Am sure I will have them in my hands one day. And you too SaintSovereign.
Am sure there are many of us who have a book in us (or a series of books) but can’t find it in us to write it due to not knowing what to write about or not having the time.
A good case for making a Writing custom for myself. I won’t complain if a Main Store writing specific title was made either lol.
Hahahaha. I mean, it looks like he tried with what’s he had, but it looks like this comes down to a budgeting issue. It’s just a low budget movie with big budget aspirations.
Yes. They call it predictive programming and have all kinds of conspiracies, but it’s probably something much simpler: creators intuitively pulling ideas from humanity’s collective consciousness.
I actually wanted to ask you about this because you’re into music production as well.
I personally feel lost if I don’t have that time to create. I can’t imagine not doing it. I’ll actually be more drained if I’m not given time to unravel that inner world that takes in all the outside influences.
How do you deal with not having the time to do the thing you love the most? I couldn’t imagine abandoning this for any stretch of time. Doesn’t it gnaw at you everyday?
I just watched Matrix 4 in the theatre and I liked it.
I am sympathetic to those criticisms of it. But I could also appreciate what the director and team were doing.
It took me a little while to get onboard, but at a certain point, I said, ‘Okay.’
The first movie was a different phenomenon altogether. Matrix One did Ray Kurzweil proud, and I think that its particular brand of futurism was extremely fortunately timed. It perfectly rode the crest of the zeitgeist’s wave. In so many ways.
We should acknowledge, of course, the Matrix’s debt to Ridley Scott (Bladerunner) and Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, etc.), among others. But it was able to achieve a legitimately spiritual significance in its cultural moment (in addition to its groundbreaking aesthetic, technological and narrative achievements). Because of that, it’s immortal.
It was that initial numinousness of the first Matrix that led me to be so disappointed with the following two instalments. But I’m in a different place now.
I now think that artists should just create with integrity, courage, and genuineness; and allow public acclaim or societal significance to come and go as they will. The artist should be ready for those things, but not chase them.
So, instead what I’m mainly looking for now in art is internal coherence and authenticity of voice.
So, I do think there was a certain self-indulgence to this Matrix. Definitely. Yet, in an odd way, I feel that it was an authentic and coherent self-indulgence. haha. By the end, I could appreciate it.
And I’m enjoying the Wheel of Time adaptation as well.
Getting into it is easy. You just need to learn the format (simple google search), and then learn the structure. That’s harder. Grab “The Writer’s Journey” and the “The Screenwriter’s Bible.”