into an insular joke. With all that effort, equipment, financing, and execution, they're still the same coyote and mustang shows. So, what else is new? Bet none of them were out filming that eclipse last Friday and making something worthwhile...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Independent filmmakers like these can't afford a big-budget, FX-laden movie. Still, they should strive to do something fresh and original. Without having seen their movies, I don't know if they met this standard.
On the other hand, I once proposed a Native superhero movie that didn't require special effects, so I know it's possible.
Writerfella here --
From the article itself, the filmmakers revealed where they are and what was their product. We have no argument. Where we differ, Rob, is on their level of CREATIVITY...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
The article didn't say anything more about the movies than in the excerpt I quoted. In other words, it summarized each film in a sentence. I'm not "creative" enough to judge the style, tone, or quality of a film based on a one-sentence summary--regardless of the subject matter.
You yourself have written a Bigfoot story. Are you telling us your choice of subject matter is trite and clichéd? Or is it possible to do fresh, original Bigfoot stories as well as trite, clichéd ones?
Writerfella here --
In my story, 'The Last Quest', Bigfoot is an integral part of a Native American tribe's existence, ancient and modern. The species is the repository of that tribe's ancient culture and history because the two shared their existences.
If you are not creative enough, writerfella is...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
That also could be the theme of this Bigfoot movie. Since the article doesn't say and you don't know, spare us the guesses.
Writerfella here --
writerfella is a futurist and thence his 'guesses' more often are right than are most others' observations of the times in which they live. In "Fifth And Last Horseman", written by writerfella in 1972, a pandemic of killer influenza breaks out in SE Asia and threatens the entire world. Is that happening now or is Avian Flu just old Rupert Murdoch trying to up the sales potentials of his newspapers and TV channels? Talk to me again about 'guesses...'
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Talk to you about your guesses, Russ? Okay. You know next to nothing about the Bigfoot film "because you relied totally on the words and judgments of others while committing NONE of your own time or efforts on which to found your opinions. That qualifies you for Chapter 11 intellectual bankruptcy."
In other words, you just condemned yourself. Oops.
Writerfella here --
Luckily for writerfella, he does not have to prove himself in such light. He certainly has not said that he will REFUSE to see the film when it becomes available, unlike certain other people who have stated here in no uncertain words that they will NOT see a certain film. What writerfella has written is a precis, and most of the time, such a precis simply has been correct. Name one independent Native film that has outstripped its insular bounds in even a halfway spectacular manner, and writerfella will go see it in a trice. Meantime, he sits and watches BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and has one hell of a frakkin' good time...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
So you've come up with an excuse for commenting on something you haven't seen, eh? Well, I'm glad to use that excuse too. What I sometimes write are critiques based on other people's critiques. People do this all the time--for instance, commenting on Bush's foreign policy or the history of Jamestown even though they haven't seen a single source document on the subject. Most of the time, my critiques have "simply been correct"--as in the case of Apocalypto. Thus, I'll continue doing what you've excused yourself for doing.
Writerfella here --
Perhaps, but as was said in JURASSIC PARK, one can stand on the shoulders of giants and find that one could. What one never asks, however, is whether or not they should...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
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