Jamie nodded, looking at the floor for a moment. 'That's too common,' he said. 'I was a social worker for awhile, for child services. So I've Seen my share.'
Wade stills anything he might have been about to say about that with his hands and lowers them to his coffee. His childhood is among his bad memories after all. That silence probably makes that clear enough. Usually, he'll make his trauma it some off-color joke, but he can't quite bring himself to do it right now.
Jamie cleared his throat. "I work in movies now," he said, going to retrieve his own cup and then sit on the chair across from the couch. "Art department stuff for sci-fi and horror. Usually the director has some idea of what they want some monster to look like, art department are the guys who actually fill out the details and draw it, from concept up to the finished CGI."
Bit of a lighter topic of conversation, hopefully.
Jamie was just gonna assume he meant his life had been fictionalized, that there was a biopic about him. 'I bet that was fun to see,' he signed with a smile.
He's free to misunderstand, Wade's not going to correct him!
'It was! And it did really great at the box office for a Rated R movie! Both the first and the second! I'm a hot commodity! Except-' He gestures to himself, 'Not hot hot.'
'That's pretty impressive. Most of what I work on is R, but sometimes you have to take on a PG-13 for the sake of your paycheck.' PG-13, after all, was where the real money was, those were the projects that got the big bucks most of the time.
'I mean sure, we might have made bank going PG-13, but sometimes you have to stick to your fucking principles!' Wade notes, returning to his coffee. 'Or... make a recut and release on Christmas to impress Disney. That might have happened too. So, maybe I only have a little bit of principles...'
'Major studio horror,' he signed. 'One of the few you'll see in a given year. It was a Lovecraft adaptation with a bunch of weird plants, so I did creature design on those, alongside another guy. He was mostly doing the monster at the end, but we needed them to harmonize, you know? Details to make them seem like they came from the same place, make you wonder if the plants were just an extension of it in some way.'
Jamie talked about it with passion -- this had obviously not been a just-a-paycheck movie for him.
'Whole family dies,' he signed, unable to help smiling. 'Five people. They all die on their isolated farm and we pan out for the final shot, showing the alien plants spreading over the farm's boundary.'
'Nice!' It's probably weird to be this happy about a murdered family, right? Oh well. 'I love a horror movie where the bad guy wins. I wish more would do that.'
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Date: 2022-04-11 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-04-12 10:31 pm (UTC)Bit of a lighter topic of conversation, hopefully.
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Date: 2022-04-13 09:38 pm (UTC)You know a completely normal thing a person would say.
'Not sci-fi or horror--' Technically. But a lot of his life had been pretty horrific, 'Comic book movie. Lots of CGI! I got ripped in half!'
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Date: 2022-04-14 03:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-16 05:18 pm (UTC)'It was! And it did really great at the box office for a Rated R movie! Both the first and the second! I'm a hot commodity! Except-' He gestures to himself, 'Not hot hot.'
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Date: 2022-04-17 10:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-18 11:32 pm (UTC)'What was the last movie you worked on?'
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Date: 2022-04-20 12:44 am (UTC)Jamie talked about it with passion -- this had obviously not been a just-a-paycheck movie for him.
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Date: 2022-04-21 08:26 pm (UTC)'I love horror movies! What was the kill count?'
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