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Re: Final Major Project
Well I am very proud of you Al. You're very disciplined.
I am only at the synopsis stage still. 
I got a little panicked today when I read that I need to establish a market through existing texts. It's really difficult to get hold of modern radio dramas, script or recording. There are lots of comedies and adaptations about but alas I am not funny. Not like Al. He's the funniest person I know.
There's an excellent one being broadcast tomorrow that will be a good comparison for my idea. So I'm taping it through the telly. But still, it's not like there is any criticism or compilations of modern radio drama.
What an awkward market to research!
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I've got the planning 1st draft postcards done, currently writing the first draft, already wondering what i'm gonna have to add later because the scenes seem a little short lol. If anyone can recommend a thriller with psykics in. I've watched medium and ghost whisperer, buffy, angel, charmed, and may watch smallville in the future for anything about future predictions. Also watched a few movies about changing the future or past.
Anyway, yeah, that's as far as I've got so far.
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algy
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Re: Final Major Project
Twelve Monkeys.
Although that's a film, and it sounds like you're doing tv so it may not be much use. Well worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
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Re: Final Major Project
Here's a couple of old films that immediately spring to mind:
SCANNERS (1981) - David Cronenberg
THE FURY (1978) - Brian De Palma
CARRIE (1976) - Brian De Palma
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If anyone can recommend a thriller with psykics in.
One of my favourite movies, NIGHTMARE ALLEY: it's pure genius and is definitely one of the five best classic films noir.
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Thanks guys i'll take a look for them. And it is a film Al.
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Thanks guys i'll take a look for them.
NIGHTMARE ALLEY is at the bargain price of £7-99 on CD-Wow, and if you follow the instructions at
this link, you can reduce that price by a quid.
Go on, you know you want to. And once you've watched it, the word 'geek' will take on entirely new and lasting connotations for you.
The film is based on a book by William Lindsay Gresham. The book is truly amazing; Gresham was obsessed with the dark side of carnival life: the cons and the hucks. A former member of the American Communist Party, Gresham met a carnival huckster whilst serving as a medic in the Spanish Civil War. When he returned to America, Gresham lived and travelled with carnivals for a good portion of his adult life, sometimes working as a magician or a huckster, and wrote several books based on his experiences. His wife divorced him in the 1950s, and eventually married C. S. Lewis: the Anthony Hopkins film SHADOWLANDS is about the relationship between Gresham's ex-wife and Lewis. Poverty-stricken, Gresham committed suicide in 1962. He claimed to have created (or at least popularised) the word 'geek' in his novel NIGHTMARE ALLEY: according to Gresham, in carny-speak a geek is the lowest of the low, a man who eats live chickens and lizards for the entertainment of others.
There are a couple of good pieces about Gresham here and here.
Tyrone Power demanded that Fox finance the movie: he really believed in the film, and unfortunately it was a huge flop at the time of its release. Like Gresham, Power had his demons too: Power was reputedly a conflicted bisexual, and for all of his life he fought to hide the fact, wandering from one marriage to another. The director, Edmund Goulding, was also reputedly hopelessly addicted to drugs and alcohol, and often held drug-and-alcohol fuelled orgies at his home.
With the shared worldviews of Gresham, Power and Goulding, you can kind of imagine how offbeat and dark NIGHTMARE ALLEY is.
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Did I say 80-90k for my first draft to be finished?
I did, and it didn't. I've just broken the 90k frontier and it's still not finished; the end is in sight though.
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At last, somebody posted. This place is becoming like a desert.
Well done, Al. 90k is a lot of words and a great achievment. 
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Then comes the quality v' quantity...
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