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Proulx "these characters began to get very damn real"
Artiste:
Thanks optom!
You say:
And so for me Ennis and Jack became very real.In a way I have not experienced before.
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Fiona:
to that I agree. Si... yes, many persons do that too.
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Do these charactors (Ennis, Jack, Alma, Lureen, etc.), become more real-like every day??
The more I dwell about Annie/the BM movie, the more each become real!! ?? Wonder if that is ss with most persons??
Hugs! Or is it spiritual meaning?? Or a dream we want each to realise??
brokeplex:
what AP was discussing may be something that happens to some authors, as they continue to internalize their characters.
optom3:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on March 23, 2008, 08:02:33 pm ---what AP was discussing may be something that happens to some authors, as they continue to internalize their characters.
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Yes that is exactly what she is saying.However she states that although she had heard othe writers ,talk of this phenomenon,it was new to her.
I found that very interesting,as this was by no means her first,story.
I wondered if this was the reason that the film and ss became so real to so many of us.
It must have been a very powerful thing for Proulx to experience after so many years of writing,to suddenly find the characters becomming real to her.It was certainly the first time for me, as both a reader and film goer, to find characters who not only semed real,but started to invade my life.From dawn to dusk.
Could it be that what Proulx experienced was so powerful,that when coupled with truly beyond words acting,that it transmitted to us the audience.
It certainly seemed so in some measure to me.I do not think sadly that I will ever be that affected again by a film.To this day it still is pervasive in so many aspects of my life.
Thanks to BetterMost I now feel blessed to have felt so,instead of a little crazy.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: optom3 on March 23, 2008, 09:06:44 pm ---Yes that is exactly what she is saying.However she states that although she had heard othe writers ,talk of this phenomenon,it was new to her.
I found that very interesting,as this was by no means her first,story.
I wondered if this was the reason that the film and ss became so real to so many of us.
It must have been a very powerful thing for Proulx to experience after so many years of writing,to suddenly find the characters becomming real to her.It was certainly the first time for me, as both a reader and film goer, to find characters who not only semed real,but started to invade my life.From dawn to dusk.
Could it be that what Proulx experienced was so powerful,that when coupled with truly beyond words acting,that it transmitted to us the audience.
It certainly seemed so in some measure to me.I do not think sadly that I will ever be that affected again by a film.To this day it still is pervasive in so many aspects of my life.Thanks to BetterMost I now feel blessed to have felt so,instead of a little crazy.
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perhaps on the other hand, you will look at films differently from now on, and gain more from the experiences.
first being moved so strongly by a work of art, or literature, that one becomes obsessive over it is a treasured experience. it is like your first love, it can never really be replicated and it becomes a closely guarded memory.
optom3:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on March 23, 2008, 09:10:41 pm ---perhaps on the other hand, you will look at films differently from now on, and gain more from the experiences.
first being moved so strongly by a work of art, or literature, that one becomes obsessive over it is a treasured experience. it is like your first love, it can never really be replicated and it becomes a closely guarded memory.
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That is such a good analogy.I love it.I have struggled to put into words what seeing the film for the 1st time was like,and it is exactly like first love.I stiil love/ache with every subsequent viewing,but although other films may well affect me in the future,they will never replicate that BBM experience.It is a treasured memory and experience.And indeed a closely guarded precious thing.Just like my first love,certain,songs or smells or other things remind me of BBM.It is like a comforter which I hug to myself from time to time.
Thankyou for so eloquently describing it for me.
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