THB #121: Happy PassEaster
THB #121: Happy PassEaster
Passover is about stopping and telling the story.
Easter is about stopping and telling the story.
They are very different stories, but both are, ultimately, about perseverance and are meant to trigger our commitment to our faiths.
Plagues, Parting of the Red Sea, the Ten Commandments, returning from the dead… all seem to be objectively from the land of metaphor and subjectively a matter of faith that I am not looking to challenge today.
So what is the powerful metaphoric tale of Hollywood… an industry built on myth and metaphor?
Well… I started trying to write this piece on Friday. Worked my way through The Four Questions. Tried to come up with a clever twist on the Four Sons (Wise, Wicked, Simple, and One Who Cannot Even Figure Out How To Ask). Kinda boring to roll out the Iger/Chapek/Redstone/Lionsgate jokes.
The Resurrection isn’t really funny.
Even as a bit about theatrical coming back, the logical follow on that story would be the screening of Mars or something.
What is the great myth about Hollywood that we should remember every year?
Nothing.
There are plenty of myths that even smart people buy into… and I have been writing about them for decades now… which keeps me a valued but marginal voice. (Print the legend… in a group newsletter that costs more than the New York Times… just like the old trades… don’t challenge the reader to reconsider their basic notions… Hooray!!!)
But no singular big myth… not even a real celebration of the spring harvest.
I get that people are fertilizing Fantastic Beasts this weekend by throwing all kinds of “fertilizer” at it… but that doesn’t count.
So I give up. I’d rather spike it than fake it.
Happy holidays to all.. and happy days to all who follow their own tune.
Until tomorrow…