Tarantino and (The Monetization of) Death
Once Upon a Time…
All artists are ‘writing’ (composing, painting, sculpting, etc.) about ‘death.’ There is no avoiding this. As proven by Tarantino, and ‘Once Upon a Time…,’ ‘In Hollywood.’
All About Death
It looks like this, the conservation of a circle, the existential ‘dilemma’ (also known as ‘prison’), called, ‘life and death.’
Therefore, as showcased, naturally, in Hollywood (and everywhere else, to be certain), the ‘fake’ is ‘real.’ Etc.
It doesn’t matter the ‘date.’ 1969 has many ‘meanings.’ Tarantino, for one, was just a boy of ‘six,’ when the events of ‘1969’ were ‘happening.’ Yet, still, he was ‘affected.’ As showcased on his ‘screen.’
Again, it doesn’t matter. It’s easy to paint a collage from the news, and various ‘artifacts,’ of any ‘era.’ 1969, in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ ‘intended.’ Right now, there is an audience. Down the road, not-so-much.
Murder Et Al.
So, it was Sharon Tate, and Roman Polanski, for real. Death, pregnancy, and unsolicited sex. Ageism. Charles Manson. A ‘mass’ murderer who, technically, didn’t commit any murders.
Alongside the Vietnam War. With many mass ‘murderers’ who, ‘technically,’ didn’t commit any ‘murders.’ Who came home to a society of mass murderers, in denial about murder, in one sense or another.
With ‘winners’ and ‘losers,’ side by side, cataloged, and striated, by ‘how many roles’ (which roles) they played, how much money they made (for their ‘producers’) (product) (murderers), how old they ‘were,’ and, whether or not they were still capable of (making) ‘murder’ (interesting).
Forcing everyone ‘to get rich’ by ‘acting,’ directing, and, most important, producing, the simple act of ‘murder.’
Literally
The word murder has many meanings. As you ‘create’ a story on a page, you are, in a very real sense, murdering the (space upon a) ‘page.’ What was nice and blank and ‘white’ (or black), is now compromised, disturbed, and mangled, (destroyed) with ‘text’ and ‘characters’ who (or, that), in one way or another, are ‘trying to avoid’ ‘death.’
There is a literal meaning to the word ‘death.’ And, then, of course, a ‘symbolic’ meaning. Which gives the ‘story line’ its punch. Causing ‘people’ to ‘want to see (read) (engage with) it…’ Pay for it…They want to understand murder. Avoid murder. Survive murder. Etc. Whether they realize it, or not.
Where from an uber-simple circle’s point of view, there is no such thing as murder (death in general). Just an umber-simple (story) line, which has to be diameter, and circumference (in technical terms, one and zero), of an always-conserved, and always-present ‘circle.’ Beginning and end (once upon a time) in a ubiquitous, every-body-knows-it, circle.
Prison, Whether You Know It, Or Not
So, this puts all of us in the same ‘prison.’ Which is what Tarantino is talking about in all of his ‘movies.’ The circular prison called life (or death, whichever your preference).
Underneath it all, we all know this. Explaining Facebook and Instagram. And all the rest. We’re trying to make money by establishing ourselves in some ‘story’ line that makes sense. So we can survive the ‘prison’ called ‘the circle of life.’
From this point of view (from Nature’s point of view) there is no ‘circle of life.’ There’s just a ‘story’ line. An uber-simple ‘once upon a time….’ Explaining why children’s books are popular.
We have to program children into a pre-set set of ‘beliefs’ about ‘life.’ So they can survive. Sometimes labeled, good and bad. Other times labeled, right and wrong. Always labeled, zero and one (circumference and diameter), if you want to be ‘technical’ about it.
Once Upon A Time: All of Us
We’re all living ‘once upon a time,’ in the ‘Hollywood’ of our own making. No surprises here.
Conservation of the circle is the core (only) dynamic in Nature.
Ilexa Yardley is the author and the editor of The Circular Theory.
