Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to
make movies. Perhaps I was influenced too much by the Little Rascals’
lavish musical productions. Those poor kids never seemed to need
money or anything. They just decided to put on a huge musical number,
and voila, there they were, on a lit stage, in full costume, playing
to a packed house. Watching those shorts always made me believe I
could the same exact thing.
I know how ridiculous as that sounds.
Maybe it’s just me, but I always have dreamed and planned things on
the grandest of scales and honestly believed I could attain
everything I dreamt. Why not?
In my 5th grade English
class, we got divided into small groups and had to put on a play for
the class. I wanted to do Star Wars. The whole movie. While
the other groups were squandering their time trying to find the
easiest thing to do, I was figuring out how I, as Darth Vader, was
going to pick up the Rebel Soldier by the neck as I try to choke some
information out of him.
Ultimately, we ran out of time and
weren’t able to perform Star Wars, so in a moment’s
notice, we switched gears and acted out The Three Little Pigs.
My teacher was less than impressed, and I was utterly disappointed.
Why did no one else care to do this grand thing? Was there no one
else who wanted to enact an elaborate spectacle that would surely
make the Little Rascals proud? Did no one else share my vision,
passion, or enthusiasm?
I remember this event like it was
yesterday and still feel both the sense of spectacle that I wanted to
create as well as the inexorable encroachment of time and smack of
ultimate failure to produce my baby. It’s a good thing I’m not
bitter about it.
This lone event, several lifetimes ago,
is a driving force behind Cyclops Movies. I want to create and
produce grand spectacles the kind of which that 5th grade
me would have peed his pants to do. Cylops Movies works with
the same kind of budget that the Little Rascals had to work with,
next to nothing, but we’re going to have a blast making our movies.
We hope you have just as much fun watching them.
