Saturday, July 22, 2006
The Tao of Smith & Shyamalan
Let me start out that if you don't want to read about how I realte Movie's to my life, then stop reading now and don't bother leaving me shit comments about how you just wasted 5 minutes of your life reading my blog. I kind of use this as a Public Diary to get thoughts out of my head and onto paper.
Anyway...
One of the great things my father taught me while growing up was the Double Feature. The Double feature is when you see two movies for the price of one. Drive in's used to do them, now you have to sneak into the second one to do it. But the way we look at it, $9.50 should get you two movies. Now I'm not gonna do film reviews on the two movies other than to say that both "Clerks II" and "Lady in the Water" got me thinking about my life.
Clerks felt kinda like my life store, Dante is in his early 30's feeling that life has passed him by. He's working in fast food, kept saying he's going to get out, but never does. He watches as everyone he knew from HS was more successful than him. He then meets a woman that loves him and represents what a guy wants in a woman, and he know's it's that time in your life where you have to grow up, get married and do what adults do. And even though she doesn't quite get him, he's going to marry her. (back to this in a moment)
In LITW, M. Night does what M. Night does, he throws in little clues in the begining and in the end, all the little peices come together to be what is needed in the end. (OK, mini-film review tidbit here: I think the best performance in this move is by Bob Balaban who plays a film critic who makes fun of how all Horror/Mystery fills have the same formula). But even though I don't think this in Shyamalan's best work, I learned somthing about myself.
In Clerks, what gives the movie it's happy ending is when two charecters that, though big parts of the "View Askewnivers", have little parts in each Kevin Smith film, end up giving Dante what is needed to make him happy. And it LITW, same thing. Charecters that only get a quick screen shot in the begining, end up making the happy ending.
So now anyone that has stuck around this far in my blog want to know -Vince, WTF does this have to do with your life??
Well, I have always beleived that maybe bad things happen for a reason so that good things will come out of them. The best example is that if I didn't get my DUI in 1998, I never would have stopped drinking and I never would have saved up the money for a down payment on a house.
But maybe it's not just the bad things, maybe it's that little thing that you don't think of that often that happened for a reason to get you where you are today or where you will get in the future.
For those that don't know (and I know there are a lot of you-and this is going to shock most of you, and I've been thru years of therapy to deal with it, and I am finally at peace that it wasn't my fault- I was the victim, and I've moved on) I was raped when I was 15. It led me to be a sheltered-shy person through HS and beyond till I finally admited it to a doctor and my family when I was 25. Over those 10 years of hiding this big secret (and now I'm using s Shrek Reference) Problems grew on top of problems like an onion-some of which I still carry with me today. But I dealt with the pain with Humor and becoming a workaholic. trying to keep my head on anything else so that I wouldn't think of the pain.
I would get depressed about my marriage falling apart and the company I worked for for 12 years selling out and letting me go. I know for a fact that if I was still married and working for the King that I wouldn't be taking classes at Second City.
I hear comidic actors talk about why they got in to comedy say it was becuase things didn't go well for them growing up, and this was a way of acceptence from others when they laughed at somthing you'd say.
I keep telling myself that if that didn't happen at 15, I would have been more outgoing in HS, I would have probably gone to college because I would have had more self confidence. I would have gone to Second City 10 years ago and really have a chance of making people laught for a living. I sometimes feel like I'm starting this too late in life to make a living doing it.
But what if it happened for a reason, what if the reason it happend was so that I could have some experiences in life to make fun of. I see these 19-24 year old students in class that have no idea how to start a scene because they've had nothing in their lives that relate to the situations thrown out.
So that leaves me where I am now. Is there a balance in the Universe and everything that has gone wrong in my life will lead to a big thing going right. or will my life be like these movies- Predictable endin waiting for Jay & Silent Bob to save the day?
Ibnly was to
Anyway...
One of the great things my father taught me while growing up was the Double Feature. The Double feature is when you see two movies for the price of one. Drive in's used to do them, now you have to sneak into the second one to do it. But the way we look at it, $9.50 should get you two movies. Now I'm not gonna do film reviews on the two movies other than to say that both "Clerks II" and "Lady in the Water" got me thinking about my life.
Clerks felt kinda like my life store, Dante is in his early 30's feeling that life has passed him by. He's working in fast food, kept saying he's going to get out, but never does. He watches as everyone he knew from HS was more successful than him. He then meets a woman that loves him and represents what a guy wants in a woman, and he know's it's that time in your life where you have to grow up, get married and do what adults do. And even though she doesn't quite get him, he's going to marry her. (back to this in a moment)
In LITW, M. Night does what M. Night does, he throws in little clues in the begining and in the end, all the little peices come together to be what is needed in the end. (OK, mini-film review tidbit here: I think the best performance in this move is by Bob Balaban who plays a film critic who makes fun of how all Horror/Mystery fills have the same formula). But even though I don't think this in Shyamalan's best work, I learned somthing about myself.
In Clerks, what gives the movie it's happy ending is when two charecters that, though big parts of the "View Askewnivers", have little parts in each Kevin Smith film, end up giving Dante what is needed to make him happy. And it LITW, same thing. Charecters that only get a quick screen shot in the begining, end up making the happy ending.
So now anyone that has stuck around this far in my blog want to know -Vince, WTF does this have to do with your life??
Well, I have always beleived that maybe bad things happen for a reason so that good things will come out of them. The best example is that if I didn't get my DUI in 1998, I never would have stopped drinking and I never would have saved up the money for a down payment on a house.
But maybe it's not just the bad things, maybe it's that little thing that you don't think of that often that happened for a reason to get you where you are today or where you will get in the future.
For those that don't know (and I know there are a lot of you-and this is going to shock most of you, and I've been thru years of therapy to deal with it, and I am finally at peace that it wasn't my fault- I was the victim, and I've moved on) I was raped when I was 15. It led me to be a sheltered-shy person through HS and beyond till I finally admited it to a doctor and my family when I was 25. Over those 10 years of hiding this big secret (and now I'm using s Shrek Reference) Problems grew on top of problems like an onion-some of which I still carry with me today. But I dealt with the pain with Humor and becoming a workaholic. trying to keep my head on anything else so that I wouldn't think of the pain.
I would get depressed about my marriage falling apart and the company I worked for for 12 years selling out and letting me go. I know for a fact that if I was still married and working for the King that I wouldn't be taking classes at Second City.
I hear comidic actors talk about why they got in to comedy say it was becuase things didn't go well for them growing up, and this was a way of acceptence from others when they laughed at somthing you'd say.
I keep telling myself that if that didn't happen at 15, I would have been more outgoing in HS, I would have probably gone to college because I would have had more self confidence. I would have gone to Second City 10 years ago and really have a chance of making people laught for a living. I sometimes feel like I'm starting this too late in life to make a living doing it.
But what if it happened for a reason, what if the reason it happend was so that I could have some experiences in life to make fun of. I see these 19-24 year old students in class that have no idea how to start a scene because they've had nothing in their lives that relate to the situations thrown out.
So that leaves me where I am now. Is there a balance in the Universe and everything that has gone wrong in my life will lead to a big thing going right. or will my life be like these movies- Predictable endin waiting for Jay & Silent Bob to save the day?
Ibnly was to
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