This Is Where the Blood Hits the Timeline
- Oklahoma Ward
- May 10
- 9 min read
"She survived the tunnels. Now she survives the edit."
"No matter the setback, we push forward. Every shot, every edit, every hour — we don't retreat. We reload. TRYHARD COMPANY doesn’t stall. We advance."
Behind-the-scenes updates, production news, and indie filmmaking insights from TRYHARD COMPANY.
🕹️ TRYHARD PROTOCOL
"The system is in motion.The structure is alive.
And on Thursday, May 15th, the TRYHARD COMMAND CENTER will go live.
This isn’t a finished product — it’s a living one.Every episode. Every task. Every visual.Tracked, updated, and built piece by piece — every single day.
This launch isn’t the end of anything. It’s the beginning of the final phase. A way to bring the audience into the trenches — not with polish, but with truth."
🎯 The war room isn’t just where you plan. It’s where you adapt.
"The Command Center is coming online.And we’re not done. We’re just getting tactical."
Oklahoma Ward
📑 TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Battle for Survival: TRYHARD COMPANY Update
Mission Briefing: Eyes Only - Sneak Peek
Code Red: Filmmaking - Director's Thoughts
Reconnaissance: Hidden Masterpieces - Cult Classics
Surveillance: Hidden Treasures - Underrated Series
Debriefing: The Mover and Shaker's Club - Meet the Game-Changers
Intelligence Gathering: The Vault - Past Highlights
Victory Report: Crawl or Die
🏆 CRAWL or DIE Spotlight
Before the tunnels expanded… before the Command Center…
There was one soldier.
One mission.
And a crawl - that no one could survive.
This is where it began — with Crawl or Die, the film that introduced TANK to the world.
Nicole Alonso delivered a performance that didn’t ask for attention — it commanded it.
Raw. Furious. Unflinching. She carried the film on her back — sometimes literally.
If you’ve never seen where this all started, this is your chance. And if you’ve seen it before? Watch it again. TANK is back — but she never left.
🎬 Rent or own the original — direct support to the creators.🔻 Watch below.
🎬 Rent or own the original — direct support to the creators.🔻 Watch below.
⚔️ Battle for Survival: TRYHARD COMPANY Update
TRYHARD COMPANY Production Update
This week was a surge — not just in edit time, but in infrastructure.
The Command Center visuals were built piece by piece — episode headers, timeline systems, anchor buttons, node trees.
Every tool needed to make this interactive for the audience and manageable for the battlefield we’re in.
And it doesn’t stop there.
Every image you’ve seen this week — from cinematic banners to HUD-style edit rings — wasn’t just design. It was foundation.
🧱 We’re not polishing. We’re paving the road as we run.
On Thursday the 15th, the Command Center goes live. And from that point on — every week — you’ll see the status of this series in real time.Visuals. Checkmarks. Wires exposed.
This is what indie sci-fi looks like under pressure.
🔻 Tap below to enter the Command Center and track the mission.
🔥 "DROPPING THURSDAY the 15th! STAY TUNED!" 🔥
🔻 Tap below to enter the Command Center and witness the war as it unfolds.
Mission Briefing: Eyes Only
The Command Center is built on layers — not just visuals, but intel.And this week, the structure for each episode node went active behind the scenes.
Each episode page will break down:
What’s done
What’s still burning
And what no one’s seen yet
These aren’t summaries.They’re mission files — with title cards, edit trackers, and visual timelines.
The public will see Episode One’s node structure go live first — complete with its cinematic header, section breakdowns, and real-time progress updates.
🧠 Every edit. Every effect. Every shot. Categorized. Visualized. Mapped.
🔻 Trailer below — your first mission briefing begins here.
Code Red: Filmmaking - Directors's Thoughts
Step into the mind of the director as we explore the creative process behind TRYHARD COMPANY, with personal reflections, insights, and inspirations.
🎬 Let’s cut to the truth...
Abstract versus pop. Accessible versus not.Commercial versus artistic.
In my last CODE RED, I shared the most important question any creator can ask:“What do you really want?”
A lot of people reached out afterward and asked me to answer that myself.So here’s the truth — or at least, part of it.
What I want is to walk the line.Between raw creative chaos and structured cinematic storytelling.Between abstract and accessible.
I don’t want to make cookie-cutter plots with predictable arcs — but I also don’t want to vanish into a fog of ambiguity where nothing lands. I want to scream through story, not around it.
🎥 Think Pulp Fiction when it broke timelines. Sin City when it stylized violence. 300 when it rewrote myth into motion.
I love movies that make the audience feel something physical — like the guy who shouted at the screen during Crawl or Die when Tank was about to get ambushed:“Wake up! She’s not gonna wake up!”
That kind of visceral energy?I live for that.
But I also want to show people something different — a way of telling a story that pushes against the safe zone. Crawler or Die didn’t start with exposition or backstory. It started like a shotgun blast and never let up. That was intentional. That was the balance I was chasing.
And chasing that balance? That takes fear.
When I look at filmmakers like Terrence Malick or David Lynch, I think:They must’ve been terrified.But they did it anyway.
Because at some point, you have to stop thinking about what the audience might accept — and start asking yourself what you believe in. What you want to see. What you want to risk.
You don’t build structure once you’re safe.You build it in the middle of collapse — while the wires are still sparking.
And that’s where I am right now.In it.Designing, cutting, rebuilding.Hoping the balance holds. Hoping the story breathes.
Here’s to finding your path.To following your lead and desires.To knowing what it is you want — and creating fearlessly.
— Oklahoma Ward
🎥 Reconnaissance: Hidden Masterpieces – Cult Films
🎞️ Featured Film: Dead Calm (1989)
❤️ WHY I LOVE: Dead Calm
I was talking with some people the other day about Nicole Kidman — someone brought up her new projects, and someone else said, “Wasn’t she in that movie with Sam Neill?”
They meant Dead Calm.
They hadn’t seen it. They didn’t even know who Sam Neill was outside of Jurassic Park. And I just stood there thinking: You have no idea what you’re missing.
Because Dead Calm is loaded. Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane — two of the most beautiful people on the planet at the time — give performances that are raw, grounded, terrifying. And Sam Neill?
He’s a masterclass in restraint and control.
I went into that movie blind.I thought I was getting a love story on a boat.What I got was terror at sea.
Claustrophobic tension. Writing. Filming. Performance. Every frame tight.
And that’s what I love — settings where there’s nowhere to run.
Alien: stuck in space.
Strangers: isolated house.
Crawl or Die: stuck in a tunnel with an alien both behind and in front of you.Dead Calm: open ocean — and yet somehow no escape.
It’s the kind of movie that builds pressure through performance. No gimmicks. No shaky cams. Just pure presence. Every choice feels lived in. Every look matters.
This film proved Nicole Kidman was about to blow up — and Billy Zane, no matter where his career goes, is always all in. And Sam Neill? Underrated. Always.
Tension. Horror. Love. It has it all. One of my favorites.
📜 Summary: Directed by John McNaughton, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer isn’t horror for entertainment — it’s horror as confrontation. Loosely inspired by the real-life confessions of Henry Lee Lucas, this film pulls you into the cold, dispassionate perspective of a killer and dares you to keep watching.
It’s quiet. Detached. Almost documentary-like. And that’s what makes it terrifying.
This is not a slasher.
It’s not a ride.
It’s a mirror.
📜 Summary:Before Hollywood turned Nicole Kidman into a household name, she gave one of the most gripping performances of her career in Dead Calm — a claustrophobic thriller set entirely at sea.
One boat. Three people.And one of them is lying.
It’s elegant in its simplicity — and brutal in execution.Directed by Phillip Noyce and based on the novel by Charles Williams, this isn’t just a suspense film — it’s a masterclass in isolation, trust, and tension that builds like a storm swell.
🧩 Two Interesting Facts:
This was Nicole Kidman’s breakout international role, just a year before Days of Thunder put her on the mainstream map.
Billy Zane’s performance was so intense, it became a reference point for casting his role in Titanic.
🎭 Actor Spotlight: Nicole Kidman carries the emotional weight of the film without ever slipping into melodrama. She’s vulnerable, strategic, and vicious when she has to be — a character in constant evolution over 90 minutes of dread.
🎬 Iconic Scene: The moment Rae locks the cabin from the outside and drifts away from the chaos, only to see a flare light the sky behind her. A perfect blend of relief and doom — unforgettable.
🗞️ What the Critics Say:
“A nautical nightmare laced with Hitchcockian tension.” — Variety “Nicole Kidman’s arrival. Don’t miss it.” — The Guardian “Lean, mean, and impeccably performed.” — Empire
📽️ [Watch the Trailer]
📺 Surveillance: Hidden Treasures - Underrated Series
📣 Target this week: Kung Fu (1972–1975)
☕ Pick up your coffee cups...
❤️ WHY I LOVE: Kung Fu
Most people know David Carradine from Kill Bill.But me?
I’ll always remember him as Kwai Chang Caine.
When I was growing up, Kung Fu was unlike anything else on TV. It didn’t explode — it drifted.It didn’t shout — it whispered.And somehow, it hit harder than anything else on the screen.
This was a Western that paused for philosophy. It used slow-motion, flashbacks, and stillness — in a time when television was all about big action and fast talking.This show gave you space to breathe. To think.
And at the center of it all was Carradine. He wasn’t flashy. He wasn’t loud. But he burned with purpose. The way he walked. The way he looked at people. The way he waited. Every movement had weight.
It was one of the first times I saw a series wrestle with the idea of inner peace versus violence.Of being strong enough to fight — and wise enough to walk away.
And for American audiences at the time?That was a foreign concept — literally and culturally.And yet… it resonated.
Carradine brought something poetic to the role. Not perfect. But grounded. You felt like he believed in what he was doing.
I’ve watched a lot of television. But very few shows have haunted me the way Kung Fu has. It didn’t try to be everything. It just was.
And sometimes… the quietest warrior leaves the deepest cut.
📜 Summary:Before martial arts exploded into Western pop culture, Kung Fu quietly changed everything.
David Carradine plays Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk on the run in the American Old West — armed with nothing but philosophy, memory, and the ability to level any man in front of him when necessary.
It’s a genre-bending, slow-burn blend of meditative wisdom and sudden violence.And week after week, it asks one question:
What do you do with your strength?
It was quiet. Unassuming. But absolutely revolutionary.
🧩 Two Interesting Facts:
Bruce Lee originally pitched a similar show — but Hollywood execs didn’t believe America was ready for an Asian lead.
David Carradine, despite no martial arts background, trained hard for the show and eventually became synonymous with the role.
🎭 Performance Spotlight: David Carradine brought a calm intensity to the role. He wasn’t flashy — but he burned with inner purpose. His quiet pauses were as sharp as any punch. It was spiritual violence. Stoic fire.
🎬 Iconic Scene: “You must learn to be still… until the arrow has passed.” The training flashbacks with Master Po and Master Kan are timeless. Philosophy that still hits harder than most scripts written today.
🗞️ What the Critics Say:
“A western? A kung fu show? A spiritual odyssey? Yes.” — TV Guide “Decades later, it still walks its own path.” — The AV Club
🎥 [Watch the Intro]
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