Oct. 4 Dexter: The TV show Dexter has
ended. I found this Globe and Mail
article called “Dexter star ‘happy’ with the ending” by John Doyle on Sept. 19, 2013. It’s about a serial killer who kills other
killers.
The interview with the start Michael C. Hall: “I was taking
a break to look around at what might interest me. The pilot for Dexter came may way and I was
resistant. Another TV series with a lot
of death. Then I found I couldn’t ignore
it. I read the script twice. I read the book on which it’s based. I knew after two weeks of thinking that I
couldn’t resist the challenge of doing this, a drama about rooting for a serial
killer. The voice –over element, the way
Dexter knew these things that nobody else knew, it was irresistible.”
“Yes, he’s just a boy, at the start. If you remember, there’s that moment when his
nemesis, the Trinity killer says ‘Do you want to play?’ And Dexter is playing a game, yes. He doesn’t understand yet that there are
consequences, real consequences. Other
people get hurt, get killed. He’s
playing this game, a secret game. It’s
very tricky territory for an actor. The
grown man is a boy inside, but at the same time he’s perfectly competent as an
adult. He’s good at his day job. But he’s compartmentalized everything. He stopped being a kid some time back, but
maybe he wants to get back there?”
The article goes on to talk about how one of Doyle’s
friend’s kids aged 9 and 11 saw the TV show by accident, and loved the
character Dexter.
Hall: “Well, well, there is something magical about Dexter
isn’t there? Think about it. Things always seem to go right for Dexter in
many ways. Dexter lives in Miami
where he can just walk into people’s homes and take stuff, download from their
computers. It’s a Miami
with no alarm systems and Dexter never encounters a deadbolt lock. This Miami
doesn’t exist. It’s fantasy and kids
like that. Dexter seems to have magical
powers and, for all the kids know, he flies through the air when they’re not
seeing him do the other things the does.
Maybe that’s it. Or it’s ten
bright, bright colours of Miami.”
“Yes, I’m very happy.
The ending honours the story, but endings are always tricky.”
I then found this article in Metro on Sept. 19, 2013 called “Killing time is over.”
Hall: “He’s so far from anything I experienced him to be at
the beginning. He’s the same character,
but he’s in many ways a different person.
He had successfully compartmentalized efficient killing and convinced
himself that he is, in fact, incapable of authentic human emotion when we first
me him. But that all falls apart, slowly
but surely.”
“I’ve always thought that it was more interesting to
challenge the audience’s affection for the character and to move him into
choppy waters.”
Hall has theories about his fans:
“We live in a world where we have an increasing sense that
we’re not in control…and Dexter, in his micro way, controls his universe and
that is very appealing to some people.
We all have a sense of injustice in the world, and Dexter is certainly
exacting some form of justice within the confines of his own. Maybe it’s not that deep. Maybe people have murderous impulses they
don’t act upon and enjoy watching somebody who gets away with it.”
About the finale:
“Some people will be happy with it, some people will be
troubled by it. Perhaps some people will
be a combination of those things.”
There is this part that says: “Best mistake he ever
made.” A lot of actors and friends told
Hall to not do the show Dexter because who would want to watch a show
about a serial killer?
Hall: “When Six Feet Under ended, I imagined I would never
do another television series, just because I thought it would be impossible
that I would be so lucky that I would find something as successful.”
My opinion: I’ve only seen the first 2 seasons of
this show. The first season aired on CTV. Then I rented most of the season 2 dvds. Then I watched the last few eps of season 2
on Showcase. I watch it, because it’s
good writing. It is a crime drama, but
it delves more into the characters working the case, and not just like Criminal
Minds, where the FBI team tries to solve the murder.
I then read the newspaper all the time, so I was then
spoiled about big things like a major character getting killed off, and a major
character figuring out that Dexter is a killer.
I decided I might as well find out what the ending is on
Wikipedia. I read it, and I thought it
was good. A little bittersweet. I think I would have to watch the finale in
it’s entirety to appreciate it.
Unpredictable: TV is unpredictable. There are a lot of people that doubted the
success of Dexter, but it lasted for 8 seasons.
When Dark Angel came out in 2000, I was so happy and excited. It was by James Cameron, the show had a
really good story about super soldiers escaping from the military and living in
a post- apocalyptic world. I thought the
show was going to be on for a long time, but it only lasted 2 seasons.
Oct. 9 Finish what you start: Today is my day off and
I did look for a job. However, I also
have to finally finish my Rain script.
I’ve been writing this script since 2009. This is my 5th year in. I was busy working and living my life, so
that’s why it’s taking so long.
I have to finish what I start.
Fiction writing: I have changed in writing
styles. As a kid and teenager, I was
interested in fiction writing. Now I’m
interested in non-fiction writing like my blog.
Fiction writing takes too long.
In my blog, I can write faster.
In the Globe and Mail, there was “The Influence
Interview” with the author Mary Novik on Sept. 28, 2013. She
wrote the book Muse. She says
about her writing: “It’s a slow, organic process of thinking, writing,
thinking, rewriting.”
Also in the Globe and Mail on Sept. 27, 2013, there was the article “Eat Love
Write” by Sarah Hampson who interviews the Eat Pray Love author
Elizabeth Gilbert.
“She loved the process of puzzling out the plot, taking
three years to craft a 70-page outline so the writing was ‘like paint by
numbers.’ She wanted the story to show a
‘powerful woman whose life is enriched by intellect and not necessarily broken
or saved by a man.’”
Rain script: I had put this script in my dresser
drawer for a long time. Then I took it
out and put it on my bedroom floor for some months. It’s like I have to look at it. A couple of weeks ago on a Wed. night, I
decided to go through this stack of 80 pieces of paper. I write on my scrap paper, as in computer
paper that was printed on one side, and I use the back. I managed to recycle 11 pages because of a “cabin
in the woods” sequence that is not used.
Here’s my brainstorming:
Comparisons:
Home invasion: This is where bad guys attack the home
of the good guys.
This has been done in movies like Straw Dogs, Fear,
and The Purge. It was kind of
done in the movie Unleashed with Jet Li.
Instead of a house, the bad guys attacked this big apartment building.
Competition between drug dealers: In the movie Savages,
there is a war against drug dealers over territory. It was done on an ep The Mentalist.
Meth lab blowing up: It was done on the TV show The
Good Guys about two cops, one is in his 40s and the other one in his
20s. They go to a house, and ask a few
questions. They start walking away. In the background, all these guys start
running out of the house. You don’t know
why. The house blows up. It turns out there was a meth lab in there.
It was done on Family Guy where Peter and his family move to
an old house in the country. There was a
meth lab in the basement and they start cooking it. At the end, the house blows up.
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