Ryan M. Moore

New Mixtape 12/2011

ryanmercury — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:03:22 +0000

Seeking Soundtrack

ryanmercury — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:44:29 +0000

“All Earthly Constraints” is seeking another artist to record a song for the soundtrack. Currently we have “World Made of Words” by Eef Barzelay:

More info on the film, and a script can be found here: www.ryanmmoore.com/aec

If you are (or represent, or know) the right kind of artist, you’ll probably know it. Contact ryan@goldhatpictures.com

Director’s Reel reboot

ryanmercury — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:55:16 +0000

More changes are coming, but this is the early 2012 version. I sincerely apologize to anyone who ever had to look at the typography on the previous version.

“All Earthly Constraints” soundtrack: “World Made of Words” by Eef Barzelay

ryanmercury — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:11:34 +0000

Negativity

ryanmercury — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:24:46 +0000

If you’re going to make movies, or do anything creative, or do anything, this is going to be a problem.

My favorite (and by favorite I mean, still makes be burn with white hot anger two years later) critique of my work was given regarding the script for my film, The Picnic. The critique was, in its entirety, “You can’t have angst in a beautiful setting.”

Leaving aside the facts that:

1) Yes you can, obviously.
2) This statement is so sweeping that it is impossible to discuss or refute in a meaningful way
3) Any reasonable person would say a contrast between setting and emotions experienced therein is more interesting than the opposite.
4) Even Bambi had a great deal of angst in the forest
and
5) Le Bonheur, the film which most influences The Picnic, centers around an extraordinary amount of angst in a beautiful setting. You could summarize the entirety of the French New Wave as “angst in a beautiful setting” and you wouldn’t be far off.

But no, none of that is the point. The point is, I had given the script to this person months earlier for notes. This critique was delivered literally four days before shooting started. Had it been in any way valid, it was far too late to change anything about the film. The one and only effect was to make me doubt myself and my work. I was able to shrug it off, but it didn’t help.

It’s melodramatic and usually inaccurate to believe someone is “out to destroy you.” They may even be trying to help, in an extremely misguided way. But at some point, intent is irrelevant. If this person had set out to intentionally sabotage my film, he couldn’t have done much better. Valid criticism exists, but valid criticism is given at a time when it could be useful, is constructive, and offers solutions. Maybe people who already have a great deal of success can laugh this stuff off. I can’t and if you’re reading this, you probably can’t either. Not if you’re working one or more dayjobs. Not if you’re human enough to wonder from time to time if you can really pull this off.

Negativity like this is a cancer, and so are people who spread it. It’s that simple. Remove it, and remove them.

FIrst look.

ryanmercury — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:28:13 +0000

“All Earthly Constraints” teaser shoot

ryanmercury — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:04:45 +0000

Happened. More info soon.

Photo by Jay Lewis.

“All Earthly Constraints” Character Concept Art

ryanmercury — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:29:43 +0000

By the awesome Gwyneth ConwayBennison. Right-click/View Image for full-size!

“Emmageddon”

Emily’s ice cream shop uniform

Darius H. Prince

Dylan

Quips

ryanmercury — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:36:19 +0000

In an effort to make this blog (slightly) less dry, I’m going to expand a little bit. It’s still mostly going to be for updates about movie projects, but I’m going to start posting some of the more amusing (to me) things I’ve said lately on my personal twitter account, @unicornrockstar. Enjoy, I guess?

“New touchdown celebration: guy pulls out a tiny table and tea set, puts the football in a dress, and makes it his guest at a tea party.”*

“I bet people who knew Nietzsche must have had a nearly irresistible urge to cut off his arm and yell, “FEELING STRONGER NOW FREDERICH????”*

“I really really hope there’s a “127 More Hours” where his arm comes back to get him.”*

“I think a good person to say I met in a bar would be the guy from King Missile. Because who’s going to make up something that dumb?”*

“Why don’t the Flaming Lips get it over with and claim all the noises they make from now til their death is one long song?”*

“Somebody should start a band called The Life that sings about proper ankle support and then make an indie movie where someone says, ‘You know this band The Life? They’ll change your shins.’”

“All Earthly Constraints” Casting Announcement!

ryanmercury — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:35:39 +0000

We are very excited to welcome to the cast of “All Earthly Constraints” Dedeker Winston as Emily and Alex Salem as Dylan. More info to come soon! Meanwhile:

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