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Movies & entertainment from past times. as possible triggers.

Marc Ross

Marc Ross

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Hello,

Have movies & entertainment from past times evoked triggers of possible past life memories?

Would movies/entertainment with "unique qualities for the time" be more likely to evoke memories of interest than movies which were pretty much "ordinary?"

For those who have remembered possible past lives in the late 1960s, has viewing the movie '2001 Space Odyssey' (on DVD) evoked memories of interest at a time when the movie was in theaters?

The director, Stanley Kubrick did excellent work with the story, audio, visuals, and even conveyed the experience (the feel) of what space travel may be like (a film that strongly evoked our imaginations).

Hence, would Science Fiction films that applied such thoughtful approaches to human imagination evoke memories of interest of possible past lives?

Personally, I was too young to see this film (in my present life) when it was in the theaters; and have only seen it on television.

If viewing 2001 Space Odyssey on DVD evokes possible PL memories of life in the late 1960s, just image what memories may be evoked if the movie were seen in a theater.

Your local independent movie theater may consider showing this movie in a theater if enough people request it. It would be an awesome experience to see this movie in a theater; as the film was ahead of it's time!

later,
Marc
 
You pose an interesting question!


I must say, that films of England in the 1920's seems to register something with me, as to a Past Life (PL), as one of the two PL dreams I can remember, is having been a WWII RAF Fighter Pilot who was shot down within sight of the White Cliffs of Dover, perhaps a longing of nostalgia maybe?


One notable movie that triggers PL memories for me is "Chariot's of Fire", not so much the running, but the feel of the era, the atmosphere of the times, between post WWI and pre WWII, I hate to say we were rich, but I felt my family was perhaps "comfortable".


As to seeing "2001 Space Odyssey" in the theatre, I saw it when it first came out (as a teenager) in 1968 and it was breath taking on the big screen at the Palace Theatre in downtown, and I believe it was filmed in "Super Panavision 70" (70mm film?)


I also have the DVD's of it and 2010, but it is not the same experience, audio or visual. ;)
 
I haven't seen "Space Odyssey, but I was watching a movie once that the story took place in the early 70's. I don't remember the name of the movie but it did spark emotions in me. I also have songs from the same era spark memories.
 
I recognize this :)


Particularly British music videos from the early 1980's seems to trigger memories from my most recent past life.


Also children's tv-series based on Swedish writer Astrid Lindgreen trigger emotions relating to my past life in the beginning of the 1900's in Finland :)
 
Cont....


The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress lists films made in the past.


The criteria of the National Film registry includes films of culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant for the time they were made,


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry


As I said originally, if viewing such films on DVD evokes deja-vu memories of interest, contact your local independent movie theater while encouraging interest of vintage movies in your community.


Can it be mentioned that a growing number of people might be interested in the experience of viewing vintage movies in theaters; precisely because viewing old movies on DVD evoked "possible past life" memories of a time long before DVDs were competing with movie theaters?


Many independent movie theaters are struggling to compete with home-entertainment options. If enough people request screenings of vintage movies, communities would help maintain that awesome institution of the independent movie-house; while possibly helping quite a few people remember possible past lives!


Quite a "novel" demographic for independent movie-house patronage!
 
I recently saw a video of a drive-in movie intermission show from the 60's and it instantly brought me an overwhelming sense of familiarity. I absolutely loved hearing the poor audio quality because it sounded right to me and it felt like I had seen it many times before.


Of course, it's far from proof, but it does fit in with having a feeling of living in Iowa or Nebraska in the 60's as drive-in theatres were apparently extremely popular back then. I'll have to look into it at a later time.
 
Two movies have struck dramatic chords in me...The Great Gatsby and The Duellists...not so much the story line but the locations and times they evoked.


In Gatsby, the story line is in New York in the 1920's, however I was instantly familiar with the location and environs where it was filmed, without having been there in this lifetime. I also got an emotional hit...a sense of excitement and melancholy that continues long after each viewing of the movie. Later upon actually visiting Newport, Rhode Island, I was completely familiar with the town despite never having travelled north of Maryland up to that time in my life.


In The Duellists, again the locations and style of life portrayed were absolutely familiar...the Dordogne in France, the buildings, the clothing, the candlelit interior spaces, the dirt, the sweat, all brought back a certainty of having been there at some point in time. In the movie a young girl dressed in a full dress, apron and bonnet guiding geese with a stick down a country lane was an exact image I felt I had seen from horseback...she even had a smudge of dirt on her right cheek and her hem was soiled with the mud. The movie was set during Napoleon's time, however I feel my period was somewhat before then, and the style and method of living was essentially the same. Again, the emotional jolt was significant, but less poignant and less focused.
 
Fields of Purple-Blue Lavender perhaps, I don't have any memories of a Past Life (PL) with Lavender per se, but I get an unexplained "twinge" of emotion every time I see a picture of these plants in bloom in the fields.


And what little I can smell, I love the strong smell of the Lavender plant, the smell of it's fragrance seems to evoke something, a "smell" memory perhaps, if that's possible?
 
If books can be considered a form of entertainment, I would submit that some well-researched historical novels have spoken to me, while screen plays of those books have been very sadly lacking in credibility. Books by Kenneth Roberts and Allan Eckert have been "right on the money", but one very short novel that I found very haunting many years ago, "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James and Chris Collier was based on events during the American War for Independence which actually happened where I live, and where I have had most of my own "experiences".


There are just some things you can read or view, which cause you to say, "Wow, that's exactly the way it was!", or "Geesch! That's not right at all!". One just seems to know things about certain subjects. When it comes to the 18th Century, and, especially, the American Revolution, there is a great deal that people are completely unaware of, and certain screenplays just interpret the period and circumstances wrongly. The movie "Revolution" with Al Pacino, for example, portrayed New York as it was in the slums of 19th Century New York instead of the way it actually was during the 18th Century. Most of the clothing style was, generally, of the remotely correct period; but, it was made poorly and worn wrongly, by actors who didn't even know how to stand, which was important even among the "rabble" of rebels. The movie, "Patriot" with Mel Gibson, was OK, but not accurate in so many ways that misrepresent the minds and spirit of the period and the people.


I have yet to see any film that truly captures the unique mood and style of the period, which is a shame, because it would provide so much more of an entertaining experience. They say that truth is stranger than fiction. And, there were some very strange things that went on during that time. Certainly playwrights, screenwriters and directors would have much greater success, if they knew more history. Those in England and Australia do a wonderful job with the 19th Century and some earlier periods, but so little seems to be understood about the 18th in particular.


Forgive me for sounding like a history geek. Don't ask how I know these things. I'm not a historian. That's just where my head is at.
 
Nightrain, your mention of the books by Kenneth Roberts brings me another hit...his "Lydia Bailey" really hit home. From the sense of a lawyer filing expoliation claims against France, locating the woman of his dreams in the Caribbean (Haiti) and settling in the south of France...I felt like I was reading my own biography...or at least one of them! I couldn't put that book down.


The other Roberts books have almost been a chore to finish, except for "Oliver Wiswell", whose descriptions of early revolutionary tactics and abuse of loyalists and non-rebels rang completely and graphically true...a very unsettling time.
 
Anybody see the "That's Entertainment" trilogy of films released to theaters in 1974, 1976, and 1994?


If viewing the "That's Entertainment" series (especially on the big-screen) did not yield at least the slightest "deja-vu" memories of a possible PL in the United Staes from the 1930s through the 1950s, then it may be debated that vintage movies might not be a favorable "trigger" of possible PL memories.


Personally, I had seem the 1976 "That's Entertainment2" in the theater when I was twelve years of age. This is the first time I saw these terrific classics on the "big screen!" My parents also enjoyed seeing these classics on the big screen once again.


What was remarkable was that I loved this movie (a film that was a medley of the vintage entertainment performances). In other words, at twelve years of age, I was more than willing to put aside my interest in action movies e.g., with all the car chases, for a full two-hours in the theater that Summer!


Just to be fair, my parents had shown me examples of these movies through televison, books, and personal experiences; hence most likely, my main interest in the "That's Entertainment2" movie. As for any 'concrete deja-vu' (yes, this term can be an oxymoron) memories of interest, the answer is no.


Yet, still, I cannot help but wonder if any possible PL experiences had been the initial interest in vintage movies at a fairly young-age. Yes, the questions now can be like the classic chicken-and-egg dilemma, and maybe even osmosis across two lifetimes! WHOA...I don't want to "split hairs" here!


Anyways, I've located the "That's Entertainment2" DVD, and I might at least see why I was interested in vintage movies in the context of this life!


LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That's_Entertainment,_Part_II


Thank-you


Marc
 
The Last Samurai really gave me a pit of my stomach feeling and I felt like I was in a haze the whole time watching it. I think it was because the Japanese time period depicted in the film resembled various older Manchu cultures.


I don't really remember much beyond one or two lives, but I feel fairly certain I've had multiple lives that belong to the same groups of people.


Modern Hong Kong / Chinese films that are set in the '20s and 30's always seem to have a ring of familiarity about them to me as well.
 
I don't know if it was a trigger or not but in THE DEER HUNTER there is an opening scene where the guys are in a cage in the water.


When I saw it I started to shake violently, went to the bathroom and threw up. I never did watch the movie .. or any war movie (with the exception of PEARL HARBOR) since.
 
As a little girl, I was totally obsessed with the movie "Grease". I was way too young to even understand a lot of the jokes & situations in it! I watched it over & over again, mesmerized. Something about the clothes, the cars, etc. just seemed like "home". It made me feel like I was looking back at things that I missed-things I had done. There is a scene in it set at a drive-in movie; & the cartoon on the screen before the movie even seemed to me like I had "seen it before". Even today, if I'm flipping through channels & see that it's on, I will usually stop & watch it. It still makes me feel very nostalgic!
 
Films set in the deep south, like the Apostle or Slingblade, they get me for some reason. Something about these remote places and small town mentalities. Some people seemed to be "in the mix" in their time, among the hustle and bustle, but I'm always attracted to solitude, and the placid serenity of the wilder country touches some part of me.
 
The opening combat scenes in "Season of the Witch" gave me flashbacks, but not the movie as a whole. (Can't comment on 2001, I was too young to have seen it in the theaters and fell asleep when I rented it.) Movie themes have also sent me back, such as "Gangs of New York" and "The Warriors" (hmm, yeah, I think I was a gang member way back when, pathetic, huh?). But to say a classic movie in and of itself sent me back, probably not. I assume that's what you mean, the act of watching that particular movie, not the story being told?


However, for a while there in the 80's, theaters had gone back to running shorts before the main feature. Pixar and Disney still do this as part of their presentation. I remember going up to an AMC Theater and seeing the poster for one of the movies. A small placard was attached to the poster, a "lobby card" it would be called, advertising a Bugs Bunny cartoon to be shown prior to the main feature. That looked to me like "how it should be".


Music is a whole 'nuther ballpark. My parents were from the Greatest Generation and I grew up listening to Glenn Miller, the Andrews Sisters, Nat "King" Cole, Lawrence Welk, Harry James, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, etc. I enjoyed (and still do) the music, but nothing struck a serious chord with me until 1977, when Sha Na Na (those fine gentlemen in my avatar, ca. 1973) got their TV show. Most music had pretty much just been background noise until I turned on to the doo-wop and other rock genres of the 50's. "Earth Angel", "Duke of Earl", "Get A Job", "Rock Around the Clock", "In the Still of the Night", if it happened between Bill Haley and the Beatles, it's guaranteed to send shivers up my spine. I could list the individual songs that do it for me, but I'd have to list my whole record collection. I'm a bit more ambivalent about the Beatles on up (until the 80's, my teen years), but am thrilled to find that there are still doo-wop groups writing new material.


For TV, sometimes I'll check the satellite and tune in "Leave It to Beaver" just for the flashbacks. They tripped me out one time and ran the show with vintage commercials. Heh, I should have recorded it!
 
When I first saw the battle scenes of "Saving Private Ryan" and the storming of Omaha Beach I had to take a deep breath...I felt as though something was telling me "You're safe, you're safe...". I couldn't pull my eyes away from it and got a sense of watching a prior experience from some sort of a protective bubble. After it ended I realized I hadn't been breathing and the memories of the carnage remained clear in my mind for days, often spurring some bad dreams.


I recently saw the movie again and was surprised that those clear memories of the battle in the movie I had drempt about were now different in the rewatched movie...I think some memories of my own experiences transposed themselves into my nightmares and categorized them under "It's just a movie"...I understand that my last lifetime ended during the WWII invasion of Italy in a sudden and painless transition...with a great sense of relief.
 
Shiftkitty, I'm the same way about music from the 50's. It just touches something deep in my soul. I've loved it since I was a very little girl & found a radio station that played it.


There was a miniseries on TV (I believe it was in the late 80's) called "North & South". I had been teasing my Mom about watching it until I sat down & watched it with her for want of something better to do. I felt like I was being "pulled into" a dream/vision/memory. The scenery, the accents, the clothing, & the situations felt so familiar to me. Little things like the sound of horses coming down a dirt road, moss hanging off of tree branches, the singing of people working in the fields jumped out at me. Oddly enough, until then I had always sort of disliked that period in time & was always bored when studying it in school.
 
A lot of movies for me. Since my father is an avid DVD collector. But two movies reminded me the most, one of them was Inglorious ******** (Or Basterds, I've forgotten) I watched it and when the antagonist came out, it reminded me a lot of my PL. He coincidentally, has the same rank, job and personality as me.. The atmosphere also reminded me of something that I missed. (a lot) (That's why he's my pic now.. ^L^) Now they can't stop calling me Hans Landa... =='


The other one was an old episode of The Three Stooges I watched two yrs ago. My sister was sleeping and I was alone in the hotel at 12. It was really scary for me during that time as it was very dark and there was a mirror in front of me. So, I switched on the tv and the show reminded me of something familiar. It was just deja vu (during that time I wasn't aware of reincarnation yet.) but then a voice in my head said 'Isn't this banned at Germany..?' (I don't even know Germany during that time either) I enjoyed it very much and when it was done. I manage to turn off the tv and sleep peacefully. Somehow, the dark wasn't so scary anymore (Like someone you know for a long time comforted you to sleep). Thankfully, now I can sleep alone with dim lights. Just no mirror in my room. :)
 
Mirrors in the dark creep me out as well. I think it's the "Bloody Mary" legend that has left it's mark. LOL, silly, I know, but why take a chance? She just might be there...!


I loved the movie "Inglorious Basterds" (the 'e' is the correct spelling of the title, not just a clever way around the censors), and I've been told by more than a few people that the settings, costumes, and everything were to a tee. A friend of mine who is very into movies said it was one of the few movies he's ever watched that felt so immersive.


Anyone who thinks they may have been alive in Europe during WW2 should probably check this film out. One reason is to see if it evokes anything thanks to its attention to detail, and the other is just to enjoy a good old fashioned "get the bad guys" movie! (I won't say any more about this film so as not to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it.)
 
Shiftkitty said:
Mirrors in the dark creep me out as well. I think it's the "Bloody Mary" legend that has left it's mark. LOL, silly, I know, but why take a chance? She just might be there...!
I loved the movie "Inglorious Basterds" (the 'e' is the correct spelling of the title, not just a clever way around the censors), and I've been told by more than a few people that the settings, costumes, and everything were to a tee. A friend of mine who is very into movies said it was one of the few movies he's ever watched that felt so immersive.


Anyone who thinks they may have been alive in Europe during WW2 should probably check this film out. One reason is to see if it evokes anything thanks to its attention to detail, and the other is just to enjoy a good old fashioned "get the bad guys" movie! (I won't say any more about this film so as not to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it.)
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Yep, but on the historical side, the WORST historical movie about Hitler. Ack, who cares? Now my sister favourite nickname for me; Hans Landa, because of my personality. She said it was 100% similiar. (No idea why, but I secretly enjoyed being called that nickname..) now I'm a fan of Christoph Waltz. Yes, Bloody Mary. Gives me the cold shivers... Watched it on a documentary now.. there are no mirrors in my room. My sis bought a portable mirror but every night I always place it down.. I'm also frightened by dolls (thank you Child's Play) my other sister (she's 4) keeps a lot of Barbie dolls and unintentionally rips their body parts out. I found one in my pencil case.. Well.. It wasn't pretty...
 
LOL, yeah, not to threadjack, but I was rather happy to see writers taking such creative liberties without going gonzo. Historically it didn't happen, but realistically it could have! :thumbsup:
 
I don’t know for sure, but I have my suspicions, but when I first saw the series based on the movie “Twelve O’Clock High” my Mother said it was like I was in a deep trance while watching it.


I was so engrossed that I tuned everything else out, my Mother, my friends outside wanting to play and so forth, I was literally in my own little world.


Later on when I finally watched the movie, it too had the same effect on me!


On occasion I’ll get a flashback from dreams I had as a child, being trapped in a cockpit, rapidly filling with water and being unable to open the canopy because it was jammed shut!


This might explain why in this lifetime, as a child, being curious about how things worked, and taking them apart and trying to make them work better!
 
I was watching a MonsterQuest once about vampires. There were several parts where they talked about Nosferatu and showed clips from the movie, and I was hit with deja vu. I was six years old in that life when it was released in 1922.


I've seen screenshots of the 1930 movie All Quiet on the Western Front, and again, deja-vu.


I haven't seen many films from that time era other than Charlie Chaplin, so I can't give any other indications.


By dad was a huge video game buff, so I've played Call of Duty for quite a long time. Anyway, when I was younger, I used to have a horrible time playing the Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin missions on the game. I could never place why, but every time I played those I wanted to cry. I felt empty. Like I had lost something important to me, and they always felt so familiar. And I was roughly five or six years of age.
 
I was watching a WWII-on-the-homefront movie in high school called "The Very Thought of You" when the name "Charlie" came to mind. I didn't know why at the time (was that my name or someone I knew?)


This one was a little more bizarre: when I was a kid, I was watching "The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show" (in the '90s) at my grandparents' house when a flash of another incident (a concert for Vietnam veterans that took place outside- unusual for a Sullivan show in hindsight) occurred to me. I didn't know what past life memories were at the time.


Later on, with the advent of the Internet, I found that episode I "remembered" actually existed (to my surprise) but hadn't aired since the '70s.


(asking around at message boards) "Are you SURE this didn't air in a compilation show like that or something?" "Positive."
 
Mammatus said:
By dad was a huge video game buff, so I've played Call of Duty for quite a long time. Anyway, when I was younger, I used to have a horrible time playing the Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin missions on the game. I could never place why, but every time I played those I wanted to cry. I felt empty. Like I had lost something important to me, and they always felt so familiar. And I was roughly five or six years of age.
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I play Call of Duty too.. I used to have fun... But there was always a nagging part in my brain.. So, now I try to play Modern Warfare.. I can't stand sniping my comrades (even though they're pixels) And that game is the reason why I got interested in WW2 in the first place. But I still play World at War, my sister would always said 'How do you shoot them while smiling?!' During that time, I was angry with myself.. Now, I can move on...
 
Do any of you remember the game "Castle Wolfenstein"? I played the very first version of it, before the full-color, first-person shooter version of it came out. I was playing it on an Atari 800, monochrome monitor (yeah, I can hear you going "Ugh!". Don't get me started on the 300 baud modem!). Anyway, I was running from the Nazis in the game when an SS officer cornered me in a room I had gone into in hopes of finding something to regenerate my health. I started shooting at him and apparently there was a code that had the guy surrender. His face went into a sad expression and he threw his hands up. Problem: there was no way out except through him.


I could not bring myself to shoot a surrendering man even if he was just a bunch of 1s and 0s! It was a massive moral quandry that was silly to face in a video game, yet everything in me said it would be wrong to press the fire button. I stood there, hoping the code would pick up again after a certain amount of time had gone by, but no such luck. Rationale finally won out and I shot the pixels, but only after forcing myself to define the officer as nothing more than a computer code that I would not be held accountable for.


The above discussions about video games got me to wondering; maybe in a past life I either executed a surrendering prisoner or else was ordered to. I can't see myself under any circumstance agreeing to commit such a heinous deed. I'd like to think that I refused the order and paid for it with my own life, but that could just be wishful thinking.
 
I have not found or played Wolfenstein. But I can see your point. Reminds me of the campaign 'Their land, Their blood' when Reznov gave Dimitri the gun and asked him to make them bleed faster. I looked at the soldiers, I couldn't bring myself to shoot them at all. I couldn't even use the Molotov to throw at the soldiers (I still don't). But for my Soviet sister, it was easy as pie (Duh..)


I remembered I was suppose to shoot retreating Germans. But I didn't but that didn't stop me from shooting Holocaust victims. I remembered I stopped my Gestapo troops from shooting the 'cowards'. They can't fight me back as I was a Colonel, so I guess those guys were very lucky I was there..
 
Marc Ross said:
Have movies & entertainment from past times evoked triggers of possible past life memories?
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I think movies are made to get you involved with the story and relate, and to a certain extent they do. However there is sometimes a situation that triggers such strong out-of-nowhere and not-in-relation-to-the-movie feelings, that remind me of something that has happened before.


It’s hard to cover all these moments in one post, space age/modern movies (1950+) don't interest me as much. Most of the time it's just the overall feeling of the time, the clothing, sets, weaponry etc that trigger 'familiar feelings' but not actual memories (yet).


To name a few, in Braveheart when he is revenging the murder of this young wife, the hair on the back of my neck stands up, such rage is evoked in me from somewhere. I’d be afraid to be the man that did something like that to my wife. In both the Patriot and the Last of the Mohicans, when you hear ripping shots of distance gunfire through the trees and see a fort being attacked, I’m hit with more fear then is necessary just watching the movie…
 
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