A fan base that cannot change

Even when producing a short story, I always felt the greatest writing technique was to allow the audience to speculate and imagine, to create a story and allow the watcher to fill in the gaps themselves.
One of my favourite teachers professed that his two favourite characters of all time were Darth Vader, and God. He was a Theological scholar, and had spent a great part of his life studying the literary side of both the Torah (the Jewish scripture) and the Bible.
The word bible, can be translated to mean “Many books” I further elaborate on this title, and perhaps controversially so, and state that the stories found in biblical scriptures are not so much dogma to follow blindly, but are merely interpretive, allowing the human mind to view the moral behind the story as they see fit, or applicable within their culture, society, or state of mind.
The bible simply put, deals with every facet of human existence. Eccelasties, rumoured to be King Solomon, wrote a lengthy chapter on depression. Wherein he claims that asking philosophical questions like “What happens after death?” and “What is my purpose” is the equivalent of “Chasing the wind.” Meaning you’re chasing something you cannot ever catch. He concludes by coining the phrase “Eat, Drink and be Merry” and the advice he game humanity, was to ‘Rejoice in youth.”
Another Chapter in the bible; “The song of songs” is a poetic song which celebrates two 16 year old lovers sneaking off to have sex. Pretty shocking, but none the less, it is apart of life which most can relate to, and though frowned upon in today’s modern day and age, one could interpret the act of love, and the innocence of the characters, as being intrinsically good.
The book of Job addresses the question “Why does it rain shit on good people?” And that always seems to be the case. I myself have had the pleasure of meeting some of the most corrupt, despicably evil and manipulative people in Melbourne, and at every turn they seem to be rewarded for their stealthy lack of regard for human growth. In the story, God eventually answers Job’s hopeless situation, by claiming that he is merely human, and his knowledge is limited. He simply can never know, nor understand the chaotic nature of the world.
The writers behind the bible were undoubtedly the greatest to ever have existed. Today we see lame bands that adopt a style of dress, sing about key lyrics, all in a bid to attract a demographic. The trouble with this is, for example, if an Emo band starts a fan base strictly full of an Emo subculture, and the media ends up hounding that stereotype (solely because it sells papers, I doubt they have any regard towards the key and crucial identity development of adolescents, one which they all had to face themselves ) The point being, the Emo bands demographic disappeared, evolved into another fast moving sub culture. The Alpha males and Females that were pulling the crowds got up and left, and all the lackeys followed them.
The writers behind the bible were far more advanced, as they backed a demographic that simply could not change. All humans have a sole biological purpose to breed, it is ingrained in our nature. We need to procreate, we need to love, we need to raise and nurture our children. This will never change so long as humans exist. Within the bible, almost every biblical hero wishes or asks God for many, many children . There are countless chapters which list the descents and bloodlines of significant characters. King David is succeeded by his son Solomon, and thousands of years down the track, the writers tell us that Jesus was of the same bloodline. Now here is the really clever part. Obviously when you breed, a portion of your genes and dna is passed on to your offspring. In a way, you are reincarnating yourself through your children. Though your consciousness dies with your body, your bloodline carries an element, or traits that were once you. In a way, you escape death.
And every human will always fear death.
The demographic was so firm and broad that these ancient texts have been best sellers for fucking thousands of years. Obviously given their success, or the success of their writing structures, other carnations of this scripture began to pop up. I am no historian, I cannot tell you which came first, or which deserves credit for originality if any, considering most of the tales found within holy texts are borrowed from Ancient Greek legends and mythology anyway.
Some writers were interested in the propagation of all living things. They took the elements of life that were constructive, and encouraged them. Some holy texts needed to back there own demographic, so they invested in writing that was interested in propagating a ‘chosen people.’
There were even some holy texts that not only backed a ‘chosen people’ but they also encouraged the death of their competitors. Not a lot has changed in marketing tactics, i’m afraid for every flaw we have in our nature, they’re will be two or three greedy, scheming, heartless bastards that seek to exploit for the sole purpose of making money.
What is interesting is the fact that a certain religion, which I fear naming due to reprisals, seems to be the first in history who don’t twist and turn the literary use of God into money, but rather mass destruction. They accumulate money, only to spend it on explosions. It is undeniably bad, but this break in human behaviour could be a sign of evolution perhaps? I don’t know, I still have alot to study. What I do know is, that overly passionate scripture is responsible for it.
You know the human race has failed somewhat magnificently when our technology completely dwarfs our morality. Anyone with a trigger finger can take a life sadly. Anyone with a tongue can sabotage, rumour monger and spread lies.
So if an age of terrorism, an age of murderous crusades, an age of holocausts and genocide, where greed and a love of money has always been around, and always will be. Where people will always lie. Where people will always wish destruction on any feasible target, wherein the power of their weapons has long since surpassed the power of their reasoning or coping mechanisms, who is to blame?
Has interpretation paved the way for a chaotic lack of regard for each other? Where older generations seek to exploit the young and naive, rather then nurture their talents and traits? Do we simply care more about making money, keeping our demographic stupid so they buy and believe our lie ridden marketing? Do we care about this more then Evolution?
I suppose you can find solace as a human being, that although evil and stupidity will always exist, one demographic, though minuscule in comparison, is the one that wants to see, and encourage the evolution of all species. Any dip shit can lie to someone, anyone with an index finger can destroy, every corporation wants a demographic that’s kept paralysed with fear, insecurity and stupidity. But only a select few Aplha’s can propagate the evolution of the mind.
I wanted to craft a film that mixed genres, that utilised Pixar’s duel audience of both adults and children, and ultimately encourage the viewer to interpret the clip into however they saw fit.
Ever seen Twilight? Ever notice how the female lead doesn’t actually act? She perpetually has a vague look of puzzlement on her face? That’s so every little girl watching her can see her as a blank canvas, and project their own thoughts and feelings into the empty vessel. It works.
You’ll find, if you don’t give people much information on who you are, or the way you think, or what you do, they’ll get dire curious about you. If you rarely talk or say a word, then eventually they’ll start to project themselves onto you, their flaws and failings. Things they hate about themselves, but cannot bare to face. I once had an actor tell me I was two faced, which I found interesting, as I had never had a conversation with him.