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This Scene Is An Entire Movie (And Music Video)

You know how when you are too close to something you can’t even see it?  Sometimes I find myself in a movie and I miss the true glory of a particular scene.  Taken out of context, some work shines even brighter.

I love this scene.

To me it is “Desire”.  I watch it and I hear Bob Dylan’s album and the whole Rolling Thunder tour (or at least the recordings of it that I have heard).  I love the longing, the inexplicability, the recognition, the silliness and the passion.  And the song is great too.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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