Production has always been a bit of a mixed bag for me. I am not the most organized detail-oriented person ever, so I have to always be careful to not overlook the small things. Also film set lingo bugs the shit out of me! I want to become a HUGE Hollywood director just so I can ban all that bullshit from my set and never have to hear it again. Well maybe with the possible exception of gary colemans because that tickles me just right.
Things went going surprisingly smooth for me on set. My producer is super duper efficient and really knows what he’s doing. I was a little surprised when I met him because he’s not at all what I was expecting. Whenever I think of British guys (EVEN though I know this to be false!) I always imagine a guy sipping tea pinky up and discussing the latest cricket match while doing one of those super effeminate Hugh Grant stuttering numbers. This guy is so not even in any danger of ever being mistaken for the swishy British men that live in my imagination. He’s so macho it borders on comical, and if it’s possible, I am pretty sure he walks cock first! It’s hilarious! Still he’s smart, quick, and really knows how to get shit done; he’s turning out to be the 3rd best producer I have ever worked with EVER.
A few nights ago we went out to a proper pub and I got to meet all his friends. The drunker they got, the less I was able to understand their crazy british talk. British people need to take some elocution classes stat because after a couple hours in the bar, it was like they were speaking a completely different language. Once their ability to speak English took a turn for the awful, that’s when the rowdiness began.
It started off with a couple of harmless “Americans are pansies” comments and then progressed into some “I know you are but what am I’s” and then it naturally progressed to the “No, I am pretty sure I could kick your ass with little to no efforts”. Everybody knows that you can’t call a man’s ability to beat the shit out of another man into question, without expecting some serious repercussions. So obviously, then came the inevitable drunken fights in the park. It was actually a lot of fun and in the end, exactly what I needed to break up all the stress and monotony that comes with working on these sets in foreign lands. Plus it just felt really good to stand up and say, “How’s it feel to get your ass kicked by a guy that’s 15cm shorter, 4 stone lighter, and AMERICAN!? Yeah I know the metric system! What now!?” The next night we all went drinking again and it was even more fun!
So I finished production, threw together a rough cut, and even sat down with a sound engineer and worked through all the more extravagant fx I needed, but I am still only a third of the way done! This is when things start to get really tedious and I need to take frequent breaks. I have been doing a lot of skateboarding with some of my new friends, I found a cool place to practice some hapkido, and I am also planning a 4-day mini-vacation to Barcelona to get my fun on (if I can finish all my work in time… I need to incentivize this for me if it’s going to get done! Don’t judge me.).
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"British people need to take some elocution classes stat because after a couple hours in the bar, it was like they were speaking a completely different language. Once their ability to speak English took a turn for the awful, that’s when the rowdiness began."
Are you serious? As a long time reader who enjoys your blog, I hope you were joking when you wrote this. What kind of English do you think our founding fathers spoke? Definitely nothing remotely close to today's American English. Please get off your high chair.
@ anonymous I was being somewhat hyperbolic, but your vitriolic response has sparked something in me that is forcing me to respond in full...
take a trip to some non-english speaking countries and ask them about english and who they have the ability to understand best. A large majority of the time they are going to tell you American English. American non-regional diction (or how people in southern california talk) is what the whole world should be striving for! It has nothing to do with being on a high "chair" and more to do with just retelling the facts.
Being the first doesn't always make you the best, if that were the case we'd all still be using MS-DOS for all our computing needs. In conclusion, British people suck at talking!
LOL. I was going to comment on the same thing. I lived in England and a lot of times when they were drunk, I had no idea what they were saying and sobriety didn't help that much either.
British people have this weird way of swallowing their words...
It's really no wonder that "My Fair Lady" has a song and, well, a film, devoted to the English's incapacity to teach their own language to themselves.
With that said, British accents, any kind, make me absolutely weak in the knees.
It's always easy to tell when you are feeling over worked and not getting laid cuz you turn into a crabby prick like this! A funny crabby prick, but a crabby prick none the less ;)! Glad to see you aren't making this all about the work though. Taking your time and retaining your sanity will do wonders for your sanity! Miss you lots.
"proper" pub. luv it. then I envisioned a scene from "trainspotting" with subtitles during the pub convo.
and of course, this is true "non-english speaking countries and ask them about english and who they have the ability to understand best" b/c they learn much of their "english" from movies and TV, and hollywood monopolizes the world markets.
but curious enough, and I don't know it you've been to Iran, or not, but in Iran students decide whether to attend English language schools or American language schools. There is a very clear distinction.
I also agree a drunk brit is very difficult to understand, much more than say a drunk thai who learned "american" as a second language. drunk brits are really fucking difficult to understand!!
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