What Would Happen If...

what if there was a creepy basement…

Barbarian was one of the new movies I enjoyed last year. As far as I know, it got good reviews, and a mostly-positive reception. Some people criticized it for making no sense. It's a fair point - although like I said, I enjoyed the movie quite a bit.

It's best appreciated in the moment, I think, with the visceral dread about what's going to happen next driving the thing forward.

There are multiple articles I could write about Barbarian, with its interesting structure, interesting thematic and allegorical elements, and masterful building of dread about the unknown.

But for this time, I'll appreciate it for its fun use of "What Would Happen If".

As I watched it, I could picture the writer rubbing his hands together when he asked himself "Imagine if you rented an AirBnB, and someone else was already there. And you didn't have a better choice than staying there with a complete stranger?"

I have no idea if that was the question that drove the writer to create this story (I did hear that it was written from the beginning, without any plan as to where the story was going. That's pretty fun).

But so many wonderful stories, or beginnings, can be born from thinking about "What Would Happen If…?"

It can be the birth of farcical comedies, alternate-history stories, interesting romances, and of course, riveting science fiction and gripping horror stories.

What would happen if…

- Aliens appeared in the skies above us for the first time?
- People could clone themselves?
- legions of robots were invented to serve humans?
- Peter Pan grew up?
- speech writers for opposing political candidates fell in love?
- dinosaurs appeared in the present day?

On and On. Some of those, maybe all, are actual stories/movies already, haha. Not all are stories I have any interest in personally (I don't remember the name of the speech writer romance movie…or several movies…but it doesn't interest me) but the germ of an idea often comes from posing that question.

What Would Happen If This Newspost was finished now?


See you next time!

-Banes


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