Mythology

 This has podcasts for different ways to look at storytelling mythology and psychology, I'm particular to looking at the liminal and in story superhero stories

https://www.tellingabetterstory.com/#videos

Parodies

 I just realized that I could rip off of movies in a parody to bring comedy to my writing, humor to even the difficult parts

Like in the movie taken, I have a set of special skills that I will use to discuss what I need to.

It Ends With Us?

 Making a film based on a book that speaks out against domestic violence, there is still misogyny and retaliation in the background.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/reevaluating-blake-lively-it-ends-with-us-actresss-legal-complaint-against-justin-baldoni-puts-misogyny-in-the-spotlight-195854387.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CLICKER_T1&ncid=crm_30541-1501458-20241225-0&bt_user_id=lxC%2FR2tkjsJAvoDVZ8jVw%2FDYW76wZntinxTjSOAMjP9u05rjvYVibmQaawdbDfwd&bt_ts=1735146560327

Poetry and mythology

 "Poetry in its own way is ultimately mythology." Stanley Kunitz

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBB23dnv2Ad/?igsh=bGd1eG80a2k2bzBp

Over the holiday work

 I want to take the article that James Gunn discussed how Superman can bring a divided America back together.

I want to finish the Matrix writing I've started

I want to work on that heuristic guide to the positive Trickster

The impact of Truman Show , working in corporate world 

I also want to write about Christmas movies

Start with this

Memoir

 It has to be about how we survive so we can help other people to know they can survive

It can't be about trying to get vengeance

To be about saving others as well as the healing Journey

Something in the writing should be attached to love and joy

Writing out of the love that we found from the black sheep gospel

I cry at the start of every movie

 I cry at the start of every movie / I guess cause I wish that I was making things too

https://youtu.be/HYbXt4_r9Pw?si=hu5GjeYGnHHCOB0q

Interlibrary loan

 Be sure to go back and check out those books again, as I was thinking about this back in December of 2022. I'm trying to figure out what led me but thinking of trout trauma-informed things and how to face my own histories through something I love.

Against masculinity

 Trying to find ways to not perform in a hyper-masculine way.

Women studies points out how patriarchal systems are damaging

Masculinity and Batman

 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/men-men0000398.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjuoIGs4KOKAxVZ6ckDHWMUOJQQFnoECBIQBg&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw3YXfsgYx0XhXuyIIsEX95D

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2015.1094361

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=superhero+films+masculinity+studies&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&t=1734059098788&u=%23p%3DrJRTT6AeW8MJ

Paternalism, performative masculinity and the post-9/11 cowboy in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy

Cathrine Avery

The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 12 (1), 65-81, 2023

Dark Knight at Fifteen: An Intersectional Retrospective

Erin Casey-Williams

REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos 5 (2), 154–170-154–170, 2024

Characters within The Dark Knight access intersectional, systemic privileges linked to the performance of masculinity, whiteness, neoliberal class consciousness, and heteronormativity. Using cultural studies as the framework and intersectionality as the point of departure, this

In the batman, the privilege of being white and male and Rich does seem to be superseded by trauma. It's like what my spouse asked if Bruce Wayne is a billionaire why doesn't he give his money to the impoverished areas where we know then crime will go down. We'll, we learn why the money is gone

As far as masculinity that's a whole other story. This is a story where masculinity and the anger that can be pushed on to other bodies is changed during the film.

In fact  the individuation that Bruce Wayne goes through as a character

Problematic things

https://outwritenewsmag.org/2022/04/the-batman-2022-a-bisexuals-superhero-dream/#:~:text=I%20would%20even%20go%20further,my%20new%20favorite%20Bruce%20Wayne.

The batman IS an examination of toxic masculinity 

https://www.hercampus.com/school/gcu/the-batman-and-masculinity/

https://sunypress.edu/Blog/2022/Holy-Incel-Batman!-Part-1

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/paul-dano-riddler-the-batman-movie-robert-pattinson-new-york-b985522.html

Screenwriter directors with a vision

 https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/matt-reeves-the-batman

I mean, people who don't go to superhero movies might be missing out, or people who are going just for the spectacle or entertainment might be missing out, or missing out on how these movies can see or show Humanity in a way that dramas can't, or normal Thrillers can't, or normal horror movies can't.

I mean, we have a criminal billionaire who is in power and the militia coming down to take out president-elect.

The screenplay was finished just days before January 6th.

Movies Make Magic

 I might name my book

Movies Make Magic

 

 at the movies for cinetherapy, modern mythology, and healing Poetics 

Vanessa Angelica Villarreal has an amazing book titled magical realism essays on music memory fantasy and borders

I know I need to find something that pops like that

At the Movies: How Mind, Myth, and Memoir Make the Magic

something with poetry in it

 

poetry

movies

mental health or self care or cinema therapy

modern mythology

 

key terms!

Brilliant

 I love how this article takes the films narrator and creates a meta moment from the language of the film!

"So now then.

This is the story of a budding cinephile who stumbled upon an unusual film and resolved, insofar as any 13-year-old can set firm intentions, to spend the rest of his life watching, and writing about, movies. An eighth-grader cross-legged on the floor of his parents’ bedroom, clicking the channel to IFC and finding the trio of uncanny coincidences that make up the film’s prologue. A solitary, bookish boy whose dreams came true, after a fashion, who proved that movies really can change your life — albeit in ways you can never quite plan on. And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that this is not just something that happened. This cannot be one of those things. This was not simply a matter of chance. These strange things happen all the time."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-12-06/magnolia-paul-thomas-anderson-1999-project

Forms

 I would love to include a letter to my son's or different Sons

Letter to Kimberly

Lists

Play with the you voice to represent my personal experiences

Dennis third person

Documents movie stubs, go through journals

Journals transcriptions

Collage

Describing scenes without noting movie

Describing the interview with Leonardo DiCaprio for the This Boy's Life movie

List of best top box office films

Experimental

 Experimental writing one thing I might try to do is switch from memoir to the movie description, as in describing what is happening to the movie and including dialogue but not mentioning the movie it came from. I would have it in the notes.

For instance talking about applying to McDonald's or working at McDonald's or even the thing about when I was asked to close and then having the switch to fast food nation the scene with the manager

My mom coming out to me followed by the scene in fried green tomatoes where the husband gets angry

Somewhere also collage was how the actors talked about how they played a queer but didn't want to be obvious just to escape the sensors

Like memoir, but memoir

 I like that Louise Krug as well as Jess Zimmerman writes with these collage points and they serve as really great examples of what I should do as I'm introducing concepts of mythology, AKA what other people say, what the trickster who is positive, what all of these things I want to introduce I just can't have without my story. It's going to be interspersing things but also describing use Rich details about spaces places, movie scenes, the things I really love. To bring the joy of even a really well filmed movie as I describe what makes that seem so well done, like the Punch-Drunk Love bathroom scene and how simply amazing it is with how sound and a still camera as if eavesdropping on a character who is simply lost it.