Aunty Donna Podcast - Come Here, Wet Hog

Episode Date: October 15, 2024

A peak behind the curtain of the much-anticipated release of the horror film ‘Melt Man’ featuring Ben Mendelsohn coming soon to cinemas. LINKS  Follow @theauntydonnagallery on Instagram https://bit.ly/auntydonna-ig  Become a Patreon supporter at http://auntydonnaclub.com/   CREDITS   Hosts: Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane, & Mark Bonanno   Producer: Lindsey Green Digital Producers: Nick Barrett, Jim Cruse & Tanya Zerek Audio Imager: Mitch Calladine  Supervising Producer: Elise Cooper   Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh  Join The Aunty Donna Club: https://www.patreon.com/auntydonnaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A listener production. Hello everybody, Zach here from the Auntie Donna podcast. This week is a very special episode. If you joined us last week, we met the character Meltman in a little more detail since his emergence first in the most upsetting guessing game. This week, we are doing a table read of a horror film, which we devised last week all about Meltman so have a listen Ben Mendelsohn is a very special guest joining us we hope you enjoy it if you like this podcast did you know that we have a YouTube channel it's called it's all just put Auntie Donna into Google

it'll come up also we have a patreonty Donna Club dot com is the way to get there. Otherwise search for Aunty Donna on Patreon. I've been Zach Ruane and I hope you enjoy this very special episode of the Aunty Donna podcast. Hi, everyone. I'm Zach Ruane. I'm a music producer. I'm a music producer.

I'm a music producer. I'm a music producer. I'm a music producer. I'm a music producer. I'm a music producer. I'm a music producer. I'm a music producer. I'm a music producer. Hi everyone, thanks so much for coming to our reading of Meltman. The new A24 horror film. My name is... Could be Zach. Zach, I'm the director of Meltman. I've got here my co-writers, Meltman co-writers Mark Bonanno.

Hi, thank you for being here. Broden Kelly. Thank you for having me. So basically what we're going to do now is we've written a couple of drafts of Meltman, which is horror. We do have distribution from A24. It's a metaphor for grief. Some cool people attached. Yeah we got some very cool people attached, General Tager is in

it, Rainn Wilson is gonna be playing a serious part in it. We did first offer it to, what's his name, from Parks and Rec, he said no. Nick Offerman. We offered it to Nick Offerman, he said no and then we went to Rainn Wilson. Ben Mendelsohn. Ben Mendelsohn is in it. Yes. Will he be reading? You here? Yes, my name is Ben. Hey, mate. How you going, mate? Good to see you, Ben. I'm writing for the part of Chad. And so basically a little bit about this story. It's a metaphor for grief. It's horror. Daniel Plainview is also in this film. Daniel Plainview is in it, yeah? Yeah, Daniel Plainview.

Yeah. So it is a metaphor for grief. I think we've got that across. It's a metaphor. It's a metaphor for grief. And capitalism. Well- More grief. Yeah, we lost the- Originally it was sort of a jewel metaphor for capitalism and grief. And then just in the redrafts, we kind of lost the capitalism stuff.

So there's peppering of capitalism. It's a metaphor for grief. It's a metaphor for grief. Shall we? Yes, absolutely. I'll be reading the big print and I'll also be playing a couple of characters. Mark Broden will be playing some characters as well. Yeah, I think we should just get into it.

Let's do it. We will follow you up for feedback. I'm very excited to be here. And thank you for having me. Daniel Plainview. I'm very excited to be reading for the part of Meltdown. Good day there Daniel Plainview mate. How are you mate?

I'm very well thank you Ben. You haven't talked to the cops have you mate? No I have been producing a couple of oil wells now You're not playing funny buggers are you mate? No no no I do not play funny buggers no I'm- Get on your mate I've been drilling for oil you see and I abandoned my boy and I have you know I've been forgiven for such a thing. Oh yeah, good on you man.

Alright, here we go. Meltman. Exterior. Farm. Day. It is old timey New England America Man is Standing in the farm and he is Herding some pigs his wife leaves the barn and approaches him wife My husband my husband we must dry those hogs before the melt man arrives Oh Jessica Jeremiah The meltman is but a myth.

So worried about him getting into your cupboards. It's an old wives' tale and I should... Sorry, go. Sorry, no you go. No, no, no, no. I interrupted you and I apologize for that. I'd like you to speak. I know that the Meltman is but a pagan myth and I try, I try to believe only in that which

we have learnt about the Lord. But I have seen the Meltman with my own eyes. He took our baby. He took my first husband. I am grieving for them. Liar! You're a liar! Your family was taken by the plague these hogs are dry to the bone

And they must be moistened sundown sundown Let's get them hogs drunk. Sorry you go I interrupted you. I thought you were far away I didn't realize that you just speak with a sort of yally voice at a low pitch. It's all good, you go. Yeah, and that you were about a meter away from me. We good?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're good, sorry. We're good. Sundown! Get them hogs dry for sundown! Would the Sundown Man not talk of dry hogs, if not the fact that at the very least people are going missing because of when their hogs are wet. The sundown man is a fool. He's a bitter fool. He lost his family to the plague. I'm still here. I know. I know you are.

I go. Sorry. Yeah. But I'm, you know I think you're a fool. There's nothing I haven't said to you that I feel like I can't say to my wife. Sorry. You go. Oh, did I interrupt you? No, you go. There's nothing I haven't said to you that I feel like I can't say to my wife. Oh, did I interrupt you? No, you go. Okay.

All I'm saying is these pigs are filthy and they're bone dry. Wetting the hogs won't summon the melt man. Or at the very least, let's roll the dice and see. Let's fucking go for it. Worth checking it out. I've got the hose here. It's attached to the tap And you say that for what what's a tap?

mmm a tap is You know thing that you turn Okay, listen, I must go back to our I must go back to our Hut where a cottage where I will Let's go back to our hut, where, cottage, where I will tend to our baby and also our virgin daughter who is but a virgin and that is the way God wishes her to be. I grieve for... Sun down! We know.

We know. Okay. The wife walks away before turning one last time to talk to her husband. Please, just dry the hogs. She walks into the interior barn night. The husband is feverishly drying his hogs when he notices one last wet hog, but his arms are tired and weak. Gubu lubu, the wettest of my pigs, the moistest of the swine. You are a liquidy boy, Gubu lubu, pig of mine eye. I wish I could kiss you, I do, but the laws forbid it.

The laws forbid a man and a pig wedding because of the pig freak men that resolved from it. And your titties are large and full of pig milk, which is wet. And if I get that pig milk on you, goodness knows what will happen. Everyone's saying the melt man will come, but melt man doesn't exist. I feel like I can talk to you, Gooboo. I feel like I can say things to you. I can't say to my wife.

I can talk about the things I wish I could put up my ass. I feel like, you know, just small things, things that'll come out again, just tiny rocks. It's like an OCD thing. Kubu lubu, yes, you are wet. Yes, you are. All the synonyms of wet, damp, moist, liquidy Searching, thinking....liquid-y, uh... But I like you wet.

They want me to dry you. The sundown man in particular. He comes, he stands a couple of meters away, speaks as if he's yelling from a great distance. But you, Gooboo, not you, you just hoff and hog and roll around and filth and... and just get all wet.

Come have a shower with me wet come have a shower with me come shower with me under the moonlight let's get fuck it fuck the world fuck God and all his commandments exterior Come on, no Husband and Gubu are having a shower Husband is down nude He has a shower with Gubu It's not sexual He just washes Gubu like a child Soap up you swiney hog

Soap up and get wet and clean and eat your own shit God I wish we could wed Not for any sexual reasons. It's because I feel like you understand me. I'm wet, you're wet, the sun is dry, the moon is wet. A wet moon. Let's boil some sausages. Come inside, have tea with me, the wife is asleep and I know how much you love a wet sack of meat. So come, wet hog, come with me inside. Interior, cottage hut, night. The wet hog stands before the sleeping wife and virgin daughter and baby.

Licking his lips ready for a meal. Husband is preparing some boiled sausages by a fire. Gooboo, we will have many sons. We'll have 10 boys and eight girls. Let me list their names. Shoo boo moogoo. girls let me list their names. Shubu Mugu, Timothy the Wise, Lippy Lubdubs, the wife wakes, Jeremy Irons, the wife wakes and sits up. Sorry I must have a different draft. Draft of the screenplay because I've got ten more

names I list before the big pick. Oh I'm so sorry. No no, this is right, this is right. The wife wakes, sits up, he doesn't notice and continues to list names. Timothy Sharamu Pig. Griffty the Wise. Shar Blub Dibblob. Ding Dong the brave. Oh, you are too dry for my liking, Gooboo. Come with me to the tub.

To the tub. Um, I need to boil the water for a bath. Get a lukewarm. Fetch me a ale from the icebox, Gooboo. I've trained my pig. I've trained this pig to be dry but also wet. I must rest. The day has been large and long and the summers are quite warm and I'm tired and this pig is wet and I wish to rest

now. I wish to rest. The wife looks at her husband and says, you can rest now my husband. Please stop talking to that pig though because it's really weird. But my brother is about to arrive for a boiled meat dinner It's past night. He'll be here in the morning rest now my husband Fucking sundown can't fuck it's been night for like two hours, bro. I'm sorry Sunday I mean take daddy's dick Studs jerk One day a man takes out his dick, starts jerking.

Oi, get outta here! I'm sorry, off I go! Get your hard hog outta here, there's wet hogs indoors! Hard hog, wet hog? Get outta here! My brother is about to arrive with a ding dong upon the door. I invented the doorbell. Exterior. Back of the cottage night. As husband and sundown man continue to argue in the cottage, the wet hog goes to the icebox. With amazing

dexterity and skill, the wet hog opens the ice box, but there's something in the background. An old nude man with... Oh yeah, music here. An old nude man with black dyed hair. We hear his wails and his sharp breaths as he approaches the wet hog and he says I smell moist pig he looks in the window sees the boiling sausage I smell a boiling wet sack of meat exterior farm night the screams of pigs and families as Meltman enjoys his feast.

Titles. Meltman. Exterior. New York City. Day. Ben Mendelsohn is walking down the street. He walks into his office. Interior. Office. Day. Ben Mendelsohn is sitting with his boss, the guy from The Matrix that tells off Neo. Ben Mendelson, you have been doing too much. You're late all the time.

Oh, good on Neo. Sorry, I wasn't meant to play this part. I'm doing it quick. You're working all the time, Ben Mendelsohn. Oh, get over here, boss. There you go, mate. You need to decide if you want to be a part of this company or not. Nah, this life's not for me actually, mate.

I've had a gutful of it. I'm outta here. Sorry, you go. No, you, sorry. Sorry, I thought you were finished. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. No, you go, you finish. I'm outta here.

Well, let me tell you before you decide, ever since your wife died and you've been grieving for your dead wife. Oh, that's right, yeah. Ever since she died, you've've been grieving for your dead wife. Oh that's right, yeah. Ever since she died, you've not been as good at this job. And we can track your computers, you're always Googling hog farms in New England. Yeah. If either you want to be a part of this company, or you want to be a hog farmer, you gotta decide.

Hmm, I'm gonna be a hog farmer then. Montage. I'll just read this quickly. Montage. Behmel also packs up his car. He gets his kids in the car, two kids. He visits the grave of his wife. He cries.

He heads down to New England and arrives at the same farm that we saw from the opening. And... Well here I am at this house. It's a good house. No cops around. No one's been talking to the cops. Yeah. Hello stranger.

Hello. What brings you to such a hog farm? Oh boy, I live here now. What? I live here now. What? I live here... I live here now. What? I live here now. So, why? Can you not hear me?

I'm just... I'm just confused. I was just... Sorry, you go. No, no, no. If you've got more to say, please maybe you'll explain why you... Because I live here, but I've been renting from Nelson Alexander Oh, yeah, boy, you can stay here, but would you like to live in the barn is my favorite I bought it so I'll live in the house Yeah, I'm saying you can are you telling me I can move to the barn and yes sleep with the swine

Yeah, who are you? I'm the man who owns a goo boo boo boo Okay Who are you? Okay. What's that? Is that a pig? Pig, that's a pig. What? What? Later, I'm gonna move in. Mary Elizabeth Weinstead comes up.

You know her? Mary Elizabeth, what's her name? She's in heaps. She's gonna be his love interest. Oh. She comes up you know her Mary Elizabeth what's her name she's in heaps she's gonna be his love interest she comes up oh there you are old man come back to your old crazy people home I'm so sorry about this I'm a nurse at the crazy people home this is a crazy man always he wasn't talking about melt man was he oh no it've been doing the cops mate me yeah no listen not to this crazy woman she wants me to dry my pigs every night so that the mythical melt man will not let me finish sorry sorry is it let me finish the Oh, no, you go. Sorry. Uh, the mythical...

What was I saying? Mythical melt, man. You're talking about drying pigs. Thank you. He's crazy, though, yeah? Uh, well... Let him finish. I'm dismissive.

I'm dismissive. Yeah. I've been through grief. Oh, yeah, mate. And you've been grieving... You go dead, wife? Yeah. I've been grieving, too.

Okay. Um, you gotta stop stop you gotta not stress Oh, what are you talking about? You haven't had pigs for years ever since they all mysteriously disappeared Oh and also your whole family was killed. Mm-hmm. 400 years ago Come here! And I have been grieving Come you look weary from your Sausage I've boiled in the hottest water ever seen this woman's You're crazy. I'm gonna let her take you away

I got like a real sexy nurse outfit sexy enough that I look good in it But not too sexy that it doesn't look believable that I'd be wearing. Alright. Come here crazy old man I'm so sorry hey enjoy the sorry I'm sorry have I been knocking at an appropriate time yeah sorry wait yeah and then I got so Mary Elizabeth walks away with with the crazy old man she turns back and looks at at Ben Mendelsohn and does a little smile bye see ya walk away bye see you later Ben Mendelsohn does a little huff like what was that all about what was that all about? What was that all about?

Then he says it. You've been talking to the cops, mate? There is a knock at the door. Ben Mendelsohn, who is out the front of the house, just goes up to the guy. Hello? Hello, I've been a- How are you?

I'm good, thank you, how are you? Good. I've been walking around your lands, hunting for quails, my boy. Shhh. Um, uh, uh, DW or something. And- DW?

VW. Um, with my boy Volkswagen. From Arthur. VW. The animation Arthur. Yes, yes. And I- And I've been- I've been hunting for quail and I was wondering if we could, uh, take a camp up on your lands. Okay.

Tell me, how wet are your hogs? Marylin. I don't know, I just literally just got here. Marylin. My shit is in the car. The clouds that approach us. Sorry, sorry. There you go.

Sorry, hey, oh no, this is another one of my crazy patients. No, no I'm not. Stop it. Stop coming, I'm so sorry, she's the crazy lady from the village over and she is constantly telling people that they're crazy and then taking them off somewhere. I'm sorry about this. This is very confusing. Oh hey, I didn't realize it was you again. You just left. I can't help you.

If you're the new owner of these lands, let me give you a partial warning. I can't help you! Oh no! Not more about the melt man! Okay. Thanks mate. The melt man! Sorry, sorry, there you go. There you go. Yeah, no, you go you go Um What was I saying? I was saying

Keep your pigs dry Um Don't moisten your hogs And most of all Fry your sausages on a Weber Don't boil them Oh Daniel Plainview You're so funny, listen

That's right! Listen The Meltman is an old folktale around these parts. We had story time the other day in the common area. We had someone who came and told the story of Meltman. So all of the patients, they've gotten in their heads that Meltman still exists, just because whenever people leave their hogs, they die, I get it. I'm grieving I abandoned my boy He was just a bastard and a bastard. Oh, this is you. I have several catchphrases. Sorry. I was sorry Were you talking? No, you do your catchphrase again. I did them all. I'm so sorry. I I Just I'm sorry you go you go you go

You go. All sorry you go. You go. You go. You go. Alright, no I'll go. Oh, this must be your children. General Tager who signed on to this before she did... General Tager who signed on to this before she did Wednesday? Yeah. Oh, nice to meet you. And of course your little boy that kid from Room. Yeah. And you know that one. Yeah, yeah. Oh, such wonderful kids. I didn't have, I had a kid once,

but they were killed after I boiled a sausage. I'm grieving about that. Well, bye. Bye bye. I've gotta go to bed. Mary Elizabeth Winestead and Daniel Plainview walk back to the mental institution. But she turns around one last time and looks at him. Hey, you're new around here, these parts, yeah?

Yes. Well, this is probably pretty crazy of me to say. The weird melt man. But, shut up with the melt man. But I am also, to make a few extra bucks around the place, I'm also, I also am the sassy bartender at the local bar and we're doing karaoke tonight you want to come around that's good idea cut any liquid sorry that was me saying cut to sorry you go you know what did you want

to cut to no I'm Mary Elizabeth I'm asking Mary Elizabeth I'm just reading what it yeah she says, yeah, no. She says, if this was a movie, we'd cut to you at the bar now, ha ha. And I'm just saying, keep all liquid off your pants. Okay, bye. Interior. Bye, interior.

See you later. I will see you later. Stop just saying interior. Okay. Interior, no, exterior, car park of a dive bar. Well here I am at the car park. He looks nervous this is the first time he's ever been on a date. Is it a date? Ever since his wife died who he's grieving for. The whole thing this whole thing it's a metaphor for grief. Oh I'm grieving at the moment and I don't

know if this is the right thing to do or if anyone in here has been talking to the cops. Actually it's more of a metaphor for like moving, like finding love after... It's actually more of a... it's not quite grief because that's Babadook. This is more like finding love... sorry. Who is this? I'm just doing the big print. Sorry. Who is this person that keeps reading big print in the movie that we're in? Oh, who are you? reading big print in the movie that we're in. Oh, who are you?

Me, I'm just a local farmer who's been walking around these parts looking for bushels and trinkets. Hello. By chance, did you purchase the Wetherbury Farm? Yeah. The, whatever, what's the name of the farm? It doesn't have an I. Wetherbury Farm.

It says it in the script, just read it. It is. Did you purchase the weather brief? Yeah. Gee, I sure hope you keep those bar dawns closed. Why? Well, I don't know if you've seen outside, but it is. Yeah. You just stop interrupting me as I speak One of the rudest No, don't be sorry, but you will be left your barn doors open because I My god Drink your air and keep it lock upon those lips. Why? Because it's starting to rain

those lips why because it's starting to rain they walk in as they continue to talk they walk into the bar interior bar night drink a shot of whiskey with me weren't you okay what are you doing here how'd you get out of the bed stop Mary Lizzie's wife is working behind the bar. She's sassy but hot. Hey Ben Mendelsohn. I'm so sorry about this guy. He goes to the mental institution I'm a nurse at and there was a story about the pig wet. Yeah, I know I got it now. I got it Yeah, let me tell you the tale of the melt man. Do you boy? I've heard it. I've heard it. What have you heard? But what does he do yeah, he doesn't come Tell me dear sir, have you experienced any sort of grief lately? My family died 400 years ago.

But you've got, are you ready to move on? Are you ready to, because it's actually more nuanced. It's not just grief, it's about finding new love after losing someone. And also can you believe that we have to, you know, that any man can make his own fortune in this in this world and you can buy you know you purchase things and this economy you know what they're doing over in Russia is you know interesting I suppose what is what is stopping such a loser I've've signed you up for karaoke. Oh, it's your turn Dear boy karaoke is one of the most wonderful things you can do and I'd love to hear you sing your favorite pop tune

Ben Mendelsohn approaches the karaoke desk. He's nervous. He hasn't sung ever since his wife died Here's the book of songs they, they're in alphabetical order according to song name not artist. It's a bit confusing. He picks his song. Search through them. So that means if you're looking for something by Taylor Swift don't look under T, look under S for shake it off He picks his song which is I Will decide that sorry, so I should just say this is something we're leaving to say a song say any song They don't have the national about grief and moving on we're not necessarily Oh. Oh no it's gotta be because that's what this is a metaphor for. Okay, life is a highway. Alright, he picks life is a highway and sings it really really good like

that girl in Booksmart. He's really really good at singing and he keeps looking at Mary Elizabeth Wine said, the sparks are flying, cut to interior night, now it's just Ben Mendelsohn, Mary Elizabeth Weinstein and the crazy British man. I sure hope you've locked your barn doors, my boy. Because I don't know if you heard the weather report, but there is a chance of rain, thunder. Please, please let me. Sorry, sorry. It's okay.

No, you go. No, it's fine. I'm sitting. It's okay. No, you go. No, it's fine. I'm sitting here by the fire enjoying my whiskey and rye. You're lucky I haven't taken you back to the mental institution. I don't go to the mental. I'm starting to think maybe Mary Elizabeth is the only crazy one. Maybe she puts people into the barn with the wet holes and oh, oh, that's the twist.

Don't give it away. Oh, okay. Hey, hey, hey, do you want to come back to my house? Do you want to come back to my house? Maybe we could, I could suck you. We could fuck. Mary Elizabeth. I could suck you.

We could fuck. Not real, just in the movie, like we have a fuck and a suck and it's really beautiful and hot To me let me tell you sorry you go No, you will speak sounds good to me interior interior house night Bear Middleson Mary Elizabeth was that makes sweet beautiful love. It's romantic more sensual than you were expecting Cut to later that night. That was amazing. You were so good at sex. Were you that good at sex with your wife who's dead?

Yes. Hey, stay the night with me. Cut to the barn. No, we will, we will. Just one sec. Stay the night with me. Okay. No, say no.

No. Why, why you gotta move on from your dead wife? Come on, I love you. Why won't you move on from your dead wife? Come on, I love you. Why won't you move on from your dead wife? I'm not ready. Ah, cut to the, cut to night, ex-serial, barn, night, a wet pig is getting all wet. Ha ha ha.

And here I am with a bucket of water, I say to no one in particular, but the night Misses the most sopping wet swine I've snuck into this random bar this random barn with a bucket of grease and a bucket of soapy water not to wash the pigs but to make them wet who are you he goes he goes to the barn door opens it up up. Who are you? Who are you? We don't see who's at the door, he just says who are you some more times. No I'm talking to another man who seems to have the same accent as me.

Oh who are you? Who are you? I'm a flash, a flash. We see it's the melt man, he's old and naked and he has black hair. The other dude screams and then the Meltman kills him. Okay, so Listen, listen. Well, it's a cliffhanger because that's the cliffhanger. What is revealed at the end is that that's Meltman.

The series. Part one. Part one. Unfortunately, part two has not been commissioned and won't be made. So we initially did... It's about grief. Intent. Yeah. And a little bit of capitalism. And some of... Moving on from grief. Yeah, there was some capitalism stuff from an earlier draft that we didn't quite cut out. But it was important to connect threads.

I love that weird dialogue style. Like it was like a David Mamet or an Aaron Sorkin. It was like, but in Sorkin they talk interject and no one ever, it's so, it feels unreal. Like it's heightened. This felt like what actually happens when you talk over it. So you got what we were going for with that? My one question, if that's alright. Ask it to the panel. Yeah, my one question to you bro, to anyone who was

listening to the script, we can talk later, please send your emails if you don't want to talk now. I did just have one question, there is a moment, there was a couple of moments where the big print accidentally talked to characters. Now obviously that's, big print means just like descriptions and stuff, will that make sense? Well, it's just a character I thought I thought it was a formatting issue because it just seemed like Especially Mary Elizabeth's character would just was saying things like interior barn And it was in the dialogue. It said like Mary Elizabeth interior dial. It was the dialogue and I think that was on me Final draft is a new program that I'm working with and I think I've struggled to do some

formatting it. There was one point where I did want the character to say like Exterior, uh, Barn and and and it became confusing because that creative choice I made got all muddled up in the you know what was I think a formatting issue. I loved it. I thought it was really good my one thing if like for time I would cut the The amount of crazy people It's yeah cuz for me it's twisted then we in the next movie will be that she's the crazy one. Oh, that's very clear Yeah, yeah, it's really clear. Yeah

and I believe she's cutting off the crazy people to the Yeah, and I believe she's carting off the crazy people to the to the to a wet pig hole Where it has like I don't need to know. You remember saw two where it's I don't give away the twist of sort I think it's okay. If you haven't seen saw two or shutter island. I'm gonna give away the twist of both of them Yeah, and so, you know saw two how it turns out the Becker lady was in on it now Yeah, you know how shutter only seen shutter island. Yeah how it turns out the Becker lady was in on it now. And you know how Shutter Island, you've seen Shutter Island? You know how it turns out he's crazy. So that's the double twist. So it turns out she's like Shutter Island and also she's in on it and she's the one that brought back Meltman. But do this in a script I guess is what I'd say.

That's for the second one though. That's for the second one but unfortunately it hasn't been commissioned. But just in this film too many mental people being taken away to a mental institution. In this film, too many mental people being taken away to a mental institution. Do you think this feels like a complete film? Or does it feel like we just got through Act 1 and then just did a 2B continue? No, and then here everyone died. I really liked it. I think what Broden is saying in that one of the major flaws is that every time a character gets slightly developed, it starts to do... Turns out the cr flaws is that every time a character gets slightly developed Yeah!

it starts to do... Turns out the crud is easy Yeah, like you know you start to learn about the character maybe their story's going somewhere In particular the guy from the start who owns the farm for him to just be suddenly and without reason be cut off to a mental institution But you understand the horror trope there? Uh, yes, yes I do, yes I do. And I think it's fine to happen once.

It does happen a lot. But for every time a new character is introduced, the film stops becoming about the myth of the melt man and we're just about to spoil it. But they're warning him! The reason he doesn't prepare for the melt man is because he thinks they're all mental. I just don't think it's dramatic or dynamic when a woman keeps guarding off every character to a mental institution before they've had a chance to say or do anything. Anyway, send your feedback in. Yeah, yeah, look, I get that, sorry.

Thank you for, and anyone listening, because we're going to put this out as a podcast. We are putting this out. And having said that, this is the shooting script and I am happy with it. Yeah, me too. I think it's beautiful. So send us feedback. Regardless of its flaws, you know, every masterpiece has its flaws. Every magnum opus has things that you would change.

So my criticisms of the script I think are what make it so beautiful. Thanks so much for coming to the reading. I've invested too much of my own money in this film. I'm worried. I've got to start thinking of it as money spent, not money that I'll get back. No, man. No. And we have to film by next week if we want to keep General Tager because she's got to go off and do season 2 on Wednesday. Alright, thanks guys.

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