Prepare Blog For Ludacris Speed!

I've been recently watching several of my lower-budget indie movies, as a way of looking for both inspiration and advice on making my break as a director. Tonight, the inevitable happened: I turned to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II.

I find myself presently unsure still whether it's shockingly stellar or horribly awful. I think part of my confusion comes from watching the behind-the-scenes footage and discovering things like puppeteering wires, goofy dummy corpses, and rotten fat suits with major revealing holes in the butt. And yet, for all these obvious imperfections, I'm still pretty mesmerized with most everything else -- the camera work, the performances, the make up and prosthetics, Raimi's own clever solutions to filming the impossible. And he was so young, too! I'm either in complete awe and respect of him, or terribly jealous.

So now I'm here with notebook open, pondering over new "simple" movie ideas I can pull off with minimal equipment, minimal budget, and minimal help. Coming up with a simple story -- no effects, no stunts, few people -- is certainly not in my genetic make-up.

It's time to be extra special.