SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY

“Men in Black is… the Ghostbusters
Dressed as the Blues Brothers???
Somebody owes Dan Aykroyd some money!”
-John Landis

I´ve always admired people who are different and don´t follow the same trends or opinions as others. People that make a difference in your life. Influencing us to do great things or to take unexpected decisions. John Landis is like that. Like other film director´s he gives a lot of interviews but as so much talented people, has never been  properly acknowledge. Either his movies are not famous or not comercially succesful. If anyone is an authority on comedy its him. He has worked with the best in the business, so much talented artists      can´t be wrong.  He can brag of being not just a Director but a Brilliant Filmmaker.

Born in Chicago, raised on L.A.
At age 8, he saw The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and
It changed his life
Part of a brilliant first generation of Directors
Along Spielberg, Scorsese or Joe Dante

changed filmmaking forever.
He might not be the most prolific or famous director
But he definitely influenced movie making.
He Directed  Michael Jackson´s “Thriller”
Changing television and music videos forever
Directing some of what I consider, most of 

1980´s iconic movies.

-of Horror:
An American Werewolf in London
& : the Prologue and first segment of the Twilght Zone Movie

-of Comedy:
The Three Amigos (Alfonso Arau, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short)
Trading Places (Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy)
National Lampoon´s Animal House (John Belushi)
Coming to America (Eddie Murphy &Arsenio Hall)

-of Musicals:
The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi)


See You Next Wednesday is a recurring gag in most of the films directed by John Landis, usually referring to a fictional film that is rarely seen and never in its entirety. Each instance of See You Next Wednesday in Landis' films seems to be a completely different film.
Landis got the title See You Next Wednesday from the 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is the last line spoken by Frank Poole's father during Poole's videophone conversation with his parents

Its now 35 years after his first movie and up until now John Landis films make me laugh make me think, maybe , just maybe the trick is not doing what gives you more recognition and popularity, but listening to what´s inside you.  By "directing" your own path.

Who is that fella?

Every actor’s goal is becoming someone
Else in front of an audience
What does it take
becoming someone real?

Malcolm X, Gandhi,
El CID, etc
These are my favorite
Forget everything else
Watch the acting


Edison, The Man (1940)
Spencer Tracy became
Thomas Alva Edison
Period.
Giving a powerful performance
Of the brilliant man who brought light
To the world.

THE SCENE
As Edison
Enjoys a glass of milk
& a piece of pie.
the way he smiles
That is his happiness.

Lust for Life (1956)
Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh
The special relationship he had
With his brother Theo
We all know his art but we are not
Familiar with this legend
Being such a talented & tormented soul
At the same time.

THE SCENE
Before cutting his ear
Van Gogh watches himself
In a mirror over and over again
Trying to understand
Why he suffers so much.

The Babe (1992)
John Goodman
took a huge risk
Portraying an American icon
As Baseball legend Babe Ruth

Abandoned as a kid
Left on an orphanage to his own
To find out his unique talent
Had a price:
A life full of excesses.

As many sad characters
He just wants to be loved.

THE SCENE:
When “The Babe” can´t take
it anymore
And confronts the hole
Stadium, as the crowd
throws garbage at him.

Der Untergang (2004)
Better known as Downfall in English
Adolf Hitler Brilliantly portrayed by Bruno Ganz
on his last days
Hidden at the bunker, finding out
The thousand year reich is no more.

THE SCENE
While having a meeting at his bunker
Hitler realizes the war is lost
As he takes his glasses off,
You can see how his mind and heart
Break.

In such absolute darkness

purist: one who desires that
an item remain true to its essence
and free from adulterating
or diluting influences.

I´ve always believed the movie “experience”
is best
In the movie theatre.
The TV experience
Is not the same
TV is a mass media
And its inside your home
And has commercials

TV movies are usually very bad
With poor budgets
Bad acting
Wrong cinematography
But they are a true example
Of effort and bringing
Movies to a different window

I really think
Some TV movies
Are groundbreaking
This are my 3 favorite


IT (1990)
Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace
Contrary to what many believe
Stephen King’s novel adaptation
Was not a theatre release
It´s probably the most famous tv movie ever.
It was a two part movie on ABC
Aired November 18 & 20 1990
Making Pennywise (Tim Curry)
An instant classic monster that hunts
Our nightmares.

Fatherland (1994)
Based on a Robert Harris book
And Directed by Cristopher Menaul
HBO produced this idea
Imagine just for a second
“Germany won
World War II”
An SS Officer (Rutger Hauer) and a
Reporter (Miranda Richardson)
Start uncovering a secret so big
That will change the world forever.


Citizen X (1995)
Based on a Robert Cullen novel
And Directed by Chris Gerolmo.
Forensic Specialist Viktor Vurakov
(Stephen Rae) searches for 7 long years
To find Russia’s worst serial killer
Andrei Chikatilo (Jeffrey DeMunn)
Starring Donald Sutherland and
Max Von Sydow
A hard to watch
HBO masterpiece.

“The greatest masterpiece in literature ,
is only a dictionary out of order”
-Jean Cocteau

There´s a place

A tradition
Of humanity
Synonym of relationship

Not a place
Or just furniture
It’s a main character

It’s a place for statement
Meetings are held
Decisions are made

It resembles the horizon
It may be dusk
It may be dawn


Where families argue
Where we face each other
Where there should be no secrets

This landmark of item
In every house
In every life

Parents teach
Children read
Toys play

Plots are planned
It all begins
It all ends …

The Audience´s Suspension of Disbelief

Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?
Morpheus: You've never used them before.

If you are like me
And watch 50 or 500 times
The same movie
You begin to
See some hidden things
Like:


The Real One The real Erin Brockovich plays a waitress serving Julia Roberts and her kids


The Number 114 CRM 114 was the name of a decoding device in Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.” In “A Clockwork Orange,” the medication given to Alex is marked “Serum 114.” Also Robert Zemeckis seems to have borrowed those numbers appear on the amplifier that Marty uses at the very beginning of “Back to the Future.”


The A113 Was the classroom number used by
Character animation students at
The California institute of arts
It appears in all pixar films


The club During the opening sequence of
“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,”
we see that the name of the club
is “Club Obi Wan”


The Rain John Cusack has one request
Before doing any movie
“It must rain”


The quote Tom Hanks in every single one
of his films says “Hey! I know you”


The Cameo In Mike Nichols “Regarding Henry”
The messenger is none other than
A young J.J. Abrahms


The Gorilla In Mike Nichols
“Working Girl” when
Sigourney Weaver gets off the helicopter
She´s carrying a stuffed Gorilla.
Resembling Gorillas in the Mist
Both movies were released the
same year


The Book Neo (Keanu Reeves) keeps his
Contraband work on a book called
“Simulacra and Simulation”
by Jean Baudrillard that interrogates
The relationship between reality,
Symbols and society

Do you want to?

Born 1931 in Germany
Mikhail Igorevich Peschkowsky
Attracted by theatre and comedy
began developing
A Gift for portraying
emotion that was masterfully
translated to each one of his films.

Music is a main character &
What most directors would
Consider outtakes
Are his best takes

For the past 40 years
He has created some of
movies most
Classic moments

mixing curiosity and

doubt but also the never

ending battle that

you can be a better person

He can brag
Something
Few directors can
If you quote one line
you can
Remember a whole film

See a Mike Nichols movie
Probably you already have…


The Graduate (1967)
Director: Mike Nichols
“Mrs. Robinson you are trying to seduce me”
-Benjamin Braddock

Working girl (1988)
Director: mike Nichols
“Do not go thru Tess”
-Katherine Parker

Regarding Henry (1991)
Director Mike Nichols
“Ritz”- Henry Turner

Primary Colors(1998)
Director: Mike Nichols
“I´m gonna tell the truth”
-Jack Stanton