A letter to US people

By Allal El Alaoui

A letter to US people

You are probably the most intelligent people in the world .Yet ;How come do you give your tax money to military power in Israel ? the world now has spoken out and support the right side which is to stop this bleeding war against civilians as your street has done the same thing about the crimes of Israel towards Palestinian civilians .Now , come on speak out and say the truth as you fought in your 1779 revolutionary war.The jews and Arabs have lived together for years and I believe they shoud do in one state .

It is true that Israel has founded a democracy in the middle east but this same democracy is based on criminality.Now, you American people speak out in your street to stop your Barak Obama gouvernement endless support to Israel based on your pocket money .

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10 Great Akira Kurosawa Quotes for Screenwriters & Filmmakers

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 July 25, 2014

 

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Probably most famous for the epic, THE SEVEN SAMURAI, Akira Kurosawa has always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan. His big breakthrough came withRASHOMON, the film that introduced Western filmmakers to Japanese cinema and spawned an army of imitators and countless remakes. Following a lean spell in the 1970s he returned to filmmaking, reaching his peak with the multiple award winning RAN in 1985, an epic adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear.

1. “In order to write scripts, you must first study the great novels and dramas of the world. You must consider why they are great. Where does the emotion come from that you feel as you read them? What degree of passion did the author have to have, what level of meticulousness did he have to command, in order to portray the characters and events as he did? You must read thoroughly, to the point where you can grasp all these things. You must also see the great films. You must read the great screenplays and study the film theories of the great directors. If your goal is to become a film director, you must master screenwriting.”

A talentless bunch: Kurosawa, Coppola and Lucas

2. “With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this.”

3. “Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.”

4. “I‘ve forgotten who it was that said creation is memory. My own experiences and the various things I have read remain in my memory and become the basis upon which I create something new. I couldn’t do it out of nothing. For this reason, since the time I was a young man I have always kept a notebook handy when I read a book. I write down my reactions and what particularly moves me. I have stacks and stacks of these college notebooks, and when I go off to write a script, these are what I read. Somewhere they always provide me with a point of breakthrough. Even for single lines of dialogue I have taken hints from these notebooks. So what I want to say is, don’t read books while lying down in bed.”

5. “Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into. It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible. A great deal about this can be learned from the study of the great plays, and I believe the ‘hard-boiled’ detective novels can also be very instructive.”

6. “Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.”

7. “The role of a director encompasses the coaching of the actors, the cinematography, the sound recording, the art direction, the music, the editing and the dubbing and sound-mixing. Although these can be thought of as separate occupations, I do not regard them as independent. I see them all melting together under the heading of direction.”

8. “When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.”

9. “A film director has to convince a great number of people to follow him and work with him. I often say, although I am certainly not a militarist, that if you compare the production unit to an army, the script is the battle flag and the director is the commander of the front line. From the moment production begins to the moment it ends, there is no telling what will happen. The director must be able to respond to any situation, and he must have the leadership ability to make the whole unit go along with his responses.”

10. “Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working. I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.”

Akira Kurosawa, 1910 – 1998

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Pants of Blood in Logline .it

A married couple is constrained to have sex for the first time in its wedding night

  - allal

Posted by allal on Jun 14, 2014 in Public | 8 comments

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   Sorry mate, but in English this is seriously wrong, Putting aside that it is not regular English, It gives me no idea who is the protagonist and it gives me no idea of what the problem and goal are. It ends up sounding like only one sex scene in the whole story. And I guess that is not what you want it to mean.

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   AHStitt says: (Edit)

   Sorry. Meant to add that, in English, your suggested title does not work for me. It is miles from what your logline describes.

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   Richiev says: (Edit)

   Who is constraining them? A wizard? The law?
   What is constraining them? Is she forced to wear a chastity belt? Is it a magic spell?
   Why? For what purpose?
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   “Upon meeting the man of her dreams, a sheltered woman is informed by her domineering grandmother, if she’s to inherit the family fortune she must remain a virgin until her wedding night.”
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   Richiev says: (Edit)

   btw, on a side note. You can’t constrain someone ‘to’ do something, they are constrained ‘from’ doing something.

   In other words you wouldn’t say they’re constrained ‘to’ have sex; you would say they’re constrained ‘from’ having sex until…

   Hope that helps, good luck with this!

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   Michael Hunter says: (Edit)

   You’ve been quiet since you posted this allal, but I gathered you were writing about a couple who couldn’t have sex until their wedding night? It’s a common fact among many religions and cultures around the world, so I would maybe take it to the extreme (to stand out from the crowd). What if it was an arranged marriage, and they’d never met prior to their wedding day?

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     allal says: (Edit)

     In my country,Morocco, the bride has to prove that she is virgin it is an honor not only for her but for her family . SO, the mother of the groom is happy to hear that her son’s future wife is still a virgin ; women would follow the couple til the door to get the pants of blood .SO, they will stand by the door waiting or doing sth unusual to get the pants;,very often the couple is constrained from doing sex because of the presence of other people next door . SO , do you see now here the constraint coming from ,?

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   Michael Hunter says: (Edit)

   For full disclosure, it sounds like you’ve already written the screenplay for it:

   http://allal-cinemagoer.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/trousers-of-blood-by-allal-el-alaoui.html

   I like the idea, and I’m always fascinated by other cultural traditions, but I don’t know about the appeal to the Western market. It would probably be a confronting scene to people not accustomed with it, so I would definitely build up the character/relationships as much as you can. I also imagine it as a foreign subtitled film, rather than written in English.

   If the film was only to be released in Morocco, chances are this is a commonplace practice, right? You’d need to make this particular couple stand out.

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     allal says: (Edit)

     ideed i have written the screenplay for it . what is more, i have shot almost all scenes and it is a 13 minutes shortfilm .I can send you the link if you want to wtch it .

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