Plot
Can somebody give me a better idea of the plot and whose who in this movie please? thank u
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shareI think the plot is about a guy who has been told by some shaman medicine man that he will die by the "first snow". So he goes on a journey to find out the truth-will he die or not, if so, how....maybe enough plot to carry a tv movie.
I heard the producers ran out of money and that this film is in limbo...maybe the movie will die before the first snow...who knows...
just to set the record straight, first snow is just wrapping up post production, and has had incredible support (financial and otherwise) from its production company...
we will be hitting sundance and theaters early next year; give us a look -- i think you'll find the film light years from any tv movie you've ever seen
mark f
Courage, Mark, you are the best!!!
“He who holds to himself the joy,
doth the winged thing destroy,
but he who kisses the joy as it flies,
lives in eternity`s sunrise”
(William Blake).
My dear Mark.
I am so happy to have these wonderful news about your movie, I was so really worried about the last comments in the imd.com, so CONGRATULATIONS, once more time, I am longing to see you bold and loving project in Spain..
Let me introduce myself first, I am Conchi Cuesta Alonso, a spanish teacher of Art and History. I run the Departament of these both subjects in a High School of León, a province in the north of the country, as well as the workshops of theater and cinema. I am a writer, too, essays, poems ...
I am doing, right now, my doctoral thesis under this captivating and disturbing title:"Cinema and human psicology". (my professors in the University are going cracy about it., ha, ha,..).
I`ve been working in the following titles :"Memento" (memory and oblivion, the human tragedy);"The Count of Montecristo" ( the human being, angel o devil; the two faces we cope with; revenge and forgiveness) and "L.A.Confidential", (dignity and heroism at the workplace...).
"Bowling for Columbine" (american people, a true romance with weapons); and last, but not least, "The Pianist" (a story of survival through the power of beauty...).
I am going to analize patterns of behavior in our society, roles, masks and mirrors of the human being, in diverse periods of time and History.
I`ve done a lot of research using the most varied kind of sources you can imagine,.., but I feel that if I want to give an original aspect to my academic work, I need more than the use of bibliographic archives, about this issues in recent cinematic history, opinions of directors, pundits, etc..
The director of my thesis, Florentino, is putting a lot of pressure on me, and he has warned me, that if I want to do a really great paper, I need to add the personal opinion of the actors who have embodied some of these roles...
And well, this stuff is being a real nightmare for me!!!.
I`ve tried to get in touch with Guy, through one of his nice assistants, Wendy Millyard, at Shanaham Management in Melbourne..;
but he is always so busy, or having a break after some exhausting shooting, specially one of the last ones, , that well, it has been impossible to find a moment in order to talk to him till present day... ...; and, well, maybe you can not even believe it, but I`been working about his performances, for my paper for the almost last four years and a half of my life, boy!!!..
Always hoping that with my persistence and hard research, someday that lovely promising “SERENDIPITY”word could show me a way of having a direct adress, because I guess the most part of my letters and emails have never reached his pearcing eyes of blue...and in the end of the day, fortune always help the audacious people...
“;You can only be a real human being, when you are a creature who fights”Fedro” Platon)
And I hope every of my words will be a seed, a seed of love, admiration and respect for his work, a seed of truth, a seed of beauty, touching his soul, moving his heart in order to help me boy...
I can understand perfectly that an actor`s life is not, of course, such a glamorous one like the fake Tinseltown`s lights could seem at first sight, that you need really to take a break from all the job, and well, find yourself, to develop a real life,with real people ,on real ground..., If you lose contact with life, your performances as an actor are empty; if you are not in touch with real persons you can not play real emotions: the fear, the joy, the disappointment, the pain, the angst, etc..
As an actor you have to look around you, and to look inside you; to be filled in order to take out all those feelings with just a gaze, a smile, a gesture, a tone of voice... ; and he has done it, baby, so damly well all these years..
I am astonished, as a pundit studying his performances I am completly in awe!!!...
He has always showed and enthusiastic, flawless selflessness, and open minded actitude, free from prejudices, searching characters and films not based on commercial strategies, or based in the vanity of being just the leading man!!!, but based on the finding of roles providing you something more valuable on a personal level and on an artistic one... LIKE YOURS!!!
I can understand all that and I know that these three last years must have been very hard for Guy,, with so many films, shooting locations, places and so on and so forth.. and well right now after finishing "The Proposition" in Queensland, that riveting old Testamentsque western written by , the always interesting Nick Cave, and yours in the beatiful New Mexico,.. I`m longing to see them , if reaching Europe, cause we are still waiting for the release of his last great films, I would like to include some of them in my paper too, :” A Slipping Down Life”"The Hard Word", "Till human voices awake us"...
An well right now,Wow!!!, at last a , brilliant, smart, thought provoking , indie film, among the whole Hollywood boring mainstream movies we are suffering right now, baby.
I`m in awe with your project, because you have chosen the best actor in the world right now to play such a complex, mesmerizing and riveting character like this one...
Your idea is simply astonishing and I wish you and your whole team the best of lucks and the great sucess you really deserve in the middle of this mediocrity we are surrounded by in current cinema...
Your story is gonna show us the lights and shadows of a man, of a mind..
That everything is possible: to be young, to be sucessful, to make it, to fall down,...; to live means to fall, to be mistaken, to hurt and being hearted,to love and let it go; that`s life: to reach the sky, enjoy our "five minutes of glory", "the splendor in the grass", and then, out of the blue, to fall into Dante`s hell, so as to see our image reflected in his mirror..
Life in the ends kills you...
A story where the fear, the joy, the disappoinment, the pain, the angst are present and reflecting our own weaknesses..
Guy is the perfet man to embody all these qualities and you the perfect director to show them in a cinematic screen..
I`m longing to see the result next year..
Have faith, have courage, be brave, you have all these marvellous qualities in order to take on a project like this one..
Don`t pay attention to all the words of envious people with no talent around you, darling..
You have a real gift boy, so go on and astonish us with this movie, and this marvellous thespian Guy is, always playing out of the beaten path roles, filled with life, strong and weak, as you, as me, roles with a " beauty blessed by gods", like Goethe would say; always touched with a light melancholy, wounded characters, hurted, beated but never defeated ones, in spite of the losses, keeping still an aura of goodness and hope..
I wish you both of you, I mean Guy and you, a great success, if you want to visit Spain, ha, ha, ha, someday who knows, be my guest I`ll be delighted to show you around my sunny, warm and passionate country.
I think I`quoted all the commonplaces, ha, ha,ha..
Well like the libanese poet, Gibral Jalil Gibran wrote: "in the dew of the little things, the heart finds its dawn and it is refreshed".
I wish you found them, both of you., from the bottom of my heart.
All my love
Who knows, maybe someday I`ll be able of leaving behind those "shadowlands" C. S. Lewis described in such a master way, and cross at the other side of the mirror by the hand of Alice..
Someday, perhaps I could have some talk, coffee and friendship with both of you!!
Sometimes miracles happen and well, like T. S. Elliot would have said:
"if sirens don`t sing to me here.
they will never do!.
MEGAKISSES. AND MEGAHUGS.
CONCHIXXX.
WHERE IS THE MOVIE????????????
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if you're really the director and you're posting on imdb about your own movie... and as such, me being a person unrelated to the production or release of the movie... i have to say, cool.
i live in albuquerque and was across the street when there was some shooting going on near satellite cafe. i asked a crew person, he told me it was a movie with guy pearce, and i remembered hearing about it. it's interesting to see how the movies that have been shot here have gotten attention in the press. it's a big thing for the state's legislature since the big concern by the public has been: are these movies even going to make the state any money? i say nuts to that. it's not always just about money. sometimes it can be, i recognise that. it's a lot of work! but still, i like seeing original movies and talented, creative people being given an opportunity to move audiences in that way that only the cinema can.
i'll be waiting for this to his screens mainly cos some of it was shot here and mr. pearce is in it (one of my favorite actors that i just don't see enough of). i've seen some good movies shot here ('21 grams', 'north country') as well as some "popcorn movies" ('beerfest', 'the longest yard') and even tv series ('wildfire' and 'the lost room' are both still in production) and in a way the diversity is what's attractive as someone that wants to work in the entertainment industry. thank you for contributing to that.
so, cool. kudos. congrats. looking forward to seeing this movie.
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