Dr. Valeri Enjoys the Wrap Party

I imagine the wrap party is one of those institutions, like a funeral, where bygones become bygones and you put the problems of the past into some sort of perspective in order to move on. Where everybody jokes about screwups and the director can say, OK, a milestone has been achieved, now I can go into the editing room with a whole new burst of energy.

We were going to have a wrap party, a simpler one with cheaper food and drinks than the wrap party I'm cutting and pasting together for this blog. It was a good thing I never invited anybody, because it was going to take place on the evening of the last day of shooting, which we fully expected to finish in time to start the party around 7:30 pm. 7:30 the next morning would have been more like it. There was another problem with the lavalier mics, and the afternoon shoot turned into a night shoot, and Patience was kind enough to call somebody to feed her dogs.

I'm really glad to see Dr. Valeri and the others relax and enjoy themselves so much at the blog version of the party. It kind of takes my mind off the little fact that four years later the final version of the movie is just short of being finished.