DC Shorts Film Festival

Life's like a movie. Write your own ending.

By Taylor on March 24, 2008 1:21 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Hey guys, hope you had a Happy Easter - or Passover - or Eastover!

I personally had a fabulous weekend, indoctrinating young minds to have good taste in movies. You see, things aren't like they were when you and I were growing up, those 15 or so years ago. I remember seeing The Lion King in the theatre, with my mother gasping and crying, and me just excited at the gigantic images and sounds engulfing me.

Kids today...If I had a cane, I'd be shaking it at them. Or their parents. They just don't seem to appreciate what they have in movie choices. Everything today is too violent, too scary - baloney! I was raised on those violent, scary movies and look at how completely Awesome I turned out! There is a serious dumbing down of kids today, so that's why I took great pleasure in rising against The Man and saying "No more!" to my 2-year-old cousin's demand for Einsteins.

I made him watch The Muppet Movie. Oh My God. It's been maybe three years since I've seen this - at least since before I became the Awesome person I am today. Do you know how many cameos there are? A million, easily! And the humor's even better than I remember. Luckily, Mr. Gabriel loved it just as much as I did, so I can't wait to take him to see the new Muppet movie, written by my new love, Jason Segel (yes, of Forgetting Sarah Marshall - he writes this hysterical puppet Dracula musical in the movie, and Disney caught wind - true story!!!)

Anyway, we've gotten in a bunch more screenplays for our Screenwriting competition that I just can't wait to read, but we need even more!!! Should I beg you? Should I bribe...forget that - beg you? Please, please, please enter! There's an entrance fee, yes, but the prize is $2000 - That is, if I don't run off with it first. Muahaha.

And what else is new in the life of the most Awesome Intern Ever? Not much - it's been pretty quiet here today. No films to check in (where are all you creative types?), not much movie news, not even much of the other interns! They're all on Spring Break now, too. In Europe and Florida and such nonsense like that. I'm here shivering while they're in the sun...not fair!

Anyway, before I die a slow and painful death, here's your image...nobody got the last one! The Graduate!