Of vampires and dreams.

Just finished reading the screenplay of "The Reader". This is a very interesting piece of work by David Hare based on the award-winning and New York Times best-selling novel by Bernhard Schlink. I will check out the book though I am resisting the temptation to read the Twilight Sagas.

I love vampire books when I was a pre-teen to early teenage I think. There is something so eternal about it, the sensuality of being loved by beings that are like us yet different. The language is particularly romantic and the images makes one pulsate with each kill!!!!! Totally thrilling!!! It was until I became serious Christian that one had to "severe" such unhealthy "soul ties??????" or rather "associations", afterall, you are what you read. Your mind is a fertile ground, why fill it with images of vampires when you can reap the abundant,victorious life that Christ gives freely through his word?????? Even my all time vampire writer, Anne Rice Whose marvellous work "Interview with the Vampire"( my last, both book and movie- starring the all time handsome Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise), ya, even Anne Rice now writes about angels since she had converted to Christianity.

However, twilight beckons me!!!! Isn't Robert Pattison cute???? There's something about his pale porcelain face and his deep blood sucking lips that attracts women (aunties included). May be its the Bram Stoker version that I watched with my mum when I was a kid. How sensuous to be seduced by a handsome blood-stucker and die in his arms - totally romantic!!!! I would join him to be a vampire team and seduce younger males. HAHAHAHA. There was a brief period in my early teens when I did ponder over the fact if indeed they were amongst us, dead yet alive, awake when we were asleep. I wondered how it would be like if I ever was seduced by one- handsome eternal being.

The Reader is the compelling story of a young boy of 15 who was seduced by a stranger twice his age on that fateful day when he was taken ill with scarlet fever. As their secretive relationship deepens, Hannah would have the school boy read aloud to her all sorts of literature before they make love. Then one day she disappeared mysteriously leaving the young Michael heartbroken and confused. Michael loved her deeply, she being his first love.

Then years later, the now law student Michael (Ralph Fiennes)is shocked to find the now old Hannah (Kate Winslet) back in his life. This time as a defendent in court. The story goes on to reveal about Hannah's Nazi past and the fact that she was illiterate until she learnt to read with Michael's audio tapes (he was reading as in the past to his love) in the long years in jail.

I love reading screen plays. Maybe it was my literary past, those shakespearean plays that one had to memorise for exams in school, and the fact that I often was asked to play this and that character!!!! I love it when in my mind I could become the character in the script and deliver the lines. I am good directing my own mind production and often times, re enacts the certain scenes in movies I watched. It could be an alternative perspective or an alternative ending scene or whatever I feel could bring out a better interpretation!!!! It's like I could be a director if I want to, an actress perhaps and certainly the many dreams I have every day in full colour, sound and texture and feelings certainly helps.

Just the other day, I dreamt I was walking through this new housing estate that is so proximate to Johor and the land fill (for trash!!!) Boy!!!! It smelt so bad in my dream that I almost threw up!!!!! I tried to flee from the horrid stench by running up to the highest floor (my thigh muscles aching) and behold, the scenery was a breath-taking view of Johor's huge landed houses in this vast yet sparsely populated hilly region near the narrow straits. What a contrast!! and I woke!!!!

I was running away from the horrid stench of the compost heap while Melina, my dearest friend mentioned that she had nightmares of running away from vampires!!! I guess for now, I've matured!!!! And if I do read and watch the twilight saga, it will not be about Robert Pattison but how I, the amateurish director could improve on what is already in the big screen. LOL