Alright, we need to talk about \/ unravel one of modern Hollywood\u2019s weirdest mysteries, here.<\/p>\n
We need to talk The Lawnmower Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I know, I know. WTH is \u201cThe Lawnmower Man\u201d?<\/p>\n
Alright, time for some backstory.<\/p>\n
First, please read the following link: https:\/\/thespool.net\/features\/fotm\/the-lawnmower-man-stephen-king\/<\/p>\n
It gives a backstory for this odd, forgotten movie that is relevant to what I need to talk about and unravel here.<\/p>\n
Basically, the story goes like this: Stephen King wrote a short story called The Lawnmower Man<\/i>. It was about supernatural stuff- demons, and demonic possesions, etc. New Line Cinema got the rights to the story, didn\u2019t like anything about it except the name, and so rewrote everything about it, changing the plot, characters, setting, and\u2026 everything, basically, to make a film about some developmentally disabled blonde guy taking over the internet with his mind and ruling the world thereafter as some kind of God.<\/p>\n
King absolutely loathed what was done to his story and sued to have his name removed from the credits. He won, and the movie was thus removed from King\u2019s official cinematic oeuvre.<\/p>\n
The movie seemed to do alright in theaters, I guess. It got a sequel.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t see it in theaters, since too young. I did find the commercials interesting, with their old timey 90\u2019s CGI VR graphics. When I was at a friend\u2019s house I saw the first sequence of the film from his VCR copy. You know, the sequence with the monkey? I mean, I thought it was stupid (because it was, lol), but I was young enough to think it kind of unnerving regardless, and stopped it after that to watch something else, or something. I don\u2019t remember what exactly, lol. Though I guess that that isn\u2019t important.<\/p>\n
So, anyhow. I was young back then, and I mean like really young. I was 12 back in 1992.<\/p>\n
So\u2026 on a whim I decided to see what I had missed 30 years ago, so I saw it online last week and have been processing since. <\/p>\n
Uhm\u2026 hmnn. Yeah. Well.<\/p>\n
You know, Katherine McNamara told me something in her recent adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s The Stand<\/i>. In the fourth episode (I think it was the fourth episode at least, lol), she pointed out to me that one of my alters was developmentally disabled, and even functionally illiterate, I guess. Which\u2026 kinda took me be surprise, but I thought about it for awhile, and yeah, holy cow, I think she\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
I mean, wow. Suddenly, some other stuff in my life started to make sense, lol.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve had a weird, weird life. Like very, super weird.<\/p>\n
Back in… 1st grade(?) I was stuffed into a class for a few weeks for LD kids. Or was that kindergarden? I don\u2019t remember. After a while though the teachers realized what a mistake that<\/i> was, lol.<\/p>\n
Or\u2026 was it? IDK. My life is really, really weird, lol.<\/p>\n
But, back to the movie. <\/p>\n
The film was of particular interest to me because of the overarching plot of some guy taking over the world with his mind and the internet, which is of course basically me, yadda yadda. I mean, you know.<\/p>\n
But beyond that, while watching our titular hero I was getting weird flashbacks to my own youth, particularly those scenes of him mowing the lawn like I used to do at that age and\u2026 yeah, I\u2019m sure you can see where I\u2019m going, here.<\/p>\n
I mean, I was kinda like\u2026 oh no, lol. Like, noooooo, lol. But I mean, there it was, kinda. I mean the hair (obviously), but also the comic book and the kid who kinda seems kinda like me, too(?) who would walk with our hero and talk with him as he mowed and some other stuff, etc. etc.<\/p>\n
The clincher to me was the gas station scene with the interaction between our hero \u201cJobe\u201d and a bully \u201cJake\u201d, which plays out near word for word like a memorable interaction that I had when I was young. And then\u2026 the scene ending, which shows \u201cJobe\u201d in frame by himself, with another character shouting \u201cJake, Jake!\u201d while he just stands there dumbly. And I was like\u2026 okay\u2026 does \u201cJake\u201d mean \u201cJake-obsen\u201d? I.E. me? I mean, are they giving the audience (or someone, or me) some kind of clue, here?<\/p>\n
I mean, think of it like the Legally Blonde<\/i> reference to \u201cTom\u201d in that one scene, which was admittedly more obvious and direct. But, I was a lot older then, too.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind that developmentally disabled or not, “Jobe” acted quite a bit like me, back then. I was just a kid after all.<\/p>\n
I mean, all of this would be just a coincidence of course without literally the rest of the movie, where Jobe unlocks his latent telepathic abilities kinda-sorta-ish like I did (while in doing so coming to many of the same conclusions that I did as well, natch), which cumulates in him doing what I did, and taking over the world\u2019s computer networks with his fantasies and thoughts and such.<\/p>\n
I mean\u2026 I don\u2019t know. But the coincidences are there, again. And there\u2019s at least four of five scenes in the beginning of this film that really strike me as eerily familiar to myself, personally.<\/p>\n
Really weird. And I mean it, this is all so very strange. I mean, I obviously had outrageous psychic abilities from a young age, it seems. But I mean\u2026 WTH? I was literally like 10 years old when they were making this movie, and the whole thing is pre-internet<\/i>. I don\u2019t get it. <\/p>\n
And I won\u2019t even get into the other stuff I noticed from this film, mostly because I know my legion of girlfriends or whomever gives them their marching orders would get mad at me if I did, lol. But I mean, it\u2019s just nuts, all of it.<\/p>\n
I guess that what I\u2019m ultimately getting at is that I need really come to grips with this whole \u201cAntiChrist\u201d thing. I mean, this is very, very difficult. I mean, of all the hobbies to have, lol.<\/p>\n
But I mean, this is just exceptionally tough, all around. I really wish that someone had pointed out to me what was going on when I was younger, just so my life would have make some kind of sense before now. I mean, all of this stuff in combination is like a lot<\/i>, and I mean it. Like a lot<\/i> a lot.<\/p>\n
So\u2026 I don\u2019t know. It’s just… baffling.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n
But, back to the movie. The story. There’s that old question again- that one I posed in my dissection of Serial Experiments Lain<\/em>. Where did this story come from, if not from Stephen King? Who or what was the inspiration, then?<\/p>\n Was it actually me?<\/p>\n I don’t know, I really don’t.<\/p>\n Does anyone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alright, we need to talk about \/ unravel one of modern Hollywood\u2019s weirdest mysteries, here. We need to talk The Lawnmower Man. I know, I know. WTH is \u201cThe Lawnmower Man\u201d? Alright, time for some backstory. First, please read the following link: https:\/\/thespool.net\/features\/fotm\/the-lawnmower-man-stephen-king\/ It gives a backstory for this odd, forgotten movie that is relevant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}