So today we had a screenwriter come in and talk to us. His name is John Darrouzet.
He said that when he taught, people never wanted to discuss their own fear or private worries or their dreams. So he had them watch movies and pretend they were collective dreams. The reason he talked about dreams was explain the connection with dreams and how they help us solve problems and make decisions. He learned this through studying Psychology.
I thought about High Noon, but did not bring it up because he was talking.
This old western was shown to me in a Philosophy Class I took with Nick Braun a few years ago. The main character is a named Will. Nick pointed out the name and what Will, which had a double meaning, had decisions to make. Was Will strong enough? A person’s will.
At the beginning of the class he asked us what are favorite movie was and I said 3-10 To Yuma and explained that I loved that the characters were faced with hard decisions and they changed and grew throughout the movie and with the relationships.
He thought it was interesting that I brought that movie up and later said that that movie was the basis for what he and his partner at the time wrote, which later became the movie The Contract with Morgan Freeman and John Cusack.
This link below is interesting. It is a blog of Darrouzet’s in which he too talks about the movie Nick Braun had us discuss.
http://opennetworkers.ning.com/profiles/blogs/644203:BlogPost:8012
