Cutting Grass
“Blade” is
actually based on a full-length screenplay for an animated children’s movie
that I wrote and copyrighted a few semesters ago. I was hoping to set the roots—pun very much
intended—for people to tell their own
stories of this personified plant. It
would have been fun to compare their visions to my own.
I was eagerly looking forward to seeing where other people’s
imaginations would take Blade on his epic journey of micro proportions.
But that
wasn’t the point of this assignment, was it?
The
immediate response to my origin story was drastically changed into something
completely different than what I had been expecting. The idea of course was to take a branch of a
previous story, and graft it into a new vegetation of ideas and images. (Plant
comparisons just gonna’ keep on coming).
I honestly
have no idea how some of these stories connect, but comparing simply point A to
point B is fertile ground for a rising laugh.
This can be taken as frustrating by artists, since their original seeded
message grew into something completely different than what they had
expected.
Everything
is subject to personal interpretation and opinion, and those results can change
depending on a person’s background and current circumstances. What matters, at least to an extent in the
entertainment field, is that your audience is still—well—your audience. At least you have one! So they didn’t get the original message you
were trying to portray: that’s okay, keep at it. Art is the only media in which you actually can plant oranges and get peaches
instead. And if in the end you somehow ended up with a peach tree instead of an
orange tree, find a way to learn from and laugh at it! Constructive self-deprecating
humor can be funny—no—just peachy…
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