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Topic: I dreamed of Brad Miller last night. :eek:
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David Stambaugh
Film God
Posts: 4021
From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 10-20-2004 02:24 PM
I've been debating about whether to post this cause it's a little weird. But since it's all strictly business and nothing kinky happened, I'll go ahead and share it.
Like many dreams, the details of this one are a little fuzzy. But it in was in some kind of a large auditorium with a temp projection system in the middle and & a large screen at one end of the room. I don't know what the movie was or why we were there, but the film was a combination of 70mm, 35mm, and 16mm, all spliced together and running off a platter, and Brad had been brought in to make the thing work. There was no screening or other trial run, he had to figure out a way to run it, uninterrupted, through a single projector, with no advance prep. And it was working. He had to tend to the thing constantly, twiddling this and adjusting that, to keep it going. But something went wrong and the projector started eating film and spilling it on the floor. Brad was working frantically to try and keep the show on the screen but he never lost his cool. He did tell us to keep out of his way though -- he was all business. Then the projector seized up or something and the film stopped and of course started burning. At that point, Brad just shrugged and everyone was just standing there looking at this mess. End of dream.
What does it mean? I have no freaking idea.
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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene
Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 10-20-2004 07:54 PM
I have some experience with decoding dreams. As a former inmate at the Utah State Mental Hospital, I got lots of dream interpretations...
yours go something like this...
The mixture of film sizes deals with an uncertainty or fear of the future of film itself. With the impending doom of digital projection the future of film is in danger.
The fact that brad was running it has to do with that you see him as somewhat of an authority figure. Someone to turn to when you feel that all is lost, and hope that he can guide you the right way.
With the film going haywire and eventually burning up and Brad shrugging it off, well that deals with the final realization that you fear that film is going to die, and not even the most knowledgeable of us can stop it. The one you trust to save the day, in this case, and for some strange reason, Brad, cannot even stop it.
So many people want to dump film for digital, all brought on by uncle George. Thats Lucas of course. People will listen to and watch the tripe he spews about how digital is better than film, but no one listens to the people that know.
Maybe this dream of yours is a rallying cry from your subconscience telling you to do something about it. Maybe hire the deadly viper assassination squad to take care of uncle george maybe?
Did I say inmate? I meant involuntary patient program participant...
Ciao
Dave
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