More Wrath of Tony Madness

One of Tony's locations. I don't know where he finds these places. I'm definitely shooting something here one of these days.





Tony shoots. Jeff, the DOP, couldn't make it that day.




More blood. Courtesy of rose syrup colouring.




You have no idea how utterly disgusting this stuff is.




There were no taps at the set, so my hands were covered in what really looked like blood (more so than this picture). I then went into a gas station to buy soap and both the clerk and toll gate lady later on gave me some odd looks. I'd smile and wave to try and be friendly, forgetting my other hand was also covered in blood.
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The Wrath of Tony

[N.B. I wanted to originally call this post 'Wrath of Khai' because it's one letter away from 'Wrath of Khan', but it didn't make sense. For one thing I'm only acting in 'Wrath', not directing, and furthermore my character has less wrath than the main character.



...or do I? Hmmm...]

So, as some of you may (or may not) know, on top of my very own feature film, 'Ciplak', I've also been acting in Tony's filmmaking endeavour, 'Wrath'. If I had to trace back where the re-emergence of my filmmaking bug came from, you could probably trace it back to the dude. Through a mutual friend, I ended up acting in his first short film in Malaysia, 'Seeing Things', written by The Visitor. This event got the little filmmaking child inside me quite curious and if it wasn't for 'Seeing Things' I wouldn't have thought about writing and directing 'Nicotine'.

So you could say I owed the brah.

Last Saturday was the second day of shooting (for me). The whole film is silent. Instead of a script, Pietra's shooting with shootboards only. In essence, it's a revenge flick of the noir tradition with undertones of paranormality.

Yeah.


I won't let on much, but I will say this: I'm playing a keris-wielding psychopath who pee's blood named Tom after Tom Noonan's portrayal of Dolarhyde in 'Manhunter'.

And, just like in 'Seeing Things', the blood was in full flow. At least this time it was rose syrup, which looked a lot more effective, and I didn't have to spew it out. I swear, I must have spat out 4 pints of Ribena for 'Seeing Things'.

And with that, I leave you with my rough version of the poster. Credits and touch ups haven't been done yet, so bear with it. Enjoi.


As always, all pics from my Flickr page.