November 17, 2005
Funnygirl
We screened the footage of my werewolf spoof last night and people laughed, which is good. But I laughed more than anyone…like uncontrollable painful laughter…embarassing. Something about viewing your own footage, your own connection to a project, makes it so much funnier–seeing someone bring your dialogue to life, their mannerisms filling out the characters you created, intensifies the humor. It’s not unlike the way new parents are so delighted with the smallest and most mundane things that their new baby can do: look, he smiled, isn’t that amazing? Um, not so much. We screened other people’s films which I found mildly amusing but which the makers were hysterical over, so I’m not alone. And I’m guessing that the more movies you make, the less intense this effect becomes.
Filed by cynthia rockwell at 3:02 pm under Just Movies
3 Comments
jesus, you went all out on the make up
i spare no expense for my art.
post vthe movie!!! And re: the laughter – I sometimes would laugh at my own stuff too – I think its a nervous reaction.