WOW! the professor and the madman movie review by (me!) ~tops
you know how sometimes you are looking at something, but thinking about something else.. staring at a tv or movie screen, but thinking about the seven errands you need to run...
well, throughout this magnificent, highly intriguing, wildly surprising movie.. i was staring at the screen, but my mind kept imagining
like if i could have been behind the scenes, in the room, when the movie was first pitched
"... about the making of the dictionary..."
and i know from being a word lover, a writer, a poet..
well, in smaller circles, with like minds, this would be immediately exciting
"the dictionary! YES! awesome! -how much money do you need.."
but,
in larger box office motivated circles, like, the audiences for road warrior, patriot, braveheart
in larger circles, like, say, the audiences for fast times, dead man walking...
and so, initially i couldnt pay attention to the movie itself because i just kept wondering
how on God's good green earth did someone get MEL GIBSON & SEAN PENN to star in a movie about the making of the dictionary!?!?
-if i stood in well populated place and "have you ever wondered about the making of the dictionary? everyone interested in learning more.. step write up here...
and, like 3 people...
and then, my imaginations would be interrupted with an actual scene in the movie, and i'd be engaged in the movie itself again..
wow'd by these two master level actors...
and scene by fascinating scene.. as the personalities and character and motivations and obstacles and intensities of inner conflicts were artistically revealed; simultaneously mixed with moral, ethical, healthy and dysfunctional decisions; coexisting with a diseased and disintegrating human mind, but an over-emotional, conflicted and hypersensitive human heart, and to watch the undermining manipulators ultimately lose to the determined and visionary
i more deeply appreciate their master level skills as actors in scenes found in this movie, than in any other.
i rather wish, -for the sake of a tutorial, and to increase even more, the appreciation of talent, skill, artistry, interpretation
that they would film this movie a second time, and swap roles.
i can share here, that despite my love of words, writing.. i have never been curious about the making of..
i would flashback occasionally to myself in 4th grade.. 1st place! for looking up words in the dictionary the fastest... honey, i could flip pages.. and had a great gift for understanding how the words were alphabetized... and how to use the guide words..
never curious about the who/how/when the dictionary was made; but delighted to learn more..
and i had mistakenly thought, that wikipedia, was one of the first laypeople, civilian, large scale crowd sourcing projects
to learn how crowd sourcing was employed to create the dictionary... -big smile
yes..
A task that might take one man a hundred lifetimes, could take a hundred men just one.
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so, as the movie progressed, i started to see the original pitch a little differently..
not, "hey, let's make a movie about the making of the dictionary! who is in.. who is with me?"
-no-
what got the attention of mel gibson and sean penn.. "madness & genius" -a 20 year, correspondence only, friendship between a professor and a madman..
"we are going to turn the 1998 book... surgeon of crowthorne...
one of the most prolific contributors to the dictionary was a murderer; an insane inmate.. a retired American surgeon who served in the civil war...
the determined visionary; incredibly ambitious editor.. a project that took 70+ years to complete..
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and i have seen over the past few decades, many new movies/books/tv shows which are prequels and sequels to already familiar stories...
looking at/creating a before and after can and does generate ideas for new stories and entertainment..
but so does that, doesn't it.. the how/when/why of everyday things/items/tools we had not yet thought to be curious about...
-oxford english dictionary... who knew?
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p.s. webster's 1828 dictionary, joyce meyer's favorite.. for the % of words based on the Bible.
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and John 1:14 is one of my favorites.. because it clearly says "word" was made flesh.. and not "number"
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i'm about to look up the word love in a standard dictionary.. and then look up what love means in the Bible..
-for my entertainment.. i imagine being able to go back in time.. to the boys/men i dated along the way... and each time they said, "i love you" -i get out the dictionary and the Bible..
"which love do you mean?... the one in the Bible says "is NOT self-seeking...
says here in the Bible: patient... kind... not jealous... not envious or boastful..
says here in the Bible: not easily angered... does not keep a record of wrongs...
says here in the Bible: always protects... always trusts... always hopes... always preservers...
love is eternal!
is that what YOU mean!?!" or are you [grabs regular dictionary] just experiencing a very temporary 'intense feeling of potential pleasure'... that you will 'enjoy very much'"
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/i crack myself up... fun, fun, fun... laughing emoji write here.
IN Jesus, alpha and omega name, amen!
posted by SANDRA HARRISON KAY @ 12:31 PM
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