CAT III films
Would someone explain what "category III films" are?
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Category III films in my experience are more extreme than Hollywood's NC-17 rating. The trouble with that comparison is what used to be rated NC-17 now qualifies for R such as HOSTEL, SAW, HAUTE TENSION. Even your neighborhood Hollywood Video will carry very extreme Japanese movie such as JUNK.
If you want to see how extreme it can get, check out Takeshi Miike's ICHI THE KILLER, VISITOR Q, DEAD OR ALIVE or IMPRINT which he made for Showtime's MASTERS OF HORROR. Showtime refused to run it.
The Japanese and Germans can turn out some very disgusting films such as the Guinea Pig films or NEKROMANTIK. Now Hollywood is playing catch up.
What can you do? I wrote my first screenplay NO MORE ROOM IN HELL which was THE WAGES OF FEAR with women and thought it was better than what Hollywood turns out these days. Not enough sex, violence, foul language, etc.(I only used "f" word once.
I hope that answers your question.
Interesting! Was NO MORE ROOM IN HELL ever produced? Or was there, indeed, more room in hell?
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Unfortunately, it's never even been optioned. I entered a screenwriting contest and got a 5-page, single spaced evaluation: based on a classic film, characters not always believable, no knowledge of writing a screenplay, flat dialogueetc.
I was happy with it because I never thought I could write one. I have a poor visual, but I had fun writing it and filling it with numerous references. I did run the idea past local DC film critic Chuck Rich who liked the basic idea of THE WAGES OF FEAR with women, and I got a B- on it in a film class.
I also gave a posthumous role to a friend character actor Ralph Tabakin who appeared in almost all of Barry Levinson'r films.
Latest project which I'm still trying to finish is a combination of John Wayne's THE SANDS OF IWO JIMA, Clint Eastwood's FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS and Ray Harryhausen's JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS. But that's another story.
See you at the movies.
Ah, well. William Friedkin had crappy luck with his remake of THE WAGES OF FEAR. Did yours take place in a post-colonial South American country as well? Maybe if it took place in Colombia...
Wasn't VERTICAL LIMIT also a kind of remake of THE WAGES OF FEAR?
So your latest project is a WWII animatronic movies, combining period gung-ho values with modernist cynicism and Greek mythology? I'm sold.
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I should warn you -- he's a Fourierist.
What's a Fourierist?
I never thought of Vertical Limit as a variation.
KENISH-A-WA, THE STONE WARRIOR OF IWO JIMA began with the name which I thought could be Japanese. I'd watched the two Eastwood movies and read FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS as well as watched the Wayne movie innumberable times over the years. My thought was: what if the Japanese had a secret weapon on Iwo Jima they weren't even aware of? A massive stone samurai warrior who pursues a squad of Mariones down Mount Suribachi.
Why? Then I thought of Ray Harryhausen's film as well as the Golem and a trip of Japanese films about a similar character. The story picks up the Wayne movie after his death and the raising of the flag.
I've been prorastinating over finishing the last couple of pages(106 pages) for 2 months now. I know how it ends, but I've laways felt like I'm forcing myself to write it.
I appreciate your comments. What's your background and interest in films? I have Asberger's which has given me an obsession with movies. The good news is I know more about movies than you want to know. The bad news is I know more about movies than you want to know.
Re William Friedkin. I used to live in Mount Rainier, Md where the real life "Exorcist" occurred. I'm probably the same age as the boy who was "possessed", but I never heard of the case until the book and the movie came out.
See you at the movies.
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True, but the story gave me a lot of trouble, and I felt like I was going thru the motions. I got to the last scene and just left it hanging after a hundred pages.
The first script I wrote had a simple idea THE WAGES OF FEAR with women driving the trucks, but Hollywood wasn't buying it. I was able to visualize the scenes, and it didn't seem forced.
I get ideas but can rarely develop them. The latest is a comedy about same sex marriages. Two women go into labor on their wedding day and are rushed to the hospital. When asked the names of the father they point to each other! And that's the first three scenes.
If you can believe it, the inspiration for that opening is a Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedy LOVER COME BACK where I always thought it would be funnier if the movie opened with Doris being rushed to the Delivery with Rock and a minister at her side. How did the virginal Doris herself pregnant and unwed? "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."--Oscar Levant
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I must be coming up in the world. Nobody ever called me "a cool guy" or a "dude" before. I did have a friend at the Marine Corps in Arlington, VA who called me a square. "You know what a cube is?" I asked her. "A three-dimensional square." Some people have no sense of humor, and there might be some who think I have no sense.
Out of curiosity. What was the basis for your opinion?
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One of my favorite film quotes: There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that's all some people have? It's not mcuh, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan." Joel McCrea in Preston Sturges' SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS.
Unfortunately Hollywood wasn't as kind when I submitted my first screenplay.A very simple idea: THE WAGES OF FEAR with women driving two truckloads of nitro to an oil well fire instead of four tough guys. Never thought I could write a screenplay, but at least they were encouraging and thorough in their analysis. Personally I thought it was better than most of the junk they produce these days.
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My French is very rusty, and I took me a while to figure out the title. That film has been remade several times in one form or another. I just wanted to take the basic idea and see what I could do with it. Republic serials, Italian cannibal movies, Anthony Wong, John Ford, Preston Sturges, a little big of John Wayne, etc.
Sturges unfortunately isn't well remembered these days. He was a maverick who didn't get along with the studio system. No relation to John Sturges who made GUNFIGHT AT OK CORRAL, THE GREAT ESCAPE and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. I would recommend SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS and HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO.
There is a new movie PARANORMAL ACTIVITY that's making a ton of money at the BO right now. A young couple is terrorized by something that goes bump in the night when they go to bed. If you can believe it, the movie cost $11,000 and has made around $70,000,000 since it opened. It was shot in 11 days in the director's house, and the studio wanted to release it straight to DVD until Spielberg saw it. Then they wanted to remake it. I saw it Friday and was a little disappointed after all the publicity it's received. Some of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was shot in this part of Maryland. You never know what people will suddenly decide to flock to.
Paul
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COLIN I haven't heard of. Did you know Romero is working on his next "Dead" movie? SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD, I think, is set on a small island where a small group of people hope a cure can be found. He also has a remake of THE CRAZIES, an earlier movie I saw at the AFI years ago. If I remember, a small town is contaminated by a government plant/factory.
I try to avoid remakes, sequels and prequels, but I thought DRAG ME TO HELL was the funniest movie I'd seen in years. I'm 67 and I was laughing my head off. The other five, considerably younger people probably thought I was nuts. Sam Raimi invited people to e-mail him about the movie just Michael Wilson did with CASINO ROYALE, and I asked him about DMTH being a remake of CURSE OF THE DEMON. "They stole from me." Pretty good trick considering the two movies were made 50 years apart.
I saw THE BLOB for the first time in years last week. One of my high school's English and Drama teachers did the continuity on the film. I had a friend Ralph Tabakin who was a local character actor in all of Barry Levinson's films until his death several years ago. Levinson considered Ralph a good luck charm, and I created a role for him in my screenplay. In RAIN MAN Ralph is the casino security man who figures out how Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise are winning so much money at blackjack. "He's counting those cards..."