Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Vertex Fighter/ Facebook Follies/ Castle

Jan. 17 The Vertex Fighter:

Joe Thornton: He's a producer. I emailed him on LinkedIn, but he didn't get back to me. I just posted a comment on his blog to get him to contact me. Here's his blog:

http://www.joethornton.net/

Actors: Here are some more actors I can see in The Vertex Fighter.

Niall Matter is from Edmonton. You may have seen him on the show The Best Years. I've seen him on Fear, Itself, Warehouse 13, and Melrose Place. I just checked him on imdb.com and he's now on 90210. Good for him. I can see him as a fighter.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2473076/

Allan Hawco is the star on the TV show Republic of Doyle. It's on CBC and they're in their 3rd season. It's a good show. I'm Facebook friends with him. lol. I can see him as fighter.

Script pitch: Today I emailed the new Writer in Residence at the public library, if she wants to read my Rain script and give me feedback.

I emailed another producer again about my Rain script.

Facebook Follies: I saw this on Doc Zone on Oct. 27,2011. It's a documentary about how Facebook affects all these people's lives in very different ways from positive to negative. Here they are:

Party: In Hamburg, Germany, a 16 yr old girl threw a party and thousands of people showed up because she didn't put up private settings. She had sent to her grandparents. Police went to end the party.

Politics: Ray Lam was a political candidate. On Facebook he had photos of him in high school where he has hand on a female friend's breast, and him in his underwear.

Clive Thompson: They talked to Clive Thompson is a blogger. Here's some more info about him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Thompson_%28journalist%29

Job: Riley Cameron dissed Kate Middleton on Facebook, and then he can't work on the Royal Wedding.

Money: Paul Chambers said on Twitter that he will blow the Robin Hood airport up. He said it as a joke, but it closed down. Chambers had to go on trial and paid $1500.

Twitter: It mentioned Anthony Weiner, the politician who took photos of his privates and sent it out. He then stepped down. A cop got his car washed in a fundraiser with young women in bikinis. The cop got fired because it made the police look unprofessional.

Graham Cluley: They talked to Graham Cluley who is a computer security specialist. Here's a link:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/author/gcluley/

Crime: A story about Brad Rutberg's Facebook email was hacked into and it said: "I'm held at gunpoint, I need money." A friend who saw it then gave $1200 to Western Union, and the Hacker got the money.

Stupid criminals: Graham Cluley talked about stupid criminals. There were pictures of robbers at the house, and holding up stuff from the house, and putting the pictures up on Facebook. So there was evidence and were able to arrest them quickly. The son Aaron and his dad Marc Fisher's house was broken into. The Robber stole Aaron's laptop. Robber took a picture of himself in the house. Aaron's friend calls Aaron: "What's the picture on your Facebook wall?"

Police were able to arrest Rodney King through Facebook.

Love story: They profiled Kelly Hildebridt (woman) who found a guy on Facebook with the same name as hers. They became friends and fell in love. Conan O'Brien made a joke about it on his show.

Conan: Now 1 million people have changed their names to Megan Fox.

Infidelity: They talked to Ken Savage. His ex-wife got on Facebook and hooked up with ex-boyfriends. Savage created a "Facebook cheating" website. 1 in 5 divorces are from Facebook. Ironically, Savage did meet his next girlfriend through Facebook. He also makes money off his "Facebook cheating" website.

Family: Jim Toth found his half-nephew, then his half-brother. He then met his other family members.

Death: Wilma Jones is a black woman who passed away. Friends and family keep posting on her Facebook wall. It's like they're communicating.

Graham Cluley says: "Anything you don't want out in public, don't put it on the internet."

Jan. 19 Castle: I saw this episode of Castle a few months ago. It's called "Kick the Ballistics." I would have to say this is my favorite episode. This show is good, but I was particularly impressed and really liked this episode. It was written by Dark Angel writer and producer Moira Kirkland. Even if a Dark Angel writer didn't write this, I still really liked it.

The episode starts off with finding a dead body in the cement as it was turned. (Kind of done on CSI: NY, but the cement was already formed. The body was found when the cement was drilled.) Back to Castle. The Woman Jane who died, she was shot by Det. Ryan's old gun. It was the gun from last season's ep, the 3XK killer was Tyson. Tyson ran away, and he killed a woman with Ryan's gun.

Castle and Det. Beckett work and finds a lead to a drug dealer, who is really an undercover cop. The UC has Ryan's gun. UC says the woman Jane was his intel. Jane tutors this Chinese Mob boss's son Ben Lee.

During interrogation, Ryan pushes UC in the interrogation room. There's tension and drama. They did that before with Beckett pushing a bad guy in the interrogation room. I'm pretty sure Det. Stabler did that on Law and Order: SVU.

Cut to Chinatown, and the Chinese restaurant was well shot in red. They also had a well shot scene in the bar, and the chase scene. Mob Boss Clifford Lee says he and his 4 sons were watching TV when Jane died. The household staff confirmed it. No surprise, because the staff are getting paid.

The detectives then found a locker with gun, tickets, and money. (Kind of seen that in the TV show Ringer.) It wasn't Ryan's gun, but a similar one.

Castle does his investigating, and Mob Boss Clifford's son Phillip did go to jail, but used his Chinese name. The theory is that Jane and Clifford's other son Ben are in love, and will run out of town to escape from family.

Jane's ex-boyfriend moved money for Clifford. Ex-boyfriend got mad that Jane fell in love with Ben. Phillip then got Jane killed with Ex-boyfriend told Phillip. A Woman Lawyer defends Phillip. (It kind of reminds me of The Simpsons ep "Behind the Laughter." There was a Woman Lawyer at the family dinner table.)

Cut to Ben studying in the library, but Ben's black Bodyguard is there. Det. Espisito then starts annoying Ben, and the Bodyguard has to remove Espisito. Kind of funny. Ryan then approaches Ben.

Ryan: Jane died fighting your battle. We're not talking about family, but your life. You went to college, and learned there's more to life than being a drug dealer.

After the pep talk, Ben goes to police station. Cut to later Ben is at the restaurant studying, and Phillip enters. Ben's wearing a wire.

Ben: If they never found the body, I would never know where she is. I will think she's alive somewhere. Were you ever going to tell me the truth?
Phillip points gun at Ben.
Phillip: Are you wearing a wire?

Cut to cops listening and the SWAT team bursts in. Phillip drops his gun. Ben pulls out gun and points it at Phillip. Cops shoot Ben. Ryan runs over and tries to save him by starting CPR on him. There was good music, and lots of tension.

Phillip is arrested and will go to jail for life. It turns out Ben is alive, and they faked his death in front of Phillip. Ben will go to Witness Protection.

I really liked it because it kind of reminded me of my own script. The question of being loyal to your family or yourself.

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