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Do you believe bad things happen via coincidence or the Devil?

Do you believe bad things happen via coincidence or the Devil?

by Amelia G : September 17th, 2010

Blue Blood Devil Movie

If you’ve been paying attention to the pretty Flash designs floating around the site here, you probably know the Devil movie opens tonight. It is being marketed as being with M. Night Shyamalan’s touch. WGA credits him for the story, but lists a Brian Nelson as the screenwriter. Apparently, M. Night Shyamalan is producing a series of films he is writing at least the story on but not necessarily the screenplay and not directing. I expect this will allow him to be more prolific. The director, according to the press kit, is John Erick Dowdle, who also directed Quarantine. Oddly, some press lists Drew Dowdle as the co-director, but he appears to have produced the Devil movie.

At any rate, the theme of the movie is that there is no such thing as coincidence and the devil walks among us. I don’t really believe that, but I loved M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense.

The promo for the Devil movie includes one of the best microsites I’ve seen in the marketing niche. It is . . .

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Machete (PICS)

Machete

by Amelia G : September 3rd, 2010

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There is a sort of school of modern directors who often collaborate and make movies within movies. In the Grindhouse outing by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, Robert Rodriguez had a sort of faux trailer, within the movie, for a movie called Machete. Fans kept coming up to him and asking if this was a real movie he was working on. Caught up in the feedback loop of fan appreciation, Robert Rodriguez assured them that he was totally working on it.

Apparently, as is often the case with creative projects, he sort of was and sort of wasn’t. The writer/director/editor had cast Danny Trejo a number of times and feels he “he pops and has one of the most amazing faces in cinema history.” Danny Trejo has been in approximately a bazillion movies, but often in a more minor gangster/vampire/bad guy’s henchman sort of role.

Robert Rodridguez says he watched John Woo movies early on and they made him (a) want to be Asian and (b) wish there was something comparable in modern cinema with a Latin flavor. I don’t personally totally get that, as those movies make me fantasize about being badass, but not any particular ethnic flavor of badass. But that’s me.</p>

When shooting Desperado in a small Mexican town, Robert Rodriguez noted that the locals assumed Danny Trejo was the star of the movie, even though his part was actually a small role as a knife-throwing assassin . . .

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Black Oil Cell Mask (PICS)

Szandora posted to Blue Blood VIP in a set by your truly and Forrest Black called Black Oil Cell Mask. This is the actual mask Jennifer Lopez wore in the movie The Cell. I was going to tell an anecdote about how Forrest and I came to photograph it on Szandora and on Dahlia Dark. But then it seemed boring and trivial to me, so here is a nice photograph we shot anyway.

szandora black cell mask

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