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Brilliant in Context: June 2014
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. INT COMEDY CLUB - NIGHT. HACKY COMEDIAN is on stage - young, male, energetic. Hey, what would happen if you had sex with a Transformer? Hey, I think you’re a little low on oil? HACKY COMEDIAN (CONT’D). But what if it transformed while you were having sex with it? Ouch, am I right? Maybe it would go like this. He thrusts out his crotch and starts screaming. The corner. The comedian’s ASSISTANT is recording his performance. INT LIVING ROOM - NIGHT. And then ...
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Brilliant in Context: May 2011
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. PSA for the MPress. Our friends at MPress Records. Recently asked Hard Boiled Productions. To put together a PSA for their latest release, a charity compilation album that benefits the National Network for Youth. This is what we came up with. Please take a moment to watch it and, if so inspired, buy a copy of the CD. Truth be told, Chris. Like montage we'll never get around to completing.). Posted by Justin Muschong. National Network for Youth.
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Brilliant in Context: September 2012
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. Pittsburgh is cold and industrial. I like that. It's the Midwestern in me. Having been raised in Metro Detroit, having gone to college and grown up (kind of) in Lansing, I'm nostalgic and happy in wintry, brick neighborhoods with considerable pasts. It's why Long Island City is one of my favorite places in New York. Anyone want to make a movie there? Posted by Justin Muschong. I napped through a great film today. It was the 1930 silent Earth. From whicheve...
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Brilliant in Context: NEW WRITING 4 U!!
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. NEW WRITING 4 U! The kind folks at The Spark, the blog of Alternating Current Press, were kind enough to publish an essay I wrote on being a real working writing man. You can read it here. The kind folks at Atticus Review were also kind, publishing my flash fiction piece Light Speed in their recent Love Stinks issue. You can read that here. It's short. Seriously, it will only take you a minute, if that.). Posted by Justin Muschong. The Girl with Blue Eyes.
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Brilliant in Context: May 2014
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. Thomas Video is closing its doors. It was a landmark video store in Metro Detroit, the one that wasn't a corporation, the one that offered films that couldn't be found anywhere else. When I lived in the area, I went to Thomas Video many times, but not every time. I should have. Something we couldn't find anywhere else but a place like Thomas Video, many bearing the Criterion label. We ended up renting Man Bites Dog. It was a moment. It was a moment.
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Brilliant in Context: October 2011
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. The Three Musketeers (2011). Are assholes. To me, it's a core component of the characters. They do whatever they want, not giving one iota of a fuck, causing colossal shitstorms wherever they go. And they get away with it. Why? Because they're badasses, of course, but also because they fight for good causes and, underneath it all, they're lovable rogues. The trick to portraying them on screen is to make them. Assholes the audience can root for and enjoy.
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Brilliant in Context: August 2014
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. The Ultimate Trailer for the Ultimate Movie. INT COLLEGE LIBRARY - DAY. A young student, JACOB, reads an old book in the most romantic section of the library. EMILY (V.O.). We may be separated by great oceans, mountains, universes of souls, but you are me, and I you, one and the same, now and forever. Jacob turns to the title page. It’s an 1850s edition of Lilies and Lace. By Emily Washington. Her wood block portrait stares back at him. JACOB (V.O.). You&#...
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Brilliant in Context: October 2012
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. DCP vs. Film. A couple of years ago, Film Forum. Played a digital restoration of The Bridge on the River Kwai. Which I eagerly attended. Visually, it was a disappointment. The film didn't look terrible, mind you, but it definitely had that stretched-out-Blu-Ray quality. In my mind's eye, I recall seeing actual pixels on the screen. (These digital restorations are usually listed with the initials " DCP. Was a " 4K. And Lawrence of Arabia. It was probably a ...
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Brilliant in Context: True Story #4
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. The next round started and I forgot wut it wuz something like geography and Candace didn’t care either so me and her kept talking bout james bond and wut a boss he is and it wuz like all my dreams were coming true coz here wuz this chica that like liked james bond too and so then I was like let’s watch a james bond movie and she said right now? Posted by Justin Muschong. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Girl with Blue Eyes. The Last Time We Met.
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Brilliant in Context: June 2011
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The Adrenaline-Fueled Rantings of a Hack Writer. Future Me Hates Present Me. Man, that can change the whole crazy world. Yeah," I thought as I drifted off. "I'm pretty good at this writing thing.". I have that thought every time I finish a screenplay. And then, when no opportunities arise to sell it or produce it, and a few years go by and I happen to reread it for the first time in ages, I look at it with fresher eyes and wonder, "What in the blue hell was I thinking? Posted by Justin Muschong.
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