Geoffrey Alexander

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Great Britain , Scotland

Current Work Details

What I do

Writing screenplays and stories, Graphics, Web Design, Production Stills.

Where I work

I am just me

Technical Skills

Photography, Writing, Graphics, Spreadsheets, Web Design, Research, other stuff.

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

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Films I wish I had made

RAN by Akira Kurosawa; BRAZIL by Terry Gilliam; Chinatown by Roman Polanski; Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix; the Lord Of The Rings (trilogy); El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky).

Actors I admire

Crumbs ... but here goes: Caroline Proust, Faye Dunaway, Goldie Horn, Jane Fonda, Helena Bonham Carter, Katharine & Audrey Hepburn, Geraldine Chaplin, Sharon Stone, Dolly Parton, Paul Newman, Dustin 'Little Big Man' Hoffman, Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, John Hurt, Hugh Laurie, Dennis Waterman, George Cole, David Suchet, Patrick Macnee and many more.

Writers I respect

Noel Clarke (Kidulthood); J.D. Shapiro (Robin Hood: Men in Tights); Robert Towne (Chinatown, The Firm); Paddy Chayefsky (Network, Altered States); Calder Willingham (Little Big Man, The Graduate, Spartacus); Terry Southern (Easy Rider, Casino Royale 1967 uncredited, The Cincinnati Kid); Hideo Oguni (Ran, Tora! Tora! Tora!); William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) and more.

My desert island discs

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly; Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd; Caravanserai by Santana; 20th Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson; Hollywood Nights by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band; Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones; Meddle by Pink Floyd; and I dare say about a hundred more.

Books I have given my friends

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions by Richard Erdoes & John (Fire) Lame Deer; The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary by Angeles Arrien

My death row meal

Campari aperitif, Cream of Daddy Longleg soup followed by entrails of Bluebottle pickled in fermented Black Widow sauce; Allegator's Tonsils sauteed in Cobra Venom; Seaweed, Hericium Coralloides, Rafflesia Arnoldii, Goldfish & Tadpole salad; Habanero Chocolate in Lobster, Prawn and Capybara cream; the whole lot washed down with Oak Wine, Cragganmore whisky and finally a dash of Absinthe with Cynide to ensure I'm not there when they come to collect me.

The best thing I own

Good question - life, brain, heart, imagination - these are not things, they transcend possessions. Nae car, nae TV, nae video camera, nae space rocket, nae yacht... wot de 'ell I get by anyway.

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