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I grew up making Super 8 movies when I was 10 years old, cutting them together, sending the film out, getting it developed and waiting three days. losing the art of putting together a magazine or working with film.
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craftsman-like work that the people do, that is going away as we do transition to a fully digital world. On Walter's magazine job and the transition to a digital world Or you think of that thing to say to somebody, the comeback for somebody, when you think of it 10 minutes later and they're gone. Or you just aren't, in the moment, who you want to be. I definitely related to the moments in life where you try to be your best possible self, but you can't quite pull it off. what he's pushing down in the daydreams." "And sort of got diverted by life, and now he's sort of settled in to being kind of a normal guy, a regular guy, and is not even as aware. who he wanted to be when he was younger," he explains. " a guy who's sort of suppressed a lot of his ambition and.
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Then, the screenplay expanded his understanding of why Walter does what he does. Stiller tells NPR's Melissa Block his vision for Walter Mitty began with Thurber's short story. But in his daydreams, he takes flight: He becomes a grizzled Arctic explorer, a fearless superhero. Made into a Danny Kaye musical in the '40s, it's taken on a modern spin now, in a new film from actor-director Ben Stiller, who plays Walter as a guy whose life is so flat he can't even come up with a profile for a dating site. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - originally a two-page James Thurber story published in The New Yorker in 1939 - is about the reveries of a henpecked husband who became transformed, in his imagination, into an intrepid fighter pilot or a world-famous surgeon. Ben Stiller stars as a man who escapes his humdrum life by daydreaming in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which he also directed.