Thanks to dudes who came over this weekend and hung out! I was super glad for the company. :D

I have another BBS fanarts! This one I did for a countdown, and you can view it here. I'll probably put it up on dA later.

Now for some movies...


The Jazz Singer
This will probably be the oldest movie I watch, unless I very suddenly switch something else with The Great Dictator or something. Since it was the first real movie with sound, I thought it would be lots of talking, although in reality it still looks and behaves a lot like a silent picture...complete with the dialogue being shown on dialogue cards instead of heard. It pops up in a few places, but mostly the sound was used for the singing parts, and even then the lip synch didn't always match up. Ironically, I got the sense while watching it that the show-off-our-cool-effects-and-forget-about-too-much-story deal that we think is prominent in today's movies (*coughAvatarcough*) has really been around as long as we've had movies. There were many moments in the film where they'd just stop and let the main character sing, as if to go HEY GUYS CHECK OUT THIS COOL TECHNOLOGY WE CAN PUT SOUND IN THE FILM LOOKY LOOKY LOOKY :D

All that aside, it WAS a good movie. Very much the typical story of the son with talent that defies his family to chase his dreams, but enjoyable nonetheless, in that old-timey sense. I don't know what it is about old movies, but it seems like the oldest movies always make you feel comfortable...like you don't really have to worry how it'll turn out the way you do more recent movies. It's hard to explain. Except for that part where it's like, AND SUDDENLY, BLACKFACE. 8| Yeah, it's the 20's so I'm not surprised it was there, it just totally threw me for a loop and I still can't figure out WHY they thought he needed to be in blackface.

Also, did they shoot movies a certain way back then to speed up film? It looks like large chunks of the film are running faster than normal speed.



Spellbound
Well considering the fact that YouTube really failed on this one, it was hard to watch this movie...seriously, the ending of the film is missing because of BLOCKED CONTENT crap. I could strangle something. Had to fill in what I couldn't see with Wikipedia. 8| But anyway, with what I did see...

It's kind of hard to go wrong when you have Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Salvador Dali designing a dream sequence. It's got all of the brilliant shooting and building suspense that Hitchcock usually does...seriously, only Hitchcock can make someone drinking a glass of milk seem threatening and unsettling! But unfortunately, the movie also had some of Hitchcock's Issues With Women, but that's almost to be expected. It definitely worked well as a psychological thriller...the characters, being psychologists, are constantly psychoanalyzing each other, although the science is a tad dated. So between dream analysis and triggers and symbolism, it all fits together like a puzzle the protagonists are trying to solve. I just wish I could have actually seen the end myself, because at least where I ended it, I didn't see the true explanation behind Gregory Peck's amnesia coming.



Drawing: LG, fanart, need to start on the board stuff again

Writing: Doing a little more on the RP, but much left to figure out...

Days until BBS release: 22