Yesterday, the writers/actors of the movie, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story , were on NPR's Fresh Air. The movie is a parody of the rockamentary and follows the life of Dewey Cox, a fictional rock star. The lead actor, who played Dewey, explained how a rock star might begin to believe the image that people project onto superstars. Even as an actor playing a musician, he started to believe his image. There is a gap between reality and this projected ideal. Once you totally believe the image over the reality you end up in Vegas in a white jumpsuit.
Fortunately, most of us only watch movies about Vegas and white jumpsuits. Still, we all have these 'gaps' between what we want and what we are. Abiding between ideal and the truth.
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