Alex’s writing journal

[alextheman]

Hey I just decided to kind of give a behind the scenes look at my writing process and also because I find that creative momentum comes for me oftentimes from sharing my work with others and obviously I’m not going to release my work before Admin but I will describe the process. This could be a huge mistake or it could be great and fun.

Never Seeing Kristina Again is going well. I’m just naturally writing which is the best. I can’t believe how far I’ve gotten so far. It’s fun to write. The film is very dialogue driven and that’s easy. Currently been working on the structure and making it as effective as the rest is coming naturally.

Watchmen is also going surprisingly well. I have a strong memory of the graphic novel. In a week when I’m home I’m on vacation now I Will go back and re read my copy of the graphic novel. Im trying to emphasize the aspects of Watchmen that are just as relevant in 2024 as they were in 1985. Im not going to change the period setting I like the period setting.

Watchmen is the type of book you read in college like Steal this Book that are very stick it to the man and anti authoritarianism. Some of friends have had this with Hunter S Thompson books which I still need to read.

I want to be true to that. The book is about questioning the people who have the absolute power. Dr Manhattan being a literal god among men who can kill you easily.



I always loved the way that book shows realistically how superheroes if they are real would actually be used in the real world. That’s what I’m fascinated by

[alextheman]

I also think the thing with adaptation is I’m never really percent faithful to the source completely. As soon as I sit down to write my brain starts to try to tell the story in my way. Similar to A Tale Of Love and Darkness which is a film adaptation of the great novel by Amos Oz which I wrote and directed and will be coming Season 32.

[alextheman]

Even with true stories like Hippie Preacher I’ll admit isn’t the most historically accurate movie in the world especially the second half but I wanted it to be cathartic. Free Thr Chicago 7 was much more historically accurate(even though we used creative liberties on that too).

[alextheman]

Cannabis and the writing process Alex’s journal entry may be controversial. no.2

Slowly Dying was the first film I wrote primarily high. It really helped stimulate my creativity. I could come up with characters and situations like that. It felt like those times doing improv with friends.

I’ve written ever since probably primarily high. I edit sober as the quote goes. I’m not advertising marijuana use in states not legal yet(some of that shit has fentanyl) or underage marijuana use. It helps me the way coffee helps other people write.

[alextheman]

Reflections on my upcoming work that’s already finished. Alex’s journal entry

I recently wrote a film that’s coming out this season. It was hard to find the right cast and director but we did Paul Schrader is directing and Jon Hamm is Paul Ryan . It’s called Repeal and Replace. It’s about the failed efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare with the American Health Care Act from the perspective of Paul Ryan who was Speaker Of The House at the time. I wanted to make a film that was as apolitical as possible. I wanted it to be about a guy trying to do a mission. In this case it’s repeal and replace Obamacare and the toll that mission has on Paul Ryan and the toll because the bill had many critics and the Republicans were split on it.

My next film after that is A Tale of Love and Darkness. It’s a movie based on the great Amos Oz’s autobiographical novel that’s the way he described it. It’s a coming of age story in the beginnings of what’s now Israel then mandatory Palestine and then the beginnings of Israel. It is a coming of age story of Amos who is a young boy who is growing up through this conflict while he has serious conflicts of his own and a yearning for freedom. I’m directing it as well.

[alextheman]

Alex’s journal Aaron Swartz movie idea.

I’ve been toying with an Aaron Swartz biopic for a few years I’ve never seen to get it quite right writing wise. I know I want to cast Alex Wolff. I think it’s fascinating about how a kind of eccentric tech billionaire becomes an activist and risks his own freedom and eventually loses his battle against his mental health and his situation and he passed away by killing himself in 2013. But he opposed SOPA. I’m really thinking Alex Wolff for Swartz.

[alextheman]

Alex’s mini essay(more of a presentation) but I did this in college but I figured if some people want to know more about my approach to the source material. I wrote this for college when the professor asked us about visual art that spoke to us.

Alan Moore is a writer who has broken many barriers in the world of comic books.

He was born on November 18th 1953. He was born in Northhampton England.


He prefers the words comic book to graphic novel even though his works are often called graphic novels.

In this essay I will focus on Watchmen which I thought was beautiful and complex. I only recently read it but I fell in love with it right away.

Watchmen broke doors in comics in its way of using complex story structures, disturbing content and commentary.

The basic plot of the book is that the Watchmen have to get back together after a mysterious murder of one of their own, The Comedian. All of this is set in the backdrop of potential nuclear war between Russia then called the Soviet Union and America. That’s the basic plot it gets more complex from there.
In 2005 Watchmen became the only graphic novel to be in the Time Magazine “Greatest Novels Of All Time”.

The visuals in the comic are outstanding. You have to give Dave Gibbons who did the illustrations massive credit for that. They feel comic book y in a way that suits the material.

The comic book y ness makes it subversive. It’s a story about “superheroes “. But these superheroes are morally ambiguous and do things that you wouldn’t expect.

Like The Comedian who is one of the major parts of the Watchmen story is a bad guy. There is a scene where he almost rapes a woman.

Dr Manhattan who in the book is like this god like blue guy who has been used as a weapon by the United States government.

He was used by the government to win the Vietnam War.

Dr Manhattan’s real name is Dr Jon Osterman and the Manhattan name comes from the Manhattan Project which invented the atomic bomb which of course was launched at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Dr Manhattan though gives people cancer who are his lovers. When he is confronted with his fact he exiles himself to Mars.


I love the characters and story. It’s a story that I feel is really timeless but also very much of the era of which it was created.

Where like nowadays we had conflicts with Russia in the 80s. That part which talks about the conflict between the United States and Russia I felt resonated with me as someone who lives in 2022 America.

Everyone is scared. We’re all scared for the Ukrainians and also we are worried for potential nuclear war as is described in the comic.

This book is a book of it’s time. It was published as a comic series from 1986 to 1987. Before it was eventually turned into one graphic novel.

A phrase that comes up in the comic of “who watches the watchmen” I feel is very timeless. Especially now with police brutality, NSA spying and persecution of whistleblowers that it’s very relevant to today’s times.

[apj]

Oct 26, 2024 19:50:45 GMT -7 alextheman said:

Alex’s mini essay(more of a presentation) but I did this in college but I figured if some people want to know more about my approach to the source material. I wrote this for college when the professor asked us about visual art that spoke to us.

Alan Moore is a writer who has broken many barriers in the world of comic books.

He was born on November 18th 1953. He was born in Northhampton England.


He prefers the words comic book to graphic novel even though his works are often called graphic novels.

In this essay I will focus on Watchmen which I thought was beautiful and complex. I only recently read it but I fell in love with it right away.

Watchmen broke doors in comics in its way of using complex story structures, disturbing content and commentary.

The basic plot of the book is that the Watchmen have to get back together after a mysterious murder of one of their own, The Comedian. All of this is set in the backdrop of potential nuclear war between Russia then called the Soviet Union and America. That’s the basic plot it gets more complex from there.
In 2005 Watchmen became the only graphic novel to be in the Time Magazine “Greatest Novels Of All Time”.

The visuals in the comic are outstanding. You have to give Dave Gibbons who did the illustrations massive credit for that. They feel comic book y in a way that suits the material.

The comic book y ness makes it subversive. It’s a story about “superheroes “. But these superheroes are morally ambiguous and do things that you wouldn’t expect.

Like The Comedian who is one of the major parts of the Watchmen story is a bad guy. There is a scene where he almost rapes a woman.

Dr Manhattan who in the book is like this god like blue guy who has been used as a weapon by the United States government.

He was used by the government to win the Vietnam War.

Dr Manhattan’s real name is Dr Jon Osterman and the Manhattan name comes from the Manhattan Project which invented the atomic bomb which of course was launched at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Dr Manhattan though gives people cancer who are his lovers. When he is confronted with his fact he exiles himself to Mars.


I love the characters and story. It’s a story that I feel is really timeless but also very much of the era of which it was created.

Where like nowadays we had conflicts with Russia in the 80s. That part which talks about the conflict between the United States and Russia I felt resonated with me as someone who lives in 2022 America.

Everyone is scared. We’re all scared for the Ukrainians and also we are worried for potential nuclear war as is described in the comic.

This book is a book of it’s time. It was published as a comic series from 1986 to 1987. Before it was eventually turned into one graphic novel.

A phrase that comes up in the comic of “who watches the watchmen” I feel is very timeless. Especially now with police brutality, NSA spying and persecution of whistleblowers that it’s very relevant to today’s times.

Manhattan never caused any one to get cancer.

[alextheman]

Oct 26, 2024 20:42:53 GMT -7 apj said:

Oct 26, 2024 19:50:45 GMT -7 alextheman said:

Alex’s mini essay(more of a presentation) but I did this in college but I figured if some people want to know more about my approach to the source material. I wrote this for college when the professor asked us about visual art that spoke to us.

Alan Moore is a writer who has broken many barriers in the world of comic books.

He was born on November 18th 1953. He was born in Northhampton England.


He prefers the words comic book to graphic novel even though his works are often called graphic novels.

In this essay I will focus on Watchmen which I thought was beautiful and complex. I only recently read it but I fell in love with it right away.

Watchmen broke doors in comics in its way of using complex story structures, disturbing content and commentary.

The basic plot of the book is that the Watchmen have to get back together after a mysterious murder of one of their own, The Comedian. All of this is set in the backdrop of potential nuclear war between Russia then called the Soviet Union and America. That’s the basic plot it gets more complex from there.
In 2005 Watchmen became the only graphic novel to be in the Time Magazine “Greatest Novels Of All Time”.

The visuals in the comic are outstanding. You have to give Dave Gibbons who did the illustrations massive credit for that. They feel comic book y in a way that suits the material.

The comic book y ness makes it subversive. It’s a story about “superheroes “. But these superheroes are morally ambiguous and do things that you wouldn’t expect.

Like The Comedian who is one of the major parts of the Watchmen story is a bad guy. There is a scene where he almost rapes a woman.

Dr Manhattan who in the book is like this god like blue guy who has been used as a weapon by the United States government.

He was used by the government to win the Vietnam War.

Dr Manhattan’s real name is Dr Jon Osterman and the Manhattan name comes from the Manhattan Project which invented the atomic bomb which of course was launched at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Dr Manhattan though gives people cancer who are his lovers. When he is confronted with his fact he exiles himself to Mars.


I love the characters and story. It’s a story that I feel is really timeless but also very much of the era of which it was created.

Where like nowadays we had conflicts with Russia in the 80s. That part which talks about the conflict between the United States and Russia I felt resonated with me as someone who lives in 2022 America.

Everyone is scared. We’re all scared for the Ukrainians and also we are worried for potential nuclear war as is described in the comic.

This book is a book of it’s time. It was published as a comic series from 1986 to 1987. Before it was eventually turned into one graphic novel.

A phrase that comes up in the comic of “who watches the watchmen” I feel is very timeless. Especially now with police brutality, NSA spying and persecution of whistleblowers that it’s very relevant to today’s times.

Manhattan never caused any one to get cancer.

It’s not directly but I didn’t wanna spoil the book.

[apj]

Oct 27, 2024 16:43:03 GMT -7 alextheman said:

Oct 26, 2024 20:42:53 GMT -7 apj said:

Manhattan never caused any one to get cancer.

It’s not directly but I didn’t wanna spoil the book.

It's a 40 year old story that has been adapted into multiple films. Manhattan did not cause any character to get cancer (outside of being framed for it years later). If you think he did, you may want to read it again.

[alextheman]

I’ve been thinking for a while on how to do an Aaron Swartz biopic I came up with the idea to compress a lot of the important stuff I want to put in the movie in the last year of Swartz’s life. The SOPA activism as well the prosecution by the government.

I’m thinking Alex Wolff for Aaron Swartz