The Unmeltable Kind Of Snowman

Having seen it a MILLION times before, I knew how to read it when, during a Bruce Willis movie, I suddenly saw something that specially reminded me of something in my own material. A MILLION times before. If I had only seen this kind of thing 993,259 times before, well, who knows? But a MILLION TIMES BEFORE? It ceases to be a matter of crazily trusting one's own instincts, but rather, it would instead have been a matter of stupidly behaving like an ignorant sheep to ignore what one sees.

I am often an influence on Bruce Willis. He is mentioned numerous times in my blogs. There was even an incident, beginning with my March 13th, 2009 blog, where I specified a license plate that contained "Zigski" as something that secretly related to the death of Princess Di that secretly related to someone acting on my secret super-importance in relation to Spielberg, McCartney, etc. that secretly related to someone bringing in a connection to Bruce Willis' line in "The Jackal", a movie produced by close Spielberg friend Sean Daniel, "You can't protect your women" - and three days after that blog, on March 16th, 2009, the wife of someone Spielberg was working with at the time (Natasha Richardson) was killed in a skiing "accident".

Several days ago, when I saw for the first time the 2009 Bruce Willis movie, "Surrogates," I immediately recognized something that reminded me of a strange thing I did as the cinematographer in a scene from the movie "Limbo," the CalArts 1974 School of Film/Video class film project. In "Surrogates," towards the beginning of the movie, one sees the Bruce Willis character through a tilted camera (as in the photograph). In "Limbo," a very drunk character is about to cast a gorilla, is about to inspect several people dressed up as gorillas. So as the camera follows the intoxicated man on his way to inspect people dressed as gorillas, I sought a tilted image (as in the photograph), not because I didn't know how to keep the camera level, but to embellish the idea that something a little trippy was going on. I don't say this has never been done. But images of this sort of tilt that correlate so directly are quite rare, it was enough to bring it immediately to (my) mind, and experience told me that, with it being a Bruce Willis movie, I should be looking for something else in "Surrogates" to "cinch the deal". It's the short-hand these guys have "taught" me/my experience has "taught" me. I am learned in these matters.

That something else was very much there, and very much in plain sight:

• In "Surrogates," the characters we generally see are outwardly actual people, but in reality they usually are surrogates for the actual people - robots connected to the actual people in terms of the source behind their actions/movements, etc. Bruce Willis' character, on the other hand, unbeknown to most, is one of the few actual people walking around.

• In "Limbo," among the people in gorilla suits seeking to be cast as gorillas, unbeknown to most, there stands an actual gorilla.

What more evidence did I need. You, on the other hand, would have to go to CalArts and ask to see "Limbo". And you, on the other hand, would need to already be aware of the Bruce Willis/Steinhoff stuff. You should wait for the ones where I can demonstrate my point without asking you to take anything on faith, as I am periodically able to do. Why take this for something genuine simply because my genuine-ness has so often been demonstrated in the past. I could be a wolf in sheep's clothing this time.