this one
was one of those movie mix up dreams
where I watch a movie
and then I remix the movie
in my dreams
this particular movie dream remix-em-up
has to do
with my fandom
of Leaving Las Vegas
a tragedy about an alcoholic who decides to intentionally drink himself to death
starring Nicolas Cage as the alcoholic and Elisabeth Shue as a sex worker hired by the alcoholic not for sex but to keep him company in his final days
the fatal moment comes
when the alcoholic tells the sex worker that she can never ask him to stop drinking
and she agrees to this
well
in my mixed up dream version
the movie is titled Leaving Castle Vegas
which is about a man who can't stop buying castles who decides to intentionally buy castles until he's buried beneath a bunch of castles
and this guy hires a sex worker not for sex but to keep him company as he buys a fuckton of castles
the fatal moment comes
when the castle buying addict tells the sex worker that she can never ask him to stop buying castles
and she agrees to this
well
it all ends up
where there's this huge fucking hole that gets dug in the ground
okay
into which
a vast number of purchased castles are deposited
and
well
needless to say
it's not as good as Leaving Las Vegas
but definitely some interesting visuals
I'll give it that
it's just kinda
I dunno
like the guy's trying to destroy himself with the castles
but when the castles are being dropped from above
he just keeps moving out of the way
at first
it seems like a twist
maybe there's hope
maybe he wants to live
but then it gets super repetitious
lotta castle dropping
lotta running to get clear of being squashed
and then
uh
like
there's so many castles getting dropped into that big hole in the ground
that it fills up
but the guy can't stop buying castles
so castles keep getting dropped
but now the hole in the ground is all filled up
so now you got castles spilling all over the place
a real "castle overflow" type of situation
the castle buying addict and the sex worker more or less vanish from the narrative
it's just castle dropping, castle piling
one presumes that the castle purchasing phase is totally automated
but that's strictly my own head canon
but then there's this one two shot
of the castle buying addict and the sex worker looking upwards at a castle tumbling down the side of this gigantic mountain of piled castles
and they just look totally resigned to their situation
I dunno
it seems very well intentioned
but it lacks the pathos of the original
and there was no indication
that the process
of castle buying, castle dropping, and dropped castle evasion
was ever going to end
which
I dunno
struck me as rather hellish
perhaps Leaving Castle Vegas was laying down a "We are all condemned to live" kinda trip
which is interesting, I guess
but overall I would say my dream life let me down on this one
usually
my dream remixes of movies I watch are far superior to the originals
-like that all Playboy Bunny version of 12 Angry Men, or The Odd Couple starring Audie Murphy and Che Guevara, or even that version of Oldboy where it's just the hallway brawl for two hours, or that version of Citizen Kane where it's just Kane breaking shit in all the rooms of Xanadu for two hours-
but this one was a total pile-up
can't win 'em all
even in my dreams
