...This quest, this need to solve life's mysteries when the simplest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? ? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we'd be better off not looking at all.
Not Dwelling, not yearning.
That's not human nature, not the human heart...
That is not why we are here...
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I love that introduction SO MUCH!. I cannot lie. This is one of the scenes i usually see over and over just to get inspiration when i want to write.
You could ask me why... i could answer in so many forms that i wouldn't even know where to start... so i won't.
There are others things that inspire me when i feel like writing. (The Movie "Big Fish" For example), but right now i just want to comment and focus strictly on HEROES.
Big Fish and some other great movies that fill my imagination will have to wait....
HEROES inspires me because that's the kind of thing i would write if i didn't wanted other to write it instead. There are some things that are our materials to mold (when we're writers)... and they are what in the end define our work.
For someone it could be the innocence of a child, for others just places filled with misteries (for example The places where Stephen King lived and that inspire him in every single novel he has written), others like to write about monsters lurking in the shadows (or maybe even in your own soul)...etc etc
For me they're different things, some i could point out right now would be: Small towns ( i just love the feeling of a small town, i lived in a couple at least, and life was so different...), People with imperfections and virtues, those who are just like any of us when you start to analyze their motivations, and in most of the cases special characters, those who are above all the others in a way or another...
HEROES has two of the things i like the most in my writing, and that's why i like it so much... and i also feel attached with the characters, because in one way or another they're just like me..
Peter Petrelli: a dreamer, someone that wants something different. Someone who's tired of the life he has, and who intends to make a difference to make it change. Someone who feels he's destined to something bigger.. and the most important thing.. he's willing to do whatever he has to just to get all that he dreams about. Even if it involves making sacrifices.
Nathan Petrelli: This is something like a confession.. but well here i go... he sometimes pretends to don't care about people. But the truth is that he does, he does so much he's afraid to care too much and screw it. He's just not ready to take the responsibilities, and he negates the gift he has been given just because of fear..
Matt Parkman: Who wouldn't do what he does when he starts to feel this gift inside him?. I won't say what he does , you'll have to see it for yourselves, but those who have watched Heroes i'm sure will understand about what i'm talking about. He's so overwhelmed for the new opportunity he has.. aren't we all like that, in one way or another??
Hiro Nakamura: He just wants to be special. In a way he's really like Peter Petrelli, except that Hiro is way much more innocent. He can do the most absurds things just to get what he thinks is his destiny. I'm just like that, for some people it can be absurd to pursue these big dreams of being a writer and having even maybe fame and money (or a mix of the two). But hell, i don't care, and Hiro doesn't care either
Nikki: She's just afraid of her Dark Side. Aren't we all like that??. Don't we fear that inner self we have that is just dark and evil? Can we deny that we all have that potential? The situations we lived are the ones that define what we are today, and our force of Will to resist all that Fate throw at us is what finally decides whether we succumb to that evil side, or if we can resist it. And i'm not talking about being bad with other people, or committing murder or something like that. I'm talking about something deeper, about that part of us that we don't like. Perhaps the part that it's just too lazy to do something it wants, or that part that is afraid to make things change.
The other Characters.. i like them, it's just that i don't feel so attached to them like i do with the five i just described, and i'm sure others would feel attached with them too.
And one last thing.. the music of HEROES... specially the parts that involve decisions of one of the Heroes (specially , and incidentally the parts when Peter Petrelli appears) are just awesome....
So i'm happy. Because even if it could sound a bit of an extreme overconfidence, Heroes would be the kind of thing i could have written (in it's essence at least)... some things however i would change. For instance: i would have given Nathan Petrelli the more important role in the story, as a character that doesn't understands the importance of the power he has , being his brother the one that makes him realize how important he is in the big scheme of everything that's happening... still i want to see what's the role of Nathan in everything that's occurring in the story, i really can't wait to see what do they still had in mind for his special ability..
But that's the magic of being a mere spectator, something that i do enjoy too, so much as being a writer.
That's all for now.
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