“Don’t hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows, downtown.” - Petula Clark - ‘Downtown.’
My artwork this week was inspired by the WGA strike that has been ravaging Hollywood for several weeks now. Hollywood is a dream factory - it has long been home to the biggest and most successful studios in the world. This strike has forced writers and artists of Hollywood to not only stop working, but stop creating. Some TV shows have been ground to a halt mid-storyline, screenplays are dwindling, and many around them in the business are suffering.
The people that are being forced to stop and strike are our professional dreamers. In a sense, writers are like taxi drivers, astronauts and psychologists all rolled into one. They bring to us aliens, wizards, natural disasters and more. Movies have long been a form of escapism. We eagerly go to a film and ask it to transport us somewhere new. Of course in film there are many genres and it has many different purposes. But what I’m talking about here is Hollywood. Escapism at it’s best.
Stories have long been used as a way for us to make sense of our world. Aesop’s Fables were used to teach us through the morals. We tell them to our children and we use them to get through difficult times in our lives. We come to them to be amazed, to learn a truth, to see life through someone else’s eyes or just to know that good can triumph evil, and that the nice guy can get the girl.
Think of a movie that has changed your life. Think of a film that you’ve cried along to at the end of a relationship, or that has spoken to you. Think of the emotional investment we make in film and characters. We keep a well told story with us forever, and these stories will last long after we’re gone.
The world needs Hollywood. This is a city of dreams, and it needs to keep dreaming to survive.
Illustration by Klara Piechocki.
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