LOUIS J. WILDER the 44 year old lives in ROOM 903 on FLOOR 9. It is said that they have been here at Ellswick Tower for TWO WEEKS. The FILM DIRECTOR is said to be INGENIOUS and OBSESSIVE which makes sense when you think about how they were a PROFESSIONAL ACQUAINTANCE to Devon Carrington, who was just found dead.
โ aut viam inveniam aut faciam.โย โ i will either find a way, or make one. film director. auteur. producer. writer. a 44 year old regurgitation from brooklynโs right ballsack ( no seriously. look at a map ). if lost, return to agent & manager. numbers in cigarette case. he never fuckinโ loses his cigarette case.
HISTORY
louis was raised the youngest of three to two teachers in the bowels of brooklyn: manhattan beach. their apartment was cramped and louis was the runt whose indiscretions usually went unnoticed. with the eldest sister twelve years older and the next one six, louis was perceived easy, the happy accident. with parents as educators with an interest in theater and broadway, the exposure to books, plays and stories was plenty; it was a way to travel beyond the very small world he was allowed to dwell in for as long as the streets further north were too dangerous. the seed for an interest in the arts was planted here, curating how words can be moulded into reality.ย
ย ย ย ย ย ย when louis was 12, his father received word that his first-born, who had married and moved to europe 3 years prior and given birth, had passed away in italy, mere months post-partum.ย his mother lost control of her facilities the moment sheโd heard the news. an aneurysm his father told her, it was sudden, no one could have seen it coming. it was only months later, from his brother in law that louis realised how lies could exemplify love, and shoulder burden; prevent tragedy from going any further. his father had lied to his grieving wife about the aneurysm, too fragile and physically unstable to cope with the reality that louisโs sister, with whom louis had had a fond relationship, had shot herself.ย ย
ย ย ย ย ย the secret was a vital one to keep. they did not discuss it, not with each other, not with friends. keep your mouth shut, do what you gotta do. grief needed to be contained. questions needed to be locked away. he needed to be a sponge. mop up, wring out, move forward. here he found himself finding ways and means to exorcise a life turned inward. poetry started to make more sense, he could draw connections across texts, paint pictures, his perspective started to grow. he passed the time as a production assistant on and off broadway as a teenager with a polaroid camera, capturing unique imprints in time, telling stories in sequences.
ย ย ย ย ย years later, profiles will describe louis as if remaining hidden is part of his personality, they will write about the way he is able to stare at someone without reproach and still appear to be intangibly and impalpably warning them off from looking too long. they will marvel in the way he is able to disappear for months on end, with the discipline of an ascetic, eventually appearing from a self-made cocoon with a glint in his eye and a dogged obsession to master something no one can yet fathom. like there is something within clawing its way out, but it cannot be described, it cannot be shown, it can only be felt, and that is what his films do. through his films louis wilder is a director that dictates what you see, how you think and what you will feel as a result. people cannot figure him out or what his schtick is. perhaps keeping a large part of oneโs inner self locked away out of necessity has something to do with it, we may never know.
ย ย ย ย university saw louis pursuingย photography, literature, political science, dabbling in small projects when time would permit, although he dropped out in his final yearย to pursue an opportunity to travel the world filming documentaries. he will remember this time in his life as a miraculous lifeline; fleeing the trappings of a mundane structure; fleeing the people and memories that sought to prise him from himself, from having to exert a sense of constant vigilance at every waking moment. it is freeing to go where no one can know you, when you can finally know yourself, speak the truth to people who donโt understand the language.ย
ย ย ย ย it was here that his true education began. documentaries were a hard-sell for the masses to begin with, the perspective and distinguished methods he absorbed in his time travelling, the people he met, the way cultures lived, thought and felt, the ways animals resembled humans and humans resembled animals, and how beautiful and equally grotesque and violent nature could be. he learned the universal constructs and urges: hunger, lust, filial bonds, grief, fear; the constant existence of fear invoking a sort of courage and peace that heโd never seen before. the notches in his belt multiplied and by the time he returned home, he rejoined academia, completed film studies and an accelerated masters at nyuโs tisch school of arts by way of his existing body of work with documentary films and footage in his repertoire.ย he was 28 when a script he had been meant to proofread passed onto his lap, 29 when he realised with this fervent urgency that heโd been fixating on that story for months after he had returned it: no one understood it better than him. no one would know the best way to do it better than him. after some pursuit of the script heavy begging and fundraising he directs his first full feature film that almost got scrapped in production hell overย editing disputes and louisโs refusal to yield standards; it finally releases when he is 31. the film gained traction slowlyย but eventually his name started to spread by word of mouth. louis remained obvious to peopleโs curiosity, even until the completion of his second project by age 33. the budget was easier to negotiate, the premiere was thrice as big as the last, he walked the carpet, straight past reporters as if he was passing down the aisles at a department store on the way to the cafรฉ, not noticing necks craning to glimpse him in the gaps between the actorsโ bodies.ย
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย his motherโs death after heโd turned 35, unencumbered him . his art became less restrained, the secret he and his family had kept and never discussed for 13 years no longer needed to be one. he became able to go deeper in his films, dredging up honest and raw performances from his actors and actresses because finally he was able to articulate better, how to be something you have yet to feel. his next film is a smash hit. he is in the big leagues and has been producing and directing masterpieces that become staples at awards circuits.
INSP:ย spike jonze, werner herzog, charlotte rampling, paul hewson, darren aronofsky, baz luhrmann, daniel day lewis, martin scorsese
PERSONALITY, TRAITS, HABITS, HEADCANONS
he can be obsessive, but this seems to come with the territory. is also nihilistic. a very futile and frustrating combination.
has a very poetic visceral way of describing his thoughts and feelings, and will deliver all of it with a heavy seriousness that will make you forget that he is in fact, being extremely dramatic about very normal things.
he reads widely, everything he can get his hands on. he has to. it is the food that feeds the art.ย
his brooklyn accent is strong, it is unmistakeable, and he has not learned to match his personality with L.A people and L.A vibes, whatever that means.
hates doing press. will do and say anything to get out of doing press. when he does do press it is because the studio heads got desperate and threatened to pull funding for the movie or threatened to make sure all his ideal cast for and ideal crew members would have the schedules filled for the next five years. he DOES love being part of a dialogue with students, future creators in an auditorium. heโll make authority get out and tell the young ones to just go out there and break the rules and quit school. this doesnโt go down well either.
he has robert pattinson syndrome, he says a lot of extremely random crazy things that heโll forget he said and hear rumours about himself that he himself started in a fit of discomfort during some unfortunate conversation somewhere with someone he did not want to be sharing information with.
naturally he hates studio execs, although he will agree they are a necessary evil. hates television interviewers even more. morning shows are his personal hell. tv presenters hate him, but profilers and critics, those erudite journos for reputable magazines find him fascinating, occasionally endearing even, and are acutely aware that whatever version of louis j. wilder they receive during their chats or periods of time together could either be insane impulse, or carefully constructed illusions.
if your attitude gets in the way of his work, and he cannot see a fix that does not require pandering to someone, he will lose his temper.
the divas that end up pushing him over the edge are shockingly, the men. needless to say, his publicists are always ready for an on-set catastrophe if they know so-and-so of certain breed wants to do his movie.
i am 80% certain that his nonstop smoking will drive him to an early grave, but weโll see.
โi have to feed my catโ is an excuse he uses often, to leave people and places he can no longer be bothered to tolerate. no one has ever met this cat. this cat does not exist. but you cannot prove it. he does not simply invite people to his place. how and where louis wilder lives is stuff of myth and legend. the lavish parties he throws are extremely exclusive. the requirement is simple: if you can have a good time and add to the atmosphere and he likes you and you can keep your trap shut, youโre in.ย
list of past scandal headlines coming to a blog near you.
if you made it all the way down here comment with your preferred popsicle flavour and i will ! irritate you with ideas and plots xo.ย
WANTED CONNECTIONS
this section is a work in progress, but i'd love to have members of his team, publicist, attorney, manager, etc because he is a pain and 100% needs babysitting and constant monitoring, or else he'll move to the mountains and impersonate the yeti
past flings maybe if we sense chemistry abuildin'
STATS
name: louis jerome wilder / nicknames: ย lou, louieย [ no you may not use these without express permission ]ย / birthdate: 5th Jul 1978 height: 185cm / 6โฒ1โณ / eyes: hazel / hair: a mess ( kidding, dark, almost black sometimes streaked with greyย ) / piercings: ears / tattoos: one on the side of lower abdomen, inside of arm, back of ear. / build: thin, pale & lean, but a little slouchy / gender/pronouns: cismale, he/him / sexuality: heterosexual / birthplace: manhattan beach, brooklyn, new york city / current residence(s): ย san verano california, los angeles, new york city, castle in scotland, berlin /occupation: filmmaker / languages: english, garbage italian / alignment: chaotic neutral / mbti: ISTP ( the โiโ part depends ) / coffee/tea: coffee / flower: mimosa flowers. because they donโt get picked they get trampled / m&m/skittles: skittles /poison of choice: cognac / cocktail: dry martini with citrus
