About Me
Every day at the so-called Water Cooler people would start their sentences with:
“Did you see ...”
What better way than to start my website with that as its name?!!!
I am a huge film buff, enthusiast, aficionado, and movie gabber about almost everything and just about anything. I go to film festivals and events in the states and outside the states when I can. I love films or shows that enlighten me, freak me out, move me to tears, and even ones that can anger me. I am the perfect cheerleader or promotional advocate for films that want to be seen! I often come up with grand ideas to promote a film or artist that I either want to see or loved. And it’s more about seeing the delight in other people’s faces when they too see something great! If I can help make that happen - I’m in heaven!
For me - it’s about the characters someone has brought to life. It’s easy to think it’s just the actor making that happen but it’s a culmination of things: the writer, the director, the actor, the cinematographer, the sound, and also very important, the editing! That’s only naming a few.
Great performances can be so realistic that people think the actors are the characters they portray and therefore they think they know them. When I interview a performer, I sometimes want to interview the character and not the artist. From their performances I’ve had the advantage of knowing the character and nothing about the person behind them. So my natural curiosity is about the characters or story or how the production was created and came together. Meeting a person with such captivating skill, one can get awestruck. They say don’t meet your idols. I don’t really think of them as idols. These people are just regular people with very usual jobs. I admire them because they entertain me, and the depth of that admiration is in direct proportion to their ability to mesmerize. I don’t need to know their personal life details. Surface chat is fine. Some of them I wish I could spend hours discussing their work in crazy detail. I don’t know if I would want to live their life though. Far too often I cringe for them, when the world discusses their personal lives, especially difficult times. It must be an awkward life not being free to walk where you want and have the same level of privacy we do. People who blast that sentiment with the comeback of “they chose that life” are irksome simply because artists do not choose this career with the desire to be hounded. Money, luxury, and fame certainly do come at a cost, don’t they. So, reeling this back in - my site and my discussions are mainly focused on the work. - e. Seton