I will here be pointing out to all the world those things I observed in the new Steven Spielberg/Jon Favreau/Daniel Craig/Harrison Ford movie, "Cowboys and Aliens," that I believe fall into the category of being in connection with my material. These observations of mine would not have been made based on similarities alone, in fact, for the most part the similarities alone would not form enough of a basis whatsoever. The extensive set of reasons that go well beyond issues of similarities, such as the shorthand/lexicon and the ongoing inside references from certain camps that have now gone on for decades with relation to me/my material, will be omitted from this explanation. You can close your eyes and point at a good number of my blogs, you'll find something, frequently things for which I was able to include evidence, if you can add two and two (sometimes, 18 times 3 divided by 12 subtracted from a trillion).
I am particularly delighted to have influenced "Cowboys and Aliens" - it is a great, memorable movie! I expect few to be able to appreciate why I consider it likely such vaguely similar bits and pieces in "Cowboys and Aliens" were done apropos of my having first employed them. This blog today is therefore more for the benefit of the few who did these things for "Cowboys and Aliens":
- When Harrison Ford puts his hand on Daniel Craig's shoulder and Craig's reaction to this counts with the audience. This is the oft-used thing that I use in one of my three "more major" videos ("Gosk"; "Mall Man"; "Uncle's Dream" - all posted at Archive.Org), specifically here, my 1990/1992 "Uncle's Dream" video, the part where the mother's hand on the daughter's shoulder occurs, in connection with the line about "the hurting kind". "Cowboys and Aliens" has much stuff going on about the idea of the course of the child (and child surrogate) as set by the parent (stuff about who is or is not truly the "hurting kind" is also an important aspect of that moment in "Cowboys And Aliens").
- People of one planet having a special power to mesmerize people of another planet. This occurs in both "Cowboys and Aliens" as well as in another one of my "more major" videos, my 1994/1998 "Gosk " video. We hear the Daniel Craig character respond with sarcasm when reminded how he had carelessly subjected himself to the mesmerizing; in "Gosk" the sarcasm is more extreme and not for the same reason, as the character using it does not accept that any mesmerizing has occurred. Nevertheless, in both cases it is a moment of sarcasm occurring within a discussion about aliens mesmerizing. I suppose one might possibly come across mesmerizing aliens in other stories within the genre, and so I would regard the degree of reference to my material here as likely the thing I also see a lot of from certain folk in entertainment: elements included apropos of me doing it (such as the opening logo shot of every DreamWorks movie, a bob in water, which I believe, for a set of reasons, began apropos of when I made this same image the opening shot of "Gosk" in 1994).
- In "Cowboys and Aliens", the opening shot following the credits sequence has Daniel Craig sitting up into frame, dumbfounded. This strongly resembles something I use in two of my three "more major" videos, "Gosk" and "Mall Man". I use the action of a character suddenly sitting up from a lying down position to convey a more magically dramatic awakening. In "Mall Man" it is the video's earliest real-time-ish shot of the main character, seen at the end of the credits sequence (as in "Cowboys and Aliens"); in "Gosk", Dockert is lying down, when suddenly one of the girls says, "So what if we are on another planet?", after having previously made no concession whatsoever to this assertion by Dockert. This causes Dockert to open his eyes and sit up. The question of whether or not a character has cognizance of an alien presence is most significant to this sitting up moment in BOTH their movie and my video.
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