tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post5993474313775930540..comments2024-03-25T12:31:58.169+00:00Comments on David Stimpson: The Therapy ZoneDavid Stimpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-39955394540146440522011-12-27T10:08:37.125+00:002011-12-27T10:08:37.125+00:00Hello Mister Anonymous,
One does have to work...Hello Mister Anonymous,<br /><br /> One does have to work to "pay the bills" and to gain money so that you can do the things you want to do. But one cannot escape the confines of society, unless of course one becomes a tramp, a hermit, or finds a desert Island to live on.<br /> Regarding the 'escape' from television to writing and film direction, I'm not so sure that McGoohan was any freer than he was doing television work. <br /> I understand that after moving to America he eventually bought a house and had a high wall built around it to keep his privacy from prying eyes. Also McGoohan wouldn't play the Hollywood game.<br /> When I think of what McGoohan might have been, because of his drive, his determination, and his acting ability, able to write and direct.....I cannot help but think McGoohan made some strange decisions in his working life. Certainly his choice of latter days films to work on were strange to say the least. I can count on one hand the films I remember Patrick McGoohan for, but really I remember him for his British television work.<br /> No, I think even when Patrick McGoohan moved to America he was still as much a 'Prisoner' as ever he was, and I'm not talking about the television series, but of the man himself. Patrick McGoohan could have gone on to be a great actor, even film director. But he didn't play the game, because he didn't accept the Hollywood way of things.<br /><br />Regards<br />David<br />BcNuDavid Stimpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-91177181262049406562011-12-25T15:41:17.356+00:002011-12-25T15:41:17.356+00:00Hello David
Perhaps it was not just to escape ...Hello David<br /><br />Perhaps it was not just to escape 'The Village' that was revealed, in the 'truth test' but No.6 desire to 'escape' the confines of society, as hinted by his choice of tropical isolation for his holiday.<br /><br />This could even be reflected in McGoohan's choice of television as he often said he chose television 'to pay the bills' and still later that ' one has to work in order to do the things one wants'. Here the 'escape' would have been from television to the long held ambition of writing and directing film.<br /><br />Judging from Mr. Bernie Williams description of Mr. McGoohan's and his experience with the studio system in Hollywood that 'freedom' was indeed a 'myth'.<br /><br />Sincerely<br /><br />Mr. AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com