the Biz

Checked out DaVinci Code with Dana last night. Interesting movie....still not sure what to think about it but I know I liked it but I wonder if I'd have liked it more if I hadn't have read the book. National Treasure was pretty good. I wonder if that had been worse if I had read that book, or if it was actually made on a book at all.

Having had watched it now I can think of places where I would have made changes, but those changes would have been quite minute. They wouldn't have been very extravagant. I don't think anyways. Though while reading the book I did think that Ian McKellen (spelled wrong, blah blah) would have been great for Teabling and it was interesting to see that he actually played the part. Though I did think he would have done a more Gandalf like role, he did all right and even perhaps stole the show, aside from Jesus or Mary i spose.

I've been thinking a lot about quite a few of my own idea's lately and I've noticed that in the end of most of them the main character dies, or loses at the end. Most are tragedies where the hero main character is pretty much going down a jagged spiral for which everyone may suspect he will recover but in most cases he doesn't. Whether it be death by capital punishments, heart attacks at terrible moments, accidents or just an extra shot in the end by the token bad guy, it seems to happen in almost everything i've written.

It goes back to one of the first things I had ever written about my version of the Greatest Story Ever Told having to involve the death of the Greatest Man who ever Lived. Everyone has their style, their edge that they throw into their work. I guess mine is, or at least I would like to think, an art-piece about the downfall of man and reality of taking big chances. In most cases the whole movie would seem better if it involved the death of the main character, movies like Braveheart, Leaving Las Vegas, Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan....all movies that perhaps keep that character in your mind a little longer because you saw their whole story. You know how it ends, you know how they end, you know the result, you wonder what could have happened differently, you wonder where it goes from there...

There you have a glimpse into my writing style....perhaps a foreshadowing of how hopefully one day some of my projects will conclude. In a way most of the projects i've written or produced involved quite a bit of death. Gangsters, a lot of people died. The Service, a main character dies and the drama in a way abruptly ends.

The only constant is the main character being powerful, whether emotionally or physically or both, there will be something about them that you'll remember. Even after they've died.