Samurai/Ninja film galore
You will notice that in 2009/2010 the Hollywood studio system will put out a number of Samurai/Ninja films... Including Frank Millers "Ronin"... "Ninja Assassins" by the Matrix Brothers/Sisters...that "Bunraku" film I wrote about before... there's also a ton of Anime remakes coming out...
So I guess its a new fad for the studios... I will tell you.... in late 2007 I was in talks with the head of production of a major Hollywood studio... they were interested in having me direct a live action Ninja film produced in the same way 300 was... ya know live action actors/green screen/cg fx.... I said.... well I am doing a samurai film next... he said that they were interested in "ninja" films... "Hard R with asian appeal" those were close to his exact words... Short story shorter...I wasn't interested as I knew no studio backed film would be intense, insane or honest enough to hold my attention... yeh there would have been a lot of money involved but when's the last time money made anyone truly happy?
So your going to see all these "Samurai" films before you see "Heart String Marionette"... so your going to see all these films try to capture the Samurai spirit... but it will just be a bunch of actors swinging shiny swords with blood spraying with talk of concepts that none of the filmmakers will ever understand let alone be able to bring it unto the screen.... Long story short... your going to see a bunch of Poser's... your going to see a bunch of "Samurai" films made because the genre has been deemed marketable by some lame ass with a bunch of money... They will impress themselves because they have a cool looking guy on screen swinging a sword and posing...POSING.
Then Hollywood will move on and rape and pillage something else..... BUT as they are moving on to something else I will release my film... and I will get my chance to Betch-Slap the film industry... The BetcH-Slap heard round the world! ^ ^
I must be crazy right? One guy talking about competing with huge film studios with millions of dollars?! NO I am not crazy.... as technology moves forward the individual gains more power... the technology will become almost transparent and then ideas will be the determining factor... ideas, originality, honesty, passion, and innovation.. this is what the audience of the future will demand... they are tired of the cliches, the glitz, the glamour... the vapid interchangeable personalities both in front of and behind the cameras... as technology helps push people further apart from one another emotionally while moving them closer to one another socially they will be hungry for personal expression....hungry for raw emotion on screen.... hungry for sincerity in an insincere world that pretends to know your name and smiles at you hoping for a transfer of funds... Hollywood strives for external perfection with its bigger better faster mantras... to be perfect is to be dead... only static things remain "perfect"...dead things...
So what am I saying? I'm saying that the system is starting its throes of death... its written its own death sentence... its on a high speed train to nowhere... and when my next film stands next to Hollywood "Samurai" films the world will be able to make up they're own minds as to where the future is heading... Is it with the system or is it with the individual? The system is crumbling all around us right now... So were going to be able to see the truth and after the swath of mass media propaganda fades people will start to wake up to the truth... Obviously I'm talking about things much "bigger" than the world of film... I will just be happy to do my part and break the FACE of the of the Hollywood system ^ ^
For every M dot Strange in all facets of life that succeeds... it will cause a thousand more individuals to awaken...and this process will continue.... and then we will all meet, shake hands and make a world for the people by the people.
Remember...Money talks... but it doesn't mean you have to listen.... If I would have taken that film deal... I would be another rich fuck helping the world sink further into SHIT... change is required for change... you can't do the same as the ones that came before and expect the world to change.... If I would have taken that money would I be typing this now? Maybe but no one would take me seriously because I like many in Hollywood would also be full of shit... I would have only been thinking of my self and my material needs...
Believe it or not I don't do what I do for me... I do it for you... so if you have a chance to change your world don't make the same choices as the ones who fell before you... Ha.... I'm writing this shit like I'm going to die today... well you know if I did...I wouldn't have any regrets.Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.