Like the movies

~ Gottfried

My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts. If you hear that I slapped someone, it’s probably because it’s me. A good movie makes the audience feel like they’ve journeyed with the characters. So if you feel a sting on your left cheek, it’s just because of great writing on my part.

Life is just like a movie, the characters come and go as seen in the movies. But there is a difference, movies last only three hours. Ours last a little too long and there are no end credit scenes. Life is like a camera, focus on what’s important and capture the good times. You’ll be able to delude yourself.

Life is like a movie. Write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending. The older I get, the more I realize that not everything always goes as planned, but this is not some fairy tale movie. This is real life and things happen. No good movie is too long, and no bad movie is short enough.

I think cinema, movies and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made movies were magicians. We all love films and storytelling as a people. It’s just human compulsion to listen and tell stories. It’s why lying comes so naturally to us.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your life is celebrated. Some people fake their death, I’m trying my best to fake my life and it’s not been easy. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily as lying down.

Life is like a movie. If you are sad, that’s Drama. If you are afraid, Suspense. If you are angry, you need Action. When you look in the mirror, that’s Horror. Now you are smiling, that’s Comedy. I promise you couldn’t write this script even if you tried.

Your comfort show just got cancelled. What do you do next?

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

68 thoughts on “Like the movies”

  2. Ah Yes Mr Gottfried Live a Life A Play That No
    Fiction Could Possibly Replicate Be The
    Actor No One Will Replace And God Yes

    Do All Your Own Stunts Be The

    Dancer Singer Director Producer

    Writer of the Whole Show Even Write

    A Story Just About Impossible For Anyone

    Else to complete in a Lifetime True 15 Scale

    More Than A King James Version Might Do the Cheap Trick

    Yet a True Measure of Success

    Is When You are Late For the

    Homily At Church Not Just

    Once Yet Every Sunday Picking

    Up Your Cape at the Dry Cleaners Late

    And The 83 Year Old-Woman You Are Sitting

    Next to After You Sing ‘Amazing Grace’ Looks Up

    At You With the Brightest Native Pacific Islander Eyes Reaches

    Out For Your Hand And Says Thank You So Much For Sitting Next

    to me and if That Wasn’t

    Story Enough For True Life

    Success The Only African American

    Man in the Church With A South African

    Accent Says It Was An Honor To Sit in Front

    Of You to Hear Amazing Grace too Yet You See

    The Greatest Gift is Gratitude For Life As Amazing

    Grace is No

    Fictional Song

    in my Life Singing it

    Deepest From A Soul That

    Breathes Both Hell and Heaven in
    One Life Understanding Fully i am

    No Greater than
    A Grain of Sand

    Potentially Holding
    Up A Mountain of Love
    That Continues to Grow Higher
    Yet Staying Valley Low at Best to Lift Others up

    Indeed
    Live a
    Life of Grace
    Be The Meek

    Originating From
    Poorest of SPiRiT

    iNHeRiTinG The All

    in All of Giving God yes

    Become Last is First Real

    God Yes The Highest Low oF all..:)

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      1. “Some things that happen in
        real life could never be scripted”

        Indeed Mr Gottfried

        This Is Why i

        Continue

        To Beef Up
        mY Obituary Still
        Breathing i’ll Be
        Dammed If Someone
        Kills me After i’m Dead

        Always Write Your Own
        Biography Breathing OtherWise

        HiSToRY SHoWS Others Might PreTend

        You
        Are
        Other
        Worldly Hehe…

        Oh The Power of
        The Written Word
        Practically Immortal in Human Terms

        And Yes Clark Gable Still Exists in ‘the Movies’

        Yet
        Frankly
        i Don’t
        Give Damns Out Hehe..:)

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          1. SMiLes Mr Gottfried i Spent Many
            Years Living in the TV and Movies

            One May Get Lost ThiS WaY and

            iNDeeD Never Write Produce Direct
            And Act THeiR Own Play of Life For Real

            It Does Seem Online at Least Brings Interaction

            And With Symbols We May Play With Them Long

            Enough Where We

            Practically Upload

            Our Souls in Flow

            Finding Parts ThiS WaY
            In Focus of the Whole We

            Never Realized Were Part of Us before

            True Much More Than TV And The Movies

            On the Smaller To Bigger Screens Will Actually Bring

            Oh Yes And to Connect to Folks Around the World

            Even at the Speed oF LoVE iN Peace Indeed

            This Activity is MoRE ALiVe Than Just

            Being a Spectator An Audience

            Member of Movies and

            TV More

            Dead Than
            Truly Fully Alive

            Particularly With What
            Folks Used to Do Before

            Radio TV And The Big Screen
            And Even the Internet too Oh

            Dear Living Rooms Where All There is
            Are Human Stories to Give Share Care

            Heal Free For All With Most Respect
            And Least Harm as the Human

            Connection Then Face to
            Face Was Practically

            All the Entertainment

            That Life Brings to Each
            Other in Free Dance And Song ThiS WaY

            Yet True A Balance of Online And the Big Blue

            Room With Sky and Ground With A Dance And

            Song Free May Be The Best of Two Worlds Indeed

            With
            SMILes…

            MaSTeRinG The Tools
            KeePinG Free Wings iN FLiGHT

            Way of Water FRiEnDS With Gravity
            A Free Dance May Make Fingertips

            Feel
            Sense

            Weight
            of A Body
            in Balance

            With A Song in
            Flow Feelings Similarly True..:)

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