Trainer workouts and movies!
Okay so this morning, Ian (my writing partner), and I took to our trainers so we could watch a movie with the director/writers commentary. We have found that this can be good multi-tasking if we need to fit in a session but we still want to work on our film stuff.
Now it was a wonderful film and certainly insightful as filmmakers to listen to the details of how this was put together…but, I couldn’t help feeling like there was a heck of a lot of over analysis or intellectual masturbation over the process by which they came about some of their decisions. I’m not doubting that many choices were carefully crafted, if not most, but surely some of the “meaning” behind those choices was actually bestowed upon it after the fact or by others interpretation. It seems easier in hindsight to place labels or to justify a choice when so many of those choices were probably done by instinct or intuition. It’s almost like to validate their craft they have to over intellectualize it.
Our process as writers, and even to a certain extent as athletes includes much development, analysis and logical planning out but also at some point you let much of that go and just do it. Situations occur, the gun goes off, the camera roles, and you just get it done any way you can.
I guess those that are really talented can make intuitive decisions work and thus seem like they were always planned out in advance…maybe when I’m in the “commentary” box of my next big film, I’ll sound like a pompous ass too!
