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Jul. 1st, 2018 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zinze While I'm struggling with my own stop-pretending-art-is-hard situation, I've been thinking about the LBT2 play (thinking maybe it would be easier to work on something where I don't have a bunch of preexisting scenes to worry about), and I'm realizing it is sort of stop-pretending-art-is-hard? Like, it's about earnestly loving the things you love and enthusiasm, it's about the value of derivative work, but maybe also, the value of creative works that aren't great. It's ok that the book is derivative and unoriginal and not particularly good or interesting. It's an expression of something genuine and meaningful in its own tiny way, even if no one else would want to read it. It may be self-indulgent to be interested in it, but that's ok.
Rachel fixates on the book because she knows it has something of herself that she's lost, but she feels shame about its existence and about her interest in it. I like the idea of watching the movie as a climactic, pivotal thing for her, but I don't know what gets her there. How does something, in the dinosaur world or reality, make her change her mind about revisiting the movie, and what does that means for her?
If it all does back to Doin' The Things That You Want To and loving the things you love, what does Rachel love as an adult that she's holding herself back from? What is shame keeping her from? I've been thinking about the end in terms of accepting that it's okay not to be an adult yet and to have some time at home sorting her stuff out, but I don't know how that ties to watching the movie (besides being roughly the conclusion of the movie, but I don't know how it ties to making the decision to watch it) or to the shame/enthusiasm issues.
I don't know who exists outside of the dinosaur world; a friend? her parents? a skype interview? a variety? I sort of liked the idea of double-casting whoever is in the "real" world with the mute dinosaur, partially because it otherwise sucks to have a role with no lines, but that might work less well if there are multiple people she interacts with in the "real world." I feel like she feels a bit isolated, so I don't necessarily want a bunch of people.
Rachel fixates on the book because she knows it has something of herself that she's lost, but she feels shame about its existence and about her interest in it. I like the idea of watching the movie as a climactic, pivotal thing for her, but I don't know what gets her there. How does something, in the dinosaur world or reality, make her change her mind about revisiting the movie, and what does that means for her?
If it all does back to Doin' The Things That You Want To and loving the things you love, what does Rachel love as an adult that she's holding herself back from? What is shame keeping her from? I've been thinking about the end in terms of accepting that it's okay not to be an adult yet and to have some time at home sorting her stuff out, but I don't know how that ties to watching the movie (besides being roughly the conclusion of the movie, but I don't know how it ties to making the decision to watch it) or to the shame/enthusiasm issues.
I don't know who exists outside of the dinosaur world; a friend? her parents? a skype interview? a variety? I sort of liked the idea of double-casting whoever is in the "real" world with the mute dinosaur, partially because it otherwise sucks to have a role with no lines, but that might work less well if there are multiple people she interacts with in the "real world." I feel like she feels a bit isolated, so I don't necessarily want a bunch of people.
