If Your Life Was A Movie....

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Gothic movie that’s full of melodrama, familial skeletons in the closet, and fainting combined with a touch of The Sound of Music.

My life would be an independent documentary that only got watched by a few people at the film festivle where it was shown one time.

Dark comedy drama. Offbeat. LGBT themes. Musical. Alternative rock, pop rock and soft indie. Main character is a little dull at times though. Decent movie, yet room for improvement. 3 / 5 stars. Watchable. Some unresolved plot threads that were disappointing though. Could have done with some more clear direction as to where the film wanted to go.

Genre: "Slice of Life"

 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) 

Plot

Walter Mitty (portrayed by Danny Kaye) is an "inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey".  He is henpecked and harassed by everyone in his life including his bossy mother, his overbearing, idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his dimwitted fiancée Gertrude Griswold, Gertrude's obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby Wadsworth, Gertrude's poodle Queenie and her loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Griswold.

Walter's escape from their incessant needling is to imagine all sorts of exciting and impossible lives for himself, fueled by the pulp magazines he reads every day as an editor at the Pierce Publishing Company.  But his dreams only seem to land him in more trouble. In one scene, while stoking the heating boiler, he dreams what it would be like to be an RAF fighter pilot.  He is awakened from this daydream by his mother, who orders him to come to dinner.  Believing he is still a British fighter pilot, he salutes, and places a red-hot poker under his arm -- only to burn a hole in his suit jacket.

Things become much more complicated when he runs into a mysterious woman, Rosalind van Hoorn (Mayo), who just happens to perfectly resemble the girl of his dreams.  Rosalind is working with her uncle, Peter van Hoorn, to help secure some Dutch crown jewels hidden from the Nazis during World War II.  Caught up in a real-life adventure that seems unbelievable even to him, Walter attempts to hide his double life from his mundane family and friends.  Eventually, he acquires the courage to stand up to those who kick him around.

Interesting!

Tragic comedy anime.

Any play by Chekhov. Tragedies that verge on comedy, and comedies that verge on tragedy.

Literary Biography

One of those survival movies where everything in the universe is out to kill you but you just keep living.

Like All is Lost

I'll be the girl from the Man from Snowy River.

^ I wish my life was like that one.

Me too.

Instead, it would be more like Virginia Woolf meets Sylvia Plath.

The movie would be a war comedy about a German guard who's frozen in 1942 and brought back in 2022.

My movie would be about ten different versions of the same person and all the versions are shouting at once but none of them can hear each other and then one day they all merge together and become one. But the one can't really remember the ten except in like a dream state so it doesn't really matter anyway.

I don't know what genre that would fall under. Maybe sci-fi.

Godzilla, where I get to stomp or incinerate anything I don’t like.

It would be a 'Dramedy' (a word combining comedy and drama). The movie would take a meta-narrative theme- that is a postmodern production applying the dynamics of fiction, non-fiction, fiction based-on truth, and vice-versa, sleep dreams, and real-life stories. The movie would feature a few lesser known, and older celebrities playing the parts of....themselves.

The movie would thoughtfully blend personal experiences with news stories about the world at large.

The movie would experience an ample interest with indepdendent film buffs, and may experience brief interest with the general movie-going public - an overlooked 'Cult Classic' of sorts? Critics would note my production of what a modern-day Mark Twain might produce.