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Dec. 30th, 2001 02:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksWhat an amazingly bizarre little dream. I fell asleep after dinner as usual on a weekend, and had one of those dreams where I wasn't a participant, but a completely passive observer, like watching a movie. The details are fading, but it was the life story of a woman who, among other things, had been a novice nun as a teenager until her mission was attacked in the Middle East by bandits, everyone but her killed, and she went on to become a desert fighter before going back to Europe and having more remarkable adventures and dying a rich old woman, several ex-husbands, etc. The framing sequence to this was her funeral, where several middle-aged men and women attended, her "children", various people whom she'd met, and "adopted", having had no children of her own, over the years and whose lives she'd influenced. In the flashbacks which made up the movie we see her meeting them as kids, all remarkably precocious, and seeing her from those various points of view.
But that's not the bizarre part.
The bizarre part is that once this medium budget biopic is over in my head, I get a replay - but a replay made completely different by the fact that this time, the guy producing the movie used footage from other movies, most with no connection to the storyline or even from completely different genres. So you wound up with a chase from a spy movie intercut with scenes from inside a gothic cathedral, and then suddenly you see two space fighters being launched from a Cylon base-star like battlecruiser, and then someone leaping off a castle wall into the moat below. Actors, even dialogue, are replaced in these pieces of footage, so you wind up with a surreal jigsaw of disconnected pieces of film but somehow managing to perceive a structure and pattern in it.
No idea what it means, though.
But that's not the bizarre part.
The bizarre part is that once this medium budget biopic is over in my head, I get a replay - but a replay made completely different by the fact that this time, the guy producing the movie used footage from other movies, most with no connection to the storyline or even from completely different genres. So you wound up with a chase from a spy movie intercut with scenes from inside a gothic cathedral, and then suddenly you see two space fighters being launched from a Cylon base-star like battlecruiser, and then someone leaping off a castle wall into the moat below. Actors, even dialogue, are replaced in these pieces of footage, so you wind up with a surreal jigsaw of disconnected pieces of film but somehow managing to perceive a structure and pattern in it.
No idea what it means, though.
