The Art of Screenplays by Mukherjee Robin

Author:Mukherjee, Robin [Mukherjee, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781843442011
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: 2014-05-06T14:00:00+00:00

THE DREAM

There are two facets to this. One provides that elusive sense of completeness, fragile enough in life and hazardous, of necessity, in the world of story. It may never be attained, but it provides a sense of what is possible if harmony and equilibrium are restored. It haunts the background to a world, however ugly. It may glimmer from time to time, like dappled sunlight, before the zombies lurch round the corner again. It is the aspiration of all characters, even the most evil. It might be called Hope. Without it, there is nothing to aim for, to motivate. It is the balance, harmony and happiness that the central character, however he or she perceives it, will pursue. If attained, the string section is entitled to go into raptures, while the director of photography can saturate the sunset with his richest filters. There is nothing left but that. Although represented in the expression ‘And they all lived happily ever after’, that happiness which they pursued was there all along, if only as a promise or expectation.

The other facet indicates the underlying, sometimes hidden, fractures of whatever ideal might pertain to the opening. Orpheus had a great life. He was well bred, top of the social order, good-looking, a fantastic musician, with a gorgeous wife. That’ll do for most of us. What he doesn’t understand is the extent to which his contentment is dependent on the continuation of those attributes. Eurydice, even without the intervention of Aristaeus, can’t last for ever. Aside from natural causes, there are hazards in the undergrowth to which her mortality is vulnerable. Orpheus cannot control the world to his liking. He might consider himself happy, but his high-status, well-managed, tickety-boo lifestyle is a dream from which he needs to awake. Orpheus the happy chappy is a fabrication, an illusion. It is illusory because it believes itself to be self-sufficient. It needs to go if the hero is to find real completeness. And that could hurt.

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