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I was going through old folders on my computer and discovered a few pictures I took in December 2016 that I liked.
This is my old desk.
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Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
- Agatha Christie, author (15 Sep 1890-1976)
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Something’s happened to one of the greatest comedians of our time. He’s recently transformed into a figure that makes everyone ask, what the hell happened to Jim Carrey? From being broke, to following his ambition, to finding success, to making millions and to one day just, quietly stepping away from the spotlight. The very same spotlight that made Jim Carrey into the man loved by people all around the world as he anxiously pursued the challenge of putting a smile on our faces by subtly exaggerating the simplest of his movements.
Perhaps we’ll always remember him as a one of a kind comedian with a thousand faces, but the truth is, more than being a funny guy, Jim Carrey has the greatest command over dramatic moments that puts a doubt in our minds as to whether he’s actually a comedian or was he just pretending to be one?
The very first time he decided to take on a high profile serious role, it was when he took on the lead character in the movie Truman Show. But in order to do so, he had to take a pay cut. Carrey was soaring through the timeline of establishing himself as an unforgettable joker who made us question about how we looked at comedy and yet, when given the opportunity, he let go of the materialistic return in exchange for something more unconventional, the first chance ever to be himself in front of the camera.
Carrey has very few comedy scenes in the film, but when he’s on it, just take a look at how he plays them. He’s crazy, insane, energetic, powerful, subtle, intensely in and out of control. This is the real Jim Carrey and once he got the taste of that, he was ready to portray one of his real life idols, the song and dance man, Andy Kaufman in the thought grabbing film, Man on the moon.
Carrey continued to exert his unconventional comedic energy in the following years to come with his project choices, but it wasn’t until the mind twisting love story, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind that Carrey showed what he’s really made of. It was the tale of an introverted guy and an extroverted woman where Carrey was able to portray his character on the deepest level possible and put him in front of the audiences in a way that you imagine yourself in Carrey’s place and feel the excruciating pain of falling in love.
His choice of comedic projects continued later on, but the last time we saw Carrey with a face that made the most sense for him to play was when he unofficially continued his portrayal of his Eternal Sunshine’s character with the film ‘Yes Man’ where he played yet another closed off guy from the world who learns to say yes to all the opportunities thrown his way.
Since then, everything just sort of stopped. Carrey silently turned into someone who in his own words, was playing the character of Jim Carrey as Jim Carrey never existed. His purpose was to get famous, rich and have all the things that people desire and then just simply let it all go. Some think he’s found religion, some think he’s dramatically changed and some think that he’s simply gone mad. But the truth is far more mind twisting than that.
You just need to go back to the four key projects he did. The Truman Show: where the character’s entire life is manipulated and scripted. He has no clue what the real world tastes like. Man on the moon: where the character is sort of a psychotic comedian who just has been launched into the world. Eternal Sunshine: where the closed off character finally finds complicated love and the ‘Yes Man’, where he finally learns to live.
Carrey wasn’t just playing these characters, he was actually searching for himself and when he found it, he figured out that nothing really matters except the legacy which he’s already solidified. No matter the amount of money, the amount of accolades, the amount of fame, Carrey knows that you’re leaving the world empty handed. So why not let the people know about it in a way they will never forget?
No matter how much I miss the Jim Carrey who made us smile and gave everyone something that’s going to stick with us until the end, I’m actually kind of glad that he’s left us. It was his leaving that has given us a mind twisting question to answer. Every morning you wake up, work hard, find success, make millions of dollars, get married, have a family and live happily ever after. But what the hell does it all mean? What does your legacy mean? Is it something people going to put aside and forget about or is it something that’s going to be remembered by if not millions, then thousands of people all around the world, impacting their lives, molding it into something gold like and inspiring them to be something similar, something better…, for an eternity to come.
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"It's very, very scary to find myself creating a crime that I didn't know I had in me," explains crime novelist Sara Blædel. Blædel worked as a newspaper journalist and television producer, founding the first dedicated crime fiction publishing house in Danish history. This inspired her to start writing her own series of detective novels, which have been published in ten countries around the world and hit the top of the Danish bestseller lists. She was voted the most popular novelist in Denmark in 2010. Watch Blædel discuss how she infuses everyday life with suspense, then click to explore Call Me Princess, her English-language debut.
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Imaginative, chaotic, restless..., the one word to describe the mind of Heath Ledger is perhaps, overdrive. His thought process was constantly on the go trying to figure out what to do next and once figured out, it was constantly on the go to find out how to do it.
He longed to express himself with the aim to take his psyche apart piece by piece and recollect everything into something mind twisting.
His journey of growing into the artist he became, leading up to creating an iconic character like the Joker in The Dark Knight, you can’t help but notice, there’s a strangely intriguing and haunting similarity between Heath Ledger and the Joker he created.
Taking a closer look at his key projects, his first big break was ’10 Things I hate About You’. Following the film’s release, critics and audiences alike were won over by Ledger’s charm at work. But much to his displeasure, he started receiving lead roles similar to what he did in ’10 Things’ as he proved to be so good at it.
This is where the industry found out that Ledger’s not the traditional leading actor they thought he was, turning down all these high profile roles being thrown his way as he despised the idea of repeating himself. Even a single thought of doing what he had already done before, felt like wasting time no matter how much money was being put on the table.
Ledger wanted the thrill, the pleasure and the risk of creating something new every time he worked on a project which led to him taking on the lead role in ‘A Knight’s Tale’, the story of a peasant who poses as a Knight, competing in tournaments and winning accolades while stacking up friendships with historical figures.
A Knight’s tale catapulted Ledger into unanticipated stardom with his face on the posters and the responsibility of promoting the film going from country to country, answering queries in a manner that entices the audiences to go and have a look at the movie. This is where Ledger realized the fame he got, wasn’t really something he wanted.
As he continued to understand his own mind, he continued taking on roles that would extract some unusual performances out of him leading up to the biggest challenge of his life. He took on the role of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, the story of a man who develops a complex romantic relation with another man. The film became a sleeper hit, stirring up numerous controversies and landing Ledger his very first Oscar nomination.
Perhaps this is where the industry truly understood just what kind of an actor Heath Ledger really was as Rolling Stone gave the following review to his performance “Ledger doesn't just know how Ennis moves, speaks and listens; he knows how he breathes.”
Three projects later, Ledger found out director Christopher Nolan had begun work on The Dark Knight and was looking to cast the next Joker. He immediately called his agent and got himself in the same room with Nolan where he was able to convince the mastermind to hand him over the daunting task of creating something that what exceed what Jack Nicholson had done with his own Joker 20 years ago.
Ledger’s mind immediately went into overdrive where he locked himself away in a room for six weeks straight. The isolation gave him the necessary headspace to come up with different mannerisms for the Joker with an emphasis on his breath and how the tone of his voice would sound like.
On the 18th of July, 2008, The Dark Knight was released and the world was blown away with what Ledger had created. A character never seen before in such shape and form infused with horror, terror and unpredictability every second of the way. This led to another Oscar nomination which he ultimately won and became the very first actor to win it for portraying a character in a comic book movie. Unexplainably, Ledger didn’t live through to see any of it, he didn’t live through to see the legend he had become, he didn’t live through to see the legacy he had given birth to.
Ledger left the world in tears creating something that will never be forgotten in the cinematic history. Nolan perhaps wrote the perfect ending monologue to honor Ledger’s memory in the sequel to The Dark Knight spoken by Commissioner Gordon “I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts and in the hearts of their descendants…, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do…, than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest that I go to…, than I have ever known.”
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Link to my novel 'Strange Nights' - www.amazon.com/dp/B071YRC3QJ
Day 6 of Camp NaNoWriMo on a Thursday morning, and we're a small but determined group today!
Taken at Milk Wood writer's colony:
Margarita motivation. Taco Tuesday thespian catch up with my good buddy and writer's lunch....scriptwriting 101. Then it's back to bad tunes, a solid espresso high, and hanging out in my bathing suit in front of a computer.....tap tap tap!
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