Glass menagerie
I once wrote a screenplay about a boy’s fixation with Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings but I didn’t finish it beacause I didn’t really know how to end it. But the main theme came from an idea out of the Glass Menagerie: The conquest of reality by illusion as a growing aspect of the human condition. In the screenplay the boy’s parents are killed in front of him and he turns to the world of fantasy to help him to forget. I think everyone does this in a way, or movies and reality TV would not exist. I am counting on their existence for one day I hope people will come watch my movies to help them forget.
Politics is a very cruel way of wresting people from that reality. Cruel in the fact that it imposes another a very different illusion that appears to be reality. This attachment to political values prevents many people from perceiving truths about thier own lives. They cannot accept that life should be anything else than what they are brought up to believe.
July 31st, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Have I ever told you about the origin of the film O Brother Where Art Thou? Unicorns kick @$$!
August 1st, 2006 at 10:59 am
Please tell the world! Or at least those of the world who like to read about unicorns.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:29 pm
O Brother, the greatest movie of all time, almost, is often shallowly looked at as a loose parody of Homer’s Odyssey, but in fact there is so much more! Preston Sturge made a film called Sullivan’s Travelsall about how movies needed to bring healing to the “human condition” of the Depression. In the movie a director abandons his slapstick comedy films to travel America and capture the depravity of the nation in hopes to bring about change through his next project which he calls “O Brother Where Art Thou?” As he observes en cognito, Sullivan actually ends up in a chain gang. It is here at his lowest that the inmates see one of his films and he realizes that his siily entertainment not only provides an escape for the most depraved men but brings them tears of joy, probably the only joy they’d ever have. O Brother is abandoned at that point but the Coen Brothers pick up from there with their homage to Sullivan. Unicorns dont really have anything do with it. Actually I just wanted to say @$$ too.