From talk at The WriteIdea Festival at the IdeasStore, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets on Sunday Dec 17.
Posted in response to requests from members of the audience:
Why are we, and our children, so keen
on being scared out of our minds? Why are we so fascinated by horror -
and the supernatural? What's behind the apparently insatiable vampire
craze? Is it as one writer recently put it - porn for tweenagers - or is
it some kind of substitute for religious belief? Does horror have a
purpose, besides that of scaring people? And - the thing that fascinates me
most as a writer - what's the origin of this hunger for mystery, myth and
magic? And - from a more professional point of view - what can we learn
from fairy tales, and how can we use them to construct our own plots?
Many of my own
plots, and the techniques I use for making films, are based on fairy tales - in
particular Little Red Riding Hood. Deconstruct this story and you learn
some of the basic tricks of the trade.
Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 'I became insane - with long intervals of horrible sanity'
“I became insane –
with long intervals
of horrible sanity”
Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1849
“I became insane –
with long intervals
of horrible sanity”
Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1849
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