An evening at the theatre. It occurred to me that there's something weird about someone wanting to be someone else. And even more so about someone sitting down for a couple of hours to look at someone they don't know, pretending to be someone else, talking to someone who is also pretending to be someone else. A dialogue, furthermore, invented by somebody who imagined they were pretending to be each of these in turn.. Hmm..
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People have always longed for escape. Escape from the things that bog them down.
Weird though it may be it's an incredible source of entertainment. Watching those who are willing to become someone else.
Yeah, what you said. Thanks for visiting my blog. You said,"How will I be able to read my book if I gave up on getting it published."
I'm going to publish it. I think it's good. My point was, I don't want to worry so much about what a mainstream publisher might think. It's a little trick for myself, I guess. It eases the stress.
Anyway, your sweet for saying it.
Hmmm ...
Haha! It's very strange to me that you look at it that way :)
I don't think that's what they're imagining. I think mostly theatre and cinema is a way to connect your or someone else's feelings. I think it's a matter of relating to someone not trying to be them. In other cases, it's only a way to expose something. A character, a feeling, a situation, a reality. Sometimes, it's not untrue that the actor/viewer/writer was once that character which might mean relating, again.
You don't become someone only by playing the role, or watching the role, or writing the role, right?
P.S: I am NOT an actor, lol.
I really wish I were a different person sometimes. At least a person doing what they've always wanted to do...
An interesting perspective.
=D =D hilarious!
There's something even weirder about stepping outside of yourself for just long enough that the whole thing strikes you as weird.
The cinema is weird, too, it has all the same elements you mention, but it also has people staring vacuous and slack-jawed (at least in my case) at giant images projected on a screen, like a shadow puppet theatre.
You've blown my mind ;)
I agree. It's all about escapism and this is the same when we read novels and we become the heroine etc.
I like it though and it's a nice escape from reality sometimes...especially when I have a huge assignment from uni and I need a break!
Who doesn't wish they were someone else for a couple of hours every day? Imagine themselves far away from their everyday?
Of course, i'm a weird theatre type so maybe it's just in my dna. :)
Nice!! <3
That's what you think about while you're at the movies? What movie were you watching? Everytime Paul Rudd is on the big screen, I can't think of anything else but how much I'd like to get into his pants.
makes sense, nice new perspective :D
Thanks for the compliment, doll!
I think pretending is very very healthy sometimes and gives us appreciation for who we are in real life, sometimes - and maybe even helps us catch reflections of who our true self is in another person or character.
Although I do know too many people who are unhappy with their lives and live theirs in a constant state of escape.
Very good post, mind-bending.
:)
Love&light!
i absolutely love this post....
My brain hurts.
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