JGL on sex in the movies ...

A short quote from JGL about sex in the movies ...

"To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse; we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light."




Photo: JGL with Claudia Schiffer in a GQ Magazine tie ad

500 Days of Summer ... In JGL's own words ...

And here is what he said ...

"The traditional Hollywood sentiment is contempt for the audience. I've heard executives say, 'Audiences are stupid, kids are stupid,' but that's not going to fly anymore. I think Obama is great evidence of that. This is maybe a sort of pretentious parallel to draw, but it's the same with how love stories are told in movies. 500 Days of Summer wouldn't have made sense in our parents' generation. It reminds me so much of 2009."

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I got it!!

I am going to do a drawing.

We are 24 hours from the 500 Days ... upload and I am hoping for a lot of comments. So, I am going to watch for the next five ... count them five reviews and whoever leaves the most comments will get to have their name tossed into a hat. If you happen to follow and mention that in your post, I will put your name in two whole times.

Think of this ... comment ... you'll have a chance at a really cool new t-shirt and support Regular Joe's Pet Project.

Drawing will be held April 4th. Unless I get behind on the reviews, then I might have to extend that.

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I feel like giving away one of these shirts to support HitRecords.org. But I am not sure to who or for what reason to do this give away. Got any ideas on what would make a really good T-Shirt Winning Contest? Comment below, get a friend to follow or just say hi and will see what I can do about the give away.

We're at DefCon Three ... Blast Off!

As a kid, I always said asthma felt like an elephant sitting on your chest when you tried to breath. Asthma is one of those things I know since I've had it forever. Yesterday, though, I find out that there are "Stage Attacks" ... really? We have DefCon Stages and I am yellow? I look terrible in yellow!! And I supposed DefCon 3 wouldn't be so bad -- if I hadn't I discovered there are only foouuur stages.

500 Days of Summer is going to be a few days late. Sorry about that.

While I get my brain working again, though -- lack of O2 does things to the thinking process -- why don't you go check out JGL's pet project HitRECord.org? It doesn't have a lot to do with characterization -- okay it has nothing to do with characterization -- but it is his passion and worth it to go take a look.

HitRecord is a production company opened up to the public where people can post and share artist pieces. If a piece is picked up and everyone jumps on board, then it dream becomes a reality and sometimes there is a pay check involved. And though a check can be nice, this community is really less about monetary gain. It's about giving people a chance, or working with other great minded people and about a opportunity being offered by a damn good actor who looks beyond his own career.



http://hitrecord.org/reel

"500 Days of Summer ..."

500 Days of Summer
Staring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel,
Directed by Marc Webb
Released 2009

At the beginning of the movie, before the title, a disclaimer states:
Frame One: "AUTHOR'S NOTE: The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental."
Frame Two: "Especially you Jenny Beckman."
Frame Three: "Bitch."

Very cleaver way to start a movie. You already have a smile on your face before the characters step onto the scene.

500 Days of Summer pits hopeless romantic Tom Hansen against Summer Finn, the girl of her dreams. Only she makes it clear up front she won't be his girlfriend and she will never believe in love.

Boy meets girl. Boy wants girl. Girl wants be your friend, hold your hand, sleep with you for eighteen months but girl will not accept the myth of love, the hope of a relationship's future or the fact that this exceptional boy with a slight twist to his mind, will do anything for her. Tom studied to be an architect and now writes greeting cards. To fill that missing hole in his life, that unfulfilled dream, he has a favorite place to sit: a park bench over looking old Los Angeles where he can ignore the parking lots and enjoy the buildings of old, all of which he knows the history -- a idealist through and through. Summer cannot appreciate what she has in front of her - a needy boy who wants her bad.

Summer: "We're just friends. "
Tom: "No! Don't pull that with me! Kissing in the copy room? Holding hands in IKEA? Shower sex? Come on! Friends my balls!"

The part of Tom Hansen is a departure from JGL's darker roles that he took between 3rd Rock"s Tommy and Inception's Arthur, his two mile stone characters. Tom is high maintenance, a sorta needy dreamer who isn't looking for the perfect love of his life, but does, none the less, feel he found it the second she walks in the door.

Summer is described as "quite ordinary" yet men can't help but fall in love with her and ice cream sales at her previous summer job sky-rocket by the mere fact she is behind the counter. She is an extra-ordinary woman in this supposedly average body. Only not much is ordinary about co-star ZooeyDeschanel. This was their second feature film together after Manic, released in 2001. JGL and Deschanel have that Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Becall, Chevy Chase/Goldie Hawn chemistry together. The short vignette posted several weeks ago of the bank heist shows just how good they are together and how they can make each other laugh. Yes, it is all for the screen as they are not involved, but I did hear tell they do hope to make more movies together.

Was Tom the perfect man for Summer? Not even close. But he did need this cock-eyed relationship to put his perspective of life in order. She hurt him. She hurt him bad. Even cruelly when she wasn't trying. But in the end, he was able to come through and realize sometimes when it doesn't work out, good can still come from it.

From the film: "If Tom had learned anything... it was that you can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence... Tom had finally learned, there are no miracles. There's no such thing as fate, nothing is meant to be. He knew, he was sure of it now."

One More Lead in to "500 Days of Summer ..."

If one pre-video is good for promoting your film, then two must be better. In this second, director Marc Webb draws dialogue from the movie, giving "Sid" and "Nancy" a chance to break up with some class and style though the pancakes stayed in the film.

This is a twisted bit of fun for those who like rock trivia. The fact the genders switched roles, with JGL not only in a dress, but with an unshaven beard makes it all the most enjoyable. And who knew Zooey Deschanel could swear like a rock star gone bad?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln29hZ9hhZ0