That 'Shining' shot

In dailies today, we saw the Bethany and Bob POV of the Golgothan in the hospital. It was a lift from Kubrick's 'Shining' move when Wendy spots the dude in the bear suit giving some cat head. I was pretty happy with it.

There's quite a bit of slow-mo in this flick, especially in the last half hour. I gotta say, I love it. While it's never really had a place in our flicks before, it works well in this one.

Today was a much-needed day down, during which I accomplished very little (ate too much Mexican food, watched 'The Apostle', listened repeatedly to PE's 'He Got Game' soundtrack). Lee came back to town to shoot his final sequence ("Gimme a Holy Bartender.") over the course of the rest of the week, and me, him, and Mosier got to guffawing over some Chi-Chi's about London and the notion of doing an episode of the new 'Love Boat'. My head still kind of hurts from laughing so hard.

Monday and Tuesday last were spent doing the Four Star Restaurant sequence (with Rock, Linda, Mewes, Alan, and me), and the campfire sequence (same, minus Alan) respectively. All good stuff, that. By virtue of the fact that we're in the home-stretch now, we're doing a lot of two and three day sequences. Next week's all the strip joint and first Golgothan attack stuff, followed by the fall of Rufus and the subsequent Triplets attack.

Due to the weather pushbacks, we should be finishing around June 1, the day after which I'll be speaking in Ohio. After that, it's a quick jaunt to the left coast, a cross-country drive, and nothing but hardcore editing through most of the summer.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves here - there's still a movie to wrap.

And what a movie it's going to be.