Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Blog, page 223

donjonsaddiction:The editor of Don Jon’s Addiction, Lauren...

donjonsaddiction:

The editor of Don Jon’s Addiction, Lauren Zuckerman.  If you guys
only knew what was on our screens :o)
Photo by Ram Bergman

leftcoastjane:loopermovie:Huge congrats to our very own...

leftcoastjane:

loopermovie:

Huge congrats to our very own Kazuhiro Tsuji and Jamie Kelman for making the Academy’s short list of films in the running for a best makeup nom.

If I can toot their horn a little, Kazu and Jamie were up against several massive challenges with our film.  Realistically and seamlessly altering a human face, and especially a young person’s face, is a Herculean task.  Without wrinkles or the forgivingly rough texture of older skin, there is essentially no place to hide.  Joe was front and center the entire film, the makeup had to stand up to intense scrutiny, and not inhibit the performance.  Add in the fact that Joe and Bruce look nothing alike, and our team had their work cut out for them.

Kazu approached the design of the makeup by first accepting that we would never make Joe look like Moonlighting-era Bruce, but instead would try to just alter a few key features to nudge their profiles a little closer.  After designing and testing the pieces, Kazu handed over the day to day application to Jamie, and that was an art unto itself.  Besides the three hour morning application, during the course of the day tiny beads of sweat would constantly bubble beneath the pieces, and Jamie would have to do surgical maintenance with a needle between every take.  The attention to detail was pretty amazing to watch.

I couldn’t be prouder of their work, or feel luckier to have seen them work their magic.  To sum up:  WOOO HOOOO!!!!

So thrilled for Looper and these fabulous makeup guys!

loopermovie:For the curious, here is the original 4 page prose...

loopermovie:

For the curious, here is the original 4 page prose sketch for Looper, written in 2002.

Right-click here to download the pdf, or click to open directly in your browser.

At the time we were still trying and failing to get Brick made, and out of frustration I started writing short ideas that we could film with no money.  The Psychology of Dream Analysis was one that we actually made, this was another (though we never ended up shooting it.)  It sat in a drawer for seven years, until I pulled it out and used it as a sort of treatment for what became the full script.  It’s both very different and very similar to what we ended up with on screen, I hope it’s an interesting read.  Let me know what you think.

themadeshop:Doing a little bit of graphic and animation work...

themadeshop:

Doing a little bit of graphic and animation work for Joe on Don Jon’s Addiction!

loopermovie:This is NSFW, for adults only, spoiler-filled and...

loopermovie:

This is NSFW, for adults only, spoiler-filled and every other warning you can imagine, but holy crap it’s funny.

donjonsaddiction:Day 1 mixing. Gary Rizzo (who mixes Mr....

donjonsaddiction:

Day 1 mixing. Gary Rizzo (who mixes Mr. Nolan’s films) invited us to Skywalker sound!

That’s a wrap on the music mix for Don Jon’s Addiction!...

That’s a wrap on the music mix for Don Jon’s Addiction! Fantastic last leg by our assistant Keir, our mix engineer Mr. Frank Wolf, and of course our very talented composer Nathan Johnson!

hitrecord:“Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 2 Cover: A Post-It...

hitrecord:

“Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 2 Cover: A Post-It Remix”

REmix by m00njumper

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You can order your copy of THE TINY BOOK OF TINY STORIES, VOL. 2 HERE! :oD

themadeshop:BRICK / BLOOM / LOOPER

themadeshop:

BRICK / BLOOM / LOOPER

nathanjohnson:“Piccolo is the Giszu knife of the orchestra” -...

nathanjohnson:

“Piccolo is the Giszu knife of the orchestra” - Mr. Frank Wolf, hard at work this week on our music mix for Don Jon’s Addiction