favorite movie
i want to write about how i see this movie now a days
its been a huge influence on me
it got to me real deep as a kid, i really got caught up into those feelings that the story brought forth
it made me feel real good as a kid
i was part of that story, i was atreyu, i was riding falcor...
it made me believe, it made me follow something within myself
"what kind of a quest"
it made me start a quest from within
the end of that movie would get me high
the movie as a whole was the equivalent of my first psychedelic experience
it left its trace, it ended up being a deeper influence than religion
due to a christian upbringing jesus sure did have a impact on me but it did not reach that level, jesus was a weird story from the adult world
i could connect to the neverending story on a direct level, on a open heart level, with all my body and all my head
...
and so it begins
its the story of a kid confronted with a reality where his mom died and he needs to put that behind him, and in conjunction to that he need to leave his childhood life behind and faced the adult world
a world where imagination isnt the game we play
a world where like his father you need to be serious and professional and go on with it
so Bastien needs to leave those unicorns behind and start living in the "real" world
"Now, Bastian, you're old enough to get your head out of the clouds and start keeping both feet on the ground. Alright ?"
but then its a hard world where he gets picked on, a world where he cant escape, a world where he is late for school, where he forgot he had a test that day
but fuck it, bastien has strong ties with his own inner world where imagination and intuition are still strong, a world where his mom influence is still alive
so he end up creating a story alongside the real world, a story where he is a warrior on a quest to save a world called fantasia
that world is in his own imagination and it has no boundaries
but he gets caught up in it, he end up believing in it as if it was real, but not right away, it all starts with his alter ego called atreyu, and atreyu is faced with sadness and melancholia and despair because fantasia is dying and he cant seem to find a cure
fantasia which is bastien own internal world is dying because fantasia lives off bastien imagination
it is dying because of a force called the nothing
which is a emptiness of the heart due to lack of belief in yourself, due to a lack of beliefs in the impossible
a lack of belief that you yourself can changed it all, simply by wishing for it, simply by believing that you can create it all from scratch
so fantasia is dying because bastian is loosing faith in himself because the death of his mom confronts him with a very cold and dry world, a adult world made of different shades of gray
and i sure was identifying with that as a kid, i was growing up and the adult world didnt seem ok, it didnt seem like a better world, growing up meant that i was gonna loose something, or that i might loose something
that did not please me
and that movie made me feel like it was all ok, i would find a way, everything was possible...
so bastien enters that world and starts a quest, he end up at a oracle that will kill him if his heart isnt pure, then he is confronted with who he truely is
and thats where it gets weird because atreyu is bastien
and the third oracle tells atreyu to get a human child (which happens to be you disguised as bastien)
and bastien just does not want to get involve
he doenst want all of this to be true even tho thats what he really wants, but his dad said to keep his feet on the ground..
he is conflicted between left brain and right brain, between his heart and his head, between what has being taught to him and his intuition
but he goes for it, he follows auryn, he lets auryn guide him toward the center of his creative energy, and there he is allowed to recreate the whole world of fantasia, simply by wishing for everything he ever wanted, and it will happen
and first thing he does is come back to reality to kick some butt
but falcor isnt real on the outside world, he is a representation of bastien new found inner strength,
as the library guy told bastien "why didnt you punch then in the nose" and bastien answer that he does not know why
he does not know why because he didnt knew what he was fighting for
and then he knew, he was fighting for the survival of a whole kingdom, or queendom called fantasia
but that world wasnt only his world, fantasia was the world of man, and as mork said :
G'mork: If you come any closer, I will rip you to shreds.
Atreyu: Who are you?
G'mork: I am G'mork. And you, whoever you are, can have the honor of being my last victim.
Atreyu: I will not die easily. I am a warrior!
G'mork: Ha! Brave warrior, then fight the Nothing.
Atreyu: But I can't! I can't get beyond the boundaries of Fantasia!
[G'mork laughs and Atreyu gets a little angry]
Atreyu: What's so funny about that?
G'mork: Fantasia has no boundaries.
[laughs]
Atreyu: That's not true! You're lying.
G'mork: Foolish boy. Don't you know anything about Fantasia? It's the world of human fantasy. Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries.
Atreyu: But why is Fantasia dying, then?
G'mork: Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So the Nothing grows stronger.
Atreyu: What is the Nothing?
G'mork: It's the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it.
Atreyu: But why?
G'mork: Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control... has the power!
Atreyu: Who are you, really?
G'mork: I am the servant of the power behind the Nothing. I was sent to kill the only one who could have stopped the Nothing. I lost him in the Swamps of Sadness. His name... was Atreyu.
[the ground shakes again and Atreyu is knocked down. He grabs a knife shaped piece of broken stone and stands up, ready to fight]
Atreyu: If we're about to die anyway, I'd rather die fighting! Come for me, G'mork! *I* am Atreyu!
that sure was pretty deep stuff to include in a kids movie...
its talking about the world we live in where people are easily manipulated because they loose connection with a part of themself, a part where they are the center stage to the story, a part where they are the hero, the main character, the protagonist
a part where their well being is essential to the well being of others (and others to yours)
a world where you cant blindly follow what you are told but you need to follow your intuition, there is a light inside your heart, and that grain of sand can save the whole world
and no one but you has a monopoly on that
and that made me fell good as a kid, i was riding falcor
it wasnt any dragon, it was a luck dragon
it was the possibility that any dreams could come true
it wasnt that they would come true, it was the possibility that they could, that if you would not die of depression in the swamp of your own sadness that you could make it, that life would or could find a way
so i was a kid living in a world where people had lost hope, where they had lost faith in themself and thats why the adult world felt wrong, it was all explained through metaphor inside that movie
that movie brought a way to connect with myself, with reality, that i did not find elsewhere
tho at that time i had no clue about all of this, it simply was my favorite movie and thats about it
its later on that ive realized how much of who ive became has being a direct influence on what a part of myself saw in there, a part of me ended up modeling myself in regards to what has being felt as the true meaning of it all
some people will say as a joke that the movie was a false publicity because the movie does have a end but it aint call the neverending movie and the book its based on isnt called the neverending book
its call the never ending story because as much as bastien transpose himself into atreyu you do too, you transpose yourself inside a made up story that becomes yours because you put yourself in there the same way bastien did out of himself in fantasia
but then fantasia is telling bastien that it has no boundary but its talking to you too, the book is saying this story in this book is the story of your own life in your own real world, but then bastiens real world isnt real from your perspective, its a fantasy story, its just a movie,
when the movie ends it ends with a quote they keep repeating in the book where they start talking about some other stuff until not to loose track of the main story they close it down saying "but thats another story", because thats someone else story, but all those stories are connected, they all make up what fantasia is
and the story of bastien become someone else story because you are suppose to have realized that the story is now about you, thats its your story, that you never left your seat,
it was about you watching a movie about bastien reading a book about atreyu saving the world that became bastien that became you
and then you are suppose to go out and continue that story that was yours, you need to start creating your own world, a world you were already creating
so the story is never ending
i want to write about how i see this movie now a days
its been a huge influence on me
it got to me real deep as a kid, i really got caught up into those feelings that the story brought forth
it made me feel real good as a kid
i was part of that story, i was atreyu, i was riding falcor...
it made me believe, it made me follow something within myself
"what kind of a quest"
it made me start a quest from within
the end of that movie would get me high
the movie as a whole was the equivalent of my first psychedelic experience
it left its trace, it ended up being a deeper influence than religion
due to a christian upbringing jesus sure did have a impact on me but it did not reach that level, jesus was a weird story from the adult world
i could connect to the neverending story on a direct level, on a open heart level, with all my body and all my head
...
and so it begins
its the story of a kid confronted with a reality where his mom died and he needs to put that behind him, and in conjunction to that he need to leave his childhood life behind and faced the adult world
a world where imagination isnt the game we play
a world where like his father you need to be serious and professional and go on with it
so Bastien needs to leave those unicorns behind and start living in the "real" world
"Now, Bastian, you're old enough to get your head out of the clouds and start keeping both feet on the ground. Alright ?"
but then its a hard world where he gets picked on, a world where he cant escape, a world where he is late for school, where he forgot he had a test that day
but fuck it, bastien has strong ties with his own inner world where imagination and intuition are still strong, a world where his mom influence is still alive
so he end up creating a story alongside the real world, a story where he is a warrior on a quest to save a world called fantasia
that world is in his own imagination and it has no boundaries
but he gets caught up in it, he end up believing in it as if it was real, but not right away, it all starts with his alter ego called atreyu, and atreyu is faced with sadness and melancholia and despair because fantasia is dying and he cant seem to find a cure
fantasia which is bastien own internal world is dying because fantasia lives off bastien imagination
it is dying because of a force called the nothing
which is a emptiness of the heart due to lack of belief in yourself, due to a lack of beliefs in the impossible
a lack of belief that you yourself can changed it all, simply by wishing for it, simply by believing that you can create it all from scratch
so fantasia is dying because bastian is loosing faith in himself because the death of his mom confronts him with a very cold and dry world, a adult world made of different shades of gray
and i sure was identifying with that as a kid, i was growing up and the adult world didnt seem ok, it didnt seem like a better world, growing up meant that i was gonna loose something, or that i might loose something
that did not please me
and that movie made me feel like it was all ok, i would find a way, everything was possible...
so bastien enters that world and starts a quest, he end up at a oracle that will kill him if his heart isnt pure, then he is confronted with who he truely is
and thats where it gets weird because atreyu is bastien
and the third oracle tells atreyu to get a human child (which happens to be you disguised as bastien)
and bastien just does not want to get involve
he doenst want all of this to be true even tho thats what he really wants, but his dad said to keep his feet on the ground..
he is conflicted between left brain and right brain, between his heart and his head, between what has being taught to him and his intuition
but he goes for it, he follows auryn, he lets auryn guide him toward the center of his creative energy, and there he is allowed to recreate the whole world of fantasia, simply by wishing for everything he ever wanted, and it will happen
and first thing he does is come back to reality to kick some butt
but falcor isnt real on the outside world, he is a representation of bastien new found inner strength,
as the library guy told bastien "why didnt you punch then in the nose" and bastien answer that he does not know why
he does not know why because he didnt knew what he was fighting for
and then he knew, he was fighting for the survival of a whole kingdom, or queendom called fantasia
but that world wasnt only his world, fantasia was the world of man, and as mork said :
G'mork: If you come any closer, I will rip you to shreds.
Atreyu: Who are you?
G'mork: I am G'mork. And you, whoever you are, can have the honor of being my last victim.
Atreyu: I will not die easily. I am a warrior!
G'mork: Ha! Brave warrior, then fight the Nothing.
Atreyu: But I can't! I can't get beyond the boundaries of Fantasia!
[G'mork laughs and Atreyu gets a little angry]
Atreyu: What's so funny about that?
G'mork: Fantasia has no boundaries.
[laughs]
Atreyu: That's not true! You're lying.
G'mork: Foolish boy. Don't you know anything about Fantasia? It's the world of human fantasy. Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries.
Atreyu: But why is Fantasia dying, then?
G'mork: Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So the Nothing grows stronger.
Atreyu: What is the Nothing?
G'mork: It's the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it.
Atreyu: But why?
G'mork: Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control... has the power!
Atreyu: Who are you, really?
G'mork: I am the servant of the power behind the Nothing. I was sent to kill the only one who could have stopped the Nothing. I lost him in the Swamps of Sadness. His name... was Atreyu.
[the ground shakes again and Atreyu is knocked down. He grabs a knife shaped piece of broken stone and stands up, ready to fight]
Atreyu: If we're about to die anyway, I'd rather die fighting! Come for me, G'mork! *I* am Atreyu!
that sure was pretty deep stuff to include in a kids movie...
its talking about the world we live in where people are easily manipulated because they loose connection with a part of themself, a part where they are the center stage to the story, a part where they are the hero, the main character, the protagonist
a part where their well being is essential to the well being of others (and others to yours)
a world where you cant blindly follow what you are told but you need to follow your intuition, there is a light inside your heart, and that grain of sand can save the whole world
and no one but you has a monopoly on that
and that made me fell good as a kid, i was riding falcor
it wasnt any dragon, it was a luck dragon
it was the possibility that any dreams could come true
it wasnt that they would come true, it was the possibility that they could, that if you would not die of depression in the swamp of your own sadness that you could make it, that life would or could find a way
so i was a kid living in a world where people had lost hope, where they had lost faith in themself and thats why the adult world felt wrong, it was all explained through metaphor inside that movie
that movie brought a way to connect with myself, with reality, that i did not find elsewhere
tho at that time i had no clue about all of this, it simply was my favorite movie and thats about it
its later on that ive realized how much of who ive became has being a direct influence on what a part of myself saw in there, a part of me ended up modeling myself in regards to what has being felt as the true meaning of it all
some people will say as a joke that the movie was a false publicity because the movie does have a end but it aint call the neverending movie and the book its based on isnt called the neverending book
its call the never ending story because as much as bastien transpose himself into atreyu you do too, you transpose yourself inside a made up story that becomes yours because you put yourself in there the same way bastien did out of himself in fantasia
but then fantasia is telling bastien that it has no boundary but its talking to you too, the book is saying this story in this book is the story of your own life in your own real world, but then bastiens real world isnt real from your perspective, its a fantasy story, its just a movie,
when the movie ends it ends with a quote they keep repeating in the book where they start talking about some other stuff until not to loose track of the main story they close it down saying "but thats another story", because thats someone else story, but all those stories are connected, they all make up what fantasia is
and the story of bastien become someone else story because you are suppose to have realized that the story is now about you, thats its your story, that you never left your seat,
it was about you watching a movie about bastien reading a book about atreyu saving the world that became bastien that became you
and then you are suppose to go out and continue that story that was yours, you need to start creating your own world, a world you were already creating
so the story is never ending
