Monday, July 26, 2010
The Movie Inception
I saw the movie Inception this past weekend and really enjoyed the plot line about dreams within dreams. But, my books have that idea in them, too. I wonder if people will accuse me of stealing that idea from the movie? I hope not, since I wrote book 1 of A Signet Forever two years before Inception came out in theaters. The idea of lucid dreaming, which forms the basis for the movie, has been around for millenia, so I guess I'm not alone with using not-so-original ideas. It's funny that I didn't know anything about lucid dreaming until years after I wrote ASF. I had no idea that a similar concept already existed. Still, my rendition of dreams within dreams is quite different from that of Inception and lucid dreaming, so I do retain a thin strand of originality.
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I like this quote of C. S. Lewis:
ReplyDelete"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
Narnia and Aslan lend a lot of weight to that. :)
I also like these two quotes:
"Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? " (Exodus 15:11)
"...who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD..." (Deuteronomy 33:29)
God is the only origin-al. No one else is like him, but He desires to express unique aspects of his glory through each of his people. However paradoxical it may sound, being remade into the image of God is the only way to be original. (One might say that the Incorruptible must necessarily be infinitely original, and that each person in the kingdom of God is a window by which a part of that originality may be expressed.)
So, since no human can make themselves original, I wouldn't worry about trying to be original. Write what God's put in you to write, what you enjoy writing, and in the end, it will be original. And it'll be really good too. :)
I must admit, some of the ideas that eke out onto the pages of these stories genuinely surprise me. I sometimes wonder what made me think of such things, shrug, and just conclude that either I ate really late the night before or God must have whispered it into my ear. Or maybe both! (Though on my new diet, I'm trying not to eat past 6pm, so I guess all good ideas going forward will have to be from God, right?)
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