My Dreams Came True…(Already :( )

We all often have strange questions and dreams. Like, what will happen after we die? What if this whole life is just a dream? Etc. I believe most people have these kind of dreams or thought or idea or desires or whatever it is. Some will share it, others refrain thinking “Is it normal to have these running in head? will anyone call me loon?” or because they didn’t find any right person or right circumstances to share it. Anyway i do have these kinda strange dreams and desires and ofcourse have some friends also have the same, and have shared it with me. So my hypothesis is that all human beings have ‘these’ running in their head and its definitely not a virus or sign of getting insane.

I had these dreams since i was a kid. But the most craziest thing is, some of these dreams of mine have been made into films. Not by me though. Here are some of my ‘Dreams turned into Cinema’.

1. The Matrix(1999) 

When i saw the film ‘The Matrix (1999)’ I was… speechless, awestruck, thunderstruck, ;), thinking how the hell did they know about my crazy dreams. Its my dream!!! And i saw my dream totally exploded and explored. With so many superbly built characters and stories, even some on the lines of Hindu puranhas. I became a quick matrix fan, or more approppriately a Matrix Addict. (I even agree to some extent that it all could be real ;) ). Ghost in the shell & Darkcity also had similar themes. They all borrow and share some plots n points between them. Then the amazing Animatrix. I became a cult follower of all of it. Later i figured out that, a looooot of people in this world have these ‘trapped in this world’, ‘feel outlaw’, ‘this is not real’ kinda dreams, that could be even the reason behind films like Matrix triology, Ghost in the Shell, Dark City has become huge hit and Cult. See this Amazing Anime from Animatrix : The Kids Story.

 

and this too. My favorite. i love the eeriness of animatrix.

 

 

2.Bin-Jip(3-iron) –(2004)

I love empty places. i always dreamed of going to some house, living there, alone (with lots of food supply ofcourse ;) ). The desire heightened further on seeing this clip on TV, which was shown with some film festival news. (Which was got nothing to do directly with my desire). I was a kid then and didn’t know from which movie this is from, until last year i figured it out. Its from the 1987 Steven Speilberg Movie “Empire of the Sun”,  which saw Christian bale (Dark Knight, American Psycho) for the first time.

i love the hostel after everyone had gone home. Hundreds of rooms, with all things intact & no inmates. I would go to each room and would live like the inmate of that room, ‘feeling at home’ and carefully placing all things back to its place while leaving, even with imperfection(IMO achieving most natural looking imperfection is the the most difficult thing in this world). It was something close to invisibility. And the next time i see the ‘original inmates’  i would say in my mind ‘i now know some secret of you, how you feel in living in this room’.  Like this i want to live in other houses too, i want to step into their shoes and wanna get a fresh perspective of this same old world, I wished at least for one day make everyone vanish, so that i could try it. Then i saw this film, 3-Iron, actually i read the script first and then saw. A film by the legendary korean director ‘Kim ki duk’. In this film, the protagonist goes around empty houses and live in them for sometime, like its owner, then keeping evrything back in place, he will leave, silently. Amazing amazing film must watch it. It have a ZEN touch/philosophy all around it.

And one more proof that i’m not alone in this world. I discovered her from this TED Talk. My first impression was ‘oh wat a boring feverish girl…” after the end of her speech and a visit to her site http://www.mirukim.com i was more than a fan of her. What an amazing character.

3.The Elephant (2003)

This film when i saw it, instead of feeling awestruck, or thunderstruck or any such words synonyms.com provides, i felt so sad. Because ‘I’ wanted to ‘MAKE’ this one.

It was in my 2nd year of B.Tech. So much frustration and anger was in me, everyting around me was dark and violent, the music, the movies, the relations, the books. Vengeance was the only thing i had in my mind. Then I came across this awesome music, from OST of the awesome movie Snatch :   From this exact scene :

[original music]:Full length

This is my favorite scene “Burning Pikey’s Mum’s caravan”. I love everything about this scene, the lighting, the fire, the music, how the director made fire a character symbolising the villain, the slow-motion making us realise how helpless we are and most incredibly…. BRAD PITT. He’s one truly deserved STAR. See his damn expression on his face…

SO, i had this idea of making a music video for this song, I don’t remember if its the music or the idea which came first, both was simultaneous i guess. The core idea of my script was this, a guy with a good physique going in to college, shooting everyone, like in an FPS game, pouring out his vengeance…. I was trying to get relieved my own anger and frustration through this one. And i was not ashamed on realising how dark can my heart go. Everything was flowing so effortlessly from my heart. I didn’t know how to write it all out, so i would sit in class and draw the images coming to mind, so that later it could be used as a storyboard. I spoke to my friend unni about this 2-3 times, he was ready to act. This Guy :------>

I was planning a “Californication” kinda treatment to the whole MV. Like an FPS game, camera always tracking the main character and sometimes showing his face using a bodycam.  So much preparation was going inside my head… until I saw this film :

ELEPHANT(2003)

A film by American director ‘Gus Van Sant’(Good will hunting, Milk). This film had exact same plot which i had in my mind, a guy having his vengeance on society, by shooting whoever on sight at his college(well, its not that uni-dimensional, watch it for yourself). Watching this film for me was like having a Dejavu. So many shots and scenes i planned, and here they’ve done it soooooo… PERFECTLY… I ditched last bit of my desire for that MV. The cinematography, the acting, directing, every damn thing was in its perfect place, with absolutely no gimmick.

**SPOILER ALERT**

Don’t watch the below video if you are planning to watch this film. I definitely recommend watching this film, full length. Also, faint hearteds ‘be warned’.

And thats NOT all Folks!!! There are some more movies... So consider this as a Part 1 of N. Thanks if you read it full… :P