Movievocative

My relationship with movies or motion pictures was like any other common man’s experience with it, as an audience and dreamer and a fantasizer. Until 2007… when the following happened

Each of us have different relationships with different experiences or situations or phenomenon. And these sometimes change or shift over life. One such shift i have been having for the last few years has to do with #movies or #films or #motionpictures. I shall expand on these over time

Also, i am writing a story for a movie. Lets see where it goes.

Meanwhile ….

THE FIRST FIRSTS

The first scene or the first few lines or sentences or dialogues or the first background score…basically the first experience with the opening scene of the movie have cornered my attention. I have really liked the ways some craftsmen (writer/director/cameramen'/lightsmen/other craftsmen) have thought of putting the opening scene together. Following are some of the lines i have created that could find place in some upcoming movies:

1. What is a good way to start a conversation? The beaten path or the out of the box. But how do we know that the other is going to resonate with which one of these? So, you start with a “hello”. And use hello as a placeholder and use its tone and length and pitch to communicate your opening state for the conversation. And then you wait for the other person to say hello, and scope their pitch-tone-state.

2. If someone told you that a sigh sparked off a riot involving hundreds of thousands of people, you too might have one, a deep sigh. 

3. As humans, we seldom like to be checked. Well, not about the time when we enter into a clinic for a health check. And even then, sometimes reluctance engulfs our drag. 

4. Sometimes when we know someone is looking at us, we want to to pretend very hard as if we don’t know that they are looking at us. It’s a great paradox. We want to be noticed, but not to be found. Found weak or vulnerable or the real plural selves we are.

5. Reality is a brutal audience. Sometimes we want to say somethings and we rehearse it just one more time after the hammer of collapse has sentenced us to a frenzy for the hundredth time.

6. There are times when words don't qualify for the job. Yet many hire them and remain reluctantly complacent with the incompetency of language. These are times when we just want to “tell” and leave. Somehow wanting to register our presenteeism of being there. “I was there” matters more as a secret trophy against the otherwise guilt. Not worried whether we were truly there or just there like during our schools and zoom meetings when “attendance” is the key and “nodding” is the fee.

7. How do gripping lines or scenes or art get formed? Of a good poetry or a good prose or a good movie or a good TED talk or a good scribble? Well! There could be many ways. One of which is that we catch something of the moment just gone by. And we jump out of the awareness’ ever-sinking bean bag, and wobblyly try to grab something just gone by. The thing is that our excitement makes us even more sloppy. Hence we try even harder. Sometimes we do catch it. And we don’t want to lose it. So we either write it down somewhere. Or we simply repeat it to ourselves. Or utter it little softly. Or describe it to someone around.