Jonathon Flaum’s first story is about Mumon, one of the last remaining red wolves, and his journey to find his freedom and his howl. It begins with Mumon being trapped physically, and mentally, for his own safety. He is then set free onto the unfamiliar world and has trouble coping. After a couple of trials and challenges, he is able to run free through the Forrest. Then he must face a difficult unknown challenge, which forces him to reach inside his soul and realized what he wants, and has to do. Then he is able to howl.
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As discussed in the article Finding Your Howl by Jonathon Flaum, to get to your howl, you must have a brush with death. Meaning that for anybody to reach their one true calling or purpose, they must first face their most fearsome and terrifying challenge and then come out unscathed. Some people will never take this challenge will miss their opportunity, out of fear of the unknown or because they fear that they will fail. I don’t believe that I have found my howl yet, but I might have gotten a little growl.
One of my favorite movies of all time is Inception, from the mind of Christopher Nolan. In that movie there was a line that really spoke to me and made me start to think in a different way. The quote was when Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Cobb said “Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.” There are many reasons why this quote speaks to me creatively, such as the real meaning, other interpretations, and its relation to the story of the movie.
One of the more obvious but interesting things about this quote is that fact that Cobb says this to Ellen Page’s character, while they are in a dream. At which time she does not know that she is in a dream, or even believe that this act is possible. This demonstrates how true this statement is to the film, and to real life dreams. The actual meaning of this quote is also rather intriguing because of how you never think of dreams in this sort of way, also how this can apply to real life situations. In real life, when something is obscure or different, you are usually too caught up in the moment to notice until after that moment of intensity has passed.
This quote is also rather important to me as an aspiring filmmaker. This is because if you make a movie and have the same effect on people, with the believability and intrigue of your movie, as dreams do, then you are doing an exceptional job of immersing your audience in the fake adventure that they are simply watching. This is often one of the biggest problems with bad films. The simplest things can cause the audience to become un-immersed, so it is your job to make them believe that they are in the movie until the very end.
The quote also helps me to think more creatively with stories, visuals, and many other things that are involved in the creative process. When I think of writing or storytelling in that it can be as imaginative as a dream as long as you can convince people to believe that it’s realistic. When you are dreaming you can have a fantasy of infinite possibilities that are realistic enough to believe, at the time. If you follow this same philosophy when doing anything creative, such as making a story, a song, or a picture, you could wind up having interesting and awesome results.
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