tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593767.post114705873380623933..comments2023-11-02T06:30:35.416-07:00Comments on Caught in the Blog: Stripper MusicToddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18066424467539983150noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593767.post-1147385113785965022006-05-11T15:05:00.000-07:002006-05-11T15:05:00.000-07:00Good suggestion, and one I was considering, as I a...Good suggestion, and one I was considering, as I actually haven't set foot in a strip club before.<BR/><BR/>I don't know if the research is really *that* necessary, as the set is going to be pretty minimal, without providing the opporunity to really create a "flesh and blood" (for lack of a better phrase) strip club.<BR/><BR/>Still, in the interest of accuracy, I should have some idea what one is like.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if I can include this sort of "research" in my production budget...?Toddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18066424467539983150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593767.post-1147317223758346042006-05-10T20:13:00.000-07:002006-05-10T20:13:00.000-07:00Understandable. Here's another suggestion -- go h...Understandable. Here's another suggestion -- go hang out in a strip club. Sure, you may leave there a few dollars lighter and smelling of cigarette smoke, but I've been to real strip clubs (what's a bachelor party without visiting one?), and let me tell you, the film's portrayal of a strip club was not realistic at all. The film made it appear much more glitzy than it actually is.<BR/><BR/>Now, if only I could go into a strip club and see Natalie Portman on the stage, I'd be a happy man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593767.post-1147162533629055122006-05-09T01:15:00.000-07:002006-05-09T01:15:00.000-07:00Fair suggestion, except for just one thing. I'm ki...Fair suggestion, except for just one thing. I'm kind of weird about not wanting my artistic vision of something affected by someone else's artistic vision. "Closer" is playing here in Williams Lake during festival this year (it's one of the entries from Prince George) and as much as I love the play, I'm not going to go to see it, because I don't want my take on the play coloured in some way by another director's take on it.<BR/><BR/>And as much as film is different, and as much as they're creating an entirely different sort of piece, I'm still afraid of having that director's take affect my perspective on it. Even it's something as small as how a certain line is delivered.<BR/><BR/>And, I guess, extending beyond that is the idea that I want my choices for the music in the play to be as original to me as every other part of my approach to that play. From the moment the lights come up on stage, to the moment the cast comes out for their curtain call, I want to try to communicate something that comes, 100%, from me.<BR/><BR/>I'm just weird that way.<BR/><BR/>Having said all that, I'm very much looking forward to seeing the movie after I've finished directing it (so I'm desperately hoping I get a crack at directing it next season -- otherwise I'm waiting close to another two years before I can let myself see the film...)Toddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18066424467539983150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593767.post-1147151094125491562006-05-08T22:04:00.000-07:002006-05-08T22:04:00.000-07:00Why don't you check out the big screen version of ...Why don't you check out the big screen version of this play for ideas about the music? The movie did a great job of having music playing in the club scenes that didn't distract the audience from the dialogue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com