Origin of the Cherokee Legend

Surfing around the internet today and looking for the origin of the mythos about the two wolves. First, there are many different titles - some say The One You Feed, some say The Wolf You Feed, some will say Cherokee Legend, and other will say Grandfather Tells.

Below is a post from another blogger regarding the origins of the Mythos, and reason why they do not like it to be attributed to the same Cherokee folklore.

"Stories and sayings attributed to Native Americans have been floating around probably since settlers stopped spending all of their time and energy on not dying. I am not entirely certain why stories that never originated in any indigenous nation are passed around as 'Native American Legends', but listener beware."

Continue reading at:

http://apihtawikosisan.com/2012/02/21/check-the-tag-on-that-indian-story/#comment-26157

More Inspiring Moments - The Writing Process

The writing continues and we are nearing the 70 page mark. Assuming that I stopped now, and that there were three complete acts in place, this would be considered and done deal as a complete feature film screenplay. 

However, I have not reached the end yet. That doesn't mean, that shooting script won't be down to 70 pages after revision and fine tuning. But I gather that my original draft will finish out somewhere between 100-120 pages. 

In the mean time, I have spoken and shared several other pieces of art, film, and music that are inspiring scenes, moments and even concepts on of The One You Feed screenplay. I recently wrote a scene that in which our main character John encounters a bad guy in an alley way. All the while as I was writing the scene I kept thinking of one of my favorite moments from Michael Mann film Collateral. 

Here is a picture of me at the location in Los Angeles. 

In the scene Tom Cruise, a hit man, confronts a thug about the theft of his brief case. In this film, the scene is very quick and rather brief to the over all story arc of the film. And in the brief moment it shows the audience the skills and power of Cruises character and gives reason for Jamie Foxx to now follow Cruise's lead more closely as they continue through the night. 

Now, I didn't carbon copy the scene from this film to my screenplay. It does inspire the scene that I wrote for The One You Feed, but the scenario and outcome of the scene are completely different. 

Here is that moment. Enjoy.

Have you been to the Facebook page recently? Check it out, share with friends, and be sure to hit the "like" button. 

http://www.facebook.com/theoneyoufeedmovie

The Writing Continues

Music to Listen To

Once more into the fray. 

Into the last good fight I'll eve know.

Live and die on this day.

Live and die on this day.

Poster Idea

Thinking about some poster ideas to help market the film. This is a cross between Carlito's Way and Taken.

Thoughts? I am open to suggestions.

Updates!

Updates! So, for anyone that stops by the site often, we have made a few changes to the site.

First would be the banner, which is the first in a series of different poster and marketing material that I have planned during the long road of making this film.



If you have any thoughts, comments, or suggestion - please, do not hesitate to leave a comment below.

Feedback is welcome.

Also, on the social media front we have added our Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr links to the page.


You will find them in the new "Pages" bar that was added under the header picture. Please, take a moment to click on these links for review, and of course subscribe and share with friends. We will try to post to everything often, but it can be hard to tackle all of these things at once.

Again, any suggestions that you have are welcome, and leave them in the comment box below. They will be read!

As for writing the screenplay - still in the works, but not moving fast enough. Not because I am not sure what to write (well, not entirely correct on that), but mainly a matter of time.

TIME - it seems like everyday something new gets in the way. My job, maintenance around the house, etc. It is a tasking job in the independent world. And let us be honest, and keeping it between just us here, I watch a lot of movies. I sometimes enjoy watching them more than I do making them.

In January alone I watched around 30 movies, or what I like to call homework. Some are films that I have seen. Others are films that have been on my mental movie que list for a long time. It's something that love doing and sometimes I just can't escape it; the need to watch a new film.

And I don't even have television on at my house to distract me. But the pages don't write themselves. So, I am working away and will share progress as I go.


Thanks for reading,

Ryan

Coffee for the Day

Coffee of the Day

While searching for this coffee of the day I came across this artist profile, Madeleine Matter.

She is also using The One You Feed myth to help inspire her artwork. I think that she captures the duality really well, and also the concept of the wolf inside us all.

Here is one of pieces that struck out most to me. For the rest of her work click here.

Coffee for the Day

Coffee for the Day

The Music I Listen To

In an earlier post I discussed the type of music that I listen to in order to get into the zone of writing. Quentin Tarantino has spoke in the past about combing through his album collection to find the music that will define the film that he is working on.

In the case of The One You Feed movie, I have had a clear and distinct style that I want to evoke and much of that comes from the soundtrack to Michael Mann's masterpiece film Heat. In fact the a lot of The One You Feed will come from my enjoyment of watching and listening to films by Michael Mann.

Over the last few days I penned two scenes that will introduce our main female character, Eady, throughout the rest of the film. I choose two pieces of the soundtrack for Heat to listen to repeated while typing those scenes.

Below is that piece of music. And yes, Eady is the name of Amy Brenneman's character in Heat.

Coffee for the Day

The Writing Station

In the Mood for Love . . . or Writing

You probably hear people say this all the time, hell you probably say it yourself all as well - "I have to be in the right mood." You hear this a lot especially from people when discussing going to the gym, or in a marriage or long term relationship the "mood" has to be just right for the parties to align. And it seems sometimes like you and your partner are never in the same mood at the same time.

Writing is very similar. It can hard to write something somber while listening to something upbeat, or write something upbeat while listening to something somber. And for me, I can never write scenes with dialogue while also listening to music with lyrics. As music can often change someones mood, I use it to get into the right mode, or mood, for writing certain scenes.

There are several songs and pieces of music that I have been using lately while writing The One You Feed, and I'll be posting them periodically. Here is one by Hanz Zimmer from the film Inception. I used it for my more somber moments.

Any other writers out there? What pieces of music do you use?

Coffee of the Day