and it all came to me the other night while i was lying down waiting to fall asleep. i’m not sure exactly where it came from, but it was the phrase “did does doing” that got it going. i think i also stumbled upon some sort of tag line (that you may have heard before): “if nothing changes, nothing changes.”
i was thinking about other languages and that got me thinking about all the different verbs and forms of verbs that we have completely memorized. it takes us fractions of a second to retrieve a single form of a single verb to fit in exactly with what we want to say at that exact moment. amazing.
and for some reason, the verb “to do” was the one i was focusing on: did, does, doing. that about cuts it, right? he did something in the past, he does something in the present, and he’s doing something in the future. or something like that.
anyhoo, i imagined it would be very braff (which is a new descriptor [kind a like, "funny"] that i’ve invented), but directed at a larger audience. the basic plot line is this: a child grows into a young man who then grows into an old man, but, in reality, doesn’t change: instead he just does the same things in different ways.
the movie would show him making similar mistakes, achieving similar successes, but being so damn human in the process that you can’t help but wish him the best.
