just before we begin this video is sponsored by skillshare because i'm sure a lot of you out there are budding filmmakers writers artists and so on who aspire to master their craft learn new skills or simply want to meet other like-minded individuals well skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes designed to not only give you the most efficient and practical advice whether you be a novice or professional but each class allows you to interact with your tutor and supportive peers to obtain valuable feedback on your work which i always say is essential to bettering your abilities since skillshare has no ads and is always launching new premium classes including live sessions to connect with others in real time skillshare is committed to ensuring you have membership with meaning it's open-minded encouraging and has genuinely helped me feel more confident in not only my creativity but also myself i'm a very insecure person this month i've been listening to benjamin percy series on writing suspense because i'm a very linear writer which works for my videos but not so much when planning works of fiction benjamin's videos break down his personal writing process and introduce concepts that help avoid burnout before the finish line by piecing all the smaller details in between which i typically forget in the heat of the moment i basically learned to just slow down and stop treating storytelling like it's a race it's more of a marathon where you go at your own endurance and balance out the energy so it doesn't all get consumed in the opening the first NUMBER_TOKEN of my subscribers who click the link in the description box below will get a one month free trial of skillshare so you can start exploring your creativity nothing's up with me it's an accident i'm the one who's gotta live with it not you nobody wants you here nobody christian beale's performance in brad anderson's NUMBER_TOKEN psychological thriller the machinist is arguably one of the most vulnerable and committed roles of his career at the very least it was the role that called attention to his uncompromising devotion to his craft as many accounts have detailed his staggering pound weight loss four months prior to production which included a diet of cigarettes whiskey coffee an apple and a can of tuna each day the story goes that once production was complete beale immediately proceeded to not only regain all his weight plus more but went through a rigorous training program to prepare for his next role as the lead in christopher nolan's batman begins which subsequently accelerated him to stardom trying to fatten me up however for as fascinating as the story is it's been told countless times before and has since overshadowed the film itself to the point i'm convinced not many people have actually seen it hell while i'm sure i'll be proven wrong in the comments below i am genuinely curious how many of you have heard about beal's unhealthy weight loss but still have absolutely no clue what the film is really about it tells the story of the titular machinist trevor resnick a repressed insomniac who becomes increasingly troubled by a mysterious man called ivan and soon sets out on a self-destructive journey to figure out who this man is mirroring his search for his own identity and igniting delusions and paranoia as trevor shambles his way towards personal clarity from that vague description you
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN just before we begin this video is sponsored by skillshare because i'm sure a lot of you out there are budding filmmakers writers artists and so on who aspire to master their craft learn new skills or simply want to meet other like-minded individuals well skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes designed to not only give you the most efficient and practical advice whether you be a novice or professional but each class allows you to interact with your tutor and supportive peers to obtain valuable feedback on your work which i always say is essential to bettering your abilities since skillshare has no ads and is always launching new premium classes including live sessions to connect with others in real time skillshare is committed to ensuring you have membership with meaning it's open-minded encouraging and has genuinely helped me feel more confident in not only my creativity but also myself i'm a very insecure person this month i've been listening to benjamin percy series on writing suspense because i'm a very linear writer which works for my videos but not so much when planning works of fiction benjamin's videos break down his personal writing process and introduce concepts that help avoid burnout before the finish line by piecing all the smaller details in between which i typically forget in the heat of the moment i basically learned to just slow down and stop treating storytelling like it's a race it's more of a marathon where you go at your own endurance and balance out the energy so it doesn't all get consumed in the opening the first NUMBER_TOKEN of my subscribers who click the link in the description box below will get a one month free trial of skillshare so you can start exploring your creativity END_SPONSOR_TOKEN