Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Intendances

from Steven C. Stewart's Forward to movie (Crispin Glover's film It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE)

I have never killed anyone and never intend too. However, I have taken many intendances from my own life and built the story around them.

Stewart is a severely handicapped screenwriter who here parses the problem of the origin of artistic creation. It is not clear if he meant "intentions" or "incidence." So it is thus unclear if the basis of the film is real events, or Stewart's mere wishes. But instead of confusing his meaning, the portmanteau artfully describes how fiction can be based on a writer's life.

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