WE PERCHED over the White Rock pier railing like seagulls, enchanted by the strange sights at the muddy beach floor. Along the boardwalk and below, thickly curled cables and other equipment were being expertly shuffled about by people playing a sometimes tedious but significant role in making a movie.
The box had to be positioned just right for the shoeless cameraman who set his sights on actors waiting to perform by a blue umbrella.
I learned the scene was a pilot project for a comedy television series called
Better Things. Have you watched the very long list of credits scrolling down at the end of most film endeavors? I long ago realized that it takes a village to make a good show, hard work and perseverance and a desire to play and build imagination "sandcastles" in whatever awkward spaces needed for the plot.
Like life, a good movie makes us laugh, cry, feel awestruck and inspired. Getting bogged down in the small details that make the story "reel" can be less than exciting. But once all the technical, mundane and creative challenges are met, the big picture often seems surprisingly meaningful and grand.
Creative tools have become so portable now that anyone can get in the act of making a movie of their own lives from start to finish. After all is said and done, or not done, as Jim Henson of
Muppet fame once wrote:
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
Emblazoned on a red painted rock by White Rock City Hall during the 2010 Winter Olympics, I dusted
believe from my archives because this is the pinch of magic that adds clarity to life's muddy brew to help get things started.
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