Flick Picks for Publishing & Printing Professionals (FP4)
Allrightythen… Nxtbook customers, friends, countrymen, welcome to the FP4 forum – entry 20071026. ****
Here we go, FP4 pick of the week
PICK: “Perfume: The Story of Murder” Director, Tom Tywker
Info & Trailer: http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/movieDetails/263417
SCOPE: You may like this movie if this description fits you. Enjoys fine dining and formal occasions. (Even Ozzy Osborne likes to eat caviar once and while, right?) However, you enjoy both the highs AND lows to life. You like jazz and blues. You realize that there is a very spiritual and religious world beyond our physical one. Agnostics and atheists need not apply. In fact, you know the earth and what happens here on earth is merely connected with the intangible. Even the five senses we use through our bodies know when something powerful is in our presence and is either attractive or appalling. You, the SCOPE, the “people-category” of the week, are very connected to your surroundings. You enjoy fine wine and can taste, smell, see every nuance. You stop your car along the side of the road to watch an unusual sunrise on your way to work (even knowing you could be late to work). Also, regarding past movie favorites, you like very formal murder/suspense type movies. So, there you go… I may go to a slasher or experimental type movie next week for the hard core viewer… perhaps…
SYNOPSIS: An obsessive/compulsive perfumer, during
-Zoz
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****A few ground rules and guidelines must be initiated in this blog. Currently, I have 4 friends/co-workers that have given input on the guidelines for this blog and roughly persuaded me into doing this. Also, I think I must explain myself regarding my qualifications. I am an avid cinema and theatre enthusiast. I can enjoy a good play from the renaissance period and also get absorbed into a cutting edge, experimental film. My tastes are varied. Art, meaning the “artificial representation of life,” is created by the artist… a human. In most cases, the artist has no intention of reaching a specific audience. They merely create for the sake of creating, like breathing for the sake of being alive. So my hat’s off to the artist. Even when you have to turn away in disgust from a movie or a painting, the artist has delivered a gift… the gift in the form of a reaction in your mind. Of course we don’t like to be appalled at visual art, but isn’t that part of life in a global sense? Love and tragedy… to be attracted or be repelled to something?
My qualifications are no more than this. I tend to be very extraverted in my personality type with some strange twists. However, the extraverted side is more of a perceptive means of expressing myself. I listen carefully, I read people, and in turn, I like to get to know people from the inside. Diversity is the spice of life and this is very true when it comes to relationships with the world around us. I seek out diversity in friendships. Also, I have been given a gift from the all mighty one. It’s a strange one, but none the less, I have been told it is a gift. The gift is this… as I get to know someone and they ask, “Seen any good movies lately?” The answer is usually very clear in my mind on which movie(s) they should view. I know I don’t always hit the mark, but from my calculations it seems to be around an 80-90% success rate. If you are a nxtbook customer/vendor, and you want a customized pick, just contact me and we will exchange a few questions and then I’ll take a stab at a pick. Keep in mind that if you get the customized pick, my ratio drops greatly from online communications to a much lower level than face-to-face relationships. Custom picks will be addressed to nxtbook customers first since they are the sponsor of this blog (include a live nxtbook url to qualify). I will try to get to others (non nxtbook customers) as I can. I don’t write about this talent to boast… more just to set the stage for the coming attractions and to put a face with the name so to speak. I don’t really see the gift as something to brag about since I am not the artist. I am just that guy that tears the tix in half and sends you through door number 1-20 in the theatre. Also, keep in mind, I am considering guest or fill-in hosts to blog during times of travel or vacation, so voice your interest if this is you.
Here are the weekly (FRIDAY) parameters as set forth by my board of FP4 trustees:
PICK: duh… the movie, with a few details and link
SCOPE: This is the main focus, the Gravicon so to speak. It describes the category of individual I am profiling for the week’s FP4 pick. If the profile doesn’t match you, take a chill pill wait for another post. And if you’re not a match, then don’t expect to be blown away by the pick if you watch it. Also keep in mind, people are not pigeon holed into categories so easily and the picks will be loosely tied to the movie. (Insert sorry clause here). Usually, the “movie connect” success I have had in the past is close and personalized to one person. I have never tried connecting to any mass audience. This is, at best, experimental.
SYNOPSIS: This is the section where I break the movie down, without ruining the film of course, and maybe share my thoughts on why it connects with the audience SCOPE.
