Autobiography of Christopher Letourneaut
Why hello everybody! If you're reading this that means that you actually give a damn about what I have to tell you about me. So here's my ego-trip, I mean short autobiography. LoL.
I was born on December 8th of the year 1982. A Sagittarius, under the Chinese zodiac a Dog. I was born in Astoria New York which is in queens borough. I first lived at 28 Newton Ave. When I was age five my uncle happened to get married. This marriage affected my intermediate family in that we had to move to Medford Ma. When I got here I first lived on 4th street and attended the Osgood School. My first teacher in Mass was Mrs. Wiseman. Back then I was not fond of mathematics so whenever she would give out mathematic quizzes I would always rush through them, sometimes writing any answer down just so that I could go out and play. I did not really like the first grade but then half way through it I had to move to 59 Bowdon st. in south Medford. There I attended the Kennedy School from grades 1 until grade 4. Though I didn't really like doing much school work I did like my teachers and absolutely loved my 3rd and 4th grade teachers Mrs. Martinson and Mrs Down. I was looking forward to my 5th grade teacher too but then once the 4th was over I had to move. Before I moved there is a significant event that happened to me. During my 4th grade year on a Saturday three houses down from where I lived I was crossing the street on my bicycle. I entered the street way to make the cross and was struck by a car. The police said I was hit so hard I went 12 feet in the air off my bike. The bike took all the real damage though and was crunched under the car and its tires. I was knocked unconscious and lost most of my memory before then. I remember waking up in the hospital bed and the doctor asking me the following questions and me giving the following answers: Q1. What day is it today? A. Idunno? Q2. Who is the president of the USA now? A George Bush. Q3, What is your grandmother's name. A. Idunno. I look back on it now laughing at how I remembered George Bush but not my grandmother's name. My mother told me her name and that jogged my memory about her though. I eventually got over the situation after suffering a concussion and being unconscious for a while.
At the end of the 4th grade I was then forced to move with my mom back to New York and live at her father Adolfo Letourneaut's house. I loved it in NY. I am a big city person and like everything to be larger than life. I enjoyed being there except for two things that happened while I lived there. I remember being in an elevator with my mom coming up from the subway. A man in a red coat put his hand on my shoulder and asked me if I wanted to be a boxer when I grew up. He took a tight grasp of my coat and I didn't know why he did that. I just assumed he was being nice. Yes, I was naive back then. As the door to the elevator opened the man started to run towards the door still holding on to me. My mother panicked and karate chopped the guys hand and so did another man wearing a suit in the elevator. The broke the mans grasp and my mother started to yell at him like crazy. I then realized what was going on and became extremely nervous. I started to lose trust in everyone but then, somehow, forgot about it. Idunno how one forgets about these things but I did. Another situation that was very memorable was when I was playing in a Bronx park with my grandfather. I had a toy sword in my hand and he had a stick and we were pretending to have a sword fight. I was being foolish and started to run around. I ran into some grassy area and fell having a hook go straight threw, diagonally, through my right hand. Yes, OUCH! I bled so much and cried so hard that you'd have thought my mother died. God forbid. I was brought upstairs and my Cuban grandmother argued with my mother over how to take care of it. I guess they came to the conclusion that I had to wrap a cloth and bandage tightly around me hand. I received no stitches and still the cut wound healed. After six months of living in New York I moved back to Mass. I moved to Fall River where I was deeply depressed. No buildings anywhere. Extreme ruralness and always really hot and dry. I did like that it was by the water though. I got to do a lot of fishing and a lot of learning about life and girls. I was in the 5th grade when I lived there and loved it. The kids there were nicer and more open minded than I had attended school with in New York and Massachusetts. I wasn't used to having many friends at all but I had so many in Fall River that I was able to overcome depression. I never got a girlfriend when I was there but I did make a lot of female friends. I remember going to a small carnival with one of them and watching fireworks after the carnival with her and some other friends. But once again, as life would have it..., I had to move. I was just fitting in and enjoyed having friends and then I moved back to Medford. This time on Harvard Street where I live today. I attended all of Junior High School and High school here. I hated junior high and it had little to do with schooling. I had one friend and didn't really get along with anyone else. I had a few acquaintances that would talk to me but I never saw them outside of the school. The first girl I had a crush on found out way before I was sure I wanted to ask her out and so she didn't talk to me anymore. I was thinking to myself "...geeze, isn't it a compliment to be liked? Even if you do not like the person that likes you in a romantic way?" After that I had a fear of asking anyone else out. I started dating outside of Medford having had two girl friends before but now having my first serious girlfriend. I dated a girl from Lynn Field that was the daughter of my mothers boss. We didn't get to see each other much at all but we spoke on the phone. After that ended I didn't have another girlfriend until my senior year at high school. I was extremely uncomfortable at high school. I didn't really have anything in common with anyone. Despite this I did manage to make some close friends.
I speak of not having many friends as if I was deprived but I did have one friend that I have known for his whole entire life. I have been friends with my friend Frederick since he was age one. His mother was my baby-sitter when I lived on Bowdon St. I guess I grew up with him and now it is as if he is my brother. This has been the only person, till my senior year, that I could trust with everything in my personal life. He probably knows me better than my mother and my girlfriend Meghan.
My Girlfriend now who has been my girlfriend since Feb 25th 2001, 12:15Am is Meghan McIsaac. Her and I just work well. We understand each other and love each other. She makes me laugh and is very cute. She has helped me out through out a lot of tough situations and I thank her for it.
Now finally about my movie! On November 11th of 2000 I was sitting in my video production class. I had already taken VP 1 and 2 and wanted to take VP 3 but the course happened at the same time as my Chem. 2 class and couldn't take it so I was in VP 1 again but with complete control over what I wanted to do under my teachers permission of course. I was sitting at the table in the first room on the left as you enter the video lab and I was thinking to myself what I wanted to do because I am always bored being in Medford. Its not a bad city, its just boring, there's nothing to do here. So anyway, I thought to myself that I wanted to make a real movie, not a video production movie but my own private project. I wanted to make a real movie, not a little short. I wanted it to be in wide screen and show in a theater and I want it to win awards. I then thought of why no one else can make a full movie in Medford. Scripts. You cant write a full script because then people think that there's too much effort involved in a movie being made by a new motion picture director. So instead I drew lots and lots of pictures of what I wanted my movie to consist of. Only a few key scenes were actually scripted and the rest being ad-libbed. With no money I decided to make my project simple in locations and complicated in structure. Making a movie that depends entirely from 4 points of view and has no wasted character. Every character a main character technically. A movie that would amaze and make you think, what the hell just happened? You'd be amazed by the computer effects in the movie and even more amazed at how I made them. Drawing each and every frame of the effects on the Apple Computer Program Claris Works 5.0 and using a glitch in the computers programming to have live video play in slide shows via the Apple Video player. I wanted my close friend Kevin Cronin to be the lead. He was perfect for the role of Lewis in that his body can go through the motions of the psychotic character I had designed.
I have been in four plays in my life. First I was Ching and a random passenger in Anything Goes. Second I was Harry MacAffee in Bye Bye Birdie. Third I was Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show and my last charter was King Charlemangne in Pippin, which was my favorite play to perform. Through this I was able to assist in the acting of the movie and know exactly what kinds of things should be in the movie and what should not. If an actor or actress cannot assimilate every emotion at any time then the character they portray will be a walking piece of black and white paper. I had to make sure that my best actors and actresses were able to be the full spectrum of color on pallets of life.
In order to make the movie I had to believe in that whatever can go wrong will go wrong but can also be fixed and changed. I had to be able to use simple scenes for complicated tasks. The fight scenes in the movies were incredibly hard to put together. They took very long amounts of time to film and even more so to edit and at some points re-filming entire fight scenes. Boy oh boy, or girl oh girl was that Hell to do. For one year and four months I was not able to have much of a life or much of an ability to do much other than be in only the spring musical at the high school. Finally on March 15th of 2002 at Medford High School and under the grace of Mr. Richard Lennon and with the extraordinary luck of having Mr. Scott Bates in attendance I was able to live and complete my dream. I DID IT! WOO HOO. But now there is the task of showing the movie in other places at other times. Its very very very expensive. $300 minimum at the Loews Theaters. I do not have the money to show the movie a lot but I will damn try. The cast and myself put, literally, our blood sweat and tears into the movie. Acting in the ice cold snow with no jacket and being in the woods and in the cemetery for dismally excessive periods of time. I was able to accept filming in the grave yard by considering that dead people must be bored. Few people visit but our cast visited a heck of a lot. I eventually started to like the Grave yard though I sure can wait before I have to be there all the time. LoL. Now that I attend college and have become an accomplished movie director I wish to find a filming company that is willing to adopt the Sigma Films filming label this way finally I could have the money to make more movies. Trust me, I have a heck of a lot of ideas. BUT I AM NOT TELLING YOU THEM, not yet, lol. Well, I hope you enjoyed some of my life experiences. Sure I didn't mention that I know how to fly an airplane or know how to make something out of almost anything or that I am trilingual, or that I am a martial artist, or that I sing opera, or that I attended college classes before the 11th grade or that I taught myself how to play the piano and that I finally beet Mega Man six after being lazy about it for a long time, but hey, that's not important yet. When I make the sequel to "To Play Within Darkness" I'll let you know more about me. For now, this should be more than enough for my short auto biography. Lots of love. Peace.... :) ~Director Christopher Letourneaut, Sigma Films Inc.
