Niki N. Phaser

(Relatively) Recently, Fight Club, the movie we all love (and a few hate) has been inducted into the “Guy Movie Hall Of Fame”. The focus with that whole thing was on Brad Pitt teasing Mel Gibson by calling him “sugatits”, of course. But, what one must gather from all of this is that this powerful movie has received one more honour. It’s been a decade since its birth and the legend keeps growing. And it should be. In hindsight, a lot of critics are self-flagellating for ignoring, or even worse, criticizing Fight Club, when it was released. Basic stuff, pretty much, since this is what happens with all subversive masterpieces. Time has prooved Fincher and Palahniuk right and now they are both legends, the movie and the book, too. It’s all uphill from here and soon enough, you’ll find movie scholars arguing about “what does that phallus represent ?” and people writing essays on that scene alone. So, we should all just be glad that we are witnessing the shaping of a cult-classic legendary-masterpiece and be sure that others will not go ignored.

Cameron Crowe (source:www.gawker.com)

But, not to be rude, I will refresh your memory: Cameron Crowe is one of the most influential movie directors of our times. He is responsible for Jerry Maguire, Say Anything, Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Singles and Elizabethtown, so far and he is currently working on a new comedy with Reese Whiterspoon and Ben Stiller. He also wrote the novel and the screenplay Fast Times at Ridgemont High. In his younger days, he used to write for Rolling Stones, just like the character from Almost Famous. He received numerous awards, but I am not the one to pay much attention to such trivial matters, as the Oscars…

What makes Cameron Crowe an idol for me… Well, he did everything I like and is still doing it, successfully. He wrote about music and even composed some songs with his wife, Nancy Wilson, the guitar chick from Heart. He wrote a novel and also a book based on his interviews with Billy Wilder, which is his hero. He did all these great movies which spawned memorable characters, like Spicoli and Lloyd Dobler, memorable lines like Show me the money and classic images like John Cusack holding the stereo above his head…

So, music, literature and film, the best things in life… Cameron Crowe did it all (and with a vengeance). I don’t think I will DO all of these things, but at least, now I will write about them… even literature… I might just review a Chuck Palahniuk novel from time to time, who knows… Keep phasing on…