We learn from various documentaries on making movies and TV programs that directors almost always do scenes in some order other that what the viewer (and probably the screenwriter) would consider chronological. All the scenes that take place in a particular location are shot together, for instance. Or all the scenes in which a particular actor, or stunt person, or other crucial functionary, appears, who may have to get someplace else for some other production or something. Or all the scenes that take place in a particular season, even in different years. Then the editor gets to sort them out and put them into “chronological” order. (Which may also not necessarily be the order originally set out in the book or play on which the screenplay is based.)
Which makes me wonder (when staying up late and watching TV movies alternating with Stephen Hawking) whether the order in which we experience events is necessarily the same as the order (or meta-order?) in which they occur Out There in Reality?
Jane Grey
Billy Pilgrim became unstuck in time in “Slaughterhouse Five.” It made for an interesting movie and book. I wonder about different dimensions. Perhaps, we die in one dimension but not another.
Related to filming movies: I remember Walter Matthau talking about a scene where he goes up the stairs in a house and then coming back down a few minutes later. In reality, he came down the stairs three months later and quite a few pounds lighter. He said he much preferred stage acting because everything occurred in the order it was meant to.
I think the Matthau move was “The Odd Couple” and the delay in coming back down the stairs was due to a heart attack.
“Perhaps, we die in one dimension but not another.” For the first month or so after I got diagnosed with cancer, I kept feeling there had to be an alternate timeline Lynn somewhere who had dodged that bullet.
“I remember Walter Matthau talking about a scene where he goes up the stairs in a house and then coming back down a few minutes later.” My husband tells me there was a soap opera once that sent a character upstairs and then brought the character downstairs months or maybe even years later (the actor, I suppose, had left the show suddenly, and then returned later).