Update from the wife

Hello all. I guess this isn't really the "Director's Notes" as the director's wife is writing this entry, but I figured we shouldn't leave you guys hanging.

Things are proceeding apace. I don't think Dan mentioned it here before, but Mathilde is the editor of "Run, Lola, Run" (A fantastic movie, if you haven't seen it). If my husband is going to spend hours locked in a room with a barely functioning Air Conditioner and another woman, then at least she's a cool woman. (ha, ha) Seriously Dan, call me from the edit bay every fifteen minutes.

I am probably not allowed to watch any of Solstice, but since the cuts get delivered here, I sneak a peak, and they are looking fantastic. I've read the script a hundred times, and been on the set, so you think I wouldn't get tense and frightened by the scares, but they still make me jump. And the ending, when you learn that Soylent Green is people! (Did I scare you? I've had more movies ruined for me by other people's blogs. Yes, I know I should've seen Soylent Green already, but really, what's the point now?)

Dan and I were talking the other day, and he passed on to me something that Mathilde said, which was basically "Once a film is shot, then the script becomes a carcass." Something like that. I'm no good with the memory. As a writer, this is one of those sad truisms. You shoot from the script, but the movie is always a completely different living, breathing thing. Things you thoght would be funny are tragic, tragic things are funny, etc. etc. That's why it's such a good idea to have someone besides yourself cutting your movie. They recognize this new "person" (for lack of a better word) before you do. And I have to say, it's been a joy to meet this new person. Another little film baby in the Myrick household.

So, thank goodness all that hard work is paying off. You think of the film business as being glamorous, but with all the sickness on set (that got transferred to our family, including our teeny-tiny baby who was sick for almost the entire shoot), to the child-beating people who lived above the "deluxe" apartment the production rented for us, it's certainly been an interesting film-making processon on my end. But, Dan and I are both movie junkies. You see that celluloid, and those images on the screen, and you can't help but thinking "This is the good life. This is exactly where I want to be." Just without the 103 degree fever.

Final cut is just on the horizon. I'll keep you guys in the know. I am much better with the online diaries. You'll see.