Of Good Friday, Justine, Pygmalion,

Of Good Friday, Justine, Pygmalion, The Prohibition/Holy Week Sale

April begins dry… for those who didn’t get their booze in time. In a ‘secular’ country to actually force people to observe the No Drinking commandment of the Holy Church, is kind of strange, right? But there it is. If you go to have dinner to a nice restaurant, let’s say a good Italian restaurant, and you order some amazing pasta and, as it should be, a good wine to go with it… they won’t serve you wine! … It doesn’t matter that you remind them that Jesus himself had his apostles drink wine during the Last Supper, and that he turned water into wine when there wasn’t enough to party at a wedding! So… no alcohol this weekend in Bolivia, unless you have unending supplies of it in your home, as we do. So… Cheers!

And with that note, I go into JUSTINE, the production that is beginning to take shape. This is a complicated production, it requires a lot of pre-production work, with all the costumes, props, torture instruments, locations and so on. The most difficult part is to get all those things not knowing exactly how many of those things we will need since we haven’t been blessed with the script yet.

We get instructions such as “We’ll need two changes of clothes for four prostitutes” or “we’ll need uniforms for six soldiers, including their weapons” So off we go looking for uniforms and weapons… oh… and those wigs. Pre-French revolution wigs, not ANY wigs.

So… the pre-production for JUSTINE is going on at full speed. However, there’s so much to get together, the movie is so grand, that while we do that we’ll be shooting another gem: PYGMALION, Jac and Amy’s erotic version of the famous play. I say Jac and Amy because Jac is writing the script and Amy will be directing it.

Jac is not only writing the two scripts, he’s also very busy preparing the stars for their fabulous roles. I hope to have many pictures soon. Here’s what is filtering through to my fingers.

We’ll be going into production in a few days,. we’ll not stop until we complete 2 movies, and then we’ll start again. Yes, we’re full of plans for the near future. But today is a day when we can’t have a drink. Why? Holy Week. I can’t deny that religion has inspired us to produce a lot of religious related movies, like Martyr.