Tom Cruise Notes

Tom Cruise Notes

"I eat life" LOL such a great quote.

"Every actor has their own voice and what turns them on and what they like. It's not analytical; it's instinctual. It is their own voice...[and that is what is needed to make movies]". AWESOME quote because

"What I want in a performance is I want it to be spontaneous; I want it to be now. Not you know happening in the past. We try to work towards getting rid of the mechanics, the technique. Let's find the spontaneity. With the power of my own imagination or my own ability to believe or my own creative idea of what I've created here it just happens, it just happens; it just goes. And I don't judge it. And there's times where as an actor where I'm working and I feel nothing and I don't panic and go "oh my god I feel nothing!" I always take from the point of view of "okay well that's interesting. I don't invalidate. I don't fight what's going to happen. I din't try to create. I've done my work. It gets inside of you see that it's just there. And when youre there you just want to fly and play jazz."


What I would say for the pearly gates questions: She would say (god is a definitely a babe, possibly androgenyous, but at the very least a babe), So SHE would say, "Wow, you rock! I could say that in a way that would take 10 years of detailed explanation, but I'll be concise, you rock!" Because I know that she'd know all the details of my life and I'd remember most of them so having this long drawn-out explanation of what my life meant or what I did or didnt do would be redundant, so I'd be overjoyed if I got the rolling waves of heaven and She (god) jsut says "you rocked life, you rock!" :D


Surmised, I think that may mean, you do your work, your preparation like mad -- THAT is your work, so then when it's game time and you actually have a contract, salary, and acting Job, you can relax and know whatever you feel (or dont' feel) is fully 150% totally valid! :D.

Cool Acting Tip. Tom Cruise. Write a whole HISTORY to the character. Where did they begin? What have they been through. Their history. COOL way to get going with great persona to then match up to the script!

This guys AMAZING role-model hero. Attractive, sexy, appleaing to babes, NICE, amazing actor, GREAT Dancer, he HAD and HAS it going on in every dimension. The dude rocks! Cruise is a gentleman, intelligent, but he doesn't care about intelligence THAT's the thing. he has fun and is a player too, but can then go and be genuine and sincere too. Puts thought into his words.

What cruise does THE Best, that I used to do and must resume, is you look into a point in space slightly below the horizon without eye contact and make your script and think of what you're going to say, then when you deliver it, you make eye contact.

Had his step-father pay him $900 a month. And if you subract rent and utilities, I'm getting $500, much of which goes to internet and car, because I was trying to do a lot of web design at the time -- gumball site, romantic web page, life coaching site, blog active, etc.

Brilliant words normalcy ; it odesn't EXIST!!! :D LOL No one is normal.

His Agent, Paula Wagner , was the SHIT sounds like AMAZING, THE agent. awesome.

Scorcese's generosity and love for actors. NICE.

I need to brace myself for "weird shit" shit and people and things that may say stuff I wouldn't expect. That's preperation for what you can't prepare for is NECESSARY and huge because


MAN!!!!!!!!!!!! Born on the 4th of july seens looked soooo much like and sounded so much like arguments at 428 with hellish "get out of the house shit".

Paula Wagner looks like Laura hearn...weird!

He has the intelligence, , humbleness, smartness of jimmy davis, too.

dude he flies and owns planes did not r ealize that.

The Image of an Actor as The Product
WOW! :D IT IS image!!! The People that work with Tom Cruise in a business sense (his agent, publicist, manager etc), Kevin Huvane, Rick Nicita, and Pat Kingsley are always working on securing not Tom Cruise, but his IMAGE!!! :D Image is NOT some surreal hoofey-doofy aura bs wavelength crap it's a business product!! Tom Cruise's image of the ultimate heartthrob was what made and does make him huge amounts of coin and it's why the best agency, CAA, works with him! That's fascinating because that's what Breck was talking about "image". Image is NOTHING abou fruedian-jungian-archetypes (well they're images too) but he was talking about IMAGE in the business-entertainment sense. How people see you. Tom Cruise's movies sell HEAPS because of his image as a heartthrob! But then STRANGELY enough....it was his sister Lee Anne Devette that apparently kept him so anchored from pulling the "Oprah stunts" which I didn't think of as that destructive at all, but the media hype DID. NOW I finally see the lens through which agents, publicists, acting managers and the like see actors -- as a product, but the actor themselves is NOT the product, it's their image that's the product. It's the image of the actor that sells. It was tom cruise's image (not tom cruise himself) but his image that garnered 5 consecutive $100+ million films!! Now of course, the actor creates the image, but other people most certainly help shape and mold and anchor it. THAT's amazing. That's the career, actually earning money, business side of acting I've been blind to and am now finally parts of which I am finally understanding! Sweet :D!

Wow. So extrapolating this totally new concept to me of the actor's image as a product

But i mean I can see why some actor's do and don't do Inside the Actor's Studio: it has a huge potential (potentially uplifting, potentially destructive, mostly always uplifting though) impact on image. I mean during Cruise's Inside the Actor's Studio, you could almost just literally see how all of his CAA crew in the Front Row -- Wagner, Nicita, The head CAA manager dude Huvane -- were almost just like monitoring their image-product investment!! It wasn't disturbing nor "wrong" it's just the nature of the business. I think it's awesome! To finally understand the relationship there with actor image and agency and the business side of a creative performer.

Yepp.....yepp...sigh...yeppp yepp this settles it. I'm an actor. I study actors. I try to learn from actors. I believe in actors. I hate christianity, i'm a touch bit buddhist and hindu, but I'm all actor. I'll either be a successful or unsuccessful actor, it's as simple s that. Right now, I feel I've got some great talent, but I'm a god-awfully Unsuccessful actor. But success doesn't frame talent. I just am going to continue to do everything I can to prepare for success! :D

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Yepp.....yepp...sigh...yeppp yepp this settles it. I'm an actor. I study actors. I try to learn from actors. I believe in actors. I hate christianity, i'm a touch bit buddhist and hindu, but I'm all actor. I'll either be a successful or unsuccessful actor, it's as simple s that. Right now, I feel I've got some great talent, but I'm a god-awfully Unsuccessful actor. But success doesn't frame talent. I just am going to continue to do everything I can to prepare for success! :D


Christian Bale Freakout
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbz6-7c_7Hk
I find the fact that these famous, successful and (atleast in regards to Bale) talented performers have and occasionally display rage, a relief; it shows they have real, unpolished, emotion --just like some of us, like you, like myself, like normal people experience.

The Machinist Notes

Machinist
INteresting b/c He has to seperate himself from all "potential relationships" (the hooker gf, the "quasi-friends at the plant, etc" so he can do himself justice and turn himself in. His compulsion for honesty is was intuitively causes him to sever all those relationships subconsciously. The severings (chopping off arms, throwing dishes at the gf) were harsh and uncooth, but those relationsihps would hinder him in his commitment to do justice.

And that's so interesting b/c in life he was a lawyer, the early references to various labor acts and rights in the factory allude to that. So he's inherently living a contradictaion of agenda. If he tried to protect the guilty (or innocent) in life, then when he becoms the guildy after the hit and run, half of his brain has been trained to conceal his guilt and protect himself but then the moralistic self emerges after years and his commitment to personal justice seeps tshrough as he finally admits what he did and in a way "does himself justice". Very GREAT allusions. At the end he was wearing a "justice brothers" t-shirt. The movie was about finding a compromise between the legal protect guilty or innocent and the emotional moralistic "what is right" doing good from a belief point of view. In the end he got to know "both justice brothers" -- both complementary components of his psyche, moralistic honesty and judicial prudence. He suppressed the moralistic honesty part and it just seeped through in ugly ways.

Now that is siimilar to me in junior year. I severed ties with people and that was SOME part of me seeping through. I had to seperate myself from those people as a commitment to them would inhitibt whatever was seeping through from getting recognized. The question is "just what is that"? Couldn've been anger, dislike disgust, mostly it was knowing tons oabotu people emotionally and wanting to share it? to teach? not sure. but the schism that occured was similar int voialteit so that's ggreat to know whatever needed to get out has! now i'm just mregingoete .

So most of hte movie was literally hallucinations. The french woman, ivan, all of that was hallucinations. Ivan representethe moaralistic "doing good" side of him maybe.

Can't help but think that breck is connectd to my version of this. By me recognizing a wild part of me in how that guy operated I guess. thought that he could be me. just a fragment of my imaginations but i've talked with him and seen him a few times in club and stuff. so that's not truee. boutoi uroeijfodsjfsf slkjsjwild expressive part merging with artiaotn contemplateilivd.



I realized It's athletic chicks I'm interested in not porn. breathing, air, exercising, etc in sex!! not smut, heavy gross nasties.s light energy, exercising freshenss in women in sex!! yay.

The Difference between Miramax, Universal, Touchstone Pictures, New Line and all that!

Are they production? Are they for film or productions? Who produces tv or film? How do they handle copyrights or distribution?

Why would anyone want to know this? Or who the hell cares? I DO!! If you're watching film and have half a brain to think about the process of "How the hell do I have this DVD or how am I able to watch this footage of actors in this theatre?" or better yet, if you're life me and interested in the production, editing, acting, film creation process and steps, knowing who the heck who is who and and how all that production jazz adds up is not only inspiring and illuminating, but essential data! So conclusively this is very valuable information to understand for any connection with creating or to galvanize a greater appreciation of creating (or watching) great film!

I always wanted to know what the deal was with that whole seemingly messy or confusing smorgasbord of film studios that flash their little animation and brand before the feature title and credits roll. The research aimed at clarifying this obfuscation proved to be very rewarding!!

• Miramax -- (Walt Disney)film production and distribution (originally in NY now purchased by Walt Disney)
  
• Touchstone Pictures (Walt Disney)-- a film label of Walt Disney (est. 1984) it has the more mature themes of features released under walt disney; noteworthy productions: Dead Poets' Soceity, Pirates of the Caribbean: Black Pearl.
  
• Walt Disney Company -- one of largest media and entertainment corps on world
  
• Walt Disney Studios -- centered around animation
  
• Warner Brothers (Timewarner)-- film and tv production (subsidary of Timewarner! LOL cool!)
  
• New Line Cinema (Timewarner) -- film production and distribution (subsidary of Timewarner)
  
• Icon Productions LLC (Mel Gibson)-- film production (Mel Gibson's film production company; founded 1989; started when mel was trying to finance hamlet); noteworthy productions: Man without a Face, Braveheart, What Women Want).
  
• Imagine Entertainment (Ron Howard) -- film and tv production (Ron Howard and Brian Grazer; 1986; noteworthy productions: Arrested Development, Beautiful Mind)
  
• Dreamworks LLC (Paramount: Viacom)-- film, tv, and game development, production, and distribution (started Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen; 1994; 11 years later sold to Paramount Pictures, under viacom,)
  
• 20th Century Fox Film Corporation (News Corporation) -- film production and distribution (6th largest in america; located in Century city; started 1933).
  
• Paramount Pictures Corporation (Viacom) -- film production and distribution (oldest running movie studio in hollywood (beating Universal by 1 month only! LOL!; located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood; subsidary of Viacom)
  
• Plan B Entertainment -- film production (started Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Jennifer Anistion; noteworthy titles: Jesse James, Departed, Charlie and Chocolate Factory, Troy)
  
• Universal Studios -- (subsidary of NBC) 2nd-longest running film studio on San Fernando (Paramount being the oldest.
  

Conclusions: WOW!! This is so awesome and massively illuminating!! I finally understand the inter-relationship between all this "Bank Pictures" "XYZ Productions" etc that I see flash before a film title and principal role credits! Cool! I guess if you break it down, there's the invidividual film companies (Gibson's, Howard's, Pitt's) and then the labels and subsidaries of the major ones

1. Viacom -- Paramount, Dreamworks
   
2. NBC -- Universal Studios
   
3. News Corporation -- 20th Century Fox
   
4. Timewarner -- Warner Brothers
   
5. Walt Disney -- Touchstone, Miramax
   

Cool!!! So you've got those 5 major media conglomerates each with a few film labels and subsidary companies and then a small handful of talents actors, directors, producer individuals that spun off their own successful production companies. COOL!!

Reflections: It's interesting to note the quality and type of movie that emerges from each kind of production company. Plan B's Jesse James was highly artistic and had that independent feel, as did the Departed and Beautiful Mind, appropriate from being produced under independent production company. Then more mainstream maybe more "common themed" films might be more typically produced by one of those 5 mainstream conglomerates.

COOL!!! Awesome!! Now I can now who produced what, which of the 5 main media conglomerate companies or three independents backed and helped distribute a film! So awesome simplifying that so it's not some confusing brand flash of a production company, actually understanding the structure of the film production makes understanding the composition of films much more tangible because you can udnerstand that "oh yeah, they shot the filmm, editted it and then handed it off to Gibson's Icon for production, or shot it over to Disney's Miramax for distribution". Cool clarity! The research aimed at clarifying this obfuscation proved to be very rewarding!!