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| Me, Myself and I represented by Albert Brooks, Bruno Kirby, and James L. Brooks |
I have not seen many films about film editors and the act of editing, but this scene in Albert Brooks' Modern Romance is brilliant, although not quite as hilarious as the "look at all my friends" scene later in the film.
I've spent my summer shooting and editing (video), more recently the latter. Hours of solitude, intense, fabulous solitude making the film work. However, with so much creative - and deceptively 'liberating' - control one starts to conjure the old conversation with "Me, Myself and I". It seems to go down like this: Me and Myself nod in agreement, then I steps in. I doesn't think it works, so you go back to the original cut, knowing it works better the way Me and Myself did it. Then back to second, third, fourth etc versions. Its like 'hauling that log into your living room and start chipping away at it with your pocket knife'. (as Kelly Reichardt said about editing her own work at last years TIFF). And chipping away is exactly that, even though Me and Myself insist "Your going to tip it!" but I asserts "I love that line! I love that line!".