Still bored, so here we go.
It did occur to me earlier that perhaps Disney still felt a debt to Mae Questel, and that this is why they named the protagonist of How to Build a Better Boy Mae, you know, in honor of. I was wondering about that during the time of watching it. I was like… this name has to have some significance. And in light of my recent brainstorm… perhaps I found it.
But to continue my earlier thoughts to their logical conclusions, I basically hit the nail directly on the head, didn’t I?
I must’ve. Literally nothing else makes sense, unbelievably.
So to follow this stuff to it’s ultimate, baffling and head-spinning finale, I/we are now forced to figure out The Great Mystery Behind All of This, specifically, who/what is “The Valley”?
Alright, some background info: The Valley is a song in the middle (natch) of Laura’s album, a music video, and, interestingly, a re-occurring scene in Saving Zoë. WTF is “The Valley”, actually?
I posit that it is an actual place. If you pause the music video about halfway through (in “The Valley” of the video) you see a book on the floor titled California, which is… kind of an obvious clue, lol. The Valley is a place in California, and mostly likely in Los Angeles, owing to the angel symbolism found in the music video.
To skip to the end here, I think “The Valley” is Laurel Canyon, birthplace of the Fanning sisters, the hippie movement, Scientology, Lookout Mountain Studios, and who the fuck knows what else.
Laura Valley, Laurel Canyon. Hmmn.
And am I correct in thinking that the music video for The Valley is filled with symbolic references to Lookout Mountain Studios? The ivy, the lockers, the graphs, the paper airplane? And the lyrics? “Come back, come back to the valley?” That’s a callback, correct?
Oh, and how could I forget? The baseball symbolism! Obvious is obvious, no? The first one third of the video occurs on a baseball diamond! Is this a reference to Mae Questel herself, whose last role was in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and whose last words put on film were “Play Ball!”?
Wouldn’t THAT be something? Holy Macaroni!
Jeebus Christ!
IDK, I could be wrong about these things, but man, what a group of amazing… speculations! Holy moly!
And you know, if these ideas are right, it would logically explain many many things, at least from my point of view.
Very interesting indeed.