Sunday, October 08, 2006

The $77,000.00 Movie

This movie was made over 2 years ago.

At the time, I was wondering if I'd move to Los Angeles.

It took two years for the answer to become clear, but it did. And I moved. (The cost of the movie and the decision to move are not completely unrelated.)

It's a fun movie and I don't regret the decision to make it - or anything about the 3 year process of making it - but it's interesting to note that it will be another 38 years before I'm finished paying for the movie.

The first person to "get a flower" in the movie is Genevieve Bennett, a great director who now lives and makes work in Minneapolis. The second person to "get a flower" is Adam Szymkowicz. We were roommates. He also happens to be a wildly talented writer.

H is the redhead at the top of the movie. I married her.

The $77,000.00 Movie

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A post about the "getting in" to the "Industry" will follow soon.

5 comments:

Adam Szymkowicz said...

cool. my movie was more expensive than yours.

Malachy Walsh said...

sorry.

hope you don't regret it. you shouldn't. i think those years were good for you.

m

Malachy Walsh said...

And actually, mine was more too, originally.

I managed to shave a little off the top by not having any craft services on set.

Adam Szymkowicz said...

I'm slowly paying it off. slowly being the most important word in that sentence.

D said...

that made me giggle, especially as I just looked through the craigslist postings for NYC apartments. I've discovered that "Manhattan" now only means "within a 20 mile radius of Manhattan" as LIC is, eveidently, no longer considered part of Queens by real estate brokers posting on Craigslist. Well, better find me a damn good executive producer.