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Re: Alien

Eddie: Do you have a link for the Walter Merchant book you were talking about? The one with the list of importance in editing. 125 pages or so.

I poked around and couldn't find anything.

ZangrethorDigital.ca

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DIng Ding, Shifty is a winner.  I just loaned my copy to my assistant, because no assistant of mine is NOT going to have read it.  THe list he refers to is The Rule of 6.   He goes into more detailin the book, but 10 years of editing for a living and I still find myself going back to that list daily.

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It's a quick read as well, not at all a hefty tome.

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HAH! Excellent find.

Disclaimer: if you dislike the tone of a post I make, re-read it in a North/East London accent until it sounds sufficiently playful smile

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I don't know how he went this long without knowing anything at all about ALIEN or its iconic scenes but I'm glad he did. His reaction to the chestburster is exactly what you'd want it to be.

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That's actually pretty cool. He did Terminator 1 and 2 back to back, and had no idea in T-2 that arnold was the good guy until the reveal happened, and then he gets super excited.

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Once I saw how little he knew about 'Star Wars', I immediately read his 'T:2' to see if he didn't know who the good guy was. I was pleased that someone has finally seen it the way Cameron clearly made it to be experienced, and that it worked so well.

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not long to go now...

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