发信人: imp (用力呼吸,看见奇迹), 信区: Flywest
标 题: 欣赏一下Columbia的PS
发信站: 我爱南开站 (2002年08月30日19:38:48 星期五), 站内信件
吐血推荐,特别是对那些工作过的xdjm,哈哈,偷出Columbia的PS可不是一件容易的事情
,lala,anyhow, enjoy啦
I left a secure job and a lifestyle that would have catapulted me into the
upp
er middle class by age 30. I disappointed my family and shocked my friends,
but the applause from the packed auditorium vindicated my decision to pursue
my
passion. At great expense, I decided to follow my dreams, to refuse to be
disa
ppointed or discouraged by life. As I reflected on all the difficulties I
pers
evered through in reaching that point in my life, I felt a hand patting me
on my shoulder praising my work.
I was born in Omaha, Nebraska on August 28,1972 because my mother slipped
on an onion peel while shopping at the local Hinky Dinky Supermarket; the fall
ind uced her labor and out I popped. In this rather unsophisticated
environment, where on Saturday the second largest city is a packed college football
stadium,
I somehow developed artistic aspirations, but did not have the opportunity
to make cultural pursuits a major part of my life. At the age of twelve, my
fath
er accepted a job with Levi Strauss and moved the family to Kansas City.
At this crucial stage in my development, I found the arts fascinating,
especially while studying literature in junior high. Unlike the other students who
flocked
to the hundreds of early eighties Spring Break movies, I developed a
discrimi
nating taste and longed for the quality I would find in a Stanley Kubrick
film
. At night, tackling Crime and Punishment or watching Dr. Strangelove took
pre cedence over arcades and football.
I carried my love for literature with me when I attended the University of
Kansas. I also studied economics, which combined my interests in philosophy,
history and mathematics. However, while I studied economics for somewhat
practical
reasons and never thought of the discipline as compelling enough to devote
my
entire life to, my interests in film and music began to mature. Exposed to
the unconventional films of Hal Hartley, Mike Leigh, and John Sayles and to
the poetic music of Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, I prized their works’
brilliant
storytelling, and this feature inspired my own work and my eventual pursuit
of filmmaking.
Facing high college loans and a desire to be economically secure, I chose
not to pursue my dreams immediately out of college. I fooled myself into
thinking
my passion for filmmaking was just a hobby and that I would be better off
purs
uing a more “ serious” career, one with respect and a high salary. As a
resu
lt, I took a secure, comfortable job as a financial analyst just two weeks
out of college. My family was proud of me, but I was not proud of myself. I
quick
ly became restless and began to think seriously about film. After much
deliber
ation, I knew what I had to do; I may have known it all along, but I needed
time to work up the courage, to make myself determined to succeed. I informed
my
mother and father of my decision to move to New York and pursue film, and Is
aw disappointment in their eyes. Despite my mother’ s crying and pleading
and my father’ s clear dissatisfaction, I quit my job, rented a U-Haul, and
headed east.
In New York, I took out a loan and signed up for the New York Film
Academy's t
wo-month intensive program. Not applying any of the risk management skills
I learned as a financial analyst, I was going for broke, either I would make
it,
or I would go down in flames. The first day I had my hands on a camera and
by
the end of the program, I had written, directed, edited and produced four
films. Both thrilled and humbled by my experience, I got a glimpse of exactly
how
difficult the craft of filmmaking is. After two months of dedicated hard
work,I had not even scratched the surface of what encompasses becoming a
filmmaker, but I had reinforced my love for filmmaking. At this point, I knew I
needed
additional education to accomplish my goals; I needed to truly push my
creative and intellectual limits if I ever I were to master the craft of
filmmaking.
After seeing the quality, diversity, and professionalism of NYU graduate
student films at a screening last spring, I knew NYU could provide me with
exactly the skills I need.
I find the idea of packing 100 strangers in a dark room to watch a piece of
film pass through a projector to be an incredibly peculiar idea. But in this
peculiarity of the art lies the miracle, for humans are willing to suspend
disbelief and be moved by a character on a screen. The audience can somehow feel
what that character feels and learn from that character's experience. More
than just this, fiction also gives the audience the ability to examine different
facets of the human condition. Trust, resentment, affection, flirtation, love,
disappointment are issues that every human must deal with every day of their
lives. They are issues that everyone deals with differently. Fiction allows
one to experiment with putting people in different situations and seeing how
they respond.
Writing and directing my own films is my ultimate ambition. I know,
however, that I am much further along in my development in the art of editing. Siting
in
the editing room watching every single frame, is one of my passions. Every
single frame is important, each could change an entire film. Like a mad
scientist, with my hair sticking straight up, I work frantically with dozens of
sections of film lined up around me. Still, I know where every single section is,
every single frame. I spent many hours in the editing room piecing together
my last film until I had created something I could be proud of.
As the lights turned on and the audience’ s applause died down, I turned
to see who had put his hand on my shoulder. It was Jeanyves, my actor sitting
next
to his admiring and grinning father. He said, "that was beautiful." At that
moment, I felt like a filmmaker. I want to feel that way again.
--
为了实现超过自己能力所及的事而倒下的人,
我爱这样的人!
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