Quite a while ago, I had an idea for a movie: a new adaptation of Macbeth, shot period, complete with Scottish castle and countryside, and starring the likes of Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Ewan Macgregor, and Anthony Hopkins. A big-budget spectacle of murder, politics, and mayhem.
I think it’d be awesome.
I wrote a script while at USC, or most of one, at any rate, and in order to do so, I made the following short video. Cobbled together and amateur, of course, but still kinda fun. It helped me wrap my head around the project.
I’ve often thought that understanding of quantum mechanics (not to mention the universe) is a matter of perspective; we’re too big to really observe an atom, too small to see the universe (except in increments of, what, a few hundred yards, at best?). Point is, I realized my previous labels were off; those weren’t pictures of fountains so much as pictures of fountain water.
These are pictures of a fountain:
And just to prove it’s the same fountain:
Interesting to note it’s the first time you’ve really seen it, isn’t it?