Movie Making is For the Patient

My brother is in the film industry, I have gone on set before and enjoy watching the process, but not for too long! No where does time cease to exist like it does on a movie set. The same scene is set up over and over, acted and reacted with no change as far as I can see. Shoot one minute, stop, wait 30 minutes, stop, shoot one minute, stop. All day long, over and over. I would never have the patience to be a director.

If I were a director, I would shoot twice and say, "that's just fine, move along, no one will notice anyway." Tiny little details are shot over and over. They may shoot for days for a segment lasting only a minute or two. Attention to details is a must. Are the cavemen wearing watches? Is the loin cloth the same color and position and length as it was yesterday? Is the scar on the same side of the face, in the same hues? Attention, attention, attention to the minute and the minutia.

I happened to be on the set recently when they were filming "John Adams" the mini series. I was by an actor whose job it was to push a wheel barrow full of vegetables around a corner in the very back of the scene. Hours and hours he waited for his cue, he would push his wheel borrow around the corner walk about 20 steps, stop, wait and start over. He was so far back in the scene it wouldn't matter if he were wearing a dress but every detail was in place, every hair combed. His face would never see the light of day, yet there he was, happy and content to have any role at all. No wonder movies take so long to make at such outrageous budgets.

Upcoming movie industries from around the world are learning the art of movie making; Bollywood, Mexican movies, African movies, and the ever sad Chinese movies with all their beauty and tragedy. Each representing the culture differences of their countries, and more importantly if they want to compete on a global stage they are learning patience!

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Celebrity Gossip - The Cost of Fame

Celebrities live a charmed life, or so we think. We read about their luxurious lifestyles in the celebrity gossip magazines. We look at their attractive partners, their sparkling jewelry and their posh houses. Many celeb gossip readers fancy living such a life in the lap of luxury. But do we think how they are missing out on the little things in life that make live livable? I mean, no celebrity can go out and hang around with friends when he becomes the darling of entertainment news columns. His private life practically ends there. He's then just a normal person trying to trick the paparazzi and protect whatever he can of his privacy.

There are two questions here. Do the celebrities really want the celebrity gossip sites to talk about every little aspect of their life? The answer is a yes and a no. They want the celeb gossip sites and other publications to talk about them because that gives them publicity and visibility. Being splashed all over tabloids and entertainment news portals have a strong impression on the celebrity's fan following. When the tabloids and magazines talk about them at length, the celebrity knows that he is interesting enough and popular enough to get people talking about him. When they see the paparazzi on their tails, they know they have achieved something important. It's like a yardstick to measure their success.

The answer is a no when we talk about celebrity gossip sites probing deep into their private lives. Celeb gossip sites beep date alerts even when a male celebrity is just hanging around with a celebrity of the opposite sex. The constant scrutiny and a life under the microscope of the paparazzi- that's what celebrities get as a byproduct of fame. They can't go shopping with their family, they can't sneak out with their partner for a quiet dinner, they can't even go to town partying! It's like whatever they may do, the entertainment portals and tabloids will write about them. Exaggeration is an essential enemy here! There are very few publications which actually authenticate a news story about a celebrity before going viral with it.

The second question is: do the celebrity gossip sites help the celebrity? This answer is an emphatic yes! Celebrities use the celeb gossip sites to promote their movies and music. They court journalists who write for these entertainment portals to get favorable movie reviews and music reviews. They like to answer tons of inane questions about their life and lifestyle to please the yellow journalists. They deliberately plant the paparazzi at their favorite haunts so they can be clicked. They know they can't stop the news stories to trickle out, so they make sure that they use these sites and portals as vehicles and media to further their cause.

So the next time you find a celebrity lambasting a celebrity gossip site or threatening to sue an entertainment portal, be sure that he will do a double flip when it comes to using these celeb gossip site! It's all a case of mutual understanding and existence. And as long as no one is seriously complaining, their honeymoon can go on a extended period!

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Preview - Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge

Ajay Devgan's tryst with comedy continues with 'Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge' which would be the first release for the actor after his home production 'All the Best'. The film features some of the big names in the Indian film industry like Ajay Devgan, Konkona Sen Sharma and Paresh Rawal in lead roles. The film is also backed by Warner bros. who is producing the Bollywood extravaganza after Chandni Chowk to China.

The film promises to be a laugh riot and will give some relief to Bollywood in comedy segment where the quality movies are far and between. The film revolves around the life of its chief protagonist Puneet (played by Ajay Devgan) who is happily married to Munmun (played by Konkona Sen Sharma). Puneet is a writer by profession and lives in an apartment in Mumbai with his wife and son. He strives hard as a writer in Television world but now his dreams come true when he manages to write a film. This is the opportunity that he was waiting since his career began.

But as the Indian films have it, there is a twist in the tale with the arrival of a long lost uncle of Puneet named as Chachaji in his household and it is giving him the toughest time of his life. Now, a film starts to unravel in his home itself and he has to draft a happy ending to it. This is the most cumbersome task that he has taken in his entire life of thirty years.

Munmun (wife of Puneet) is a homely woman who is an interior designer by profession but traditional family values are rooted in her and she knows how to respect the elders and be a perfect host. Her ambitions and future plans for career doesn't come in her way of attending family and guests, albeit she enjoys the affair thoroughly. She enjoys the different shades of womanhood as she plays a perfect host to Chachaji. It is only later when Chachaji's stay becomes prolonged and unbearable she feels drained and asks Puneet to get rid of him. What happens next is a laugh riot exclaims the director of the movie.

Inviting and serving a guest is a customary Indian phenomenon and is taken by pride amongst Indians at large. They feel elated while serving their guests as it has been said quite often that a guest is equivalent to God (age old saying- Atithi Devo Bhava). With the advent of globalization in modern times the concept has found new meanings and adaptations. There are more and more people who throng to their relatives in cities and pose a problem in their short and cash strapped family. Initially they are welcomed but it is their extended stay that causes problem in an otherwise happy situation. The director of the film has stressed out this point in various promotional events.

It is best left to the Indian viewers that whether this experiment with traditional Indian values will reap rich dividends or will it be discarded by audiences as it appears to be opposing the age old Indian culture. This is a question that only audience can answer and it should be left to them only.

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Hugh Laurie - Britain's Gregory House Actor is the Unlikely King of World TV Drama

Hugh Laurie's impact on US television is unmatched by any other talented Brit who decided to cross the Atlantic in the pursuit of fame on the American small screen. It is all the more remarkable that the star of the House medical drama series, who is now 50, should have risked leaving behind a successful career in London in 2004 to play the grumpy genius Dr Gregory House.

As a comic actor Laurie had almost cornered the market in upper-class buffoons playing them in various roles in the Blackadder series and Bertie Wooster to Stephen Fry's Jeeves.

The gamble has paid off so handsomely that Laurie is into his sixth series of House and rumoured to be earning $400,000 an episode. Already into over 120 episodes -- with many more planned -- and shown in around 70 countries, Laurie is judged to be the biggest TV star in the world.

Laurie adopts an authentic American accent unlike most other British actors when appearing in a US series. Like Alex Kingston in ER, they play Brits or have indeterminate accents -- Patrick Stewart (French in Star Trek), Edward Woodward (The Equalizer), and Ian McShane (Deadwood). Dynasty stars Joan Collins and Stephanie Beecham were not called upon to show their mastery of accents.

The same cannot be said for Frasier's Daphne Moon. Jane Leeves was supposed to be from Manchester but her accent wasn't much further adrift than Dick Van Dyke's cockney in Mary Poppins. Neither Michelle Ryan (Bionic Woman) nor Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies) would have won prizes for their attempts on American tones.

The Office was successfully adapted for US screens but some British comedy shows -- Benny Hill, Monty Python, and Mr Bean -- have to be viewed in the eccentric original.

As for personalities that have duplicated their success in the US, Americans have to take the rough with the smooth -- Simon Cowell (American Idol) and Cat Deeley (So you think you can dance).

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Television Versus Books

The place of books in society is now becoming less and less prevalent. In years gone by, it was feared that radio could be the end of books then it was considered that television would mean kids no longer read anything and finally the internet has come along and books have had a further decrease in popularity. While books are still being read, their popularity continues to dwindle and new reading devices like the iPod and Kindle threaten to further damage the numbers of people who like to read books, keeping them in shelving in their rooms. While many think that the replacement of books with electronic products will mean more readers, ultimately it will damage the attention spans of an already media-saturated public and lessen the number of people who are reading substantial, interesting works of fiction and non-fiction. In this day and age, the number of people with wire shelving filled with books is at an all time low.

The number of Americans who read books is staggeringly low and the number who choose to read difficult books is even less than that. In this modern age, we have been encouraged to believe that everything that feels good is good, and if something is challenging or difficult, this should be rejected. The effect of this in the short term is that we are having much more fun, but in the mid to long-term, we become dependent on these thrills and see them as all there is to life, instead of the deeper challenges that are out there on offer.

This can mainly be blamed on television, which has driven people away from the mental effort required from books, in imaging the characters and the things they do. Even radio required a part of the imagination to consider how the people look and act, and how the sound effects would look. Today in most television shows, the goal is to leave as little as possible to the imagination of the view. It is not only in terms of the visual aspects but in the area of character development. For a film or show to be successful, characters must be easily defined as good or bad, and only make alterations to their character that can be easily understood by the viewer.

The problem with this is that it creates a false representation of life. When we see every day that there are characters on shows easily definable as good and bad, we begin to believe this is the way life is, and forget that everyone at their heart has good intentions. If we're fooled by the TV shows, it is easy for us to be fooled by politicians telling us the world is full of terrorists waiting to kill us, and that we should support the good troops in their quest to battle these evil forces.

In order to understand the world in a more subtle way, it is probably worth looking past the superficial realities of television and exploring the deeper worlds of books. While some books are just as superficial as the worst television shows, it is well worth looking into quality writing that can go far deeper than any TV show would imagine.

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