12:00 p.m.
I've been having slow burn stress piling up, I'm not coping so well. I did suffer a few flashbacks, regarding ███████, this Wegapitiya guy, worries that we might suffer a betrayal, wondering to myself good defenses for criticisms I might encounter, etc.
I am watching Mank. I don't get how complex the dialogue is, it is not humanely possible for anyone to be able to understand this stuff, when they are being said, let alone with subtitles, as it is so damned deep. I am about 70% in the movie now. It's a good movie.
What I feel is that a movie like The Godfather, it is good, because it is easy to understand. I like it. With this movie Mank, it is not there. I like how movies are 24 fps, a movie like Will Smith's Gemini Man on 60 fps, it is just too stressful. The human eye, it takes it in, processes, it is micro trauma stress which adds up.
It's like slow violence. It is stress that builds up. The more dialogue, the more imagery, the worse it is. I want to sort of make my script aerodynamic. It has to be shaped in a way, where if it was dropped in the sky, it will, like an old plane, get lift, and always fall down head first, and not from the tail end.
What I mean is, that it has got to be somehow, symmetric, it has to rhyme. It is like poetry. It is like, everything adds up, it builds up, it goes in a certain direction, it has to go that way. And, you enjoy being part of the journey, the adventure.
I also noticed, that as far as acting goes. It is really about believing you are the character, really putting yourself in those shoes. In my script, obviously, I am cheating badly because SPOILER. But, even so, it is SOILER and that takes a lot of extra efforts.
I am deeply disappointed by the Oscars. Movies like Joker, with Phoenix, that guy should've just won best actor, but not best picture. Mank, best set design. Something like Nomadland, documentary, or i guess, something like cinematography.
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This guy's Chandika Bandara, he's running our family's 2nd gambling franchise Leisure Sports.
