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We first saw "Dreams" shortly after it came out -- and much of what I observed/felt has stayed with me. Perhaps a couple weeks later I was running in a trail race, and when we went through a field of tall (native) grass, briefly I was in a painting (the van Gogh sketch). After having seen the Willem Dafoe portrayal of VVG movie just yesterday, I got to thinking about "Loving Vincent" how many people fawned over that movie, especially about being (the only?) movie in which each frame was painted over, a moving continual painting. And ... just last night I realized that THAT IDEA had come from Kurusawa's DREAMS. Did "loving Vincent" give credit to this earlier movie?

Also, the one dream ("Fuji") about a nuclear melt-down/disaster threatening the country ... well, maybe THAT was bound to happen but I can't help but think that this movie was about much more than it seemed.

It's too late now to have never made this movie. but if we could ! : --> we'd approach everyone involved in making it, and tell them (we're dictators here, everyone would do as we tell them to) NOT to make this movie. the world is now a (slightly) better place. the money not spent could be used ... um, to fix potholes in/on the highways, or start construction of THE WALL between the U.S. and Canada .

during the game in which "Western" is blowing out the visitors, the camera pans the crowd, who look bored. I was picked to be one of the "early leavers" and I think it's because I coincidentally (I didn't know what the mythical U would be called) was wearing my WESTERN track shirt.

Also amusing, is that the crowd shots for the games were shot at CSU (Ft. Collins, Colorado) basketball auditorium in the winter. Since we were supposed to be in sunny southern California, we had to HIDE all our winter clothing -- hats, scarves, gloves, parkas. Quite a feat to get all the thousands in attendance to hide all that stuff.