Cut Rush SFX reel

Blood splatters, butterflies float, and heads are stomped. All the SFX magic is brought to you by Abner Diaz. Enjoy our early work, because we plan to become out of hand like 5 days and 8 abortions. Can’t see the video? Go to http://www.cutrush.com

Next Script – Midnight Stolen Hearts

What do you get when you mix indie like films like Adaptation with gangster movies Paid In Full and Belly?

My next script already done with Draft #1 – Midnight Stolen Hearts:

Story By Van Nguyen

Treatment By Van Nguyen and Abner Diaz

Script by Van Nguyen

Music Video by Abner Diaz

Abner Diaz directed and made the following music video: an acapela song titled Pain. It’s a song created by his sister, Rosa Diaz, and put together at Milkboy Recording in Ardmore, PA

Enjoy:

Rosa Diaz – Pain – Music Video from Cut Rush Productions on Vimeo.

Beast Bandages

So, it’s time to spend less time writing and more time shooting. I’m taking the “While the Beast Runs Rampant” script and making a small spin-off about the two mobsters in the opening scene of the movie. We’ll venture forth and see what it’s like to steal a baby from their POV and world.

The script is about 9 pages and is in draft v1. Another 2 revisions and we’ll be ready to shoot. In the meantime, I’m starting to cast, so I put a listing on craigslist earlier today. Let’s see the types of people who come in… I’m sure I’ll receive a few headshots where the person is almost naked, because Craigslist is like the X-MEN 3 sewer where those useless mutants hang out. But occasionally, you’ll get a few good candidates, like the one Magneto picks up. Though,the Asian guy who can make spikes protrude from his skin is really really #$@D!NG dumb. I’ll also target some acting studios and friends who have access to talent, in order to avoid excess puff fish like mutants.

Expect behind the scene videos and pictures this month

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tfr/1581254595.html

Let’s Kill some ducks

I think of Plateau, I also think of a duck. Most people don’t like, are indifferent, or have never had duck. Some people love duck. I think most people never cared to try. I tried to catch a duck when I was 5 to either pet it or kill it. There’s a picture of me, wearing a mainly yellow outfit – how Asian – purchased by my mom most likely at Goodwill for less than $1 in 1980 whatever. I look ridiculous, but I also loved David the Gnome and the Power Rangers when it came out. The things I would have loved to do with the pink ranger, though that would probably be jumping up and down and not understanding what I’m feeling. Now, I look back, she’s not that pretty. She’s kinda beat – like fell asleep on a roof and fell down a few floors and survived.

Plateau is also a state you reach when you maxed out at what you do. In World of Warcraft, people slaughter other races (elven, black, asian, italian, orc) so they gain more power and level up until they reach their level limitation (max out 99, or something like that)

In reality, we play sports until we’re as good as we can get. For months or years, we’re stuck at the not becoming significantly better.

Some people never reach their plateau – they never max out at their given constraints. How can you substantially grow if you never become as great as you can? Do you think you’ve never maxed out? Think again. If you never obtained greatness, you probably quit or not work hard enough to even get there. We shouldn’t try to TALK like Obama, make small businesses pay more tax and make minorities look like underachievers.  If you have obtained greatness, congratulations! So, I ask again, what can you do to reach your plateau?

Answer: Be aware that you haven’t yet, and keep your trial and error game up until you get it right. Do it a certain way, then tweak it, then try again. Repeat 1000 times until you can’t feel you are growing.

And when you reach your plateau, you’ll know. And in order for you to break through, door kicking style, uzi’s in hand, gangsters following – you’ll need to have something substantial happen to you.

We’re lucky when we hit that mark, but we shouldn’t settle when we do, or you’ll get older and look back, talk to someone younger, and say “I wish I was that young so I could…”

Note: If it ain’t about getting better, then ask for minimum wage, find some good boxes to live in, settle for less and say you never wished you could dive in a pile of money. Though coins would be murderous, like the Pink Power ranger’s face.