Dazzling though Coppola's film was, it was at some level a fantasy, dreaming of dark conspiracies with which to spice our lives.
Instead of doing this, put your fantasy dreaming to a halt and begin to do things to make yourself feel worthy again, like writing down one great thing about who you are each day, and stopping all negative thoughts and mantras before they can pass through your mind.
But the movie, "Empires of the Deep," is not another fantasy dreamed up by Hollywood.
What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant décor — and beautiful women.
Like Méliès, a great many modern directors connect dance to fantasy, dreams, magical tours, alternative states.
Road-pricing, he says, is a middle-class fantasy dreamed up by "some dweeb in a dark room doing quantitative analysis".The dweebs say their critics oversimplify things.
But if, as we are told, the story originated with someone already in custody, the police may well have dismissed it as a malicious fantasy dreamed up to protect himself.
"I have accumulated enough rumor, fantasy, dreams, conjecture, and outright lies for a volume the length of the Old Testament," Lee told another writer, Madison Jones, who was researching the case.
His impressive new book, he tells the pedantic Tesman, who naturally has no idea what he's saying, is "about a history that lives inside of us all — in imagination — fantasy — dreams".
This was in great contrast to the colorful, childlike fantasy dreams in Little Nemo.
The question is not whether these scenarios are a fantasy dreamed up by feature writers and TV producers looking for a new storyline.
