Thursday, March 18, 2004

   Catching up
Like I said in my last post a lot of things have passed. I'll just write about what was missed in one big post to get rid of it all at a time.

First on the subject is the movie still in production. Practices are still being held. All of the actors have seen sufficient combat experience against one another. Some have great control over their bokken (wooden sword we practice with). I'm very happy about how well they learned in such a short while.

Others, however, merely muscle it and swing without much control. They're getting better though, some faster than others but I'm still afraid someone'll get hit in the jaw or something. I'm pretty sure that if I'm sparring with one of them and suddenly stop blocking, they won't be able to stop in time to prevent me from getting hit.

While sparring one should be able to stop their attack in time to prevent injury to another in case somebody stops fighting for one reason or another.

Anyway...

Materials for the costumes have been purchased. Now it's just a matter of making them. We'll have enough hakamas (really, really, really baggy pants used to cover your footwork while fighting. Kenshin in the animation is wearing one) I think we're short gi's, though (the shirt-jacket-thingy).

The script was completely rewritten. This time I've decided to only do a basic outline of crucial events in the movie in order for the actors to flex the movie as they like. This should make the movie more original and fun to act while still keeping the basic plot.

Why I rewrote the script is because it turns out that there aren't enough actors to run the movie so I wrote a smaller one. The movie is no longer titled "The 47 Ronin". I've switched it over to a temporary name until one of my friends or I can think of a better name. I guess it'll just be determined by how the movie turns out...

Moving away from the movie issue, Izzu and I might be going to Virginia Beach, Virginia for the annual Juko-kai sword clinic. It's a 15-hour drive there and costs $135.00 plus hotel and food expenses but it's all in the name of perfecting sword techniques and learning new ones. I also heard of a guy from our doujo who went to the clinic two years earlier and got promoted right on the spot...

Moving away from the sword altogether...the past month has been an emotional rollercoaster...it's amazing what one person can do to you...hehe...depression, regret, sadness, confusion, insecurity... and then happiness, love, hope......I should stop now. lol. Life seems to have taken new turn and I like what I see. Life is good, there's more to come and following darkknight619 tradition I'll close this post with a supercool song: --Rurouni Kenshin, Kororo no Hadaka
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