I applied recently to Screen South for development funds for Tom. Not a huge amount of money and none of it for me, but it'd be a good thing to get them investing: once someone puts money into something, they're much more likely to want to help that project go forward to justify their genius in having been into it since the first year infants. I had my panel interview today. Not sure how well I did: the general sense I got was that they don't much care for the film but that they like me.
Apparently Tom is too similar to Twilight AND Let The Right One In. (Chalk sandwich, vicar?) They also said it wasn't similar ENOUGH to other films. Maybe I should make it "Fight Club with vampires - people would go and see that". It was also too dark - British filmmakers cannot make films like Let The Right One In: the only reason it's been successful is because it's Swedish. Hmm. Not sure that's the attitude that won the war. (By the way, although Tom has some common ground with Let The Right One In, it has a completely different plot, characters, tone and theme. Not to mention I wrote mine fucking ages before it was made. Fucking Swedes, they ruin everything. I know I'm going to have to run the gauntlet about LTROI many, many times.)
Our talk was robust without descending into a spit fight, and though I'm not holding my breath for this award I've always had a great relationship with Screen South, so I hope if they read this they realise I'm being tongue-in-cheek. Some of my friends and family tell me I should just agree with whatever The Man says and do what I'm told but for me that's not the route to meaningful art and I hope The Man would agree. See you in the job centre...
Apparently Tom is too similar to Twilight AND Let The Right One In. (Chalk sandwich, vicar?) They also said it wasn't similar ENOUGH to other films. Maybe I should make it "Fight Club with vampires - people would go and see that". It was also too dark - British filmmakers cannot make films like Let The Right One In: the only reason it's been successful is because it's Swedish. Hmm. Not sure that's the attitude that won the war. (By the way, although Tom has some common ground with Let The Right One In, it has a completely different plot, characters, tone and theme. Not to mention I wrote mine fucking ages before it was made. Fucking Swedes, they ruin everything. I know I'm going to have to run the gauntlet about LTROI many, many times.)
Our talk was robust without descending into a spit fight, and though I'm not holding my breath for this award I've always had a great relationship with Screen South, so I hope if they read this they realise I'm being tongue-in-cheek. Some of my friends and family tell me I should just agree with whatever The Man says and do what I'm told but for me that's not the route to meaningful art and I hope The Man would agree. See you in the job centre...
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