Damn.
According to my roommate there was a large crowd around 18th and Cherry today. She passed them on the way to the photo lab and on the way back. On the way back she saw someone come out of Swedish Medical Center and say, “has anyone seen Brad Pitt yet?” No one had.
People manning a barricade toldher that they were filming in front of a house, but not inside of it.
I tried to use Google to find out what Pitt is working on right now, but I am bad at these things and couldn’t find information besides what was his Wikipedia entry, from which I inferred that he is working on a film called The Tree of Life. According to the Wikipedia entry for that film, The Tree of Life is “the tale of a Midwestern boy’s journey from the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as a ‘lost soul in the modern world’, and into his quest to regain meaning in life”. It makes sense that this would be shot in Seattle.
A more thorough synopsis can be found on Summit Entertainment’s website:
Our picture is a cosmic epic, a hymn to life.
We trace the evolution of an eleven-year-old boy in the Midwest, Jack, one of three brothers. At first all seems marvelous to the child. He sees as his mother does, with the eyes of his soul. She represents the way of love and mercy, where the father tries to teach his son the world’s way, of putting oneself first. Each parent contends for his allegiance, and Jack must reconcile their claims. The picture darkens as he has his first glimpses of sickness, suffering and death. The world, once a thing of glory, becomes a labyrinth.Framing this story is that of adult Jack, a lost soul in a modern world, seeking to discover amid the changing scenes of time that which does not change: the eternal scheme of which we are a part. When he sees all that has gone into our world’s preparation, each thing appears a miracle — precious, incomparable. Jack, with his new understanding, is able to forgive his father and take his first steps on the path of life.
The story ends in hope, acknowledging the beauty and joy in all things, in the everyday and above all in the family — our first school — the only place that most of us learn the truth about the world and ourselves, or discover life’s single most important lesson, of unselfish love.
Oh, neat.
(Photo via gordanandthewhale)
