#peter russell

[sethnorth]

Peter Russell

[nerds-yearbook]

The time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 1) and his companions arrived in England in 1066 and were surprised to find a modern wristwatch and a gramophone. The Doctor learned that these anachronistic devices belonged to another time traveling alien calling himself the Monk. The Monk planned to use an atomic bazooka to change the events of the battle of Hastings. The Doctor not only stopped the meddling Monk but broke the Monk’s time machine, leaving the Monk stranded in 1066. ("The Time Meddler", Doctor Who, vlm 1 TV)

[ghw-archive]

London Spring Collections British fashion model Barbara Goalen wearing a suit by Peter Russell, British Vogue, March 1949 / Photographer: Norman Parkinson

[cithaerons]

toni morrison, sula // stephanie peters, fire // seneca, medea (trans. a.j. boyle) // david mcconochie, medea // peter russell, night the first // stephanie peters, roaring flame // hozier, arsonist’s lullabye // jackson pollock, the flame

[pouchie153]

…😶..ah, memories…I can’t believe Pete died, it’s been so long now. I really should catch up with Karla and see how their son is doing. I’m the worst friend in existence.

[dk-thrive]

So deeply ingrained is my attachment to what I believe I should be thinking and doing

"The reality of our day-to-day waking consciousness and these moments of liberation are so different it is almost as if a mental fence divides the two. On one side of the fence I am caught in my mind; in my thoughts, my anxieties, my judgments, and my fears. I may on occasion recognize that this is all unnecessary, and that it removes me from the present moment; but such passing insights are seldom sufficient to release my mind from the grip of my conditioning. So deeply ingrained is my attachment to what I believe I should be thinking and doing there seems no way over that fence. Indeed, for much of the time I have totally forgotten there is another way of being."

- Peter Russell, The White Hole in Time: Our Future Evolution and the Meaning of Now (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)

[ma-pi-ma]

La mia vita è come lo zucchero candito Mi brucia la bocca Sono stata allattata dai lupi Prenderò un orso per amante Nel pomeriggio

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My life’s like sugar candy It burns my mouth I was suckled by wolves Shall go take a bear for lover In the afternoon

Peter Russell, La settima notte, Night the seventh

[filmcourage]

(Watch the video interview on Youtube here)

The Secret To Writing A Superhero Story by Peter Russell via FilmCourage.com.

Film Courage: Knowing that you’d rather critique or analyze story rather than sit down and write it out…

Peter Russell, screenwriter and script doctor: Okay…stop…I don’t anymore because I get paid so much more for actually writing.

Film Courage: How did this happen?

Peter: I guess because the things that I’ve been analyzing and thinking about and teaching for twenty years, a lot of them have turned out to actually work. So it’s kind of nice. I’ve been talking about the BMOC [Beginning, middle, obstacle and climax], the structural tool and the core wound and everything else. But what it turns out is that these things actually do help and even though it helped other writers and I’ve been told that for a long time, it’s great and a relief that they actually work. What I find as a writer as opposed to a teacher is that these tools work so it’s a relief to have them. When I’m stymied or I can’t move forward, I go back to my own work, I go back to my own book, I go back to my own lectures and I go “Where am I?”

I’m working on a miniseries now about Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavy Weight champion in the U.S. And it’s been sold to production companies but they want changes and I’m co-writing with a brilliant guy that I met actually at a talk I gave and I often meet people that I collaborate with and he had this project and it was marvelous.

But one of the things I talk about is the superhero model because superheroes are big now whether they are serious like some of the serious stories or if they are a comic like in DEADPOOL 2 (we can talk about that too). But the superhero is huge now and so the superhero model involves a very particular tool we can talk about at some point. I don’t know if you want to talk about it now? But what I decided was because several people had taken a pass at Jack Johnson and I think someone is actually making a movie but not very big and I don’t think I am giving away anything secrets wise.

The reason a superhero is fun to watch is not for the same reason most heroes are fun to watch. Most heroes are fun to watch because…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

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