What does "the fall" mean to me?

Falling in love ♥

"Love is a fire. It will either warm your heart or burn you to nothing."

Rather than thinking of a cliche romance storyline that will make me feel sick, i would prefer to focus on falling out of love as i feel this could be far more interesting :) Like Romeo and Juliet a love story that ends in tragedy as oppose to an unrealistic fairytale following two people falling head over heels in love with each other.

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What does "the fall" mean to me?

Have you ever been asleep and felt like you're falling? Or been asleep and woken yourself up because your body moved in real life? For me, it's a horrible experience waking up from a dream because you think you've fallen and so i decided to research falling dreams to get the true message behind it.
One theory is that in your waking life you are facing anxiety and insecurities and so have restless dreams when sleeping. Another is that your brain is more relaxed than the muscles in your body and so you face muscle spasms. Now in your head you may think you've fallen or been hurt but your body is still functioning and so you may experience a jerk that wakes you up.
I think its so interesting how our mind works and illustrating a story in a dream through falling asleep could make my film enter any kind of world i would want it - after all a dream is a figment of the imagination in itself!

What does "the fall" mean to me?

Personally, the most emotional tug on the word "fall" is to fall ill. Over the summer i watched a film called "my sister's keeper" and it is without a doubt the saddest, most heart warming film i have ever watched. One scene in particular illustrates the ill character (dying of cancer) wanting to go to the beach as she knows she hasn't got long left to live... The emotive music corresponding with the images on screen makes the scene so powerful without a single bit of dialogue. As well as this, the fact that the audience knows cancer effects so many families in real life makes the theme of falling ill even more touching.

What does "the fall" mean to me?

THE FALL OF ICARUS

According to Greek mythology, the fall of Icarus (the son of a craftsman named Daedalus) is a story about his attempted escape from Crete in Greece via wings made by his father. The wings were attached to his body by wax and his father warned him not to fly too close to the sun or else the wax will melt and he will not be able to fly anymore. Although, when Icarus is in the air gliding across Greece he forgets his fathers vital advice and gets closer to the sun. The wax melts like his father predicted and he falls to the sea where he drowns to death. From this old myth, i feel the moral is to have fun without it turning into danger and i feel this is a very interesting and different story that could inspire my film for my coursework.

What does "the fall" mean to me?

On instinct it screams literally falling over. However, when i consider this phrase in a lot more depth - similar to silence it can have a lot of meanings and generate a lot of very different ideas.
A film called The Fall (2006) directed by Tarsem Singh follows the story of an injured stuntman telling a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale proceeds. The intriguing thing about this film is that not only is the storyline interesting and very clever in the way it's thought out, but the content of the shots are breath taking.

In this film, the theme of the fall represents a physical and mental decline due to events affecting the characters. The injured stuntman physically falls from a bridge whilst shooting a film and this incident leaves him paralysed; which then takes its toll on his mental stability as he becomes depressed and wishes to commit suicide.
For me, this is the most extreme execution of the fall as it could result in death however i find it interesting and feel it could open a lot of doors when considering a story for my film.