Hearts of Darkness documentary
We are going peach picking in Central Florida. Quite a bit of a drive, so as we were driving, we played the documentary behind apocalypse now, in anticipation of next weeks’s movie review.
I doubt the kids got much out of it, but if they got anything, it’s more than nothing.
I didn’t catch all of the documentary visually because I was driving. But audio was definitely more than sufficient.
It’s wild what goes in to making these movies… When they are really done with full commitment. 300 days shooting in the Philippines jungle… People not “being in character”, but rather just losing themselves mentally.
There is a part of me that wants to write it off as self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing, narcissistic, mental illness celebrity behavior.
People who have never really played the role thinking they can learn how to play the role by putting themselves through intense Movie-making.
Without getting too much into the details of what we will discuss next week, Martin Sheen, getting drunk, ...