Happy Easter everybody! Today, I bring to you the trailer for the short my group, Alumninati, would have submitted to the 48 Hour Film Contest. For those that are unfamiliar, a 48 Hour Film Contest is where you get a group together, draw elements like genre, prop, a line and a character. In 48 hours (but really less) you take all those elements, write a script, film and edit scenes into a complete short. My awesome group stayed up until 4 a.m. the night of the drawing to write a script, spent 10 to 12 hours filming on saturday and everything was set to go for me to edit, but unfortunately, through oversight, almost all the footage was lost and we were forced to resign from the contest. Every single person in the group was totally supportive and never blamed me for everything. I was the hardest on myself for I had never dropped the ball like this before and felt I let everyone down. I apologize for being reduced to a shell of a man for the remainder of the night. However, I did have existing footage which I was able to use to make a trailer for the short that never came to be. So, now I present...the trailer for "Subrogation." Note - Since no longer eligible for the contest, to make the trailer more well-rounded, I used some stock material.
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Brandon Lee, unfortunately, is someone who is notorious for a terrible reason. Before his passing, he was only known to the public as "Bruce Lee's son." All his life, Brandon had complicated feelings of his father. He loved him, that's a given, but Bruce was on the rise as a star when Brandon was little and, unfortunately, Bruce became a bit obsessed with his craft at somewhat the expense of his family. Then, Bruce passed and EVERYONE in China and Hong Kong had lost their favorite son. The public would not give the Lee family the peace they'd hope for. Brandon would develop a bit of a resentment to his larger than life dad because of it. Linda Lee, Bruce's widow, is a strong woman and she raised both kids, Brandon and Shannon with as normal a childhood as she could with family and friends. Friends of the family would include actors and stuntmen and producers that Bruce had made friends with in the movie business. Brandon eventually came to peace with his father and decided that, instead of filling those shoes, he would make his own identity. It would prove to be harder than he thought since he was primarily known as "Bruce Lee's son." He wanted to be just "Brandon Lee." He did not want to represent the Chinese. He did not want to be just a martial artist in movies. It was in his blood, though, and he did study under his father's students and became quite accomplished. Brandon went through the ranks as actors usually do. He joined acting troupes. He was a stuntman. He made many friends and began to get breaks when people, who wanted to capitalize on the likes of Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme, realized he's the number one son of the king of the martial arts genre. He started getting breaks becoming the very thing he didn't want to be known as. Brandon started getting ample supporting roles in action movies before getting a lead written for him in the action movie, "Rapid Fire." After 'Fire,' Lee would finally find what he feels would give him his own kind of role and break him free of his father's shadow. "The Crow," a dark, gothic, serious comic book film which he was very excited about. It wasn't an action movie and very "un-Bruce Lee." Unfortunately, he would be cemented with this movie because of the tragedy of being killed on set by accident. The details are grim and long, so I will refrain from the telling of the incident. It's kind of hard for me to watch that movie to this day because of the nature of the story and it's macabre, behind the scenes, circumstances. Brandon was set to make a sequel to "Rapid Fire," play Johnny Cage in "Mortal Kombat," and people believe he would've been cast as Neo in "The Matrix" had he not died. As I grew up, I've done more research on his life and became quite impressed with who he'd come to be. He adopted a certain nature of his father while being his own person. He was a daredevil who lived every minute of his life. I try to find that courage for myself and live through his inspiration. He had the fortune of being the son of a philosopher, therefore, he developed his own line of thinking and became his own man. It's hard to believe he's been gone 20 years and it's a shame he never got to break out beyond "The Crow." He would've gone far and probably would have bridged molds between action star and great actor. Today, I honor him and his memory. Salud, Brother. I consider you as much an influence on myself as your father. Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." Brandon Bruce Lee
1965 - 1993 This is such a funny, well put together list. Click on the pic to head on over to IGN.com! Check it out!
I'm very indifferent and somewhat optimistic about the new "Ninja Turtles" movie to be made by Michael Bay's company. People like to assume that because he has something to do with it, it'll automatically be bad, but it has the writers of "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" which I really enjoyed. That said, here is my new 'Ninja Turtles' movie poster.
*assets from google images Here is my Tournament Bracket. I have Gonzaga going all the way. But then again, this is the only tournament that really is for everyone because you never know what's gonna happen! Click to "fullscreen" it!
This is one of the first independent projects I did in my freshman year at Missouri Western. Aaron Ward and I shot our "Hulk" movie in the old editing lab. I laugh at how cheesy the dialogue is, because it's improvised and it's based on the emo mood I was going through back then. However, I'm still proud of it's pacing and cinematography, so watch, laugh, enjoy!
There's nothing particular I wanted to start with, but keep checking in! I will be posting more soon!
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