THE AUSTRALIAN

I wrote a script called LAST NIGHT OF THE FILTH  many years ago. It's my best script because I am true to the Australian dialect. I find most Australian films not b be all that Australian. Sure we speak the words in the script but that's it. It's a softening of the Australian language , and in most cases it has to be. But there is still room for real  Australian talk. and I don't mean rhyming slang.But in saying that a writer needs to embellish the Australian brogue as Barry Humphries does and create new words and expressions.

AUSTRALIAN STORIES

I see conflict in my life everyday. In most of that conflict there is a story. I want to make an Australian film with some dialogue that is real or should be real. Verbalising thoughts.

The thing about Australians is that we are a very aggressively funny people (and know it)



He:
Hey,  here's that stuff you wanted. It's fifty bucks. Smokes , a six pack of JD and some chips.

She.
That should be $47.00

He
Oh should it, you call me up at eight tonight to get some smokes and shit for you. I go to the liquor mart,  not Coles, not fucking Woolies, cause that's all that's open,and I drop everything for you bitch. It's my time , my car and my petrol.

She
Whatever aresehole

He
Ahh go fuck yourself.






We need this sort of  riveting  blunt Aussie dialogue in our films

LIKE MINDED PEOPLE

I've had a desire to get involved with like minded people. When you have written as much material as I have and there's this need to get it produced,.
and I need other people to produce and do my stuff.

Having written 15 completed films scripts and at least 10 incomplete there is the need for me to say "Hey man , your on my team now, do this project". In fact a company
My first love is my sketches because they are the best written.
My ambitious side wants to be the creator of a very good Australian sitcom.
As for the film scripts all I ever wanted to do was to make a few myself and sell the others to the right people. 
People who understand my brand.

I realised Spielberg did this early on especially when he made the films like THE TWILIGHT ZONE and got other directors invoved. Joe dante and John Landis eg.

MY BRAND

If ever to have a brand hic his, it would be this.

Mainly comedy or socially relevant dramas and biographies. (So they'd go to Paramount or Orion)
Low to medium budget, but I do write some big budget style scripts so they'd have to go elsewhere.
Brisk paced comedy. Usually my story ideas are very good. can never figure out why someone else hasn't thought of them. BABY CAME BACK , AFTER DEATH , MAN OF THE PEOPLE  good examples.
Contemporary or very modern music score. Australian soundtrack.
Australians have produced many great forgotten songs popular songs, which means they aren't all that popular anymore . hic
My own stable of acting talent and a regular crew.

and there's other things I will add in later.

THE BRAND

For most of the 20th Century Hollywood was run by major studios. They all had their own brand and of course there was the brand within a brand. This is how they were up and to the 1950's.

MGM:  ( Irving J Thalberg -1936) Louis Mayer Sam Goldwyn          
Big budget musicals and dramas  and likeable friendly stars.
Clark Gable  James Stewart  Cary Grant Gene Kelly  Judy Garland

Warners   Jack Warner    
Moderate budget well told contemporary movies with  major stars Bogart , Cagney and Bette Davis.
The exception being big budget colour movies with their biggest star Errol Flynn

Columbia  Harry Cohn
Low to moderate budget but very well made films. Some big budget films
Great black and white photography.
Big name character actors as leads.
The Three Stooges saved this studio and were only ever on small wages.

Paramount       Adolf Zukor
Mainly Comedies.Bid budget  With comedies you don't need big name directors. Just tradesman like.
The Marx Brothers, Bob Hope Bing Crosby, Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis.
Dramatic Stars Gary Cooper,  Marlene Dietrich William Holden

2oth Century Fox     Darryl F Zanuck
Glossy Dramas . Glossy B grade films
Tyrone Power Gregory Peck


RKO  Howard Hughes
Lower Budget films
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. Robert Mitchum
The studio where big names went to make personal independent films.
Eg Billy Wilder with Double Indemnity.



Whether the film was good or bad Good or bad each of these studios had a mark which typified the studio.

CLINT

Clint Eastwood is a great American producer /director. What makes him great is that he shows respect for the work he chooses to make into a film, whether it be fiction or biographical. You never here negatives from the author or the subject, because of his respect for them and their subject.

MY FALL

I'm working at a shopping centre picking up rubbish. Eat your hearts out.  Then after you finish eating throw the wrappers on the ground, that way,  I have a job for life.
I was cleaning up some oil yesterday when I slipped and hit my head, head first , and right shoulder solidly into the concrete. Like the worst fall I've ever had. I got up after 10 seconds and thought, immediate thought, I hope I'm all right. A lump on my head like an egg, no actually that was an egg, and torn ligaments in my shoulder and soft tissue damage to my face and shoulders.

Normally this would make me appreciate life more.
However in this case, I just wished that incident was fatal.
No waking up sore.
I've been having some good sleeps lately and find sleeping great.
Waking up is hard to cope with. when your calling in life is to be picking up rubbish at 4am.