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Does anyone know where this movie could be tracked down? The Guinness Book of World Records lists it as the longest movie ever made (85 hours)
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
I think I directed this one.
I think I directed this one.
You mean Gods of Los Angeles?
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Or The Animal Game, or ...
I have a certain reputation for directing long films.
Good long films, I think.
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Hey OCP, you should put some of your films up for download somewhere or something.
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
I think I directed this one.
I think I directed this one.
I did a bit of research to see what you were talking about:
Gods of LA: 2 hours 20 minutes
The Animal Game: 5 hours, then 3 1/2 hours, and then down to 2 1/2 hours.
Sweet Jesus, Garrett. You have to learn to let go man. Having done a fair amount of writing, I know how heart-wrenching it is to make cuts when you like all of the material, but you gotta make some cuts, as people just don't have an attention span that long, especially for dramas. Also, they just take too long to shoot. ("Gods" took, what, three years?)
You do great work man, but Richard Williams is not an ideal role model for success.
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Hey, I've done short films too.
But, well ...
I happen to tell more complex stories .... I'm more inspired by shows like Twin Peaks and The Sopranos which set their characters up, develop them, let them live life realistically. Being TV series, they have the time to do so, and I found that Gods of Los Angeles may have actually worked better in its television version.
Gods of Los Angeles is a long film because I had a lot to say in it. I cut about an hour out of it to get it to its current state. The first hour is all plot and doesn't interest me as much, but couldn't be cut down much because of plot ... the rest of the film is all character, and is what I'm proud of.
2.5 hours is a pretty standard length for an ambitious film ... if not for an amateur film, but then I wasn't trying to make the usual amateur film.
That said, I did learn a lot from Gods, and will try to tell simpler stories in the future.
(And with THAT said, one of my more recent scripts, a fantasy epic, would definitely be longer than 2 hours and probably become two films.)
For the interested, I tend to give away samples of my films for free with DVD orders to those who ask nicely.
Because of this, a lot of people reading this probably have copies already.
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You know, just a thought:
It appears that with Gods, you have a really have a complex story to tell, one that just might be too much to tell in a traditional movie format. You mention there being a television version, why not take a shot at doing a complete edit that way? I mean, obviously it's not going to pop up on NBC next week, but it would be sort of an interesting experimental approach. It sounds like you have 3 1/2 hours of material that you wanted to use in the movie, so maybe you have a total of around 4 hours of usable material to work with? So why not take the material and re-edit it into a serial of sorts, with about ten 25 minute episodes, or 5 or so 45 minute episodes? There are several online video streaming places now, such as that GBS.tv place that showed the rough cut of Cobbler. Why not shop it out to GBS and places like that? Run it over the course of a month or two as a serial drama or whatever the hell it is.
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The story worked quite well this way because people feel more ready to spend more time when it's TV episodes rather than a movie, they feel they can stop wherever they want. Which I think is silly, but hey.
I didn't reinstate any deleted material, apart from a few scenes of the Clifford character performing his stand-up act, which I used to open some of the episodes.
Anything I cut I kinda cut for a reason ... like the original ending which didn't work ... the reason was usually pacing, to speed things up ... to put anything back in would be eh. (Also I was too lazy to do any more editing on it.)
Places are welcome to show it if they want! ... it's kinda my baby tho' so I haven't been willing to sell it to crap online distribution places ...
I can't believe we're talking about my movie in a thread called "A Cure For Insomnia." Welcome to my life.