This is for any people who are interested in the blog as a whole and are just curious what I'm planning on doing with it for the next couple of weeks. Right now, I'm going to watch The Great Dictator either today or Friday and let my thoughts of the movie just sit in my head for a day or two before I work on my post of it. Since it will be my first exposure to the works of Charlie Chaplin, I think it should be fun especially since it is going to become sort of a regular thing of me covering his films on The Depths of Pretension, but I might do a post of The Adaptation Complaints on The Running Man beforehand, something that I know I'll have fun doing since I've read the book and love the movie version despite that they are completely different stories. That might be a series I'll do on some occasions since it would be fun talking about book to film adaptations and one I want to do since I really want to read the book is Legion, which had it's film version be named The Exorcist III. The movie also sounds like it'd be a fun watch since it has Brad Dourif being Brad Dourif and what's wrong with that?
But let's get to what I'm sure most of you are excited to see me talk about (mainly my lone follower who I will attribute on the one he suggested I do) is the Nightmare Fuel week of DoP, where I try and cover some of the more out there films of the Criterion Collection, films that have a lot of rape, violence, genital mutilation, creepy visuals, and whatever else I can say to make it seem more controversial. The plan for that is I'm going to write all the posts in advance and post them one day for five days when I finish them all. I thought I might just give a short sentence regarding those picks and why they're on there since I'm sure anyone can look at my list and go "There are worse films than that," since I'm probably going to cover those movies anyway. The first one I plan on covering is the 1960 Ingmar Bergman film The Virgin Spring which came to my attention when I was looking up things regarding The Last House on the Left and how the former served as the basis of the latter so I thought that would be a given to start off. The second film will perhaps be the most notorious of the selections and might be the high point where what follows cannot live up to its reputation, which might end up being for the best so I don't feel like I have to one up the others and just write without having to feel any pressure, and that is the 1975 swan song of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, which is only one of two films of the week that I have seen before the time I'm writing this post. Third on the list will be a movie I have kind of avoided watching due to its nature and the fact that I had been avoiding the director for no real reason as well and that is Lars Von Trier's 2009 film Antichrist. I think the real reason I avoided him was because I didn't think that it was a good place to start with his films and maybe I should try and do something that isn't so wrought with despair. After that one, it'll be the 1976 film In The Realm of the Senses, which I know almost nothing about aside from the fact that it has unsimulated sex scenes, which might make it weird to talk about. And the big finale of the whole thing is going to be the 1977 movie House, which is one of those movies I wanted to cover on the series but when I made my initial lists of what I was going to be cover, it always got left out for some reason but when I was rearranging the list again after finding that some films I thought would be fun to cover, like David Cronenberg's Scanners and Von Trier's Breaking The Waves, were on Hulu now so I thought maybe I should do some of those sooner which is when I switched out The Last Temptation of Christ from being the original finale of Nightmare Fuel week since it was going to be a similar theme idea to what I am going with the Chaplin films but it didn't fit all that much with what I was going with.
But onto other things, I've been trying to get some work on my novel again with a little progress each time but something that I might do is that there is a short story contest nearby that I might enter and see if I can win some cash. I do have some ideas that I wanted to do (one of which I kind of already did) is where a photographer is slowly dying due to his dreams being stolen from him, a lonely immortal an unknown amount of time in the future, two brothers trapped in a cave, or maybe I'll come up with something else since I want to do something more psychological and visceral in terms of it being horror themed. I think it has to be 1000 words or around that so I'll have to check on the rules again. I'll have to update this when I finish the story and submit it and again when they announce the winner. So I guess this is a good point as any to leave this post and also ask to my readers what they'd like me to cover on a future post or even what could I do to improve on this sort of thing. I also have another blog I'm working on where I talk strictly about video games called Atop Snowhead Mountain that I hope to work on with some regularity which, unlike this blog, will always be ad free if you guys don't like the ads.
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