After various ideas have been popping up and floating around my head, I thought that the best way to keep a record was to post them to a blog.
My idea this year revolves heavily around the theme of Wrestling.
Around two months back, I saw the film 'The Wrestler' starring Mickey Rourke. The film itself has easily become my favourite film. It has become the main reason why this year I want to create a film. Possibly as an installation.
Below is Bruce Springsteen's 'The Wrestler' the soundtrack to the film, accompanied by many a powerful image used within the film. Enjoy.
My original idea for the film, would be to shoot a kind of 'mock'umentary following a few days in the life of a dillusional man who believes he has been a Mexican wrestler for around two decades, whose career has been ended prematurely. The idea was that this now middle-aged nobody is living his dream through memories that never actually happened. The camera would just follow him around his home carrying out his daily routines still wearing his mexican wrestling mask which he probably bought from some geek shop. As for his house, it would be a typical OAP's heaven. Floral wallpaper, floral furniture. But every now and then, subtle hints at his Mexican wrestling career; cactus here and there, picture of a chihauha etc.
My idea changed:
I then thought about the personal life of other celebrity type figures: A failed rockstar, a drag queen cabaret act, a ventriloquist, and an artist. I thought about putting all these, along with the wrestler in a kind of 'come dine with me' style film:
This would enable a few actors to really play the part of each character, ad-libbing, really getting into their character's role. It would give opportunity to go to town with the celebrities houses, what food they would cook etc.
I then had this crazy idea...
Contact a few wrestling schools/promotions and try and spend a week living as a wrestler to compile documentary type footage of myself wrestling to be used as memories/cut scenes for an elderly retired wrestler who will be the star of the video, talking about his life as a wrestler.
I have an idea to turn this film into an installation piece... will write more about that soon.
So basically spend a week doing this:
So yeah, if i make it to the otherside of this project it will be nothing short of magic. If I don't let it be known that it was all in the name of art.
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