Think big
Today I watched The Book of Mormon Movie. Hmm, how shall I phrase this? It was...lacking. I had hoped that it would indeed be a spectacular epic, but alas, 'twas not to be. In fact, it was almost embarrassing. The script wasn't very good (mixing the archaic speech with the colloquial was a bad idea -- one way or the other, please), the lighting wasn't very well done in several of the scenes, the acting was not very believable, and it didn't really do justice to the book. As I was watching it, I kept thinking to myself, "You could do so much better than this." And why not? I read this quote today:
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big." (Chicago architect Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1846-1912)
I also read an article by Kieth Merrill: Where Are the Great Mormon Movies? Part 1 and Part 2. Could my future lie in screenwriting? It is an intriguing idea. The voice of common sense inside me says, "What on earth are you thinking?!? You, make movies? Yeah, right. Whatever. Go back to the small stuff -- go hole up in a library or in some publishing company where you belong." And yet I read quotes like the one above and yes, I do dare to think big. I already know that many of the people I tell this to are going to laugh at me and, shaking their finger, proceed to inform me how slim the odds of success are and all that. I've heard it before. (I guess I'm prone to these fantasies of greatness. :)) I will not sit still and let opportunities crumble and die unused, discarded in the rubble of my past. Instead I will build -- I will do things that would stagger those who came before. I will think big.
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big." (Chicago architect Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1846-1912)
I also read an article by Kieth Merrill: Where Are the Great Mormon Movies? Part 1 and Part 2. Could my future lie in screenwriting? It is an intriguing idea. The voice of common sense inside me says, "What on earth are you thinking?!? You, make movies? Yeah, right. Whatever. Go back to the small stuff -- go hole up in a library or in some publishing company where you belong." And yet I read quotes like the one above and yes, I do dare to think big. I already know that many of the people I tell this to are going to laugh at me and, shaking their finger, proceed to inform me how slim the odds of success are and all that. I've heard it before. (I guess I'm prone to these fantasies of greatness. :)) I will not sit still and let opportunities crumble and die unused, discarded in the rubble of my past. Instead I will build -- I will do things that would stagger those who came before. I will think big.
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