I ran into Alex, the director of Bolas Chinas, at a cafe today. Apparently, he’d just finished the first cut a few days ago, and it clocked in at 2 hours and 20 minutes, which is of course ridiculous for a script that’s less than 60 pages. But I kind of expected it, Alex is so in love with all the takes that it would be hard for him to cut anything, at least for the first cut. Now, he just needs to cut, well, an hour or so. He promised us that we could see the final cut in a week, but I doubt it’ll be that fast. Still, he insisted it looked great, and other people told me the same thing, so it’s going to be interesting.

As for my script, it’s almost done. It needs an action scene in the second half of the second act, and while I know who it should involve and what the outcome should be, I’m having some problems maneuvering the characters into the right situation without changing earlier scenes that should ideally be left alone for purposes of characterization. But I’m sure I’ll figure it out within a few days. After that, it’s just polish and dialogue work, and then translation. I have to say I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

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