Last week, a new student came to my office and talked with me. It's a little heart-warming to see a young person who is just starting off on the next part of their life journey - they have so much hope and so many dreams. It makes me think of those days that I've had in my past. In fact, it was a recent as yesterday (for a few minutes)
Anyway, after talking to this person for a while, he started with all of the questions with the staff here. Are you married? Do you have children? How old are you? When he got around to me (after telling my supervisor who is similar in age to me that she looked late 40's/early 50's), he told me that he thought I was around 32 years old. I thanked him and then broke the news to him. I think that he's still in shock.
Hopes and dreams are funny things. I still have so many that two hands don't have enough fingers to count them. I don't let the fact that I am over 40 dictate what I should be like or where I should be at this time. Perhaps the fact that I don't have children is a contributor but I always tell folk younger than me to follow their hearts. Otherwise, they'll turn bitter - like I can be sometimes.
It's been easier to take the more positive perspective lately. I'm not sure why. I just think that there are times to work towards something and that time has come. I'm going to try to pursue the easier ones in hope of moving on the more difficult ones. It'll all work out in the long run.
While on my lunch break today, I was reading a column entitled "In Violence We Trust" (by Tom Carson) about how the move towards more and more violence in movies is a direct result of movie-makers hang-ups about sex. We used to talk about sex & violence in films and now it's mostly violence. This article suggested that people like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Frances Coppola and Quentin Tarantino have all got sexual hang-ups thus avoiding the topic of sex and increasing the violence quotient. I found it amusing that the writer mentions that the first naked women seen in a Spielberg film were those women in the concentration camps in "Shindler's List".
What do you think? Could this be true? Are filmmakers scared of portraying true human sexuality in their work? Or, do you think that it's the product of a war-mongering, ultra-right government in that country to the south of mine to turn people's thoughts from pre-marital or adulterous sex to patriotism? After all, they really need to have support for the freaking mess they've got themselves into in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Actually, I have to agree with the article. Perhaps people are just so uptight about sexuality that they don't think it should be reflected in film. Most of those that they talked about in the article were men. You'd think that it would be far from uptight in that industry because men seem much more open about it. I guess things are not necessarily like they are perceived.
So what's the option for people who want to see more sex in film? Looks like we'll all have to make more trips to the adult movie section. Or, we could check out what the guys at TAG are doing...
Leave a comment and tell me what you think. I find this whole topic quite interesting...
Anyway, after talking to this person for a while, he started with all of the questions with the staff here. Are you married? Do you have children? How old are you? When he got around to me (after telling my supervisor who is similar in age to me that she looked late 40's/early 50's), he told me that he thought I was around 32 years old. I thanked him and then broke the news to him. I think that he's still in shock.
Hopes and dreams are funny things. I still have so many that two hands don't have enough fingers to count them. I don't let the fact that I am over 40 dictate what I should be like or where I should be at this time. Perhaps the fact that I don't have children is a contributor but I always tell folk younger than me to follow their hearts. Otherwise, they'll turn bitter - like I can be sometimes.
It's been easier to take the more positive perspective lately. I'm not sure why. I just think that there are times to work towards something and that time has come. I'm going to try to pursue the easier ones in hope of moving on the more difficult ones. It'll all work out in the long run.
While on my lunch break today, I was reading a column entitled "In Violence We Trust" (by Tom Carson) about how the move towards more and more violence in movies is a direct result of movie-makers hang-ups about sex. We used to talk about sex & violence in films and now it's mostly violence. This article suggested that people like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Frances Coppola and Quentin Tarantino have all got sexual hang-ups thus avoiding the topic of sex and increasing the violence quotient. I found it amusing that the writer mentions that the first naked women seen in a Spielberg film were those women in the concentration camps in "Shindler's List".
What do you think? Could this be true? Are filmmakers scared of portraying true human sexuality in their work? Or, do you think that it's the product of a war-mongering, ultra-right government in that country to the south of mine to turn people's thoughts from pre-marital or adulterous sex to patriotism? After all, they really need to have support for the freaking mess they've got themselves into in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Actually, I have to agree with the article. Perhaps people are just so uptight about sexuality that they don't think it should be reflected in film. Most of those that they talked about in the article were men. You'd think that it would be far from uptight in that industry because men seem much more open about it. I guess things are not necessarily like they are perceived.
So what's the option for people who want to see more sex in film? Looks like we'll all have to make more trips to the adult movie section. Or, we could check out what the guys at TAG are doing...
Leave a comment and tell me what you think. I find this whole topic quite interesting...
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