Andrew Mengel

writer, stray, writing assistant at MTV's @Ridiculousness

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Posters for my first short film

WEIGHTLESS

Release: Fall 2024

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Now can someone tell Nolan "daddy" wasn't in the 8th century vernacular

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Robert Eggers confirms that the dialogue in ‘WERWULF’ is all 1300s Middle English.

“We worked with 2 Oxford professors on the dialogue, which is in Middle English, & then worked with a dialect coach on a way to temper the pronunciation”

(Source: https://t.co/MATt6uyU0l)

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He placed his beard atop the covers but couldn’t sleep. He placed his beard under the covers and still could not sleep.

In the end he became too aware of the issue and never again slept.

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There once lived a man with a very long beard. Someone, a stranger, asked him if he slept with the beard atop the bed covers or beneath them. The man had never considered the matter, so that night he tried to pay attention...

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@moebiusduck Brilliant 😂

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The sun beams on his bare feet, the cool grass underneath.

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A.I. is like a typewriter: it never bleeds, reminisces or feels back pain. It never risks anything.

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"‘Phatic” speech in the work, concerns itself less with conveying information, intention or need than with establishing and maintaining contact — brown-noise in the dark.... All color, rhythm and gesture."

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A [writer] classifies as “partially sighted,” but the visual world exists for [them], especially in the close print of cigarette-ends in a dirty ashtray, segs on potato-peeling fingers, the grain of wood, the bubbles in tonic water, a painter’s brushwork." Yes

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"The weak-sighted cherish what little they can see; the near-sighted turn themselves into microscopes...

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You can bet on regime change. $100 the US strikes Tehran on Tuesday's at +1400 on Polymarket. Someone laid 40K yesterday.

Hump, but don't touch your american dream

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@NegrodomussS Thanks homie, I appreciate you! Happy thanksgiving, man. Keep it peachy

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screenwriting sentence(s):

The RINGING dins, deafening the rev of the engine.

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@NoContextBrits Idris Elba

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“A man who gives into temptation after 5 minutes, simply does not know what it would’ve been like an hour later.”

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I dig Joyce. He says some wild things. But I can't help but get caught up on the childhood voice:

"paltry stratagem", "rheumatic",  "impinge...incessant needles..." 

Granted these kids are also learning Latin, so maybe it just speaks to the downfall of contemporary Education

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"Gazing up into the darkness, I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

nice.

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Who goes to the library anymore? Us. And this week so far: nineteen miles, ten bitten fingernails, and 1200 words—flat and embarrassing—their days numbered.

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We scribble, write, exchange. Edit, criticize, demand more. We write and rewrite, exchange and dream and fear the secrets of craft won't be whispered to us.

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We dream of cold fires, dead kids, dishonest narrators, Montana. We read Pancake and London and Palahniuk and Saunders and Ford and work out how far our last names will be from theirs on a library's bookshelf.

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@DannyBrophy @AmericanGwyn Fight club's a fair example, but the ending in the book is way more satisfying than the final sequence in the movie. Without the Pixies, the ending of the film almost sucks in comparison