Mandy Sucks Minute

when you can't tell if a character is dreaming, there ought to be a point to it. when you don't know a character's motivation or even her name, there probably can't be.

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in this masterpiece of an episode for #mandy minute 12, i explore panos cosmatos' pubescent attraction to shelley duvall, some of my own childhood writing, and what you can do to write characters with actual inner lives and motivations and goals.

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in minute 11, #mandy blends in with the background and then stares at the camera. oh, and there's fire.

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seriously, we need him to put these people out of our misery. #mandy minute 10

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mandy is a grown ass woman who just found out that planets exist. nicolas cage is an actor who needs to be more discerning. #mandy minute 9

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but maybe mandy keeps the lights off because she doesn't want to see how filthy her lumberjack is. #mandy minute 8

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it's 1983 for some reason and these 'characters' exist for some reason. #mandy minute 7

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we don't know your characters yet, we certainly don't need the story to start breaking into pieces. #mandy minute 6

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you know what happens when you don't tell us anything about the characters AND we cannot see them because your lighting sucks? Nothing. #mandy minute 5

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Not buying Nicolas Cage as a lumberjack in #Mandy, and we get our first tinted scene already.

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