This weekend. This weekend. I'm going to clean this thing up this weekend. Pimp 'em up a bit then send it, just send it. Someone will eventually get back with something..
Gimme an M! Gimme an A! Gimme a U and a D! Aaaaaaand Y! Gooooooooooooo MEEEEE!!!
TGFML! (find what it stands for in the last paragraph)
I once desired to be a movie maker. It was going back to year 2001 to 2004, I think. That's right, for 3 years I had been wanting to make movie, directing if not script writing. Then a movie I watched, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which easily won my heart over and now still is the best movie I have ever seen, changed my mind forever by revealing straightly to my own eyes that movies SHOULD be that COMPLETE. Suddenly the whole movie making thing became too huge for me to dream, let alone pursue. It became rather sacred and simply officiate me merely as the consumer. Or I shall say, The Consumer :)
Yet movie makers remains the ones whose job I envy beside only a few others. In a good movie, there are beyond wild imagination, insane creativity, witty sparks, humor, and hopeless romance, if needed. All are the emotions we as human beings possess inside but unfortunate enough to have a proper outlet to express it. And I haven't even begun with the environment factor yet.
Everyone, you, me, including them as well, we all live in our own place surrounded with other individuals. Then the mechanisms of the relationships formed by simply living in such places and interacting with each other are those things we already know as citizenship. So it only makes sense if each movie maker, given their beings as individuals just like us living in a certain country, would unintentionally let out the character of their nation and stage of mentality it is in through their movies.
Take a look at Europe countries, India, Chinese, and Japan. Their movie industry may not be as huge as Hollywood but they produce movies which (by excluding the country's own people) capture certain groups of observer and loyal fan out there. They reveal their true characters and souls through their movies without trying to fool anyone by concealing what is really believed or resented in their surroundings. They never try to please everyone with their movies unlike the ever glorious Hollywood through their mainstreams.
Yet in the meantime, following the false model, with the tendency to follow anything we pick up immediately from Hollywood's flicks, all those efforts (if we could even look at it as efforts) spent by our very own so-called "movie people" only makes us stagnant. It is because we're not going to go anywhere by trying to produce movies which are not us. Movies that all are lying. We do not act that way in real life so why bother putting it in movies? Our mothers in real life, well, they don't use such soft and wise tone while getting angry with us taking drugs, do they?
Watching those movies only makes me want to pursue back the dream as a movie maker. Thank God for Mira Lesmana and her team for making the industry much better with Petualangan Sherina and Laskar Pelangi, I don't have to leave my current job and start back crawling from zero. Maybe later.. in my next life. In that one, I hope I'll get Charlie Kaufman's or Almodovar's brain this time :)
Yet movie makers remains the ones whose job I envy beside only a few others. In a good movie, there are beyond wild imagination, insane creativity, witty sparks, humor, and hopeless romance, if needed. All are the emotions we as human beings possess inside but unfortunate enough to have a proper outlet to express it. And I haven't even begun with the environment factor yet.
Everyone, you, me, including them as well, we all live in our own place surrounded with other individuals. Then the mechanisms of the relationships formed by simply living in such places and interacting with each other are those things we already know as citizenship. So it only makes sense if each movie maker, given their beings as individuals just like us living in a certain country, would unintentionally let out the character of their nation and stage of mentality it is in through their movies.
Take a look at Europe countries, India, Chinese, and Japan. Their movie industry may not be as huge as Hollywood but they produce movies which (by excluding the country's own people) capture certain groups of observer and loyal fan out there. They reveal their true characters and souls through their movies without trying to fool anyone by concealing what is really believed or resented in their surroundings. They never try to please everyone with their movies unlike the ever glorious Hollywood through their mainstreams.
Yet in the meantime, following the false model, with the tendency to follow anything we pick up immediately from Hollywood's flicks, all those efforts (if we could even look at it as efforts) spent by our very own so-called "movie people" only makes us stagnant. It is because we're not going to go anywhere by trying to produce movies which are not us. Movies that all are lying. We do not act that way in real life so why bother putting it in movies? Our mothers in real life, well, they don't use such soft and wise tone while getting angry with us taking drugs, do they?
Watching those movies only makes me want to pursue back the dream as a movie maker. Thank God for Mira Lesmana and her team for making the industry much better with Petualangan Sherina and Laskar Pelangi, I don't have to leave my current job and start back crawling from zero. Maybe later.. in my next life. In that one, I hope I'll get Charlie Kaufman's or Almodovar's brain this time :)
A Happy Greasy Living
The unimaginable and indescribable roast duck ala the ever underrated Sapo Oriental.
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