Austinist: AFF Panel Wrap and Snaps: Creating Classic Characters

lunarhowl

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:51:25 -0600

Get the Deadwood season one DVD and watch Keith Carradine interview Milch. It's fascinating. Too bad HBO cut short this brilliant show.

odam

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:28:07 -0600

one minute milch was explaining how he hated order by saying, "my idea of a good time used to be to get a head full of acid, put a stocking over my head and take a shotgun to a convenience store. then point it over the clerk's head and shoot right above it. they'd freak out and i'd say, 'damn, that crazy person thought i was gonna shoot them.' that's how i feel about order and authority." - i am paraphrasing - and the next minute, doing an on-the-fly epistemological, psychoanalytic break down of something black had said about 4 minutes earlier. wow.

saukrebl

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:15:33 -0600

This was a panel to end all panels. To think of all the outstanding observations provided by Pollack & Black, only to be completely overshadowed by Milch's intense insights. Milch would analyze the psychology of the others' answers ("that's the lie that Sidney tells himself"), starting out in esoteric fashion only to complete his captivating explanatory journey by slamming it home with succinctness, simplicity. It was amazing. I thought Sidney would fall off his chair when Milch explained that he hated "that unnamed red-haired man" from NYPD Blue so much that Milch wouldn't give him the satisfaction of knowing he was having a heart attack in the midst of a heated argument. Only afterward would he turn to a friend & say, "ok, take me to the hospital." If this panel is made available, I suggest you watch it!

chris

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:28:07 -0600

oops - embedded content not allowed apparently. Here's the linkage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f31PLcCXD0U

chris

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:27:13 -0600

Thanks for the reply - it was admittedly wishful thinking to get to hear the panel discussion. To give you an idea of how your life may change after viewing Deadwood (and the writing contained therein)... (NSFW language)

odam

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:33:31 -0600

yea, i know, but i don't have HBO. what's a man to do? oh, yea, dvd. as for the recording: we are waiting to see how the quality came out. however, the likelihhod of being able to transcribe the entire thing is doubtful. unless we have an intern break the picket line. will let you know more as details become clear.

chris

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:30:33 -0600

Yeah you really shouldn't have not seen Deadwood at this point. It's brilliant. And th Dinner For Five (Jon Favreau's show on IFC) with David Milch, Tim Olyphant, Michael Rappaport and Jay Mohr is worth finding too. Is there any chance this panel was recorded??

Christopher

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:20:58 -0600

Ahhh. I can't believe I missed this. You can laugh, but I consider Shane Black's script for LETHAL WEAPON a must-read for any aspiring screenwriter. And you should rent DEADWOOD on DVD. It's great. Start from the beginning though.