Mo Weekly #1
God: A better Movie-maker than Linklater?
Richard Linklater wrote and directed what we here at Cuble consider as one of the most iconic movies of the 21st Century: Boyhood. The movie was filmed over the course of 12 years and follows in some detail, the turbulence of growing up. Linklater began production with an unfinished script, he adapted the script to the changes he saw in the actors on a fairly regular basis and inculcated these changes into their on-screen personas.
Linklater played God with this project or does God play Linklater?
We all are born with incomplete scripts. However, there is a destiny which represents a goal that each of us should in an ideal world attain. The destiny in a script would most likely come under the plot climax and plot resolution of a character’s storyline but the majority of the journey and encounters en route to the elusive ‘destiny’ remain largely unscripted. ‘Largely’ and not ‘Completely’ because there are many corners that would say “It is as God deemed it to be” even Drake said “God’s plan”.
Our theory is this- Even if God did have a plan we are certain that it wasn’t His intention that the trucker from last Tuesday run you off the road while showing you the finger nor was it His intention that you currently have to laugh a few seconds longer even after the ‘kick’ of the joke has subsided because of those extra crunches you did due to your trainer’s intentionally terrible counting and the fact that if you don’t take those extra cooling off seconds to ease out of the laughter you just involuntarily burst into, your stomach might explode. But these things happened and God adapted them into your script like the scriptwriter that he is …
… better than Linklater? Maybe
There are circumstances in life that make one wonder “what the actual fudge” (keeping it PG13, it just wouldn’t feel right to curse and talk about God in the same write-up):
*You are walking down the alley and see a man with a head, torso and no limbs at all- What the actual fudge!
*You are brushing your teeth and Thor just appears to smite you with Mjolnir- What the actual fudge!
*You are walking along a crowded pathway with your mother and you unintentionally bump shoulders with another fella, he pulls out a gun and shoots you and then your mother apologizes to him and gets an Uber to move your corpse- What the actual fudge!
But these things happen, and instead of crying and whining about it, we all should take time out once in a while to appreciate what a master of the genres God is, Horror, Thriller, Comedy and many more. He writes and rewrites scripts on a daily basis; chopping, editing, killing off characters that have run their course. However there is a thin line between when a project stops being God’s and when it is Luci’s, this grey arrear is currently beyond human understanding but we’ll get there.
Although one genre we are a bit undecided about is porn; for the fear of eternal damnation I aver that it seems strictly along Satan’s alley, but Hey kids, just because Satan directs it doesn’t mean you should abstain from it or………(inconclusive)
It flows from this logic that the Holy Spirit might just be the greatest Cinematographer of all time.
Don’t shoot the messenger,
Shoot Cuble.
