{"id":2473,"date":"2005-08-02T09:33:06","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2005-08-02T09:33:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T13:33:06","slug":"i-want-to-go-to-film-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/08\/i-want-to-go-to-film-school\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Go to Film School"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wonderful wife, She Who Must Be Obeyed, as left me. She has taken my son and made the trek to Zion to visit family for the next three weeks (read about her adventures here<\/a>), while I get to do really exciting lawyer stuff at work. (OK, it actually isn’t that exciting.) In the evenings, I have been having various do-it-yourself home improvement adventures. To fight off loneliness and boredom while I paint, I have rented movies. Lots of them. Since my local Hollywood Video seems to have a fairly complete set of the recent offerings from the LDS film world, I have been going through the productions of Mollywood.<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say, that many of these movies are…um…special. (I thought Saints and Soldiers was very good though.) Still, I have been having a lot of fun, and I have kindled a burning ambition to be a film maker. My favorite parts of most of these movies are the special features sections on the DVDs, particularly the “making of” bits where the directors and producers talk about making a movie on a shoestring and the commentary where the director says, “Now this set is actually my aunt Edna’s garage in Heber.”<\/p>\n

I envy the film makers for two reasons. First, what they are doing looks like so much fun. (I am in a reviewing-insurance-documents phase at work; so everything is looking fun to me.) Second, it must be wonderful to have something at the end of your labors. At its best, my job consists of a series of complicated arguments. It can be fun and intellectually demanding, but at the end of the case you are usually left with a mountain of paper that no one in their right mind will ever read again. The struggle can be exciting, but there is no product. It would be great to stand back, point at something, and say, “I made that.”<\/p>\n

I think that it is pretty clear that God is a first and foremost a lawyer. One has only to read the Old Testament to see that God spends a lot of time making laws, and the New Testament is largely a set of clever legal arguments. The Sermon on the Mount is a masterpiece of Legal Process reasoning, and Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews is tremendously imaginative and powerful reinterpretation of old precedents. Still, God seems to take time off from the law to create things every now and then, and I suppose that he is probably into low budge movies as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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