Walter is an old man. Walter is a camera man.
Walter: Whats total crap about the story of the two directors everybody keeps talking about is that I was there. Yeah, I saw that shit back in my day. I worked for a temp agency that sent me to Walgen Icons and I kept a job there hired on as a permanent for about three years then I too also worked for a the other guys, Dignett Pictures, too. The beginning parts are true, I have no issues there. They met in school back in their days together at the start. Thats when they were more friends than anything those days. And Mr. Alden, the guy who ended up getting billions working for Walgen making crap movies, he was one of the stars. And Mr. Diret, the hippie indie director guy, he was the other. They totally went their separate ways after school. Alden played his money, he bought his own studio, he found where the money was, he pimped it. Diret, on the other hand, stayed a director worked years to find his audience, kept things artsy you know? Well they had a rivalry of course because thats what comes with power, is this 50% of it is defense of it ordeal. Power sucks, I know, I watched it. And in that rivalry the two men wanted to show off to the other that they could make more happen in all the places, not just their own. So Alden opens a little side-studio for indie films and Diret gets picked up by a different mega-studio to make summer blockbusters for a while. Yeah, they both did good, sure, okay. A little ‘Parent-Trap’ switch theme, very inspiring. They rekindle their friendship. But this is where I have a problem.
They didn’t just rekindle their friendship. I mean to say it wasn’t just them. See the women they were with when they met for dinner the first time after all of this, actually, they were the ones who did the fixing. See Alden was married to his wife who had Bi Polar disorder. And Diret had a teenage daughter who had Borderline Personality Disorder, which is very similar I hear. Anyway, the two women were able to help one another. They connected in a way. And they both helped each other realize, is the thing, that their disorders had come from the lifestyles of their men, and the styles of the movies they made.
Mr. Alden’s wife was overwhelmed by the pressure she felt from all that stifled sort of life she was leading always looking good for the cameras and all of that rich bullshit. And the Diret girl was always worried so much with living her centered energies and dramatic truths and all that other bullshit that she was never allowed to just relax and say fuck it, you know?
Anyway it was a beautiful story to watch. They started meeting on the sets until eventually it was a known thing. They were friends in this weird Thelma and Louise Romeo and Juliet kind of motif. Anyway thats what kills me. Its not really public talk, I know they’d do some disrespectful lesbian cougar homophobic thing on it or something. But we watched it. We knew. We saw. It was those two that really made the story for me. Its just crap sometimes that this story seems so stupid and easy to people who have no idea. No idea.
