Morning Bowling

This morning the four friends in the film were all together for the first time. Where did we meet and what did we do? Tuttles and bowling. They have an amazing morning deal, by the way. Two games, shoes, and breakfast for $6.99. Why haven't I done this more in the past? Fantastic.

(the awesome video quality Blogger posts isn't too awesome. oh well)

Jeff focusing on the pins. "I'm gonna get you, sucka!"

Andy's about to kill some pins with his magic back-spinning ball of doom.

Harold and I chat a bit.

Rudy brought his daughter bowling today. Pretty much the cutest kid ever. We're going to have her play the pre-schooler Paul interacts with during a scene earlier on.

Hooray! She knocked down all the pins!

The idea of this morning was mainly for all of the guys to be together. Up until more recently we didn't have a John. It was difficult to find someone. We've been rehearsing scenes with only Jeff, Harold and Rudy, and I've been reading for John. But now we have him. Andy Josephson will be John, and even though we only went through two scenes today at the alley, I was impressed with Andy's readings of the lines. Very natural.

John is a character I compare to Fredo from The Godfather films -- yes, I know, it's mostly a very broad comparison, but I was influenced by many American and French gangster films and especially the four 'brothers' from The Godfather while writing Nicotine.  John is the runt of the litter really, vulnerable, with very few things to say, going with the flow of whatever was happening. That's partially why it was tough to locate a John. It's not a real meaty role, but there is a reason for his actions. There is one scene I wrote between John and Paul. It's a scene that hasn't really worked yet. We'd probably shoot that last. There's a lot of things the scene could be about, and I think I haven't quite found what the scene is supposed to be.

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Today was short. It's my fault really. I should have extended the rehearsal time out and at least read through the bigger scenes. I'm disappointed that I didn't encourage any further progress for today. We'll have Saturday to get everyone together again and run through the two big scenes.

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What's next? What I am going to try to do tonight is to make a very big shooting schedule. I have enough pieces together that I can really start to make this thing. Don't know about the Tux shop or a preschool yet, but I'm not terribly worried about those parts. Friday I will begin shooting a small scene with Jeff. Saturday we'll rehearse the bigger scenes with all the guys. Sunday we'll rehearse the scenes with John Andring, the man playing Eddie, at 10:30am, then at 1:30pm we'll rehearse the scenes with Jennifer Prettyman, the actress playing Liz. I will post her picture next week.

I have a bad headache now. What am I doing tonight? I'm thinking tonight I will chill with my fiance. That sounds awesome to me.

Until next time!

Oh yes, today I bowled my best first game in quite some time. I did a 191, then a 134. I really really didn't expect that to happen. See what happens when I bowl at Tuttles! Magic!