Giancarlo Diaz
10/23/12
English 101 Rough Draft Tom Twyker is a world famous filmmaker. He is best known for his two films “Run Lola Run” and the film adaptation of the book “Perfume” by Patrick Suskind. These two films that he wrote, produced, and directed have won many awards worldwide. His newest release “Cloud Atlas” is set to come out in theaters this winter, but luckily for me, I got to see a prescreening of the film earlier this summer. As a result, I had one crazy night. One day during the summer, my good friend Daniel gave me a call. He called to invite me to a prescreening of “Cloud Atlas.” I said yes without having any idea who’s in the film and who made it. I had no clue that Tom Twyker, one of my favorite filmmakers, was involved in the film. I was just happy to go see a free movie screening. When I went online to do some research on the film we were going to watch. I found that Tom Twyker’s “Cloud Atlas” is an adaptation of a novel by the same name from the author, David Mitchell. It is an exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. I was so psyched to see Tom Twyker’s name attached to the film. On the day that the prescreening was showing, I met with Daniel at his house. We printed out the tickets online, and then quickly left the house to drive to the movie theater in Pasadena, CA. On the way, I talked to Daniel about the film and Tom Twyker to give him an idea of the movie and what it was going to be like. Our expectations were