Last year I called my videoblog FatGirlFROMOhio.org - but then I saw Hearts of Darkness again and realised I'd got it wrong.? It should be FatGirlINOhio.org.? Here's why. ?This is from the very end of the movie - an interview recorded in 1990.? Just after Soderbergh had won the Palm d'Or as a small US indie director, but before El Mariachi, DV, Premiere/FCP - in technology and distribution, the world was a very different place, and it's taken a long time to get even close to catching up to his vision.? Not that he was a lone voice even then, but it's the way he says it.? Especially when you've just spent 90 minutes watching him descend into overblown moviemaking debauchery and chaos.? So don't just read it - watch and listen.? It still gives me goose bumps to hear him.? Share it around.? It's inspiring stuff.'To me the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders and stuff have come out, some... just people who normally wouldn't make movies are going to be making them, and - you know - suddenly, one day, some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart - you know - and? make a beautiful film with her little father's camera...corder - and for once the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed.? Forever.? And it will really become an art form. ?That's my opinion.'Brilliant.
