INTERMISSION

by Brandon Margetts
 INTERMISSION

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

CHAPTER THREE page 6 - 7

- SCIENCE FICTION
- HORROR & THRILLERS

CHAPTER FOUR page 8 - 13

- GODZILLA
- JAPANESE CINEMA

CHAPTER FIVE page 14 - 15

- THE CRITERION COLLECTION

CHAPTER SIX page 16 - 18

- STUDIO GHIBLI
- ANIMATION

CHAPTER SEVEN page 19 - 20

- CONCEPT ART

CHAPTER EIGHT page 21 - 22

- COLLEGE DEGREE
- END CREDITS
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KETCHIKAN

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 I LISTENED TO NPR RADIO WHILE I DELIVERED SAND-
SANDWICHES
WICHES 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 LETTUCE,
TOMATO, RED ONION,TURKEY, AMERICAN
CHEESE AND MAYO

While I was getting paid for

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

ADD YOUR CHOICE OF SALT & VINEGAR,

BBQ, JALAPENO OR REGULAR CHIPS AND
ADD-ON’S: ADD A MEDIUM DRINK FOR $3.49.
• BACON
• AVOCADO
• PEPPERS
I had been lost for so long and I was I WAS TOO BUSY FULLY LISTENING TO RANDOM
finally pulling myself together. I was
• MUSTARD making decent money and moving to my STORIES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE INSTEAD OF
• SPROUTS favorite place in the world.
A VIRUS IN CHINA
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 DIGITAL VERSATILE
DISCS
I began with my collection. I didn’t
own a lot but I had a decent size col-
lection of DVDs and BluRays. I start-
ed with Long Strange Trip, a 6 hour
documentary on the Grateful Dead and
the Clint Eastwood Collection; A Fist-
ful of Dollars, The Good, The Bad and
the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More. I
moved on to Jaws and E.T. to Fantastic
Mr. Fox and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
BLU RAY 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 decid-
ed to make a new account just for the movies I watched and would
watch during quarantine.
I continued with my Criterions;
Eraserhead ★★★★★
Monterey Pop ★★★½
Stagecoach ★★★
Paths of Glory ★★★★★
Quadrophenia ★★★★
A Brief History of Time ★★★½
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 Night on Earth ★★★★½

episodes and watched Adventure Time. I Solaris ★★★★
found the three Spiderman movies with To- Mystery Train ★★★★★
bey Maguire, watched the first six Star The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez ★★★
Wars movies and the Lord of the Rings Memories of Murder ★★★½
The Seventh Seal ★★★★★
trilogy. I was rewatching movies and shows
The Elephant Man ★★★★★
I had already seen and as much as I like
Silence of the Lambs ★★★★★
all these movies, I needed something new. Badlands ★★★★
Punch-Drunk Love ★★★★★
Mulholland Drive ★★★★★

Top 5 movies at the time:

I found my small collection of Criterions: 1. Punch-Drunk Love
Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Monterey 2. No Country for Old Men
Pop Festival, Dazed and Confused, Stage- 3. Silence of the Lambs
coach, Eraserhead, Paths of Glory, Being 4. The Elephant Man
John Malkovich, Quadrophenia, A Brief His- 5. Little Miss Sunshine
tory of Time, Moonrise Kingdom and Dead
Man. I started with familiar favorites (of
course), Wes Anderson’s movies I watched
back to back, enjoyed Dazed and Confused
while a bit stoned and then finished the day

4 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 Letterboxd Ratings:
I had always enjoyed science
fiction. I loved reading Dune
and Do Androids Dream of Elec- Star Wars Episodes I-VI ★★★★★
tric Sheep? (Bladerunner),
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 Planet of the Apes (1968) ★★★★★
and it had remained one of my 2001: A Space Odyssey ★★★★★
favorites, but I rewatched it
and became obsessed with it and
Kubruck’s other films.

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走 Godzilla Movies

る Godzilla
(1954)
ゴジラ
Shin Godzilla
(2016)
シン・ゴジラ
Godzilla
vs.
Mechagodzilla
(1974)
ゴジラ対メカゴ
ジラ
Godzilla
(2014)
ゴジラ
Godzilla
vs.
Biollante
(1989)
ゴジラvsビオラ
ンテ

! Godzilla
vs.
Hedorah
(1972)
ゴジラ対ヘドラ
Godzilla
vs.
Gigan
(1972)
地球攻撃命令 ゴジ
Godzilla
vs.
Gigan
(1995)
ゴジラＶＳデスト
Godzilla
vs.
King Ghidorah
(1991)
ゴジラvsキング
Godzilla
vs.
King Ghidorah
(1992)
ゴジラvsモスラ

ゴジラだ!
ラ対ガイガン ロイア ギドラ

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 JAPANESE 日本映画
C
I
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
N
E
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).
A

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 BUSHI
NO
MICHI
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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My Collection
G
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 book-
case. Which was proba-
bly not the best idea.
Having OCD, I had to
fill it up, I didn’t
want to waste any
space. I kept or-
dering and order-
ing and once stores
started to open I was
taking almost daily
trips to Barnes & No-
THE CRITERION COLLECTION ble, the D.I. or Target
to find movies to add to
Since I was getting paid to “job search” and I was living at home. My only ex- my physical collection.
pense was my car payment. Of course, I wasn’t thinking of when they would stop
Some of the non-criteri-
giving me free money and decided to start spending it all on Criterions. The bane
of my existence is online spending and Criterion has a very lovely website which on titles I found were: The
I have spent many hours combing through. Lighthouse, Mid90’s, Blade
Runner, Blade Runner 2049,
I’d order throught the website as soon as I got my weekly “paycheck.” Some of The Big Lewbowski, There Will Be
the titles I was first buying were; Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Bottle Rocket, Paris, Texas, Blood, Boogie Nights, Full Metal
Dreams, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Onibaba, Harakiri,
Jacket, Annihilation, Apocalypse

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

BACK TO SCHOOL
At the same time I was playing through The Leg-
end of Zelda: Breath of the Wild which also has Of course I decided to go back to school too late. I had missed fall semester
amazing concept art. This led me down a rabbit registration and the first three weeks of classes. I had considered going into
hole of concept art of my favorite games and re- film after watching the documentary, “Making the Shining” but I felt like I’d be
ally made me want to do it and at the same time
I was still applying for work, I came across a
better doing something with illustrating.
job for a concept artist for the company Mo-

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jang, they develop the game Minecraft. A game I spoke with my advisor or informed me that SLCC has way more degree

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I’ve been playing since it came out. When I saw options that I could change to. I changed my degree to Graphic Design and
that job listing, I knew I needed to go back to
Illustration and was able to take a half semester communication course.
school and build a portfolio.

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 ABOUT THE
BACK TO CLASS
Now I go to school full time and will AUTHOR
graduate from SLCC in May 2024 after
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 pro-

gram 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. Graduat-
ed from High School in 2016 and
has been an on and off again
student at Salt Lake Communi-
ty College and is planning to
graduate in the spring of 2024
with an AAS Visual Arts: Multi-
media degree.

Brandon is an avid film buff,

enjoys reading, collecting vi-
nyl/ listening to music, playing
video games and going camping/
traveling. Also enjoys spending

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time making art. He enjoys dig-
ital and the classic mediums.

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INTERMISSION
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY BRANDON MARGETTS

© 2023 Brandon Margetts / bmarget4@bruinmail.slcc.edu

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