Monday, August 24, 2015

Previewing and unpeeling the Unauthorized Full House Movie and various reflections of infinity..

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Never has an entertainment event brought more anticipation and excitement than the Unauthorized Full House Movie.. more than the Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Movie, The William and Kate movie of 2011, or any prequel or sequel to Sex and the City, or even unsubstantiated rumors about a Breakfast Club reunion.. this IS it.. the ultimate Superbowl of made for TV movies...

Viewing on you tube, the scarce crumbs of footage available to the public, one cannot wait to delve entirely and completely into the rich material. Scenes where the unknown actors personify archetypal characters Uncle Jesse, patriarch Danny Tanner, and sidekick Joey Gladstone are so bad... and yet so good at the same time.

Let's begin with the setting: the set itself is extraordinary...an exact replica of the original EXCEPT for juxtaposition of the stairs...they are of course on the wrong side of the living room. WHY?

And next: the characters: These actors do not even really closely resemble the real actors/ TV characters much at all. How is this possible with so many tens of thousands of out of work actors in Hollywood, waiting tables, doing odd jobs, and willing to do just about anything to get noticed? There had to be better casting choices than the ones we see here. That is a superficial but valid observation. They don't really look like them, but yet still personify them wholly and completely. The seemingly bad casting was in fact, intentional.

Upon deep analysis and shot by shot examination of the available footage, one can only conclude that this WAS planned so very carefully and intricately.. They are like them, but they are NOT like them. They are not like them at all, but yet they ARE like them.

This leads to a controversial and unorthodox proposal and theory...the Full House Unauthorized movie is a blatant tribute to Dutch artist Escher's masterpiece, Relativity. This iconic work, appreciated disproportionately by mathematicians and scientists, has an often overlooked intrinsic philosophical value. The three gravitational pulls depicted in this work- are clearly personified by Danny Tanner, Joey Gladstone and Uncle Jessie. They are individuated yet fully integrated into the whole. The chaos depicted in actuality possesses grave order. (chaotic family life with three misfit dads and 3 sassy kids- who are in fact being raised with solid values and deep unqualified attachment).
The structure depicted in Escher's work is a version of Utopia, but the human figures are doing ordinary daily tasks. . As normal physical laws are defied, so we see stairways leading to alternate realities. Reflections and mirror images abound which support the intentional and focal misplaced staircase in our made for TV movie. The movie itself a mere reflection of the original TV show and the show is a reflection of an alternate reality... and again this leads to yet another reflection and so on... and to infinity itself.

Such ponderings are best concluded with the wisdom of William Wordsworth:


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