Vollifer1949
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I love weird stories about classic films.
Just learned from the Rewatchables pod that Good Will Hunting was supposed to be a spy movie. What we saw was only the first half of the movie. The script had him becoming a hero with his genius, putting it to good use. Somebody read the script and essentially said "you have two different movies here, idiots."
What you got?
Phillip K Dick is the mind behind many great sci fi books/movies like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Man in the High Castle, etc. He popularized the idea of simulation theory (The Matrix) in the 1970's and was willing to say all manner of crazy things at public events. He claimed that many/most of his ideas came from experiences in parallel universes that are horrible in comparison to ours.
This sounds like total insanity, but my best friend has sleep paralysis and he has crazy visions like this. I've seen him when he's in a sleep paralysis state. He'll be sleeping and suddenly he'll be looking fully awake and you try to talk to him but he's not really there. This had been going on as long as I knew him (since HS 23 years ago). He didn't tell me what it was for a long time because he thought it was crazy. It might just be a waking dream state that most don't experience? But he thinks he's in another place and it feels real to him. I studied up on this some and many people make the same claim that they wake up with paralysis and there is somebody in the room with them. Some sort of being. Many come to the conclusion that it's the beings running the simulation checking up on you/downloading information, etc. I wonder what the hell the real explanation is?
I have to be honest, when my friend first told me about this a few years ago, I did think he was nuts. He feels really alone in this. He actually cried when I finally validated him telling him that I found all these other people with the same condition. At last, he had somebody in his corner that knew his deal and didn't think he was nuts.
So when you look at PKD's work and you wonder how the hell he comes up with this stuff, you don't really want to know. The price is a tormented mind, restlessness, loneliness, paranoia, fears of insanity, etc.
I suffer from sleep paralysis and still have an episode every couple of months. I can tell you I definitely have experienced episodes where I swore someone was in the room with me. I've heard strange voices, seen figures, even felt "people" push me down when I tried to get up. I've moved outside my body, watched myself sleep, felt myself move my arms while still knowing my arms were beside my body. Before I found out what it was, it freaked the hell out of me. I now just believe it's all in my mind created in the state of being between conscious and asleep and it's basically my mind not being able to tell between real and dream. The last episode I had a few weeks ago I thought for sure my arm dropped and hung beside the bed and I heard a very loud pounding on the wall and the pictures were almost falling off. Then I "woke up" and my arm was under the cover and there was obviously no pounding on the wall since my wife was asleep.
I've actually had a few funny "interactions", I've had some where I sensed a being hovering over me and audibly taunting me. That's when I started to try to hit it with my ghost arms and it always moves back so I don't hit it. So I started cursing at it and I heard it say one time "Well that's not very nice...."
Jack Nicholson refused to wear a Red Sox hat for the Departed and inexplicably wore a Yankees hat because of his real life fandom. It's the all-time douche power move by an actor, and he did it to Scorsese. It's one of my favorite movies, but Nicholson was bad for the role. His accent wasn't very good and he was so over the top.
Kurt Russell was originally cast in the role of Crash Davis in "Bull Durham" (1988). Russell was a logical choice, since he really had played minor league baseball in the 1970's, and had even been teammates with Director Ron Shelton. The studio insisted on Kevin Costner, however, due to his box office draw at the time.
Kurt Russell was somewhat vindicated in 1993/1994, when "Tombstone" became a hit, while Costner's "Wyatt Earp" flopped.
I don't know how true this is but I had read Costner originally was originally targeted to be in Tombstone as Wyatt Earp but he didn't like that the movie was more an ensemble type movie and wasn't titled to single out Earp. So he instead used his influence to get Wyatt Earp made into a major movie, when it was originally going to be a TV mini-series. So if true he basically passed because of vanity and made another Earp movie out of spite and it backfired.
Thats the first ive ever heard of that. In fact id always heard and read the exact opposite. That George P Cosmatos was absolutely a visionary. He researched authenticity of all characters and was instrumental in the historicity of the gunfight at OK Corral. He also found the actor who played Ike Clanyon, was just a reenactor.And Kurt Russell completely saved Tombstone. By all accounts, the director was totally bombing and losing the cast and crew and Russell basically took over production.
Thats the first ive ever heard of that. In fact id always heard and read the exact opposite. That George P Cosmatos was absolutely a visionary. He researched authenticity of all characters and was instrumental in the historicity of the gunfight at OK Corral. He also found the actor who played Ike Clanyon, was just a reenactor.