The Olympics got me in the mood to watch Peaceful Warrior. A film which closes on the slo mo and almost inconsequential finale of a... I can't find the name of the sport where the gymnast hangs from the bungie hoops. What I'm sure was well written in the original novel, and the screenplay adaptation, doesn't do much on film as it's an entire gymnast sequence filmed in slo mo and with obvious cutaways to the actor's face who isn't doing gymnastics. So I'm curious, to anyone who uses these boards who might have experience with this, what is there to do or how does one react when a director absent mindedly shoots something by way of trivializing or relegating part of a script with inept filmmaking? It seems obvious, to a late night drunkard several years after the film was made, that the slo mo sequence in Warrior was distanced from the effect the finale was supposed to achieve, so when bad direction overwhelms the writing, does the writer just have to pray the audience notices the problem was only in the filming?
On a very unpleasant side note, while I did a little looking up of this film, I came across the information that Victor Salva, a director who I liked for his effective filmmaking of Jeepers Creepers and Powder, came by this story while being incarcerated for child molestation. He actually raped a kid while making the film Clownhouse, another film I enjoyed albeit while stoned. This... really changes my opinion of him and almost every film of his I've seen and enjoyed.
On a very unpleasant side note, while I did a little looking up of this film, I came across the information that Victor Salva, a director who I liked for his effective filmmaking of Jeepers Creepers and Powder, came by this story while being incarcerated for child molestation. He actually raped a kid while making the film Clownhouse, another film I enjoyed albeit while stoned. This... really changes my opinion of him and almost every film of his I've seen and enjoyed.
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