I've read some great posts on the forums, linking present works to previous, watching shorts and features submitted and dissecting the initial orb of inspiration that kick-started the vision, be it from fact, fiction or documentary, it's damn fascinating.
So I'm hoping this thread will open the eyes of the old & new onto material that maybe they had no idea existed, of what inspired them and most of all why, leaving a catalog for the masses of forum-goers to refer to in the very foreseeable future.
I'll go ahead and give my two cent and score you with a short synopsis to give you a heads up whether indeed it's your 'thing' or not.
(I'm secretly hoping most of have seen both of these productions already)
'MAN ON WIRE'
Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center.
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'The Diving Bell & The Butterfly'
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le scaphandre et le papillon) is a 2007 French/American biopic/drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on 8th December 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome.
Both book adaptations partner the original novels exceptionally. 'MAN ON WIRE' is something of true marvel, the movie recites the journey in the present day by Phillipe himself amongst a few of his closest friends and once partner whose name escapes me. The interviews are timid at times, heartfelt and so true to a point that left me motionless. There's something in a man walking across a wire, suspended in the sky, above the economy, above New York City, and of course since the great tragedy of 9/11, needless to say, seeing the buildings resurrected and a small-framed man seemingly gliding between them is something to behold. It was a movie i come away from feeling enormously proud.
'The Diving Bell & The Butterfly'. The novel was written by Jean-do himself, using an alphabet sequence which he choreographed using his left-eye lid. He was the once French editor turned vegetable, limp and bedridden he survived by living within the walls of his imagination, and left us with a great novel turned great film.
I can say equally, the two are profound influences in how i live and write, they're timeless with well-knitted story-telling and cinematography that i can forever applaud.
So I'm hoping this thread will open the eyes of the old & new onto material that maybe they had no idea existed, of what inspired them and most of all why, leaving a catalog for the masses of forum-goers to refer to in the very foreseeable future.
I'll go ahead and give my two cent and score you with a short synopsis to give you a heads up whether indeed it's your 'thing' or not.
(I'm secretly hoping most of have seen both of these productions already)
'MAN ON WIRE'
Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center.
AND
'The Diving Bell & The Butterfly'
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le scaphandre et le papillon) is a 2007 French/American biopic/drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on 8th December 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome.
Both book adaptations partner the original novels exceptionally. 'MAN ON WIRE' is something of true marvel, the movie recites the journey in the present day by Phillipe himself amongst a few of his closest friends and once partner whose name escapes me. The interviews are timid at times, heartfelt and so true to a point that left me motionless. There's something in a man walking across a wire, suspended in the sky, above the economy, above New York City, and of course since the great tragedy of 9/11, needless to say, seeing the buildings resurrected and a small-framed man seemingly gliding between them is something to behold. It was a movie i come away from feeling enormously proud.
'The Diving Bell & The Butterfly'. The novel was written by Jean-do himself, using an alphabet sequence which he choreographed using his left-eye lid. He was the once French editor turned vegetable, limp and bedridden he survived by living within the walls of his imagination, and left us with a great novel turned great film.
I can say equally, the two are profound influences in how i live and write, they're timeless with well-knitted story-telling and cinematography that i can forever applaud.
