Today, we got the most important shot in the movie, and we got it exactly right.
There are three major scenes in the movie that we had to hit right to make this movie great. The third most important scene was with Keri Lynn Pratt and Geoff Stults and we shot it in the first two days. It went very smoothly (aside from some hilarious out takes from Stults that will be on the DVD) but I knew that one was going to go well. The second is an awesome scene between Jesse and Marika. We shoot that much later in the month, and I am pretty confident we'll hit that too.
The most important scene is the climax of the movie, and is pretty much all Movie Tucker. It is the scene I was most nervous about. If we hit it right, it makes the whole movie, but if we don't get it right, the movie falls flat (I don't want to say anymore about it, you'll understand when you see the movie). What makes it so nerve wracking was that I can do everything right, EVERYTHING, and still, the entire outcome of the movie very much relies on what someone else does. I can be the best, and if Movie isn't, it all goes to shit.
We shot that today, ALL DAY...and we fucking nailed it.
Check that--MATT nailed it.
Over and over again, he rocked the scene. It was like watching Mark McGuire take batting practice. Out of the park, again and again and again. Thirty takes from all sorts of various angles, and every one was usable to some extant or another.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't nervous about his performance; he got it in rehearsal plenty of times. And man, he has worked so fucking hard on this. Every day, hours a day, over and over, he thinks about his scenes, practices, rehearses, contemplates, and obsesses. The dude has put in the work to be great, and he has earned this opportunity to become a star. But still--until it's on film, it's not done. Anything can happen.
Well, we got it on film today, and I am so fucking happy and relieved I can hardly believe it. I just drank a gallon of these insane cajun daiquiris, you wouldn't believe the laws about open container in Louisiana--but that is a different post. Time to stop writing.
On another note, today, Monday and Tuesday we also shot my scenes. I have a pretty funny cameo, only like 4 or 5 lines. I don't want to give anything about it away, even to tell you what role I play, because I want it to be a complete surprise. I think it's going to be good.
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