: About Me

I'm a graduate of the Vancouver Film School's writing program. Before that, I worked at a certain national chain of movie theatres for four years. They started grooming me for higher levels of management. They actually shipped me out to the corporate office to train me. After that, I realized it wasn't what I wanted to do, so I quit and went to film school. Best decision I've ever made. Needless to say, I love film.

My passion is ...

Film

I know too much about ...

Film

My parents always told me ...

"Get off the table!"

My childhood ambition ...

To be a storyteller of some sort...

Why I write ...

To express myself and hopefully make something out of it.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm reading a book called Novel. It's pretty awesome

Entertainment > Movie Remakes & Adaptations Evaluating the book to film adaptation of Fight Club

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"Shocking," "horrific," "appaling" have been common words to describe the film and the book Fight Club. Harsh words. Maybe I'm being unfair. words like "brilliant" and "masterpiece" have also been used for both. The book is Chuck Palahniuk's first novel, an instant hit and he has since established himself as an important author for modern America. The book is a dark, frightening look at our society, consumerism, hopelessness and scewed morality. Powerful and compelling, it almost satire's our entire culture. So who better to portray this perspective through film than David Fincher. Easily,...

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