Comments on: Story Tip: Squeeze and Stretch http://www.dawsbrothers.com/2010/01/27/story-tip-squeeze-and-stretch/ Movies and Filmmaking from two guys living the dream in Hollywood. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:12:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeremiah Daws http://www.dawsbrothers.com/2010/01/27/story-tip-squeeze-and-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-15206 Jeremiah Daws Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:14:24 +0000 http://www.dawsbrothers.com/?p=827#comment-15206 Great insights Beau. Thanks for adding. The Tarantino/Memento comment is great - throw out the time line! We hadn't thought about that with our script. We'll take a look and see if that helps. As for those movies, even as a Christian, I don't see why we should discount those films. Tarrantino obviously doesn't hold to our beliefs but he still has a wonderfully creative mind and has added to the development of film as an art from. But yes, I don't like a lot of the content he puts in his movies and I'm careful as to what I put in my brain - sounds like you are too. Cool. I agree, Gremlins would be very interesting if it took place over a longer period of time. Like what if Billy's dad sold mogwai's to the whole county or State and THEN they ate after midnight. Great insights Beau. Thanks for adding. The Tarantino/Memento comment is great – throw out the time line! We hadn’t thought about that with our script. We’ll take a look and see if that helps.

As for those movies, even as a Christian, I don’t see why we should discount those films. Tarrantino obviously doesn’t hold to our beliefs but he still has a wonderfully creative mind and has added to the development of film as an art from. But yes, I don’t like a lot of the content he puts in his movies and I’m careful as to what I put in my brain – sounds like you are too. Cool.

I agree, Gremlins would be very interesting if it took place over a longer period of time. Like what if Billy’s dad sold mogwai’s to the whole county or State and THEN they ate after midnight.

]]> By: Beau Brotherton http://www.dawsbrothers.com/2010/01/27/story-tip-squeeze-and-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-15203 Beau Brotherton Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:55:11 +0000 http://www.dawsbrothers.com/?p=827#comment-15203 I don't know if this the input that you were looking for...but what if you even threw out time altogether. Say like Memento or any of Tarantino's first two films (you can tell that I came to Christ after college and I still have a hard time letting go of these types of movies). You can take your linear story, tare it up into pieces, throw them in the air and see where they fall. How does that change the story? Braveheart would be really interesting in two or so days. I just went and looked at my movies and had the classic Gremlins that would take place over several months. Or how intense would The Dark Knight be in 24hrs. I fully agree that each of these filmmakers of course picked the right time frame for each movie, but it is very interested to play with this idea in the creation and conceptualizing process. Great post and idea! I don’t know if this the input that you were looking for…but what if you even threw out time altogether. Say like Memento or any of Tarantino’s first two films (you can tell that I came to Christ after college and I still have a hard time letting go of these types of movies). You can take your linear story, tare it up into pieces, throw them in the air and see where they fall. How does that change the story?

Braveheart would be really interesting in two or so days. I just went and looked at my movies and had the classic Gremlins that would take place over several months. Or how intense would The Dark Knight be in 24hrs.

I fully agree that each of these filmmakers of course picked the right time frame for each movie, but it is very interested to play with this idea in the creation and conceptualizing process. Great post and idea!

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