Your description of Amsterdam matches pretty much how I found it, becomes a home away from home

Yum.

As for the language of the film, that is dependent on two main factors – the story (specifically it’s locations) and the actors. Some actors are quite multi-talented in the language department, but an actor trying a language or even an accent they can’t naturally manage has the potential to sound really forced. Keen to avoid that personally.

I do have one idea for the project that I think would make it even more awesome than it already is seeing. That is, the language that the characters in the movie use be Esperanto. I know only of two other films that had been filmed exclusively in Esperanto, so firstly, it would make this project even more special in this regard.

The language I suggest, I think would be appropriate because it was created to be an international language that fosters peace and international understanding; in the same way, this open source project knows no international boundaries, and was initiated for the advancement of open source software in mind. Another reason is because the language inspires a sense of otherworldliness, familiarity, phantasy and concreteness all together, which would suit a fantasy movie such as this one.

The reason why I haven’t suggested this yet to the production team is that I don’t know whether they would take to the idea, nor whether if it is practical to attempt to acheive a convincing performance in this language using the limited time and resources they have.

But this is something to discuss!
Look up Esperanto on Wikipedia if you want to know more about its background. Plus, watch a clip of Will Shatner speaking it in Incubus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F77k6SQX7iQ

thanks for sharing your feelings on how its goin on with durian!
I imagine it as a huge adventure camp with a lot of talented and nice people.
Hope you will have lots of fun and get some impression on the dutch way of life in that time too.
I’m way excited on how durian will go public and how it will be when its done.
I’m very positive on story meeting action…after all thats the classical way of entertaining in movies. With Nathan ‘Huggy Bear’ on the team i bet theres gonna be some love in that movie too:D
I can’t wait to get the dvd (…this will be the longest period of waiting for something to hit my mailbox in my life:D)
However enjoy your time in amsterdam with that huge team, while we go out and spread the word of the coming of durian!

Thanks and kind regards to everyone on the team!!!
Nixon

It sounds like a lot of fun. I can say that just waiting as an outsider, so to speak, waiting for the workshop week was a long wait and it’s already gone! Can’t wait for the start date!

Now I need to find some money around here somewhere to get the dvd…..