Adopt a Movie: Sticke Figures

Violet Tendencies, my first adopted movie, is in post production and soon to be released in the first part of 2010, so I think it's time to adopt another "baby" movie. Don't worry, obviously I will continue to post news on Jesse Archer and Casper Andreas' "boy" movie, so we will know when organize our next movie night.

Proteus Pictures and Guest House Films announced May 1, 2010, as the official date of principal photography for their upcoming film, Sticke Figures, written by Matthew Montgomery.



Sticke Figures tells the story of an openly-gay, Chicago artist named Joseph Sticke (played by Matthew Montgomery) who is struggling to put his career back on track and battling an alcohol addiction, when a startling phone call from his hometown in Michigan turns his world upside down. The call reveals that Stickeʼs ex-girlfriend has passed away leaving him an inheritance, but when he returns to attend her funeral in the small town where he grew up, he discovers that the inheritance has come in the form of his ex-girlfriendʼs only child, Maria, who heʼs purportedly the father of.

”Iʼm thrilled about the creative team that we have on-board and I am honored to once again be working with Rob Williams and Rodney Johnson of Guest House Film,” said Montgomery, the founder and president of Proteus Pictures.

A co-production between Proteus Pictures and Guest House Films, Sticke Figures will be filmed primarily throughout Michigan. April Winney (Counting Backwards, David Dance) will direct the film, and Ian McGlocklin-Sinclair (Make the Yuletide Gay, David Dance) has been named the filmʼs cinematographer. In addition, Steve Callahan (East Side Story, Make the Yuletide Gay, Nine Lives) has been cast for the role of Brian Matocha, and artwork will be provided by award-winning artist Thom Bierdz (The Young & the Restless).

The filmʼs producers are aggressively in talks regarding various co-production opportunities, and are currently seeking additional investors. Anyone interested in inquiring about investment or co-production opportunities is asked to contact Proteus Pictures directly. For additional information about the film and its team please visit:

http://www.StickeFigures.com

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Adopt a Movie: Sticke Figures

Violet Tendencies, my first adopted movie, is in post production and soon to be released in the first part of 2010, so I think it's time to adopt another "baby" movie. Don't worry, obviously I will continue to post news on Jesse Archer and Casper Andreas' "boy" movie, so we will know when organize our next movie night.

Proteus Pictures and Guest House Films announced May 1, 2010, as the official date of principal photography for their upcoming film, Sticke Figures, written by Matthew Montgomery.



Sticke Figures tells the story of an openly-gay, Chicago artist named Joseph Sticke (played by Matthew Montgomery) who is struggling to put his career back on track and battling an alcohol addiction, when a startling phone call from his hometown in Michigan turns his world upside down. The call reveals that Stickeʼs ex-girlfriend has passed away leaving him an inheritance, but when he returns to attend her funeral in the small town where he grew up, he discovers that the inheritance has come in the form of his ex-girlfriendʼs only child, Maria, who heʼs purportedly the father of.

”Iʼm thrilled about the creative team that we have on-board and I am honored to once again be working with Rob Williams and Rodney Johnson of Guest House Film,” said Montgomery, the founder and president of Proteus Pictures.

A co-production between Proteus Pictures and Guest House Films, Sticke Figures will be filmed primarily throughout Michigan. April Winney (Counting Backwards, David Dance) will direct the film, and Ian McGlocklin-Sinclair (Make the Yuletide Gay, David Dance) has been named the filmʼs cinematographer. In addition, Steve Callahan (East Side Story, Make the Yuletide Gay, Nine Lives) has been cast for the role of Brian Matocha, and artwork will be provided by award-winning artist Thom Bierdz (The Young & the Restless).

The filmʼs producers are aggressively in talks regarding various co-production opportunities, and are currently seeking additional investors. Anyone interested in inquiring about investment or co-production opportunities is asked to contact Proteus Pictures directly. For additional information about the film and its team please visit:

http://www.StickeFigures.com

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Because You Despise Me by JoAnne Soper-Cook

Reading this book it was like going back on the same place and time when Bogard and Bergman, as Rick and Ilsa, kissed in front of an airplane in Casablanca.

Only that this time, Jake, the American adventurer who is managing a brothel in an far away from the common routes Moroccon town, Maarif, is not in love with the wife of a French revolutionary, Christopher, but with the man himself. But Christopher is not the only man with a place in Jake’s heart, there is also Nicolas, his former Foreign Legion fellow soldier, and now Chief of Police in Maarif. It’s not clear if Nicolas and Jake arrived together in Maarif, or if they are there together since there is more than friendship between them, what is clear is that, even if obviously in love with each other, no one of them is ready to live it.

Nicolas has the reputation of ladies’ man, always with a willing and beautiful woman in the bed, even if always with that air of mourning widower. I had the impression that Nicolas, even if ore romantic at heart than Jake, is not yet ready to openly live their love, like he had some bad experiences in the past, even if those experiences are not explained. On the other hand Jake, former male prostitute (for men) and who lived in an openly gay relationship with Christopher, is not managing a female brothel, and has like hardened his heart, not allowing people, and especially men, near it.

The murder of a German officer in Jake’s brothel is a trigger for all a series of events, first of all the realization for both Nicolas than Jake, that there is not time to waste, that they have to catch each moments and live it at fully. While in life Nicolas and Jake are fully grown men plenty capable to take good and well thought decision, in their private relationship, Nicolas and Jake are still at the try and mistake phase. Nicolas is in love with Jake, but he is not sure of him and of himself; he is still not ready to share all his trouble with a soul mate, he still believes to be a lonely soul, still endorsed to take decision, even life changing decision, alone, without consulting his partner. On the other side, Jake, who long ago has understood that the real love of his life is Nicolas, sometime still clings to the idea of his youth lover Christopher, that is more an ethereal figure, than the real man who Christopher is become.

The development of the story is both linear than complex: basically the story follows Nicolas and Jake in few days of their life and the reader is plunged in their story with little preparation. There is no background explanation, sometime a flashback here and there helps the reader to understand their relationship, but those flashbacks are never enough long to give the fully explanation. At the end of the story, we know something more on Nicolas and Jake, but, truth be told, they maintain a mystery aura that makes them even more interesting and fascinating.

All the supporting characters have specific personality, even the lesser important ones, like Jake’s girls, or the most interesting, like Frederik Abaroa, that I wouldn’t mind to see having his own story, maybe with the sweet girl who “entertains” him one night. The story is set at the beginning of the century, between the I and II World War, but truth be told, the historical setting remain a bit on the second scene, since all of them are living in a situation that is suspended in time, far from the society of the time, people come and go, and the world outside is flowing a rhythm that is not the same in Maarif.

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Because You Despise Me by JoAnne Soper-Cook

Reading this book it was like going back on the same place and time when Bogard and Bergman, as Rick and Ilsa, kissed in front of an airplane in Casablanca.

Only that this time, Jake, the American adventurer who is managing a brothel in an far away from the common routes Moroccon town, Maarif, is not in love with the wife of a French revolutionary, Christopher, but with the man himself. But Christopher is not the only man with a place in Jake’s heart, there is also Nicolas, his former Foreign Legion fellow soldier, and now Chief of Police in Maarif. It’s not clear if Nicolas and Jake arrived together in Maarif, or if they are there together since there is more than friendship between them, what is clear is that, even if obviously in love with each other, no one of them is ready to live it.

Nicolas has the reputation of ladies’ man, always with a willing and beautiful woman in the bed, even if always with that air of mourning widower. I had the impression that Nicolas, even if ore romantic at heart than Jake, is not yet ready to openly live their love, like he had some bad experiences in the past, even if those experiences are not explained. On the other hand Jake, former male prostitute (for men) and who lived in an openly gay relationship with Christopher, is not managing a female brothel, and has like hardened his heart, not allowing people, and especially men, near it.

The murder of a German officer in Jake’s brothel is a trigger for all a series of events, first of all the realization for both Nicolas than Jake, that there is not time to waste, that they have to catch each moments and live it at fully. While in life Nicolas and Jake are fully grown men plenty capable to take good and well thought decision, in their private relationship, Nicolas and Jake are still at the try and mistake phase. Nicolas is in love with Jake, but he is not sure of him and of himself; he is still not ready to share all his trouble with a soul mate, he still believes to be a lonely soul, still endorsed to take decision, even life changing decision, alone, without consulting his partner. On the other side, Jake, who long ago has understood that the real love of his life is Nicolas, sometime still clings to the idea of his youth lover Christopher, that is more an ethereal figure, than the real man who Christopher is become.

The development of the story is both linear than complex: basically the story follows Nicolas and Jake in few days of their life and the reader is plunged in their story with little preparation. There is no background explanation, sometime a flashback here and there helps the reader to understand their relationship, but those flashbacks are never enough long to give the fully explanation. At the end of the story, we know something more on Nicolas and Jake, but, truth be told, they maintain a mystery aura that makes them even more interesting and fascinating.

All the supporting characters have specific personality, even the lesser important ones, like Jake’s girls, or the most interesting, like Frederik Abaroa, that I wouldn’t mind to see having his own story, maybe with the sweet girl who “entertains” him one night. The story is set at the beginning of the century, between the I and II World War, but truth be told, the historical setting remain a bit on the second scene, since all of them are living in a situation that is suspended in time, far from the society of the time, people come and go, and the world outside is flowing a rhythm that is not the same in Maarif.

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Spinning Gold by C. Margery Kempe

This is the retelling of an old fairy tale with the added spicy that the poor girl who is able to spin gold from draw is a boy. There is a bit of magic in this story, obviously, but not the reason why Freawyne lives in the clothes of a girl: when he was born there was the war and his mother didn’t want to lose her son to the army, and so she dressed him as a girl, and for everyone else he was a girl. Now the mother of the boy is dead, and he is living, not quite happily, with a drunken father. The war is ended, and also the prince is back home, handsome and young, and without wife.

During one of the drunken stupor of his father, the man boasts that his daughter can spin gold, and the prince dares him; now Freawyne is on an isolated room in a tower with a lot of draw and no idea how to convert it into gold. Plus there is the little problem of his real identity.

This is only a short story, less than 25 pages, and obviously it can’t be so much developed, but nevertheless it’s a nice tale. Here obviously it can’t be arisen the old question of the chick in boy dress, since it’s clear that Freawyine is a boy who behaves like a girl: he was raised in that way, he is aware to be a boy, he is even well aware of his body desires, and not at all ashamed to satisfy them all alone in his bed, but for all the other side of his personality he is a girl. He likes boys, he thinks and behaves as a girl, he is not daring or strong, and he is fragile and delicate.

Another interesting thing is the prince’s character. There is a secret in his past, something that, in only 23 pages, it’s not fully explained, but that would make him an interesting character for a longer story.

If I had to choose one particular thing of this short story would be the “naughty” behaviour of Freawyne when he is alone. It’s quite funny to see how he worries night after night, how he is absolutely unable to find a solution by himself for his troubles, but nevertheless, how he is almost depending from his body. Even when he is presented with a safe and nice solution, something he should grab without asking, he let it go for the passing relief of sex. It’s a combination of innocence and naughtiness that is irresistible.

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Spinning Gold by C. Margery Kempe

This is the retelling of an old fairy tale with the added spicy that the poor girl who is able to spin gold from draw is a boy. There is a bit of magic in this story, obviously, but not the reason why Freawyne lives in the clothes of a girl: when he was born there was the war and his mother didn’t want to lose her son to the army, and so she dressed him as a girl, and for everyone else he was a girl. Now the mother of the boy is dead, and he is living, not quite happily, with a drunken father. The war is ended, and also the prince is back home, handsome and young, and without wife.

During one of the drunken stupor of his father, the man boasts that his daughter can spin gold, and the prince dares him; now Freawyne is on an isolated room in a tower with a lot of draw and no idea how to convert it into gold. Plus there is the little problem of his real identity.

This is only a short story, less than 25 pages, and obviously it can’t be so much developed, but nevertheless it’s a nice tale. Here obviously it can’t be arisen the old question of the chick in boy dress, since it’s clear that Freawyine is a boy who behaves like a girl: he was raised in that way, he is aware to be a boy, he is even well aware of his body desires, and not at all ashamed to satisfy them all alone in his bed, but for all the other side of his personality he is a girl. He likes boys, he thinks and behaves as a girl, he is not daring or strong, and he is fragile and delicate.

Another interesting thing is the prince’s character. There is a secret in his past, something that, in only 23 pages, it’s not fully explained, but that would make him an interesting character for a longer story.

If I had to choose one particular thing of this short story would be the “naughty” behaviour of Freawyne when he is alone. It’s quite funny to see how he worries night after night, how he is absolutely unable to find a solution by himself for his troubles, but nevertheless, how he is almost depending from his body. Even when he is presented with a safe and nice solution, something he should grab without asking, he let it go for the passing relief of sex. It’s a combination of innocence and naughtiness that is irresistible.

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