Films on films

Cinema Paradisio, The Artist, Om Shanti Om, Luck By Chance, Khoya Khoya Chand, Inception (if you accept one interpretation), Harishchandrachi Factory, The Fall, Singin' In The Rain.

Wonder why are there so many films about films, filmmaking and the love of films. I don't think, at least proportionately, there are as many books about books.

Most of these films are quite good too.

I have just mentioned a few of my favorites, a longer (though not complete) list is here.

What's behind a story?

John Carter posters are on every bus today. It reeks of manufactured epic-ness with its Ariel Bold like typeface. The red mars in the background and the silhouette of the lone man looks heavily inspired from a cover of The Dispossessed, lending it that science fiction feel.

But I can't help smiling when I look at it. I always think of that man working as a pencil sharpener whole-seller who started writing the story in order to earn a few dollars more in order to support his family. Today that very  story has spiraled into this mega million dollar commercial product.

It's quite awesome when you think about it.

So, what's behind a story? It's another story.

There is the patent clerk's job behind the special theory of relativity, a picnic behind Wonderland, a disenchanted man's suicide behind evolutionary game theory, a bet behind The Lord of the Rings, and also one behind The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and pencil sharpeners behind interplanetary love affairs.

That's all I can think of right now.

What's the story behind your favorite story?

In a book the plot dictates the actions of the characters.

In life, the actions of the characters dictates the plot.