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and i don't just mean from a learning screenwriting standpoint! i remember there was a summer where i was in a HEAVY book slump. i felt like i couldn't focus and fully get into a fiction novel, so i decided to go back and reread my copy of the before sunrise/sunset screenplays. lo and behold, i smashed through it in a day or so.
there's something so fascinating about seeing which scenes stay exactly the same and which scenes change, either from director input or improv. i love the challengers one for how different certain scenes are for the characters. like the conversationin the car with patrick towards the end. it's such a great way to see how different writers put scenes together and bring characters to life.
also there are tons you can access for free online!
May 27, 2024
This book is solely responsible for reigniting my passion for reading fiction. I'm a voracious non-fiction reader, but fiction books that keep me engaged from beginning to end have been few and far between...until Mickey7.
Back in 2022, I picked this book up out of curiosity and in a very out of character moment for the 2022 version of myself, I bought it.
Mark my words: I devoured that book.
Soon after finishing Mickey7, I learnt that Bong Joon-ho would be directing a film adaptation of the novel, with Robert Pattinson slated to play the lead. I just finished watching the trailer and there is no doubt in my mind that this movie is going to be just as fantastic as the book.
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So what's Mickey7 about?
Part sci-fi action-adventure, part dramedy thriller set in the distant future, Edward Ashton's Mickey7 follows Mickey Barnes, well to be more precise, the 7th iteration of him. As part of a human expedition sent out to colonize Niflheim, a practically uninhabitable ice planet, Mickey has only one job to do:
Die.
Why? Mickey is an Expendable: a disposable employee who is tasked with doing all the dirty and downright suicidal jobs that could cost the lives of the other more coveted crew members aboard the mission. Whenever the current iteration of Mickey dies, a new clone of him gets regenerated with most of his memories intact. He's the closest thing to an immortal, or at least that's how the idea of becoming an Expendable got pitched to him. However, after having already died 6 times, Mickey7 starts to question his humanity and understand a bit too late why this was the only position with an open vacancy when he first applied.
During a regular reconnaissance mission, Mickey7 gets hurt and is left for dead. Except he isn't. When he makes it back to the colony, Mickey8 has already taken his place. The big problem: only one Expendable can exist at a time. Having multiple clones alive at once is punishable by death, and neither Mickey is willing to die unnecessarily just to let the other one live.
(There's more to this book than just the clone dilemma, but in an effort to keep this summary short and not spoil anything, this is a good cliffhanger to end on 🤭)
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With that being said, if you want a delicious amuse-bouche of the story before the film comes out in 2025, give Mickey7 a read.
Sep 18, 2024
when i finished it, i went right back to the beginning and read it again—that’s how good it is
Jan 22, 2024
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Dec 14, 2023
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Yuzu is the cool girl of the citrus universe (clementine once held the throne but she aged out, decrepit hag). Yuzu is everywhere; she's in cocktails, she's in pastries, you know she's in the hot sauce. Lime is a has been and yuzu is the right now. Orange has, quite frankly, dropped the ball. Orange used to be our linguistic conundrum, not-like-the-other-citruses because nothing rhymed with her. Then yuzu showed up, containing both a "y" and "z," and orange was found dead in a ditch. Yuzu didn't stop there, having not one but TWO "u"s; she throws bananagrams for a loop so hard we might as well change it to yuzugrams. She's the alpha and the omega, and the reason lemon is in therapy to this very day.
Dec 11, 2023
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makes it all easier unfortch
Feb 1, 2024