Each year, over 21.000.000 people receive general anesthesia. The vast majority go to sleep peacefully. They remember nothing. 30.000 of those patients are not so fortunate. They find themselves unable to sleep. Trapped in a phenomenon known as anesthesia awareness. These victims are completely paralyzed. They cannot scream for help. They are awake.
Okay, as a former film student, there is ONE PART of James' apology that is GENUINELY viable that people keep criticizing him for:
He was going to use $3,000 to make a short film.
This IS possible, done all the time, normal, and FINE.
I've seen professional films that are 2 hours long that were made on a budget of $8,000 or less.
If you could do that, then $3,000 to make a short film is MORE than fine, especially if it was all going to the actors.
If you want to make a short film unprofessionally and for fun, you can 100% put up posters saying "I'm making a film, volunteer actors needed!" And people will sign up for free purely off the novelty of BEING in a movie. I've made 4 short films where that was the exact case, including an animated film I did by myself in a MONTH for a school assignment (here's the link if you're curious).
The one thing you NEED to spend money on for your set is something called "crafty," or more commonly known, "lunch." You need to buy food to have on set, enough for everyone that isn't something shitty that will put everyone in a bad mood. Having crafty is essential to filming if you're even REMOTELY serious.
Listen. Somerton's apology is absolute dog shit. But this is the one thing he said that is genuinely okay and normal and fine. Don't put it into people's heads that they need a massive amount of money to pursue their passions. You don't need a Marvel budget to film a fun action film in your backyard.
From the way he talks about his process, yeah that's shit. You don't need to completely throw away a script because it's the wrong fucking SEASON outside, all you need to do is retool your story and rewrite it. That's a sign he's a bad writer. A lot of the other things he says about Telos is also a load of all BS.
Someone had the AUDACITY to call me a new fan… (I won’t say their name cuz they were very gatekeeperish, condescending and because they don’t get a mention but-)
Girl I HAVE PROOF!!!
Not only do I own several of his movies, (outcast and virgin territory are quite uncommon movies to find) I even have multiple copies of them.
But that’s not really proof of being a long time fan, until you look at “Life as a house” and “awake” which both came from Blockbuster Video.
(For the younger peeps on here, Blockbuster was where you went before streaming.)
But ya, let’s see someone post up a Hayden Christensen blockbuster exclusive. Lol.
PS- I own Little Italy, Life as a house, Vanishing on 7th street and Higher Ground on Amazon Prime.
i can't believe that there's a movie about mothman with a handful of relatively well-known actors in the cast and it fucking sucks (← he just lost 2 hours of his life he'll never get back to the mothman prophecies)