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| Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, the culminating projectof our AP English class, follows a boy named Nick as he tries to figure out how to deal with life. Following the death of his girlfriend, Sarah, Nick is thrown into a deep depression. Then, he reads three books that shed some light on his life, and challenge the way he thinks. Months after Sarah's death, Nick finds himself receving attention from a strange girl named Erica. Will Nick learn his lesson, or he will he remain too scared to live? |
The Great Gatsbyand part on a serendipitous whim, Nick is the central character of
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Nick is basically an average kid. He goes to school, he has friends and a girlfriend. He doesn't like writing history essays. Nick doesn't have the wisdom or maturity that he needs to deal with life, though, and that becomes obvious when he is struck with the tragedy of his girlfriend's death. Nick looks to odd places for comfort and advice: the books he has to read for his english class. He thinks that since these books are considered so great, there must be something great in them that he can learn from. I think he sees himself in those stories and puts himself in the perspective of those characters, and as he reads the books, Nick sort of learns what the characters learn about life. He likes to look at life in that way, almost at a distance; remotely.
I enjoyed playing Nick not so much for the character but for the movie. Ironically, the real philosophy of the movie isn't even spoken by the main character, but by his girlfriend in a flashback... Still, that was one of the reasons I really enjoyed this movie, was because of that end bit. Matt thinks it's too long, but I really got a lot of satisfaction from being in that scene, standing there listening to Colleen read something that I really believe in--that we all have choices in life and how we choose has more of an effect on our futures than anything else. That was what this was really all about, and having my character being the one to be affected by that was really great.
I think if I really had to pick a scene that I thought was the most fun to shoot, it would probably have to be either the scene where I attacked Dave (Josh) or the one where I fought with Matt (Boris). Both of those were just really fun to do. I guess I liked the fight scene a little bit better. It was just really cool and it got my blood pumping, fliming that scene. I felt really in the moment when I was struggling to get away from Rosario (Steve) especially.
I think my favorite thing that I got to say in YTT would probably have to be the line where I'm sitting down on this couch next to Rosario and I was looking at it while I walked over--well, it was kind of a weird looking couch. It had thise big blue and purple and green streaks all over it like feathers and it just reminded me of a peacock, so when I sat down I went, "Who ran over a peacock?" and everybody just cracked up. It was one of those really funny, unplanned moments. We had to shoot it three times actually, since we kept laughing after that initial take.
My character in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow was Steve. I couldn't really get into his head, I mean I was given the script and glanced at it a few times. Plus, I wasn't told how Terry wanted Steve to really act; whether I was suppose to care, or be more of the "get over it you cry-baby" type. I chose the latter, simply because that's more like the way I tend to act. That's not to say that's how I am though once you get to know me.
The "Jesus..., Yes?" was OBVIOUSLY the best scene in the entire movie. Hands down. No questions asked, you just HAVE to agree with me there. That scene was 100% natural, I've done that to people before, and Terry didn't know until I saw that was in the script and told him. Everybody in AP cracked up with those two lines, much more than anything else. That was my favorite line too, but we had to do it over and over, and it was so hot outside. But hey, that's Syracuse right? It's either -100 or 100. Hopefully there will be a sequel to this, I had an enormous amount of fun with this project, especially once it got rolling.
My favorite scene is when I ran Colleen (Sarah) over. Enough said. My favorite line was "YOU ARE COMMUNIST!!" cause it was funny.I enjoyed playing the part of a russian immigrant. It was fun because I got to use an awesome accent. You have no idea how much fun that is. I can't act for shit, but I can do accents very well.