Published by tkblaich on 09 Jan 2010 at 06:53 pm
Dead People are Getting Me Down
For the past week, I’ve been watching movies for the Obvious Bigtime Awards Show (that I won’t mention by name, lest someone find me and fire me or something…) and all of these movies have one thing in common. They are being watched because someone involved in the making of the movie croaked this year. I did this 5 years ago for the SAG Awards, and for some reason that didn’t really bother me. Maybe because I wasn’t in my 30s yet. Maybe I used to be a heartless Hollywood hack. Or, maybe because now I’m watching movies that I originally watched for one dude being dead, and now the other dude is dead and fuck me, watching The Muppet Movie is a real bag o’ laughs when everyone in every scene is fucking dead. Even goddamned Kermit the fucking Frog is dead.
I watch the movie in fast forward, and say, dead, dead, he’s dead, she’s dead, camera-man dead, writer dead, director dead, dead, is he dead?, not dead, dead, dead, dead.
No one else is allowed to die. I know it’s going to get crowded down here, and traffic in Los Angeles is a bitch already, but I can’t take it. No more death. No more legacies. Let’s just all stay alive a little while longer. At least until the Obvious Bigtime Awards Show is over.
VJ on 11 Jan 2010 at 5:52 pm #
Yep. I’m with you on that one. Every time I watched, it was the most significant part of the eve. And it only gets worse over time & with advancing age too. But hey, I no longer have a working TV so I do all of this online via a few well known sites. That way you get some academics, soldiers, sailors, poets, spys & others in the mix. It’s always sad. Even for the real oldsters who were clearly living ‘out of time’ for oh, say the last 50 years or so just so calmly & blithely. (Some well known Brit academic Classicists really can do that for eons!) The last Luftwaffe fighting ace. The last Polish Naval hero. The last of the new age of dancers etc. Just incredible people we seem not to be producing again, or that we seem to be wholly unawares of now. But hey, I hope the gig pays well! Get well too! (Excellent way to spend some bed time though, if you’re sick). Cheers & Good Luck, ‘VJ’