truth

Not that i like the subject of movies so much i hafta harp on it for 2 consecutive posts, its just a coincidence that one day i was ranting about pirates and the next i'm sitting in a scripwriting class learning and partaking in the ardous process behind creating an original.

Anyway, i was in scriptwriting class - which the teach himself agrees is the most unglamorous job in the TV spectrum - and i was late as usual. Well, point is, the teach said something that that made me think. He said this....ready.....-: "Emotional truth" . Wooooooo.

(ok i really hate it when people use important soundly words like that to ennoble an idea, but that aside fer now)

After he explains what it means and all, i thought - Writing, albeit unglam,is just starkingly brilliant.

bloody cool.

THINK. Why do people watch entertainment stuff, movies, film, sitcoms? Why do people read novels and stories? -- Because they cared. And why do they care, because the characters are worth caring about. why is that the case. because characters feel sad, angry, hurt, happy, psychotic, guilt-striken, mixed up, gay in the head. which we all feel!!!!

but really what it meant is how movies and novels recreates the banality, nobility, nuances and complexities of human feelings that are universal to all. from the high-rung president looking down from a new york skyscrapper to the african women balancing baskets on their heads looking up at God, to the millionaire pop star and the kid living in a slum. people feel the same sort of things. movies makers are best at recreating these exuberant emotions behing a catode ray screen.

so not easy