Posted By: Todd McClintock
The warm critical reception to this summer blockbuster was no secret, but check out some highly confidential (and unlawfully intrusive) behind-the-scenes material to see if it is really your cup of red vines. Didn't they eat red vines in this movie? Maybe it was turkey loaf.
(Warning: possible spoilers)
ITEM #1: POST-IT NOTES
From the desk of J.J. Abrams - Writer / Director
"Call Gene about the XF 100s"
"Bread, Milk, eggs, veggies, cereal, detergent, thank you notes"
"Get prop department to make 2nd mock-up of super 8 alien monster secret thing. Note: Make it scarier."
"April 6-10th: Mark and Aaron gone"
"Tell prop dept. good mock-up, but not scary enough. Make a scarier 3rd mock-up."
"Tell props: for 6th mock-up> Scarier! Make it scarier!"
"Tell props: pitiful attempt, what is this? Sesame Street? Try it again."
"Fire entire prop department: tell Brian to get Cloverfield monster model out from J.J. storage and change the face a little."
"Tell Brian: no budget for a monster the size of the Cloverfield monster, scale it down from the size of a city block to the size of, I dunno, like a small tree or something."
"Tell Brain: good enoughsies. Smaller is scarier. Just look at spiders or ventriloquist puppets."
"You're a genius!"
ITEM #2: CREW MEMBER PROFILE
David Brockett - Sound effects supervisor / Foley Artist
- Born 1976 in Bowling Green, Kentucky
- Graduated from USC Film School in 1998
- Cousins with Gilbert Gottfried
- 90% deaf in one ear
- Only has one ear
- Fell in love with a large carnival ride as a child
- The carnival ride, a twist-em-up variety called "The Grecian Revenge-O-Wheel," then fell in love with another man, and Brockett went into a blind rage, taking a skilsaw to her legs
- His familiarity with the sound of metal scraping violently against metal makes him the gold standard in Hollywood for his ability to create sound effects for any scenes with train-wrecks, metal bridge collapsings, semi-trucks running into metal art installations, and steel girders having crazy freaky sex
- Currently unemployed after accidentally maiming a boom operator on the set of Transformers 3 with a piece of sheet metal that he was romantically involved with
ITEM #3: E-MAIL INBOX
From the computer of Elle Fanning <bieberfreak3554@hotmail.com>
March 6, 2011
From: "Dakota Fanning" <bieberfan2011@hotmail.com>
Hey Sis!
Mom says you're doing some movie with the guy from The Truman Show that wasn't Jim Carrey and a bunch of other people. Sounds exciting! I'm sure it'll be great! They can't all be winners, right?! Anyways, I gotta run. I'm going to Disneyland with Denzel Washington and Robert De Niro. Welcome to Hollywood! You'll get there someday. Just give it time. Acting is an artform. Maybe pick up some Stanislavski? Whatever works!
Love, Dakota
May 20th, 2011
From: "The Estate of Justin Bieber" <bieber@money.com>
Hello bieberfreak3554,
Justin Bieber thanks you for your undying support! Please cease and desist the use of this e-mail address as it is in breach of section 31C of the Celebrity Privacy Act of 2009. Thank you! Go Biebs!
~The Justin Bieber Legal Team
June 14th, 2011
From: "Dakota Fanning" <biebersucks1773@hotmail.com>
Hi Sis,
Mom and I just went to see your movie. So good! Now she's sending me back to acting camp! hahahaa. But really, I leave in 3 days. See you at Christmas. I'll tell Mrs. Cheever at acting camp that you say hi! Haahaha. They don't feed me there!
Love, Dakota
June 16th
From "J.J. Abrams" <biebergeek3112@hotmail.com>
Hey Elle,
J.J. here, did you get an e-mail from the Bieber people too? What a tool. I'm gonna give him a licking next time I see him! Literally!
Love, J.J.
P.S. Thanks for not telling anyone about the Cloverfield monster. We saved a fortune!
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