Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Have you ever done something life changing because of a movie?

Have you ever done or seriously considered doing something life changing because of a movie?



eg.



Starting a fight club after watching 'Fight Club'



Quitting your job and sticking it right up your boss after watching 'Wanted'



Enlisting in the army after watching some army movie.

Have you ever done something life changing because of a movie?I watched Amadeus on video in 1986, and it inspired me to buy my first piano and learn to play. 22 years later it is a lifelong joy.



About that same time I watched Never Cry Wolf on video, and I was taken with the extraordinary scene of the protagonist alone in the midsummer arctic, napping naked in the tundra, not another human within 200 miles. Suddenly he is awakened by a thundering herd of migrating elk, and he runs for his life.



Within a year I had bought a camper shell for my truck, and I drove from Southern California to the Canadian arctic in midsummer and found the most peaceful, unspoiled vast expanse of nature you can imagine. A place where you may come across 1 or 2 people in a day, and some days not at all. And when you do meet someone out on the tundra or on the Dempster Highway, there is a high regard for one another because coming upon another person is special, it's not ordinary. I think it's how people are meant to be. It has left a lasting impression on me.Have you ever done something life changing because of a movie?i dropped out of school after watching big fishHave you ever done something life changing because of a movie?I have done that with TV shows. For a long, long time when I was younger, I wanted to be a lawyer because of the show %26quot;The Practice%26quot;. Really considered it. Figured out what I would need to do and everything.



Then, thank god, I realized it wasn't for me.Have you ever done something life changing because of a movie?no, im not an impressionable idiot.



Im sure, unfortunately, that someone out there has colored their skin green and gone around waving a sword claiming to be yoda. But thats not me.