July 20, 2005

• Editing Scene 63 brought back some memories. The scene takes place in an alley where Jackie finds Mouse. Unfortunately, the industrial clubhouse by the roof was damaged and we had to improvise somewhere else. Kim Winther took a look down an alley and said 'Can we use that...it would save us a lot of time to move on to other things'. I said to give me one minute while I sat in that alley for about 5 (yeah yeah, I take more time than I say I would).
  
  

  
  

  This was when an idea hit me. Well, what would one guy do in an alley? He's either spray painting, raping someone, robbing someone or taking a piss! Fantastic! So not only did I make Mouse pee, I decided 'Oh hell! this is a sci-fi film, I'm going to make my piss blue!' I hollered at Kim Collea and before long.... Voila! Blue piss. It kinda looks like gatorade. I admit I did think about red or pink piss. But then it would look like Mouse was just peeing out blood, which is pretty common.

  Ahh, blue piss. In order to remain consistent, I had to make other characters pee out different colors as well. Two question were in my head the night after we finished the shot.

  1. Should I have EVERY character pee out blue? or should it be different colors each time? I figured when we drink water our piss is clear, and when we drink junk like Diet Coke (my favorite by the way), our pee comes out yellow. Mine is abit brownish...but oh well...so blue means you're unhealthy and green should mean you're healthy....

  2. Is there a difference between the way a circumcised male and a uncircumcised male pee? Well, I'm not quite sure and no one in the crew will let me observe, so...i ended up having to improvise on my own...stupid set medic didn't even know...
  
  

  
  

  So here it is. If you look at the picture up there, it is done with just a regular tube pouring out from a pressured pump. If you look at the image on the left, it's a bottle with a hole on it. I put some paper around, to kind of simulate a penis skin. I see a difference, I don't know anyone who does. I just think it's funny that circumcised and non circumcised people might pee differently. If that's not true, then well, it's still fun to giggle in the editing room

  Note: I am not obsessed with circumcision neither am I gay, so don't ask...

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