flesh 19 June 2008
I make notes everywhere on the grounds that I will almost certainly forget good things, no matter how important or brilliant I think them at the time. This means I often get out of bed late at night to write a note to myself about a plot idea, and I have been known to scribble in the dark while trying not to get too awake (I am surprisingly adept at that now). Proof that this is the correct way to proceed was provided today as I put back together the script I used for Hell’s Pavement (the movie I recently worked on) and I came across a note I’d made about humans eating dead comrades in times of crisis – was there news of such a thing over the last while? can’t really think of why we’d‘ve been discussing it otherwise…the catering was good so it can’t have been prompted by that. Perhaps we were in particularly perverse mode that day. Anyhow Brig, our producer, made the point that she could only eat someone she liked and followed this up with the words ‘you’d choke on some people, wouldn’t you?’ I have no idea where this might turn up in the writings, but it’s an interesting idea. For the record, I think I’d be better at eating someone I hated, and I don’t think I’d choke too much at all while feasting on them.
