Where´s Superman?

 (SPOILER ALERT!)

I don’t know about you but the last movie of Superman, doesn’t quite fit. I ask where he is because I saw him in only bits and pieces. (When he saves every kid on the bus or the guys in the oil refinery at sea)

Not in its fullest. Not the Superman I wanted to see. Its 2013.

I think everyone that loves Superman already knows his origins, why he has 3 names (Clark Kent, Kal-el and Superman)

Who´s his greatest villain & what´s his day job.

I hate watching mixed films in one (AVATAR with MATRIX or Independece Day with GATTACA)

Jor – El flying with a beast?

Babies breaded in little aqua pods?

Reproduction is illegal in Krypton?

There is no right way to do a Superman Movie because you cannot please everyone. FACT. But you can still try giving us something new or that we haven´t seen yet.

In this last movie Superman is full of doubts( I think it’s a way to connect with young audiences) But we are talking about Superman.

Why does he scream in anger when he kills Zod? He died like Bane on the Dark Knight Rises. You build up this Biggerthanlife SUPERVILLAIN. And like that… he´s gone.

It´s as stupid as Darth Vader screaming “Nooooooo!!!”  In Episode 3

Why does he hesitate his every move?

Superman is a superhero. He is our Champion! Needs no sidekick.

Why DC even bothered copying Marvels The Avengers and Thor´s destruction scene of a small town?

Why?

INDEPENDENCE DAY ripoff (YOU ARE NOT ALONE) jamming all of earth´s transmitions to deliver Superman????

I loved all the flashbacks (Ridley Scott´s Robin Hood or Gladiator TYPE )but they should push us forward instead of (Army welcoming ALIENS) MARS ATTACKS! Tribute middle part.

Anybody else noticed no President of the U.S.A. on the movie?

Every decision was made by the army?

Superman was HOPE, is HOPE & forever will be HOPE.

I would’ve liked to see a more complex Superman an older one more interesting. Not a one dimensional character.

Someone so special, so strong and powerful.

Should have no doubts and that s what makes him an Alien.

 Basically

We want to see him fly!

The essence of Superman lies on a scene where no dialogue is spoken.  

When a young red caped Clark and his dog are enjoying the wind.

That’s it

Not the ILM special effects, not the explosions, not the logo or the suit nor the alien invasions.

Every kid dreamed to fly away

That´s Superman.

I´m a big fan of comic books and one that helped me understand the importance of narrative intelligent storytelling was Superman´s Death.

From the initial pounding of Doomsdays fists in darkness.

To Kal El´s lifeless body in the remains of a city.

Who can kill Superman? That is the question. And that is the movie I would rather see.

In DC´s official website under characters there is a brief synopsis of Doomsday.

“On one dark day, the planet wept as the World’s Greatest Super Hero fell. No one will ever forget the day that Superman died. Nor will they forget the name of the monster responsible—Doomsday. A creature whose rampage of destruction and violence could only be stopped when the Man of Steel made the ultimate sacrifice.”

The most important work about art and life was written by himself?

“4 people are sitting around in a table talking about baseball,
Suddenly a bomb goes off!!!
Blows the people to smithereens
What does the audience have? … 10 seconds of shock
Now, Take the same scene AND tell the audience there is a bomb under that table
And it will go off in 5 mins The hole emotion changes
You got the audience working they don´t care about baseball
NOW The bomb must never go off
You work that audience into a state and then they will get angry because you haven’t provided any relief”
Alfred Hitchcock 
I get mad when I see bad movies because it’s not the money they’ve spent but the opportunity to make a film is one in a million and blow it away making shit. It’s really upsetting to me.


If you don’t have a unique, bright, exquisite story and the only thing you do is copy someone else’s movies…then don’t do itIf its what’s in your heart do it, but do your homework!
As a teacher in college told me “Hitler didn’t made his homework and lost to Russia the same as Napoleon, because he didn’t do his homework”


See a lot of movies see as many movies as you canSo that you don’t make the same old mistakes
Know how to get rid of your favorite scene if it doesn’t give anything to the story. Make us think new don’t feed us the same old clichés. Read a book. Play a videogame. Make coffee. See a comic book. Paint. Play an instrument. Don´t do anything if its meaningless to you! It’s a story worth telling to you
Find yourself. As Kawanabe Kyōsai did .

Will he ever return?

That is the question… (SPOILER) At the end of the 1960 movie H.G. Wells' The Time Machine with Rod Taylor. George Welles the main character has disappeared. GONE. Traveled back to the future. But he took with him 3 books…
Which books would you have taken to educate a new society? Asked my dad to me.
My dad always taught me and my brothers to see any kind of films but he started by the classics .
Before Brando or De Niro or Pacino…
In the same generation of Heston and Olivier
If I had to tell anyone how to begin to see movies I would recommend the movies of
4 actors I admire.
One played Hamlet, one played Sherlock Holmes, one played Captain Nemo & one played The Invisible Man

Claude Rains
Basil Rathbone
James Mason
John Gielgud

Take a look at 1938´s The adventures of Robin Hood or 1954´s 20,000 leagues under the sea, 1939´s The Hound of the Baskervilles or 1980´s The Elphant Man and you will understand what was acting. What a Movie was. Not just selling tickets.

in between...

There was a time
Not long ago
I used to smoke
And nothing more

In the rain
Or a foggy day
With my coffee
Or Just before bed

I didn’t know you smoke
They told me then
Do you smoke?
They tell me now

In between
Day and night
Sometimes
I dream I dream I still smoke

3 MOVIE MUSTS

1.-THE WAY TO START...

2.-ESTABLISHING CHARACTER(s)

3.-THE END

1.-THE WAY TO START...

“The Sixth Sense”INT. BASEMENT - EVENING

A NAKED LIGHTBULB SPARKS TO LIFE. It dangles from the ceiling of

a basement.

“Memento”

FADE IN:

1 INT. DERELICT HOUSE - DAY <> 1

A POLAROID PHOTOGRAPH, clasped between finger and thumb: a

crude, crime scene flash picture of a MAN'S BODY lying on a

decaying wooden floor, a BLOODY MESS where his head should

be.

"THE BOURNE IDENTITY"

DARKNESS. THE SOUND OF WIND AND SPRAY.

MUSIC. TITLES.

EXT. OCEAN -- NIGHT

The darkness is actually water. A SEARCHLIGHT arcs across

heavy ocean swells. Half-a-dozen flashlights – weaker beams

racing along what we can see is the deck of an aging FISHING

TRAWLER.

FISHERMEN struggling with a gaff -- something in the water

A HUMAN CORPSE.

2.-ESTABLISHING CHARACTER(s)

You have 5 minutes to tell me everything concerning THE CHARACTER

to create something from nothing

GOOD OR EVIL The first time we hear a character is the most important one

The Godfather

VITO CORLEONE

(sitting behind his desk,

petting a cat)

Why did you go to the police? Why didn't

you come to me first?

Pulp Fiction

JULES

– Okay now, tell me about the hash

bars?

VINCENT

What so you want to know?

Interview with a vampireLOUIS

So you want me to tell you the

story of my life...

MALLOY

That's what I do. I interview

people. I collect lives. 

3.-THE END

The way to finish a movie is not telling everything not explaining everything not doing the audience all their homework 

let there be something to talk about after 

“The Silence of the Lambs”

INT. DORM HALLWAY - NIGHT

As Clarice reacts, the fill weight of his words sinking in.

CLARICE

Dr. Lecter... Dr. Lecter...!

But only a DIAL TONE comes from the phone. She is still

staring at her receiver, in shock, as we –

Dr. Lecter, sets his phone down, then rises.

He follows Dr. Chilton down the street

CREDITS ROLL

“The Usual Suspects”

EXT. STREET 

The car stops. The driver gets out.

IT IS KOBAYASHI, or the man we have come to know as such. He

smiles to Verbal. Verbal steps off of the curb, returning the

smile as he opens the passenger door and gets in.

The man called Kobayashi gets in the driver's seat and pulls

away .

A moment later, Agent David Kujan of U.S. Customs wanders

into the frame, looking around much in the way a child would

when lost at the circus. He takes no notice of the car

pulling out into traffic, blending in with the rest of the

cars filled with people on their way back to work.

BLACK

“AMERICAN PSYCHO”

BATEMAN (V.O.)

But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. I gain no

deeper knowledge about myself, no new knowledge can be extracted

from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell you any

of this. This confession has meant nothing...

The camera moves up to a sign on the wall behind him:

"THIS IS NOT AN EXIT."

CREDITS ROLL

“Never let the audience get ahead of the story”… Craig McKay (film editor of The Silence of the Lambs and Cop Land)

Shall we begin?

I saw three picture & this is what I imagined…
EXT- Paris MorningIt just stopped raining
A taxi cab arrives at a Café a gentleman steps out
Enters the Café taking his scarf off

INT- CaféTwo men sitting, talking 
One is laughing one is not… 
Two cups of espresso & two glasses of water are brought
They are discussing Food Semiotics & Disney Theme Parks

Benedict
“Food is said to be semiotic because it transforms meaning with preparation. Food that is eaten by a wild animal raw from a carcass is obviously different in meaning when compared to a food that is prepared by humans in a kitchen to represent a cultural dish. Wendy Leeds says.

Tom...Did you know,“Disney fits well with the cultural code of Japan, because Japan values “cuteness,” politeness, and gift giving as part of their culture code. Tokyo Disneyland sells the most souvenirs of any Disney theme park. In contrast, Disneyland Paris failed when it launched as Euro Disney because the company did not research the codes underlying European culture. Its storybook retelling of European folktales was taken as elitist and insulting, and the strict appearance standards” Katherine Bartlett found out.

The end

IS THERE A MOVIE INSIDE RADIOHEAD´S “PARANOID ANDROID”???

I believe so… & this is what I see: 
Inside a house, inside a room, full of dust
A vinyl L.P. begins to play
The tracks transform into roads
The sun comes up
showing a horse running
The horse changes into car
Someone, who we do not know …lights a cigarette
looks in the rearview mirror
with an odd look,
rips the mirror off
Throw´s it outside
Raindrops fall
birds change path and follow the car
drives off a cliff…
sun becomes night
smiles
feels relaxed
crushing the cigarette against a rock
behind him a canyon
and on the bottom
the car on flames