A great way to expand your writing network, and to learn how to sell a movie script, is to take an internship at a production company or an agency. With that being said, your author would like to mention at the outset that if this is something you are interested in doing, you need to move to either Los Angeles or New York – those are the major hubs for this industry on their respective coasts, and you will be unable to find this kind of work outside of those places.

With all that being said, working in a production office, or for an individual producer, is a tremendous learning opportunity in terms of learning how to sell a movie script that, if you play your cards right, could open tons of doors for you. As a writer, you will gain invaluable insight into the process and gain a greater understanding of how to sell a movie script. You will learn how scripts are selected for production and what does, and does not, work for a query letter. Some of the things that you can learn from this process include, but are not limited to:

1. A greater understanding of the overall submission process

2. What the needs of that individual producer, or production company, are and how they fulfill them

3. A greater understanding of the development process and what happens after a screenplay is sold

4. What makes a producer choose to not request, or request, a script from a writer

This is hard information to come by, as it is a side of the industry that most people rarely get to see, and while it is great to learn how to sell a movie script, there is a caveat to all of this – a lot of these positions are unpaid, and this is what prevents people from being able to take them in the first place, as the cities that they tend to be offered in are expensive to live in.

That is an extremely precarious tightrope to try to walk, and to be honest; there is no particularly easy way to do it. This is a hard, hard thing to do, and if you are really interested in pursuing this option, your author would highly recommend that you pursue further and more in-depth research regarding this topic and how to balance the issue of opportunity vs. cost of living. The great thing is that if you demonstrate that you are willing to work hard at one of these offices, those internship positions often turn into full-time work, so it’s just a matter of riding out the storm more often than not, and again, it is a great way to learn how to sell a movie script.

This War Horse Movie Trivia also contains spoilers. Read at your own risk!

War Horse is an epic adventure film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, the genius behind blockbuster hits such as Jaws (1975) and Jurassic Park (1993) to mention a few. The film is based on the play “War Horse” which was also taken from the novel War Horse, written by Michael Morpurgo and published in 1982.

The film will be released on December 28, 2011.

War Horse will be a family adventure film intended primarily for children and young adults. It is set in WWI England and details the story of a young boy named Albert and his pet horse named Joey. Due to the demands of battle, Joey is sold to the army, much to Albert’s dismay. Albert is later informed that his beloved friend has been sent to the front lines, also known as No Man’s Land, along with the British cavalry. Albert later realizes that in order to save Joey from the evils of war, he must retrieve him from the battlefield as a soldier, and not as a child. Albert’s and Joey’s journey takes them to situations that will shape their lives as well as the lives of others.

War Horse features the unmatched performances of David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and David Kross.

War Horse (the play) is an Award-winning Broadway Musical which started its leg of stage plays on 17th October 2007.

This Christmas, gather the rest of the family to watch Steven Spielberg’s life changing epic adventure. This will be a heartwarming story which you and your kids will love!

Proposing to your girlfriend is always a special date between a couple. It can be really exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. It can be really fun if you do it the unique way. Try something she will never forget. Why not ask her to watch a romantic movie with you, and do the proposal while she’s deep into the romantic scene? The following are steps that will tell us how to propose while watching a romantic movie.

First thing is to carefully set up your plan. Make sure that you have everything you need or that day. When everything is planned, the proposal will go smoothly. It is a very special day for the both of you so always try to keep it interesting.

Second step is to see the movie of your choice before you watch with her. That way, you will know when you are in the right moment. Pretend that you have never watched that film before when actually, you already did. This is a good plan if you want it to be in a movie theater or watch the film at home. Always make sure to watch the movie along first, and see to it that you remember all the significant scenes.

Schedule the movie date beforehand. That way, you can prepare and you are sure that you both can come. Prepare a dinner for her, or maybe go out for a while and eat before you watch movie. She will not have any idea what you have in mind. Try not to be obvious to keep the thrill.

Of course, you are going to say things to her when you propose. Practice them before you actually kneel down your girl and tell all the right words. Include to your proposal the reasons why you love her, and why you want to spend the rest of your life with her. Make sure she will get teary eyed when you say them. Add it with lots of feelings, and be sincere. Remember that you are proposing it’s a serious thing so don’t joke around.

Tips and warnings:

Be very creative. Make all your ideas are a surprise. Try hiding the ring somewhere where she can find it, and she will be surprised. Maybe in a bucket of popcorn will be a good idea or with her favorite candy.

You might want to ask her randomly before the proposal about how she wants to be asked for marriage, or if you have a great chance that she will say yes to you. That way, no one will get disappointed.

Always choose the right movie for the occasion. Try out the very romantic ones, so you will both feel being in the right place in the right time.

Don’t forget to enjoy.

We have all heard all the controversy over the movie Broke Back Mountain and in considering all this it seems relevant to point out that homosexual Hollywood is re-writing history there a little. Yet when debating this with a homosexual man who said that was the best movie he had ever seen?

Yah, that figures I guess; well he pointed out to me that indeed the Wild West was not really so Wild as it seems and that Hollywood was the one, which created that in the first place you see? Actually in reality the Wild West was neither wild or a bunch of homosexuals riding around on horses all day.

You see the homosexual folks in Hollywood were not re-writing real history they were re-writing a mythical Wild West to make a point and make a good movie which appealed to a certain sector of the population. Of course John Wayne would have said;

“Well for Crying Out Loud, what sort of horsesheet is this?”

The homosexuals indeed are quite on the other side of the fence and loved the movie immensely. Yet in all this chaos and controversy it looks like the movie got enormous free PR, just like The Da Vinci Code, due to the controversy with the Catholic Church. So in the end it was all good marketing no matter how you feel about a Homosexual more laid back Wild West. Consider this in 2006.

With an all-star cast including Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani, Meet Joe Black is a movie about death and the value of life. The film is approximately three hours and fifteen minutes long, is fairly slow at times, but has an excellent plot. Filming is done in the big business hub of New York City where Anthony Hopkins plays a character named Bill Parrish who is a billion-dollar CEO of a news company.

The story begins in Bill Parrish’s lavish New York City apartment, where he wakes up at night with pain in his chest and arm. He goes to the restroom where he splashes water on his face and wonders what is happening, meanwhile hearing a voice that simply says, “Yes.” Bill does not recognize that he may be having heart problems and continues with his daily life as chairman of the board at his news corporation.

Next, we see Bill’s two daughters enter the picture. Susan, Bill’s favored daughter, stops by for breakfast before leaving for the hospital where she is a resident in internal medicine. Bill’s other daughter, Allison, does not appear to have a job but stays busy planning Bill’s sixtieth birthday party on Bill’s estate. She is planning an extraordinary party including flaming archers, large band ensembles, well-known vocalists, and politicians of all types. Bill makes it clear that he could care less about the party and several times in the movie makes Allison upset about his lack of interest.

On Susan’s way to work, she stops by a coffee shop near the hospital where she runs into a nameless young man played by Brad Pitt. The young man strikes up a conversation with Susan since he is new in the city, and they end up having coffee together and telling one another how they like each other. They regretfully walk away and do not get each other’s contact information. While the young man is crossing a busy intersection on his way to work, he turns around while thinking about Susan and is killed when he is struck by two cars. This part of the movie is extremely well-done and is certain to take the viewer by surprise.

Meanwhile, Bill is planning on selling his company to a media mogul. He is uncomfortable with the idea of selling his life’s work to a man whose intentions are unclear, and he becomes even more uncomfortable when he realizes that he is dying. While at his office the next day, the voice he hears causes him to drop to his knees and clutch his chest while sweating, at the mercy of the voice. The voice tells him that the “yes” he has been hearing is the answer to Bill’s question, “Am I dying?”

That same night, Bill Parrish, his two daughters, Allison’s husband Quince, and Susan’s boyfriend Drew meet for dinner at Bill’s home. Drew is Bill’s right hand man and it is believed that when Bill is gone one day, Drew will be taking over Parrish Communications. Dinner is just getting started when Bill hears the voice again, saying that he is at the front door and wants to be let in. Bill’s maid lets the man behind the voice into Bill’s home and meets Bill in his library. This part of the movie is full of tension and awkwardness, and the viewer realizes that as powerful as Bill Parrish is in the real world, there is still an ultimate power ruling his life.

Parrish talks to the voice, which is standing behind a bookcase in his large library, and the voice tells him to quiet down and listen to what he has to say. Eventually, the voice reveals himself as the young man that Susan liked from the coffee shop, but with a completely different personality. It is not completely obvious at this point, but “Death” has taken over the body of the young man from the coffee shop in order to enter Bill Parrish’s life. Parrish is in fact having heart problems and is set to die in the near future, and “Death” has taken the young man’s body so he can learn about life from a man who lives life to the fullest. “Death” wants to take a vacation from helping people die and wants to see what life is like from one of the best humans alive.

Bill Parrish asks what they should do about “Death” being in his life, and the young man says that he will be staying at Bill’s home, eating dinner with his family, and going to work with him every day. Basically, he wants to do everything Bill does so he can see how an exceptional human lives. It becomes obvious at dinner that the young man does not understand how humans live as he is overwhelmed by the maids bringing him food and by the comments Parrish’s family makes to him. Bill must introduce the young, nameless man to his family, and comes up with a name of Joe Black, a fitting name for “Death”.

When Susan arrives at dinner and realizes that the young man from the coffee shop has returned to her life, she is blown away, and so is her boyfriend, Drew. Joe Black realizes that she knew the young man from the coffee shop who is now dead, and that he is not the same person she was hoping for. She becomes frustrated and does not understand why he is acting differently, but Joe manages to conceal his true identity. Drew makes the comment that he does not like how Susan and Joe look at each other and breaks off his relationship with Susan. Joe tells Susan that he does not like how Drew talked to her in a rude way, and the two end up kissing in Bill’s entry room.

At this point, Bill realizes that Susan is falling for Joe Black and gives a warning to his daughter that Joe is not who she thinks he is. Susan listens but does not seem to care, as she makes love to Joe several days later near Bill’s indoor swimming pool. Not only does Bill have major concerns about his daughter falling in love with Death, but now he has retracted his willingness to sell his company. He tells his board of directors, with Joe by his side, that his company is not for sale. Parrish does not give any concrete reasons for his decision and does not leave it open for discussion. Drew, is extremely suspicious of Joe at this point, and Joe and Drew start an unpleasant relationship with each other. Drew does not know that Joe is an all-knowing being and his wit will never match up to Joe’s personality and knowledge of everything in the world.

Drew becomes so suspicious of Bill Parrish and his reliance on Joe that he holds a secret meeting with the board of directors. Allison’s husband, Quince, who is also on the board, reveals that Bill has left some of his decision making up to Joe since there is so much on his mind. Knowing that Bill is letting a stranger make decisions for him, the board votes to give Bill an astounding amount of money to resign after his sixtieth birthday party. Bill has no choice in the matter and leaves the boardroom distraught and completely saddened.

The story now focuses on Bill’s lavish birthday party. All of his closest friends are there in their tuxedos and gowns and spirits are very high. However, Bill has had an argument with Joe and now knows that his life will end after the party. The argument was about Joe falling in love with Susan. Bill says that Joe is an awful attempt at being a person and does not want Joe to bring Susan with them to the dark side. Bill says that if Joe has a heart and is actually a decent person, Joe will go and reveal to Susan who he really is and see what she thinks. Joe walk out of Bill’s office where we assume Bill is finishing up his will and testament, and goes straight for Susan. She is scared by what Joe reveals to her and Joe begins to see that he has been selfish and Susan should stay alive.

The last few hours of Bill’s life are sad yet well-spent. He is forced on stage at his own party to make a speech and tells his crowd that he has a special memory with everyone there. The speech is short and very melancholy since Bill is too preoccupied to deliver a moving speech. After the speech he kisses Allison and Susan and returns to his home office. He asks his son-in-law, Quince, to invite Drew over for a last-minute talk. Drew is flattered by the invitation, but when he arrives to the office, he sees Bill and Joe and knows that he has entered a bad situation. Bill curses at him and tells Drew that he knows how Drew was planning a secret partnership with the man buying Bill’s company. Drew was going to break up Bill’s company piece-by-piece and ruin his life’s work in order to make himself and the board of directors truly rich. Bill gives Drew the option of resigning and never showing his face again, or hiring lawyers and forcing Drew to go to prison. Drew wisely decides to resign and begins to wonder how Bill and Joe knew so much about his immoral plans.

The last part of the movie takes the viewer through every emotion. First, Joe tells Drew that he is from the IRS and had a bad feeling that Drew was striking up a bad business deal. Through research, Joe says that he figured out Drew’s plans, which is why Drew decided to resign and avoid prison. He realized that the battle of wit and intelligence between himself and Joe was over, and Drew had been defeated badly by an IRS agent. With Bill’s company safe and back in the board of directors’ hands, he feels comfortable enough to return to the party and say his final goodbyes.

Joe says goodbye to Susan and tells her that he will always love her. Susan and Joe both become very emotional as Joe walks away. Bill kisses Allison and then finds Susan and asks her for a dance. They have a beautiful time together in Bill’s last moments, and Bill tells her that no matter what happens, not to worry. Susan seems to understand that her father may be dying and starts to cry even more. She leaves to watch the fireworks spectacle and Bill leaves to catch his breath.

Bill Parrish climbs a bridge and a grassy hill to meet Joe and get the process of dying underway. Bill has said goodbye to the two most important people in his life, Allison and Susan, and can now die in peace. Bill tells Joe that he admires how Susan showed a kind of love toward Joe that Bill had always dreamed of. He saw that Susan was truly in love and happy and that made Bill happy. Joe tells Bill that he admires Bill as a person and is thankful for his time on Earth. They walk casually over the hill into darkness where Bill dies, but Joe does not. Susan sees the two most important men in her life walk over the hill and starts up the hill herself. She sees Joe come back up the hill and start walking towards her. Susan is not sure what is going on, but when Joe approaches her, she see that the young man from the coffee shop is back. Joe ended up taking Bill’s life, but he also gave life back to the young man’s body who he took in the beginning of the film. To show that he is reasonable and actually has a good heart, Joe feels that making Susan happy for the rest of her life would be a fair trade off for taking Bill’s life. The movie ends with Susan and the man from the coffee shop walking hand-in-hand toward the fireworks which are bursting dramatically over Parrish’s estate.

The plot of this movie is incredibly in-depth and interesting. The idea that “Death” comes to Earth to experience life in a young man’s body is truly unique. Martin Brest does a fantastic job directing this high-budget movie with his all-star cast. The movie will make you laugh with Joe’s innocent antics, cry at the end when everyone must say goodbye as Bill heads toward his death, and even become angry at Drew for attempting to destroy Bill’s billion-dollar corporation. This move is a must-see, and due to the complexity of the story and the emotional plot, it is rated a 5 out of 5.

I’ve been missing my Kiefer Sutherland, so I was very excited to see “The Right Temptation” on cable.

The story centers on Derian McCall (Rebecca De Mornay) a private detective hired by Anthea Farrow-Smith (Dana Delany) to spy on her potentially wayward husband Michael Farrow-Smith (Kiefer Sutherland).

Derian follows Michael around for a week and reports back that she witnesses no foul play. Unsatisfied with this effort, Anthea proposes that Derian seduce Michael to truly test his devotion. Derian initially refuses, but then quickly changes her mind when Anthea promises to double her fee.

During a series of flashbacks, we learn that Derian is a former undercover cop, who quit because she became romantically involved with a suspect. With her prior indiscretions planted firmly in her psyche, she goes about trying to entice Michael.

After a couple of innocent encounters, in which Michael adamantly declares his loyalty to his marriage, they finally succumb to their temptations and engage in a torrid affair.

Derian reports back to Anthea and attempts to end the assignment, when Anthea breaks down and tells her it was never about Michael’s romantic affairs, it was about his business affairs. Anthea is terrified that Michael is dealing with people who are extremely dangerous and she’s afraid for their lives.

Derian’s continued involvement, with this unusual couple, draws her further into their tangled web; where no one’s innocent and nothing’s as it seems.

This movie is trying to be a romantic noir-thriller, but the end result is nowhere close to romantic, noir or thrilling. This movie was laughably terrible. There were multiple moments where I literally laughed out loud.

I’m not sure where to begin, so let’s first address the acting. I have enjoyed each of these actors in various other performances, so this movie was a huge disappointment.

Delany was too diabolical and gave away too much of her character, which took the edge off of the final twist.

De Mornay was dull and lifeless throughout the entire film. Her incompetent acting was made all the more prominent by the ridiculous wig she was sporting in the flashback sequences. The only thing remotely endearing about her character was that she owned a pet pig.

Sutherland’s performance was uneven and uninspired. It seemed as if he wasn’t sure how to approach the character of Michael Farrow-Smith. He also has this annoying tendency to grab a woman’s head during a kiss, which makes the moment feel woefully manufactured.

I don’t want to place the full blame on the actors, because this movie contained some seriously, awful material. It was as if they decided on the beginning and the ending and tried to force the middle to adapt to both. There were so many unrealistic components, which bumped you out of the story, that by the time you reached the twist ending, you no longer cared.

I guarantee the phrase “Oh, come on!” will escape the lips of any person who watches this movie.

Bottom line: Laughably bad movie. Only recommended for dire-hard Kiefer Sutherland fans.

Big Fan is written and directed by Robert D. Siegel, the writer of my favorite film of 2008, The Wrestler, so I really expected nothing short of greatness. And I got what I expected…

The film stars Patton Oswalt as Paul Aufiero, a sad and lonely New York Giants fan who lives with his mother. Patton isn’t your typical leading man, but he delivers on all levels an exceptionally dark performance. Paul regularly calls in to a local late-night sports talk show, where he spews a pre-written speech about the greatness of his favorite player, a quarterback named Quantrell Bishop. Paul’s nemesis is realized early on: a Philadelphia Eagles fan, nicknamed “Philadelphia Phil”, played by Michael Rapaport, who also calls in to the show. The movie takes a sharp twist when Paul sees Quantrell out in public and follows him to a club. All goes well until Quantrell finds out Paul had followed him all the way from Staten Island. From there things get a little messy.

Patton Oswalt really shines in this role. Not once did I think about his other roles, such as his nine-season stint as Spence Olchin on The King of Queens, or even his two-decades as a stand-up comedian. Oswalt shows us what he can do, displaying a wide-range of emotion, from angry to stoic, to just plain pathetic.

While watching this, I couldn’t help but wonder: why hasn’t this been done before? It’s such a simple idea, yet it’s done so perfectly and gracefully. Big Fan is a combination of Taxi Driver and 1996’s The Fan. It’s dark, yet not sinister. It builds slow, yet with comedy, not anger. Big Fan is a huge step for Patton Oswalt and sports films in general, and is a perfect movie for any sports fan.

I rented this DVD because it said on the back that it was made by the “same team” that brought us Crash. Since Crash has been one of my all-time favorites, I thought I would be treated to the same level of intelligence and excellence – not!

This is basically a 115 minute hip-hop music video with almost a “guest appearance” by Bill Paxton. If Haven was an entry in a camera techniques competition it might have won a “Golden Handheld Camera” award. But thousands of smart close-ups, an out-of-breath editing and a beautiful island a movie do not make.

The story is mind bogglingly simple and trite. Two con artists (in Florida?) evade the feds and jump to the Cayman Islands. Bill Paxton is one of the bad guys who takes to the island his teenage daughter and an obscene amount of cash wrapped around his body.

At that point, the plot snaps and we are introduced a totally new set of characters consisting of a poor fisherman kid, a gorgeous black girl (with strong resemblance to Thandie Newton of Crash) who comes from an upper class family and her jealous brother who would stop at nothing to stop his sister’s affair with the working-class kid from the wrong side of the marina.

This “Caribbean Romeo and Juliet” theme is smothered under layer upon layer of drugs, booze, endless partying around swimming pools where everything goes, a lot of cussing and cursing and posturing by an army of preening bling-bling gangstas with too much testosterone for their own good… going round and round in endless wash cycles.

And what happens to the Bill Saxton character and her daughter? I think at some point he finds himself at the receiving end of a handgun and agrees to part with his cash.

And the Romeo kid who loves the Juliet girl has a bad thing happen to him yet at the end both main characters have a Socratic conversion and disown all drugs and violence.

So we are left there twisting in the balmy trade winds with no closure in sight but the music keeps blaring in the background if that’s any consolation at all.

I have a feeling, long after the discerning film lovers got up in the middle of this Crash-impersonator and went home, the Haven’s crew were still partying at the Caymans.

I guess a lot of people would like to make their own movies. By that I mean to go beyond editing together movie clips taken while on holiday, to making movies which tell a story. In most cases professional actors are expensive and most friends don’t make good actors. This is why making a 3D animation movie is a satisfying low cost alternative.

I remember a holiday movie my father made in the 1950s. It had an animated title filmed, like the rest of the movie on 8mm celluloid film. When I asked him about it, he told me he had put his camera in a clamp pointing at the floor. He then created the first letter of the title using a piece of string and filmed it for a couple of seconds, then he created the second letter and so on. It was several days later, when the film came back from the developing laboratory that he discovered that his desk lamp had not really been adequate to illuminate his work properly.

Then along came computers. It took a while before computers got good at graphics, even stationary ones. But of course they did eventually get good, not only at rendering still scenes, but also animations. Unfortunately Hollywood studios being able to afford high powered hardware and software did not make it accessible to the amateur movie maker.

The high price of professional 3D animation software led to the concept of Machinima. In Machinima inexpensive computer games are used to record 3D animated movie clips. Some computer games have a camera or record function built into them, and for others which do not, there are additional utilities such as Fraps, which can be used for recording the game action.

Popular Machinima games include Quake, Unreal Tournament and SIMS 2. These games come with the ability to design your own sets and characters, either as part of the main game itself or using utilities, which are provided with the game. Admittedly getting exactly the movie clips you want from these games can be challenging. I never did find out how to part characters in Unreal Tournament or Quake from their guns, which meant unless you wanted to make a shoot ’em up movie, they were not ideal. No doubt obstacles like this could be overcome, but it seemed you could not get very far unless you were prepared to get immersed in scripting language.

Of the three games I have mentioned, SIMS 2, is probably the easiest to use for making Machinima, except that the characters, or in our case actors, tend to have minds of their own. So your movie star may wander off part way through filming, or someone else you don’t recognize, might suddenly turn up and disrupt the scene you are shooting. With SIMS 2 you might even find your movie set spontaneously combusting during filming if you forgot to buy fire insurance. Perhaps this is like movie making in real life, but I would prefer not to have to put up with all of these uncertainties.

So you may wonder why no one has produced a budget software product, specifically for the purpose of making 3D animations at home. In fact Microsoft did exactly that in the mid 1990s with a product called 3D Movie Maker, which they targeted at the kids market. However the product was designed for early PCs, so it was pretty basic, on most home PCs it was slow, and it was soon discontinued.

Recently there has been recognition of this unfulfilled need. Reallusion in particular, has developed a 3D animation movie maker called iClone. This software is pretty much a dream come true for anyone who wants to tell a story using 3D animation. In its basic form it costs about the same as a new top end computer game, while the more advanced and more useful Pro version is still very reasonable.

Although you could make a whole movie in iClone, I find it is best to use it to construct a series of 3D animation movie clips and to then edit them together using Microsoft Movie Maker, which comes as part of Windows, or using a more advanced home movie editing suite such as Pinnacle Studio.

Other key points to note about iClone are that if you want to get up and running very quickly, there is a good library of actors, scenes and props, which you can purchase to add to the collection, which comes with the program itself. On the other hand if you are short of cash and prefer to build everything yourself and have plenty of time to spare, you can do that too using the tools included in the software.

One optional utility, which I recommend purchasing bundled with the iClone, is Reallusion’s 3DXchange. This allows you to import content from other sources, including Google 3D Warehouse, which is a fantastic resource full of free models of buildings and other props, to enhance your 3D animations.

I find it amazing to think that with a budget of less than $1,000 I can now purchase a PC and the software required to make 3D animation movies, when twenty years ago I would have needed $ millions for less capable facilities. 

Review of the movie PERFUME, Story of a Murderer.

Last night I saw the movie Perfume, Story of a Murderer, on someone’s recommendation. The essential oil and distilling subject matter and scenes really excited me and I think if that’s your thing, you will too be interested.

I had to get past the first 15 minutes but then was very interested.

It started as the life of an unwanted mute orphan with a strange talent of smell. The smells of everything overwhelmed him. He could smell through things, like the maggots inside road kill, and smell metals and rocks. He could sense things inside ponds and what people were doing in his neighborhood.

He wanted to capture the scent of a girl whose smells haunted him whom he lost. As the girl died, he lost her smell and became obsessed with capturing it. The story went on. He suffered a terrible childhood and lived when he should have died, in order to accomplish this.

He went to work for a perfume maker who was trying hard to find the secret ingredient in his rival’s perfume. This boy came along and made the whole perfume, without even knowing the names of the essential oils. He wanted to work, in exchange for knowing how to capture the essence of “anything”. This talent astounded the perfume maker who was spurned by greed. He promised to show him how.

The boy not only made the rivals perfume exact, but also made it better. The perfumer sold it and it became a success in 17th century Paris. The boy with the nose, also made him the best perfumes and the biggest success among the lady customers.

The perfume guy, in exchange, began to teach him distillation.

His teacher also taught him how to use an ancient ALEMBIC, which is the name for a vintage distiller. They showed the process of 10,000 rose buds into one ounce of oil. They went through every step of essential oil distillation. The whole story of distillation from the lavender flower fields, to the drop that came out of the alembic.

The perfumer taught him the art of making a perfume. Taught him the first impression, second and the trail was important. Also told him the story of a perfume found in an Egyptian tomb, that when opened, made the entire world feel in love, for a second. This is what the boy wound up making at the end.

The boy experimented, throwing everything into this giant alembic only to find it didn’t capture the essence of all things. Things like horseshoes, cats, metals, came out with hydrosol and oil that smelled like nothing. He felt lied to.

He became sick and wanted to die, until the perfumer told him there was another way to capture smell, but he would have to go to Grasse, a small town, to learn it. It was called the art of Enfleurage.

Enfleurage was a process where you take purified animal fat, and soak your flowers in them until the flower slowly died. Then you scrape the fat off that and distilled it in a glass distiller over a flame and capture the oil that way.

He got a job at a place learning how to do that. This whole process was shown step by step. This is fascinating for those who like history.

In his spare time, he tried distilling a dead flower harvester girl; he killed, and then placed her body in a giant glass distiller after his bosses are asleep. This was amusing as how he tried to hide this from a nosy girl.

This didn’t work, his experiment failed. So he tried killing a beautiful virgin, shaving her, and wrapping her dead body up in animal fat and bandages, then waiting and scraping the fat off and distilling that. He places the oil on his hand, and the girl’s dog, runs up to him, licking his hand and going nuts. He was successful. Also whoever smells this oil on him becomes a little kinder and enchanted with him.

Yes it gets morbid and dark. He begins murdering beautiful young women in order to distill the scents from their bodies. He becomes obsessed with beauty and making that Egyptian perfume he heard the story of.

See what happens after he makes the world’s best perfume. The city is in chaos over all the murdered girls. Yet he makes the world’s best perfume. One that brings euphoria and it does make everyone think he is an angel. Even his executioner got on his knees and claimed this boy is innocent. Everyone present for his execution fills with love and all have an orgy. Even the bishop gets taken.

This movie raises interesting questions. I don’t agree with killing human beings, but you could say killing a flower is the same, if you wanted to joke around. So are you capturing the soul of a flower when you distill it? The same way he captured the essence of true beauty?

Also, what he is doing may be capturing pheromones, through Enfleurage and distillation, which I think is only presently done with animals, not beautiful human girls. It is an interesting experiment, but does it really work? Can you really distill human odor? Can you distill human beauty?

This movie is really dark, it’s about a serial killer, let’s face it. Not my thing. But if you are into distilling essential oils, this movie is for you. Yes, you can distill the essence of anything, pretty much. I have read some ancient crazy distilling recipes but nothing as shocking as this movie!