Mark Leidner

Story

16 Comments

1. December 11th, 2009 / 10:42 pm reynard—

   that’s really good music, mark. did you write the music?

2. December 11th, 2009 / 6:42 pm reynard—

   that’s really good music, mark. did you write the music?

3. December 11th, 2009 / 11:51 pm Mark Leidner—

   naw my main man david arnold did, the greatest composer of our time next to philip glass

   but seriously, yeah, the story is only the wake to the unstoppable speedboat that is the casino royale soundtrack

4. December 11th, 2009 / 7:51 pm Mark Leidner—

   naw my main man david arnold did, the greatest composer of our time next to philip glass

   but seriously, yeah, the story is only the wake to the unstoppable speedboat that is the casino royale soundtrack

5. December 12th, 2009 / 5:12 am elizabeth ellen—

   haha. i kept waiting for the woman to say something…i wondered what sort of accent she might have. now we will never know! damn you, mark leidner.

6. December 12th, 2009 / 1:12 am elizabeth ellen—

   haha. i kept waiting for the woman to say something…i wondered what sort of accent she might have. now we will never know! damn you, mark leidner.

7. December 12th, 2009 / 3:49 pm Mark Leidner—

   it’s really hard to write dialog for an audience.. but i know what you mean. i bet she has a beautiful accent like milla jojovich

8. December 12th, 2009 / 11:49 am Mark Leidner—

   it’s really hard to write dialog for an audience.. but i know what you mean. i bet she has a beautiful accent like milla jojovich

9. December 14th, 2009 / 5:37 pm alan rossi—

   if i ever teach a creative writing class again, i’m going to use this. it’s a really good critique. so many beginning writers believe that man-loves-woman-but-woman-loves-somebody-else is the only story. and, i mean, by beginning writers, i probably just mean myself when i was a freshman. or, i don’t know, last year.

   oh, i really like the line ‘things were dark and political.’ and yeah, the music did give me flashbacks of playing goldeneye endlessly years ago. whole lifetimes lost to that game.

10. December 14th, 2009 / 9:37 pm alan rossi—

    if i ever teach a creative writing class again, i’m going to use this. it’s a really good critique. so many beginning writers believe that man-loves-woman-but-woman-loves-somebody-else is the only story. and, i mean, by beginning writers, i probably just mean myself when i was a freshman. or, i don’t know, last year.

    oh, i really like the line ‘things were dark and political.’ and yeah, the music did give me flashbacks of playing goldeneye endlessly years ago. whole lifetimes lost to that game.

11. December 15th, 2009 / 3:32 am leidner—

    hey thanks alan

    yes it’s funny how uncomfortably close good writers’ ideas are to bad writers’ ideas

    i like that line you pointed out too because it’s this new theory of narrative i’ve been thinking about “tell don’t show”

    or like, show a lot, but have it have nothing to do with the narrative

    like a movie whose imagery is clear and specific, and even dull, but that is completely decoupled from the told narrative running through it

    so it’s like 2 narratives, both bad, being braided

    my favorite way to play goldeneye is 4×4 unlimited proximity mines in the basement: 10 mins of pure, unstoppable, slow-motion, fire chaos

12. December 14th, 2009 / 11:32 pm leidner—

    hey thanks alan

    yes it’s funny how uncomfortably close good writers’ ideas are to bad writers’ ideas

    i like that line you pointed out too because it’s this new theory of narrative i’ve been thinking about “tell don’t show”

    or like, show a lot, but have it have nothing to do with the narrative

    like a movie whose imagery is clear and specific, and even dull, but that is completely decoupled from the told narrative running through it

    so it’s like 2 narratives, both bad, being braided

    my favorite way to play goldeneye is 4×4 unlimited proximity mines in the basement: 10 mins of pure, unstoppable, slow-motion, fire chaos

13. December 15th, 2009 / 3:35 am Ken Baumann—

    i’m a golden gun man, or grenade launcher

14. December 14th, 2009 / 11:35 pm Ken Baumann—

    i’m a golden gun man, or grenade launcher

15. December 15th, 2009 / 3:38 pm alan rossi—

    i think i somehow maybe fall into dorkland when it comes to goldeneye: pistols in the stack, because of the magnum. the magnum was a terrific way to display my goldeneye mastery of aim while at the same time highlighting my ability to track where players get reborn (what’s the actual term here, is there one?) and kill them pretty much immediately. ima dick.

    i like the new theory of narrative you’re working on. i also like ‘things were dark and political’ because while that gives me a vague sense of what things were like, really i have no idea, but the idea of the cliche of tone or atmosphere sort of being exposed is so fun (you know, i can think of several movies that seem ‘dark’ and ‘political’ – michael clayton is coming to mind weirdly). i think i would be really blown away by a movie whose central narrative is somehow completely different from secondary narrative or imagery. and what i mean by that is, i really want to steal this idea. i won’t.

16. December 15th, 2009 / 11:38 am alan rossi—

    i think i somehow maybe fall into dorkland when it comes to goldeneye: pistols in the stack, because of the magnum. the magnum was a terrific way to display my goldeneye mastery of aim while at the same time highlighting my ability to track where players get reborn (what’s the actual term here, is there one?) and kill them pretty much immediately. ima dick.

    i like the new theory of narrative you’re working on. i also like ‘things were dark and political’ because while that gives me a vague sense of what things were like, really i have no idea, but the idea of the cliche of tone or atmosphere sort of being exposed is so fun (you know, i can think of several movies that seem ‘dark’ and ‘political’ – michael clayton is coming to mind weirdly). i think i would be really blown away by a movie whose central narrative is somehow completely different from secondary narrative or imagery. and what i mean by that is, i really want to steal this idea. i won’t.