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The secret dreams of Walter pearls Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) is the last film directed by Ben Stiller, a remake of a film of '47 with some updating of the script and $ 80 million more than budget. It is only the fifth film in thirty years of career, because the films made by Stiller have a separate artistic journey, undertaken with calm and meditation. Submerged for over fifty investments as an actor, many of which are large and blurring pearls commercial successes, his career as a director marks a break from time to time in which Stiller seems to rebel against the tyranny of success, pearls turning the film by the outcome is not always obvious.
The secret dreams of Walter Mitty is the film of his fifty years (even if he has forty-eight), in which Ben reflects on a whole life as an artist. Walter pearls is a Development Officer of the negatives of Life magazine, a shy and lonely clerk who dreams of another life. The dreams of the time. It enchants in the elevator of writing and waiting for the train, in the coffee break, and is lost in his fantasies when he sees pass Cheryl, the girl he likes. Life is closing the magazine in paper form to start the online version. Begin layoffs. For the last number, the management chooses to publish pearls photos of Sean O'Connell, a photojournalist who has been working at the magazine. Walter and Sean have never met in person, pearls but the latter estimate profoundly Walter for his work. Along with the series of negatives pearls by the number of Life, sent him as a gift a wallet with engraved an inscription of thanks. In the letter accompanying the pack, Sean specifies that it will use the negative number 25 for the cover. "The picture," he writes, "It is the quintessence of Life." 25 The negative pearls however is the only missing, and Walter goes on a journey in search of Sean.
Walter Mitty is not a caricature, naive, or maybe just depressed, Stiller presents him rather as a hard worker, one who plays for twenty years his profession with passion and concentration. Her life revolves mostly around the job. The first half of the film takes place almost entirely within the editorial office of the magazine. pearls His only friend and Cheryl are both two of his colleagues. When Mitty leaves his office to begin his mission, he decides to do so, or worse than "life", and for the fear of being a failure as a father or as a husband, (as for example in Night at the Museum). No one is really asking him, embarks on a journey to search for his loss of a sense of responsibility towards Life and at the same time to work on himself, determined to improve.
The Mitty Stiller seems to follow the advice that the writer Bohemian Rainer Rilke, in one of his letters, gives to a Young Poet: Mitty embraces difficult. Rilke wrote in 1903: "The people with the help of the conventions sorted it all out in accordance with the easiest of ease and ease, but it is clear that we must stick to hard. We know little, but that we must adhere to the difficult is a certainty that there must abandon [...] this is perhaps our most difficult task, the ultimate, the last test and verification, the job than any other job that does not prepare ". The change pearls of Walter Mitty at the end of the journey will not be decisive, pearls nor will implement a total transformation. Walter gets used a little more difficult to avoid for a time in his life to choose the easiest thing. The hard part for Walter was living beyond his work, having nothing to talk about and share with others (especially on social networks). From the middle of the film onwards, dreams fade away and take their place the adventurous exploits. These adventures will be fantastic as the dreamlike visions, such as the valigettate to take a shark, or down from a volcano with a skateboard. The difference though is that the dreams Walter at the end of the trip reaches a small real achievement and useful to his live better: find the strength to get out of inviting Cheryl. As for the dismissal is a matter of time for him, Walter is not a brute, but continuing his work with more passion, has enriched his experience.
Ben Stiller, unlike Walter, has never hesitated or been afraid. The first appearance of the absolute to eight years ago on the set of the Mike Douglas Show in 1972, playing a violin. David Letterman, years later, when he Stiller as a guest, so remember the episode: "There's a big difference between me and Ben. When he was eight years old playing the violin badly in front of an entire nation when I was eight years old I played the clarinet in the living room badly Aunt Jo and Uncle Frank. " The first television appearances are due to parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, a couple of comedians active in the 60s and 80s, which carry the son vol