>>Never watched "Bosom Buddies" or even the classic "Some Like It Hot", though I am a film buff.
Neither have I.
>>Enjoy the the Monty Python drag skits and Klinger on MASH was fun.
Not a Monty Python fan but LOVED MASH, and Klinger. Father Mulcahy was my favorite.
>>I knew Julie Andrews was in Victor/Victoria, but not James Garner - both fine actors, I'll have to give it a viewing.
Besides the incredible sets, the fun is in the complexity. A women pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.
>>Another interesting type of film sets is the era of German Expressionism - Nosferatu, Metropolis
The rock version of Metropolis is one of my absolute favorites. I used "
Here She Comes" from that for Alias. German Expressionism, in general, isn't my thing, though specific art pieces do get to me.
>>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and so on.
Never saw it or Swengali, that I remember. I ran a vampire movie room for a vampire convention, so I might have once had a copy of some of that, but not sure.
>>You don'’t wanna get me started on either film or architecture.
Of course I do!
Architecture first, then films.
Bird House for People
I took two one week courses in Maine. One on screenplay writing, and one on Editing the Scene from the gentleman who wrote the Pawnbroker. Loved learning to write dialog.
William Christopher was a fine choice to play Mulcahy, such a good and decent person and it carried over to his acting.
I didn’t know there was a rock version of Metropolis, I’ll have to look for it. Good Bonnie Tyler song, too, hadn’t heard it before now.
Birdhouse looks like fun, beats my old treehouses. Though I’d be careful of walking under it; I can barely handle pigeon droppings.
Learned how to write in the dark in film school. Editing - the physical part - is a lot easier in the digital age. If you haven’t seen it yet this is a great documentary on film editing:
“The Cutting Edge”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76MBDKQe8s
And here’s a snippet from a Youtube vid showing how the “round up the usual suspects” ending scene in “Casablanca” was edited so it would work best.
http://bit.ly/2B6nEln
Dialogue can be tough, depending on the story. Generally it’s about 1 page per minute. But when writing for something such as the 80s “Moonlighting” series, where the dialogue was quick and sometimes ran over other character’s lines, the 1 page per/min rule of thumb gets thrown out the window.