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Author: | JeffCobb [ Tue May 23, 2017 10:35 pm ] |
Post subject: | Fantasy movies can tell about real life... |
One of the parts of LBD thats coming up for all of us at one point or another is the loss of ability to communicate in a meaningful way. Being an inveterate puzzle solver, I am hard at work thinking of outside-the-box methods of communication that might survive my loss of normal abilities. One of the avenues of that research concerns less the attempt to communicate language and more on the idea of communicating concepts and ideas. Or better stated, I was looking at ways of communicating ideas and concepts without the requirement of standard language to do so. I have some more serious ideas going down this path but one that is just more for fun is this...I have a pretty decent video library and I thought what if I used it to tell my story, at least the important parts? No I am not claiming to be Indiana Jones in real life....try it like this. I served in the Army in the 80's and 3+ years of that time was spent in (then) West Berlin. This is when the wall was still up and so all that was going on but at the same time, the 80's were an interesting time in Berlin. The modern ideas were overtaking the ideas of the previous generation and going to East Berlin was like living in a black and white movie. This was the first impression I had when I over the first time. The western side however almost seemed to reach to the opposite, everything was so lively and fun, always ready for a party, the people were warm and friendly and no one took themselves too seriously. But now when I try to explain to someone what Berlin felt like at that time, the words are lost and if the listener is young enough, the context is lost too. Attachment:
File comment: The Kurfurstendamm, Berlin Germany. Very cool place. kudamm.jpg [ 80.17 KiB | Viewed 1783 times ] Now as I said this is more of a fun what-if so don't laugh. Roger Moore died recently, bet he is bummed but I spent some time going through my Roger Moore flicks and realized the otherwise-lame Octopussy was a pretty great snapshot of what Berlin was like at that time. So when I say a movie can tell part of our stories I don't mean the spy stuff in this case. Rather, if you watch Octopussy, you will come away with the general feel of what my world was like then. And that movie was shot on a number of roads I took to work everyday so seeing them in the flick brings back memories as well... What kind of movies could tell your life story? |
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