July 26, 2005

• Another scene that I'm in the process of editing. I only could use shots from the front because the shots from the back is a view of the entire city. We shot that on green screen and have yet to composite the city into it yet. Promise I'll give more tidbits of concept art in the future.
  

  
  

  The rooftop scene was never in the script. Orginally, Jackie (played by Parry Shen) and Mouse (played by Ethan Cohn) had a hang out in this dingy chinese restaurant. However, another one of those days when sets were not ready in time. I was shown a list of props that were available and it looked like a bunch of stuff you collected from the trashcan. So junk is my film eh. Haha! I love it!

  I took the junk and went next door and stole some fences. Putting 4 fences together with some corrugated metal and some drapery over it, I made a little club house on the rooftop. Thank god my Production Designer (Brian Ollman) was there to pull this miracle off otherwise we might be shooting in another Alley again.

  This scene was particularly funny, because Jackie and Mouse were scheming on stealing money to pay off a gambling debt. All talk and no action is always boring, so I placed them at the edge of the rooftop and while they are having their conversation, they are also spitting on peoples' head below. I think the brilliance in this scene, which you really have to see for yourself is the chemistry with the Parry Shen and Ethan Cohn. The brilliance was performing this scene like they had done this a million times and very extremely non-chalant about it. I had my hands over my mouth to stop myself from laughing, and snort came out of my nose instead. (note to self: plug nose up too)

  
  

  Parry is a great actor and seldom gets distracted. I knew one day I did the right thing when Parry got distracted when I told Ethan to use his spit as his Ramen Noodles lubricant. I figured since these guys did not have money to even have a kettle in their club house, Ethan would use his spit to lubricate his noodles. Here's an outtake of a shot when Parry actually got distracted. I thought it was funny, but that was short lived when Parry and Ethan got right back into the scene. Then I thought he was brilliant. Chemistry between Parry and Ethan, to me was one of the priceless points of TGG.

   

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