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A Zen quote I found earlier today reading the opinion of Ethan Hawke.
“You don’t have to walk on water, you get to walk on Earth”
The conversation was about film and the emotions we walk away with after the film is done.
He mentions how, like many of us, he loves the big tent pole films just like the rest, but is left with a resounding lament to not being a wizard or a Jedi after the movie is done.
But what he mentions and why I’m here today is due to the quote above and Richard Linklater films.
Now, I love cinema, I love the scripts, the diction, the setting, and themes of whatever it is that has met the screen. But I get what Hawke is getting at. There is something about the relatable, or the parallel that seems far fetched but when you watch a Linklater film, it’s like getting doused in cold water. There’s a reminding to the tether that each of us have that is life and living.
We may not be on brooms whizzing around in the sky, or force pushing our way through squads of clones, but notice the air you’re breathing?
Can you feel the heat of your exhaling, can you feel your teeth get a small and brief coating of coolness when you breathe back in? That’s you. Living and breathing and sensing these small innocuous additions that make life the treat it is every day.
Hawke mentions the quote ‘You don’t have to walk on water, you get to walk on Earth’ and the resounding beauty and simplicity cascades effortlessly through me. He has a point though doesn’t he?
If the grandiosity doesn’t match with the true implication of what’s possible, it changes things doesn’t it? It leaves you wanting something that’s not possible, thus dreaming for naught.
So I get where he’s coming from in the fact that though it’s nice to dream and that kind of means dreaming about being a Jedi or a superhero or having unfathomable power is one one thing. But to be truly moved and to be able to empathize through the means of film and art to portray that of what is real, that’s a gift and definitely a gift that I think a lot of us should breathe in a little bit more.
https://ew.com/ethan-hawke-compares-richard-linklater-films-to-star-wars-and-harry-potter-8705266
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