jwec
Nov 11, 2011, 05:46 PM
Im the kind of person who likes to express myself through my work. I enjoy making films based on my feelings, experiences, or things that I'm interested in. It's kind of like therapy or an emotional release. Let me tell you some of my favorite shows/musicals so you can get a taste of my style and what I'm interested in.
(Please Read If You Don't Know The Stories)
The horror/musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is as of now my favorite story! The film, set in the mid 1800's of dark and depressing gothic-like London, leads us through the eyes of the innocent barber Benjamin Barker (Sweeney Todd). Torn away from his beautiful wife Lucy and baby girl Johanna for crime he did not commit by the malicious Judge Turpin, being sent away to an Australian prison, and after 15 years in exile he escapes, consumed with revenge and hatred against Turpin. When he is reunited with his old neighbour, the comical yet delicate Mrs Lovett, a baker who use cats as the meat for her infamous pies, the two come up with a maliciously sinister plan to kill Todd's shaving customers and turning them into meat pies. An insane beggar woman who has been pestering Todd and Lovett throughout the film makes her way into Todd's barber shop. As Todd enters, she claims that she recognizes him. Just then, Turpin's voice is heard. Todd quickly slits the beggar woman's throat and deposits her body through the trap door of his barber shop. As Turpin enters, Todd explains to him that Johanna had repented, and offers a free shave. Todd reveals his true identity to Turpin and stabs him in the neck numerous times before finally slitting his throat and dropping him through the trap door, creating the biggest bloody mess of the film. A scream from Lovett diverts him to the basement. Viewing the corpses in the light of the bakehouse fire, Todd discovers that the beggar woman was his wife Lucy, whom he had believed to be dead based on Lovett's account of Lucy committing suicide because of Turpin. Todd realizes that Lovett knew Lucy was alive, and she attempts to convince him that she misled him for his own good, confessing she loves him. Todd pretends to forgive her, waltzing maniacally with her around the bakehouse before hurling her into the open furnace and locking her in. He returns to Lucy and cradles her dead body as a vengeful Toby (Lovett's adopted boy) emerges from the sewer and picks up the discarded razor. Todd appears to hear him and raises his head, allowing Toby to slit his throat. Todd dies with his neck bleeding on the corpse of his dead wife ending the movie.
Other films/musicals like The Phantom of the Opera, a deformed man who lurks in his own world in the catacombs of the Paris Opera House. The Phantom writes and composes music for his love, the young soprano Christine Daae, who means the world to him. Soon the Phantom feels betrayed when Chrsitine falls for the handsome and dashing Raoul. Various acts of betrayal occurs until the Phantom begins to fall apart when Christine rejects the ring that the Phantom gave to her. In the end, Christine goes off with Raoul and the Phantom mysteriously disappears never to be seen again. This one of my favorites also! I enjoy how original, creative, dark, twisted and the heart wrenching of tragic love. These kinds of stories are very personal to me and it's almost a reflection of my life.
Other characters like Edward Scissorhands, Batman, the Hunchbach of Notre Dame etc. I want to make a tragic love film like the Phantom and Sweeney Todd and those kind of characters. Both are taken place in the 1800s in Europe which is my favorite continent. But I want my own story to be original, sad and again ORIGINAL!
Any ideas? Opinions? Thoughts? Suggestions? I need some help creating a story with interesting tragic eccentric characters that have a passion and dark side because of love. THANK YOU!
(Please Read If You Don't Know The Stories)
The horror/musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is as of now my favorite story! The film, set in the mid 1800's of dark and depressing gothic-like London, leads us through the eyes of the innocent barber Benjamin Barker (Sweeney Todd). Torn away from his beautiful wife Lucy and baby girl Johanna for crime he did not commit by the malicious Judge Turpin, being sent away to an Australian prison, and after 15 years in exile he escapes, consumed with revenge and hatred against Turpin. When he is reunited with his old neighbour, the comical yet delicate Mrs Lovett, a baker who use cats as the meat for her infamous pies, the two come up with a maliciously sinister plan to kill Todd's shaving customers and turning them into meat pies. An insane beggar woman who has been pestering Todd and Lovett throughout the film makes her way into Todd's barber shop. As Todd enters, she claims that she recognizes him. Just then, Turpin's voice is heard. Todd quickly slits the beggar woman's throat and deposits her body through the trap door of his barber shop. As Turpin enters, Todd explains to him that Johanna had repented, and offers a free shave. Todd reveals his true identity to Turpin and stabs him in the neck numerous times before finally slitting his throat and dropping him through the trap door, creating the biggest bloody mess of the film. A scream from Lovett diverts him to the basement. Viewing the corpses in the light of the bakehouse fire, Todd discovers that the beggar woman was his wife Lucy, whom he had believed to be dead based on Lovett's account of Lucy committing suicide because of Turpin. Todd realizes that Lovett knew Lucy was alive, and she attempts to convince him that she misled him for his own good, confessing she loves him. Todd pretends to forgive her, waltzing maniacally with her around the bakehouse before hurling her into the open furnace and locking her in. He returns to Lucy and cradles her dead body as a vengeful Toby (Lovett's adopted boy) emerges from the sewer and picks up the discarded razor. Todd appears to hear him and raises his head, allowing Toby to slit his throat. Todd dies with his neck bleeding on the corpse of his dead wife ending the movie.
Other films/musicals like The Phantom of the Opera, a deformed man who lurks in his own world in the catacombs of the Paris Opera House. The Phantom writes and composes music for his love, the young soprano Christine Daae, who means the world to him. Soon the Phantom feels betrayed when Chrsitine falls for the handsome and dashing Raoul. Various acts of betrayal occurs until the Phantom begins to fall apart when Christine rejects the ring that the Phantom gave to her. In the end, Christine goes off with Raoul and the Phantom mysteriously disappears never to be seen again. This one of my favorites also! I enjoy how original, creative, dark, twisted and the heart wrenching of tragic love. These kinds of stories are very personal to me and it's almost a reflection of my life.
Other characters like Edward Scissorhands, Batman, the Hunchbach of Notre Dame etc. I want to make a tragic love film like the Phantom and Sweeney Todd and those kind of characters. Both are taken place in the 1800s in Europe which is my favorite continent. But I want my own story to be original, sad and again ORIGINAL!
Any ideas? Opinions? Thoughts? Suggestions? I need some help creating a story with interesting tragic eccentric characters that have a passion and dark side because of love. THANK YOU!