Pay No Attention
To Man Behind the Curtain
Better Not to Know
In her charming article, The Wizard of Oz at 80: how the world fell under its dark spell, Luzia Sauma writes, ” Joel Coen once said: “Every movie ever made is an attempt to remake The Wizard of Oz.” In his 1992 essay about Fleming’s film, Salman Rushdie describes it as his “very first literary influence”. It was one of Derek Jarman’s favourite movies, and among the first he ever saw. (This is the key to its influence: the fact that everyone watches it in childhood. It seeps into your unconscious and stays there.)”
Watching it as a kid most likely is the reason NO MOVIE CHARACTERS will ever be as scare the living daylights, keep me awake at night and out of dark rooms than those flying monkeys
Sauma goes on, ” In all of western cinema, is there a more recognisable image than Dorothy in her blue gingham dress, arm in arm with the Scarecrow, the Lion and the Tin Man, skipping down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, so that the Wizard can fulfil their dreams? It’s somehow cheering that this chaotic, surreal musical about a teenage girl, her dog and her three weird friends running away from a witch, searching for a wizard, and trying to become their best selves is so influential. “
I am searching to fulfill dreams.
Maybe my dream list is shorter now.
Maybe my searching efforts are somewhat less energetic.
For sure my belief in God is stronger and rock solid as to my extended future. Not faith for me, but fact.
But I still have dreams.
And the search goes on.
It’s easier if you don’t look at the man behind the curtain.
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