Pulp Fiction Becomes Screenwriter Avary’s Reality
by Jaden
In RadioShack today, buying a cord and some tools for my broken speaker wires, as the cashier was ringing me up, he mindlessly read out loud a news blurb from Yahoo! Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary was the driver of a single-car accident that seriously wounded his wife Gretchen and terminated the life of his Italian friend Andreas Zini when the car spun out of control on a curve and hit a pole.
I feel sincere regret and sadness for these people.
Two days ago, a friend was telling me about a guy he knows at school who had been drinking and driving a year ago and also killed his passenger / best friend.
What a horrible tragedy. I thought about it a lot and it really disturbed me. And here, I hear it again in a store tonight.
A common fear among writers is that we will make something happen, just by thinking it or writing it. Why? Because this sort of mysterious thing often occurs to us.
It is regular that writers produce stories about something that has already happened in real life, something they heard or read or experienced. But sometimes we write a story of complete fiction, and yet, lo and behold, the next day, it happens! Or maybe we meet a character in real life who resembles in appearance and action one we recently created.
“Stranger than Fiction” captures this phenomenon with humor and warmth. Does the writer psychically tap into an existing person? Or does the writer create an existence out of thin air?
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LOVE and PEACE be with the Avary and the Zini families.
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I am one of those writers who tries to avoid writing things that might creep into my real life. That’s one of the many reasons I struggle so with writing evil characters and truly horrific plot obstacles. I’ll get past it, eventually.
Stranger Than Fiction - the best writer’s film I have ever seen, hands down.