A BRIEF LESSON IN HISTORY:
December 7, 1941 – Pearl Harbor was bombed…
July 21, 1969 – The first man walked on the moon…
August 16, 1977 – Elvis Prestley died…
November 9, 1989 – The Berlin Wall fell…
The following year, 1990, Vanilla Ice would release his opus of an album “TO THE EXTREME”
These dates are cold, hard facts… They are history… All one needs to do is go to any library or local search engine and you are provided with pages upon pages, of information commemorating these truths. I call them ‘truths’ as they are undisputed realities, backed up with hundreds, if not thousands of ‘proofs’ surrounding the events.
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That’s right. We have moved theaters.
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Mothers Day has been one of the greatest, and toughest challenges as a filmmaker. When I directed SAW 2, Mark Burg, one of the film’s producers, warned me about the amount of characters I had in the script. “It’s gonna be a nightmare to keep track of them all!” I laughed it off, shot the movie, and cried during editing – because he was right. There were a lot of characters – and at times, became a nightmare in post.
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For the last 6 years, any time I wanted to blog I used MYSPACE. Even as recently as last month. I knew no one was reading, hell, I am not sure if anyone is even still on myspace – BUT – at the same time I also knew I didn’t really have anything important to say – sans news about REPO showings, and what not.
But NOT TODAY… Today I actually have something to important to say. Important enough that I finally decided to use this webpage I bought some years back…
We spend the first quarter of our life in various learning environments. Preschool – Grade School – Middle school – onto High school… Some of us go onto college and further our learning… Some don’t.
In all of those years of education I spent countless hours learning random things that have NEVER come back to play in my professional life. Yes, I guess you could say that when I dissected that frog in Mr. Beasleys 8th grade Biology class it would help me when constructing the autopsy in SAW IV when we dissected Jigsaw… But a HUGE portion of my higher learning has never come back into play.
So I have an idea I would like to propose… If there are any educators out there reading this, I beg you, I need you, I am enlisting your help… Please help me get a class on Movie etiquette. We need to teach our kids now… Before it’s too late… Math, Social Studies, Science, Movie Etiquette.
Let me explain…
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