Being Inside the Dream
There is no way around the fact that as human beings we are obsessed with movies. Classic movies, scary movies, funny movies, movies about movies, movies about movies about movies — we can’t get enough. The appeal of the moving image is taken for granted now. Now, we’re used to seeing ourselves replayed — and redefined. In fact, we’ve come to accept the image on the screen, in many ways, as what counts, what is real. How could conventional reality compare?
When the Lumiere brothers began to hand-crank the film into being, the way we began to perceive of ourselves began to transform. You could say “evolve” but that’s a slant. How does it change our self-perception? Well, we perceive our reality as framed in cinematic — or film — language. We’re no longer characters in a prose narrative or even an epic poem. Now, we frame ourselves (even that term is symptomatic) into personal movies. This is understandable, given the magnitude of influence the moving image possesses.
As a species, we’re trained to watch — listen — and make snap-judgments. It’s a survival mechanism, a powerful hold-over from our more nomadic beginnings. If you could spot a predator in the brush or an enemy tribe lying in wait, you could adjust you route, change your mind, and survive. The modern movie is now the open savanna. Now, we watch to see what actors and writers and directors want us to see. We watch them move, love, and laugh and all the while we’re taking note.
If people are willing to watch — they’re willing to pay to watch. As such, the growth of film as an industry was, then, inevitable. As we couldn’t (and still can’t) get enough of watching ourselves, making money as a result of providing these moving pictures was a matter of course. If companies could provide great entertainment, appealing actors, and better and better production quality, why shouldn’t they enjoy tremendous box office success? It’s an all-American idea: great ideas win big and greater ideas win bigger. So, of course, the blockbuster was born.
We all end to think of ourselves as actors in our own movies. Our trial and triumphs are processed as new plot twists, new cliffhangers, and the people that come and in our lives are all supplied by some great Cosmic Central Casting service. Some of us strive to become one of the scions of the screen — the rest of us take the screen and turn it into something more personal — we turn it into our own movies, the movies of our lives.
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