Basically half, on the Halloween question. The film was the first of the series I saw in theater and then I met Daeg. I dare say I had a crush on him.
The Dream Master is significant because it was the first time I watched an Elm St. film when I was 14 years old and it just had a huge impact on me from the soundtrack to the story and the message of the idea that one can use their powers to stop bad dreams and evil influences therein.
Hope that makes a little sense. I just got up!
It really got me into fantasy as a child, and I still long for adventure. It was the first movie to really "take me somewhere" and I've been hooked on that feeling for a long time since.
Which obviously leads into Indiana Jones.
My Han Solo fan-ness lead me into Indiana Jones, and I used to love to pretend I was Indy with his whip and I'd run around outside and do all that great boyhood stuff.
I hope that you understand what I'm saying. No, of course I'm not just like Travis Bickle (and never was). However, just like many great characters in film, Travis Bickle is an extreme. Many people have felt like him (and even been in some similar situations- no, I'm not referring to walking into a brothel and murdering several people, though there are real people like that in the world, who are very much like Travis Bickle, I'm sure). It's a film that is considered great, I think, largely because so many people understand and almost relate to the character. Supposedly it is semi-autobiographical (of Paul Schrader/ Schreider- Christ, I don't know what the guy's name is, it could be something completely different) and (hell, maybe you're not old enough to grasp this- and yeah, that was condescending) lots of people are lonely, struggle to express their feelings and to control destructive urges.
I really hope that makes sense. And I did possibly just overreact to a comment that was not, perhaps, wholely serious...
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