Video clip from the film Smoke Signals. Arnold Joseph’s story.
One morsel review: snappy and thoughtful like the film, you find in here a few things that were edited from the movie and that makes the story more complete.
Smoke Signals
Sherman Alexie
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Genre: screenplay
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In 1998, Sherman Alexie wrote the script for a film, Smoke Signals. This is that script.
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I had never read a script before and…
“Smoke Signals” is a storyteller’s film, a film told by a storyteller, who know the truth and the lie and how they mix. A story about truth.
Sometimes I think that nothing is real until I write it first. That no idea, whether good or bad, has ever been thought until I think it.
The thing is, there is this place I go to. I can be in a room full with thousand of people, and I just fade away. My body is…
“Shit, Junior,” Victor said. “There ain’t but two or three roads on this whole reservation, and you’re telling me we’re lost.”
“This goddamn map is useless,” Junior said. “There are all sorts of roads ain’t even on it. This road we’re on now ain’t on the map.”
“Listen,” Thomas said, “maps just give advice anyway.”
The blue van…
One morsel review: short stories about reservation/Indian life where a strong surrealism sheds light on a painfully real portrayal of life.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie
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Genre: anthology
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The first of Alexie's narrative works is a collection of twenty-one stories about life on and off the reservation, told in a very unique, personal…
If you have a look around the net searching Smoke Signals, you’ll learn very fast the above sequence is the most popular in the film. And rightly so. It is great fun and Adam Beach and Evan Adams do a fantastic job of it. Sherman Alexie himself tells in the book of the screenplay that…
Once, when they were seven years old, when Victor’s father still lived with the family, Thomas closed his eyes and told Victor this story: “Your father’s heart is weak. He is afraid of his own family. He is afraid of you. Late at night he sits in the dark. Watches the television until there’s nothing…
I've always referred to Speakeasy: A Novella as being "the little book that could." It was my first self-published story, and became the guinea pig that has led me down the road to being an indie author. Speakeasy had a very final conclusion to it, one that made it almost near to impossible to resurrect…
Too hot to sleep so I walked down to the Third Avenue 7-11 for a Creamsicle and the company of a graveyard-shift cashier. I know that game. I worked graveyard for a Seattle 7-11 and got robbed once too often. The last time the bastard locked me in the cooler. He even took my money…