INTERMISSION

by Brandon Margetts
 INTERMISSION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
page 1 - 3 CHAPTER ONE
- ALASKA
- SANDWICH SHOP
- NPR RADIO
page 4 - 5 CHAPTER TWO
- LETTERBOXD
- DVD COLLECTION

page 6 - 7 CHAPTER THREE

- SCIENCE FICTION
- HORROR & THRILLERS

page 8 - 13 CHAPTER FOUR

- GODZILLA
- JAPANESE CINEMA

page 14 - 15 CHAPTER FIVE

- THE CRITERION COLLECTION

page 16 - 18 CHAPTER SIX

- STUDIO GHIBLI
- ANIMATION

page 19 - 20 CHAPTER SEVEN

- CONCEPT ART

page 21 - 22 CHAPTER EIGHT

- COLLEGE DEGREE
- END CREDITS
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 I LISTENED TO NPR RADIO WHILE I DELIVERED
SANDWICHES SANDWICHES AND THEY WARNED ME. I DIDN’T
THINK IT WOULD AFFECT MY PLANS
1. THE JIMMY JOHN’S DELIVERY DRIVER SPECIAL - $8.99
SERVED ON WHITE BREAD WITH
I WAS TOO
LETTUCE, TOMATO, RED ONION
TURKEY, AMERICAN CHEESE AND BUSY
MAYO

While I was getting paid for

FULLY LIS-
my training, I didn’t make
much money and I had bills TENING
to pay and was also an adult,
which for some reason, you
need money to be one. I got
TO RAN-
hired at Jimmy John’s as a de-
livery driver. To be honest, I DOM STO-
made some decent money there.
I got an hourly wage, hella
tips and mileage reimburse-
RIES FROM
ment. I spent most of the time
driving around Midvale, lis-
AROUND
tening to music, books, pod-
casts and npr radio. As much THE
as this was a decent time in
my life, I gained the habit of
vaping/ smoking. I was in my
GLOBE IN-
car all day, hitting puff bars
(especially the pomegranate STEAD OF
flavor, yum) and could get a
full meal at Jimmy John’s for
$2.Life seemed somewhat good.
A VIRUS IN
ADD YOUR CHOICE OF SALT & VINEGAR,

ADD-ON’S:
BBQ, JALAPENO OR REGULAR CHIPS AND CHINA
ADD A MEDIUM DRINK FOR $3.49.
BACON
AVOCADO I had been lost for so long and I was
PEPPERS finally pulling myself together. I was
MUSTARD making decent money and moving to my
SPROUTS favorite place in the world.

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 DIGITAL VERSATILE BLU RAY DISCS
DISCS I had had a letterboxd account for a few years but never put a whole
lot of effort on keeping up on my movie logging. I decided to make
a new account just for the movies I watched and would watch during
quarantine.
I began with my collection. I didn’t own a
lot but I had a decent size collection of I continued with my Criterions;
DVDs and BluRays. I started with Long Strange Eraserhead ★★★★★
Trip, a 6 hour documentary on the Grateful Monterey Pop ★★★½
Dead and the Clint Eastwood Collection; A Stagecoach ★★★
Fistful of Dollars, The Good, The Bad and the Paths of Glory ★★★★★
Ugly and For a Few Dollars More. I moved on Quadrophenia ★★★★
to Jaws and E.T. to Fantastic Mr. Fox and The A Brief History of Time ★★★½
Grand Budapest Hotel.
At this time, I was also on unemployment. I was making about $800 a
week, because of the covid benefits added. I began buying more crite-
rions and logging them on letterboxd.

I watched all of the original Scooby Doo epi- Night on Earth ★★★★½
sodes and watched Adventure Time. I found the Solaris ★★★★
three Spiderman movies with Tobey Maguire, Mystery Train ★★★★★
watched the first six Star Wars movies and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez ★★★
the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I was rewatch- Memories of Murder ★★★½
ing movies and shows I had already seen and The Seventh Seal ★★★★★
as much as I like all these movies, I needed The Elephant Man ★★★★★
something new. Silence of the Lambs ★★★★★
Badlands ★★★★
Punch-Drunk Love ★★★★★
Mulholland Drive ★★★★★

I found my small collection of Criterions: Rush-

Top 5 movies at the time:
more, The Royal Tenenbaums, Monterey Pop Fes- 1. Punch-Drunk Love
tival, Dazed and Confused, Stagecoach, Eras- 2. No Country for Old Men
erhead, Paths of Glory, Being John Malkovich, 3. Silence of the Lambs
Quadrophenia, A Brief History of Time, Moonrise
Kingdom and Dead Man. I started with familiar
4. The Elephant Man
favorites (of course), Wes Anderson’s movies I 5. Little Miss Sunshine
watched back to back, enjoyed Dazed and Con-
fused while a bit stoned and then finished the
day with Being John Malkovich.

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 HORROR & THRILLERS
I had bought the movie, The Thing, for a friend but he already owned it. I had held on to it but
hadn’t watched it yet. I’ve never loved horror movies, but decided to give it a try. I thought the
movie was great. I loved the alien design, Kurt Russell’s one liners and the suspense the John
Carpenter builds in the movie.

This made me more interested in horror movies. I began watching some of the classics; Hal-
loween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Exorcist. I also rewatched The
Shining, which had been the only horror film I would watch ever since I was in high school,
which is also one of my favorites.

LETTERBOXD RATINGS

The Shining ★★★★★

The Thing ★★★★★
Halloween ★★★★
Friday the 13th ★★½
A Nightmare on Elm Street ★★½
The Exorcist ★★★½

SCIENCE
FICTION
I had always enjoyed science
fiction. I loved reading Dune Letterboxd Ratings:
and Do Androids Dream of Elec-
tric Sheep? (Bladerunner), Star Wars Episodes I-VI ★★★★★
watching Star Wars and Plan- Blade Runner ★★★★1/2
et of the Apes. I had seen 2001: Blade Runner 2049 ★★★★★
A Space Odyssey in high school
and it had remained one of my Planet of the Apes (1968) ★★★★★
favorites, but I rewatched it 2001: A Space Odyssey ★★★★★
and became obsessed with it and
Kubruck’s other films.

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 JAPANESE 日本映画
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It’s now winter of 2020, I’ve been doing my
weekly applications for my unemployment and
watching movies. I’ve hit almost 1,000 for
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the year. I’ve purchased several criterions
and blu rays. I’ve become infatuated with
Akira Kurosawa. Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Throne
of Blood, Ran, Kagemusha and so on. I’ve
become obsessed with samurais. I also get
into the works of other Japanese directors.
Kobayashi (Harakiri, Kwaidan), Ozu (Tokyo
Story, Good Morning), Gosha (Three Outlaw
Samurai, Goyokin), Mizoguchi (Life of Oharu,
M
Ugetsu), Okamoto (Sword of Doom, Kill!) and
Inagaki (Samurai Trilogy, Samurai Banners).
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I watch movies for several reasons. 1. Entertainment 2. The tech-
nical aspects and 3. Color. Kurosawa is a master. He is an in-
novative storyteller, master of character development and cine-
matography and a master painter with all colors. I enjoy Ozu’s
filmography due to their humanistic and relatable themes, unique
cinematic techniques, his mastery of a distinctive style, their
timeless quality, social commentary and ensemble casts. Kurosawa
and Ozu are two of my favorite directors of all time. Kobayashi,
Gosha, Mizoguchi, Okamoto and Inagaki are all fantastic as well,
and I still have to deep dive into all of their films.

武士の道
Top 5 Movies at the time:
1. Ran
2. Harakiri

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3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Punch-Drunk Love
5. Tokyo Story 1
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 OW S
N GR
T IO
MY COLLEC
At this point I had filled up what
space I had left in a bookcase
of criterions, dvds and blu
rays. I then ordered a bigger
bookcase. Which was proba-
bly not the best idea. Hav-
ing OCD, I had to fill it
up, I didn’t want to waste
any space. I kept order-
ing and ordering and once
stores started to open I
was taking almost daily
trips to Barnes & Noble,
the D.I. or Target to find
2020
movies to add to my physi-
cal collection. Some of the
THE CRITERION COLLECTION non-criterion titles I found
were: The Lighthouse, Mid90’s,
Since I was getting paid to “job search” and I was living at home. My only ex- Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049,
pense was my car payment. Of course, I wasn’t thinking of when they would stop The Big Lewbowski, There Will Be
giving me free money and decided to start spending it all on Criterions. The bane Blood, Boogie Nights, Full Metal
of my existence is online spending and Criterion has a very lovely website which Jacket, Annihilation, Apocalypse Now,
I have spent many hours combing through. Donnie Darko and Oldboy.

I’d order throught the website as soon as I got my weekly “paycheck.” Some of
the titles I was first buying were; Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Bottle Rocket, Paris, Texas,
Dreams, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Onibaba, Harakiri,
Stalker, Ghost Dog, Mishima, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Passion of
Joan of Arc, Mirror, The Samurai Trilogy, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk
with Me and Blue Velvet

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 STU D IO GHIBLI
I had seen Ponyo as a kid, but hadn’t seen any of Ghibli’s
other movies. Seeing Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Prin-
cess Mononoke and Ponyo (again) made me realize how much
I missed drawing and painting. I ordered a new sketchbook,
pencils and pens and started drawing again. The only thing
I wish I had that Hayao Miyazaki had was his imagination. I
eventually filled 4 sketchbooks. It’s fun to go back and look
through, seeing what movie I had watched or what band I was
listening to (usually Metallica or Blood Incantation).

My favorite from Studio Ghibli is usually between My Neigh-

bor Totoro or Princess Mononoke. But I also love Spirited
Away, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, Grave of Fireflies, Nausucaӓ: Valley

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of the Wind, Howl’s Moving Castle and
The Wind Rises.

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 CONCEPT
ART
I also have a lot of other an-
imated films I love and get a I’ve been a fan of the Star Wars
lot of inspiration from; franchise for the majority of my
life. My father probably showed me
Mad God (which came out in 2021
Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Jaws and
but it needed to be included)
Wall-E (2008) Indiana Jones when I was far too
The Iron Giant (1999) young. I couldn’t wait for a tele-
Isle of Dogs (2018) vision series based on a mandalori-
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) an to come out. As much as I loved
Your Name (2016)
the show, my favorite part was al-
Akira (1988)
ways during the credits, when the
And also lots of Television shows:
concept art was shown. I thought it
Adventure Time was so cool to see and it made me
Star Wars: The Clone Wars want to make it.
Over the Garden Wall
Regular Show I love seeing what went into the
Steven Universe
designs of the characters. Their
The Midnight Gospel
race or their outfit/ armor and of
course the ships.

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 INSPIRATION

At the same time I was playing

through The Legend of Zelda: Breath
of the Wild which also has amaz-
ing concept art. This led me down
a rabbit hole of concept art of my
favorite games and really made me
want to do it and at the same time
I was still applying for work, I BACK TO SCHOOL
came across a job for a concept
artist for the company Mojang, they Of course I decided to go back to school too late. I had missed fall semester
develop the game Minecraft. A game registration and the first three weeks of classes. I had considered going into
I’ve been playing since it came film after watching the documentary, “Making the Shining” but I felt like I’d
out. When I saw that job listing, I be better doing something with illustrating.
knew I needed to go back to school

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and build a portfolio. I spoke with my advisor or informed me that SLCC has way more degree

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options that I could change to. I changed my degree to Graphic Design
and Illustration and was able to take a half semester communication course
(which was not a great course).
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BACK TO CLASS
Now I go to school full time and will
graduate from SLCC in May 2024 after ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
eight years of being a student at Salt
Lake Community College, all thanks to
movies and television.

A big reason I’ve stuck with the program

is due to David Lynch. He’s so creative
and unexplainable. I wanted to make art
like David Lynch and not give a fuck what
anyone thinks of it.

Brandon Margetts was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Grad-

uated from High School in 2016 and has been an on and off
again student at Salt Lake Community College and is plan-
ning to graduate in the spring of 2024 with an AAS Visual
Arts: Multimedia degree.

Brandon is an avid film buff, enjoys reading, collecting

vinyl/ listening to music, playing video games and going
camping/ traveling. Also enjoys spending time making art.
He enjoys digital and the classic mediums.

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