Tuesday, October 27, 2009
It's All True
This story contains time traveling again for a pseudo historical/movie marketing motive. The narrator Det travels back in time to try and convince Orson Welles to return to the future to complete his unfinished flicks and possibly create new ones. Of course Welles turns down his offer, and the funny thing is Welles suggests that Det remain in the past and with his knowledge of the future they could become millionaires--this kind of reminded me of "Back to the Future". and like Welles, Det declines and it makes me wonder why both men--seemingly so familiar and unfamiliar in so many aspects--would turn down the offer of rewriting history and gaining fame and fortune?
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It makes me wonder, how's changing the past any different from changing the present. Why should we feel a sense of reverence towards the past, it's gone and fictionalized anyways, so why care about keeping it consistent with what we already know?
ReplyDeleteI would've liked to have seen Welles come out better in the end, but that's just the cinephile in me. The poor guy got screwed in every way possible by Hollywood.
I think it was a good call by Orson to not entertain the idea of going into the future. They usually say that you can write best about what you know and your experiences. I suppose a director would be in a similar situation. He would have no idea what motivates a person to do anything anymore so far into the future.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with Alan on wanting to have seen Orson have another chance to make his movies. If Orson could have played nice in Hollywood maybe we would have seen one or two excellent movies from him.
I think changing the past is out of the question. But then so is "changing" the future. Sometimes I feel like the present is the only indeterminate portion of the dimension we call time.
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