Fight the Rooster by Nick Cole

Author:Nick Cole [Cole, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nick Cole
Published: 2016-07-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

But It Was Not Okay

The mood has changed.

The production is set up and working in an office park in Reseda. It’s the setting of Kurt’s character’s job, from which he is about to be fired. The morning started off foggy and cold, but now the sun begins to heat up the valley floor, promising to put temperatures into the mid-eighties, even though it’s winter in Southern California. At points, crewmembers come and apologize to the Great Director. Each secretly and with much sincerity. The reasons are myriad. Some claim family, others reasons too obscure to understand. This could hang a permanent miasma over the careers of those associated with it. The Great Director feels, suddenly, the need to be kind. To let those who wish to continue working, work. He has known many of them for most of his career. The least he can do is give them a chance to get off the production before it implodes.

The Great Goreitsky approaches. As usual, his hands are in his pockets. He wears his humility like any other piece of clothing. Not for statement, but for protection. He is eager to please.

“The parking shot. How is to be done?”

A defeated and beaten Kurt shows up for his job at a faceless corporation. It is a small scene. It merely sets the mood and speaks volumes about the life Kurt’s character is leaving behind.

Normally the Great Director tells Goreitsky to do it however he wants. Then Goreitsky does it with lots of angles and places for jump cuts. In the two weeks he has been shooting in this style, he has mastered and even improved upon the technique. Now the Great Director gives him license to do it again, and Goreitsky, his instructions reflecting what he thinks are the Great Director’s wishes, has already set the camera crew in motion.

Goreitsky stays for a moment.

They watch the men and women work. Neither of them are small talkers. In the past, with other people, they have felt compelled to be. But with each other, in the short time they have spent together, they have enjoyed their shared silences.

After a moment Goreitsky ventures, “Next week many of my people are not wanting to be coming. I do not have knowledge anymore of people whose jobs are same.”

The Great Director processes the grammar.

“Don’t worry. Someone always wants to work.”

Another silent moment passes.

“About next week,” begins the Great Director. “We’re moving into the second act, and I want you to think about something stylistically.”

Until this point Goreitsky has really let him down. The Great Director had hoped for more time-consuming long shots and slow arduous pans. Giant cinema. Completely outdated and guaranteed to sink the production commercially with words like “self-indulgent” and “artistic.” Instead Goreitsky has delivered what the studio has chosen to call brilliant camerawork in a series of memos congratulating the production. He’s been woefully lacking in providing poor product. He hasn’t even thrown one artistic tantrum. The Great Director expected much worse from him and has been sadly disappointed.

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