im confused, was she or wasnt she a muse? - The Muse (1999) Discussion

[–] dcaldero43 18 years ago

Oh wow, I didn't even think of that. No, she wasn't a muse. I think this movie is Albert Brooks' take on Hollywood and how any crazy person can say they are something and people will buy it. That's why by the end of the movie she actually ended up being the head of the studio. It's an undustry entirely built on speculations and false beliefs. Good Satire.

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[–] marcamy 18 years ago

fooled all of us in believing.
less believable as picassos daughter

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[–] pianocellolove 18 years ago

Brilliant.

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[–] gzmfc 17 years ago

Maybe I didn't quite get it. I thought in the film expression, she is.
Because of the whispery doctor and nurse(her god parents).

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[–] frumwannabe 16 years ago

I thought she was an actual muse because people around her were suddenly inspired. But there have been some excellent points made here about the Hollywood Dream Factory and the phoniness of it all. Now that I give the matter some real consideration (and looked them up on Wikipedia), she would have had to have been several of the 9 muses combined into one individual. And maybe invented a few new ones, such as Profita, the muse of entrepreneurial motivation, and Cinematica, the muse of film direction.

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[–] skiop 16 years ago

She wasn't a muse. They thought they'd be successful, so they were. Mind over matter.

I have no taste, but that just means there's less of a chance that I'll get eaten

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[–] jjackfam5 16 years ago

Nope she wasn't a muse. The doctor guy said that she had a split personality.

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[–] csjohnston17 16 years ago

I love the Idea of a functional schizophrenic on the loose in Hollywood. I'm sure it's not far from the truth if it isn't in fact the truth. And yes, she was a muse. And maybe, the doctors were actually zues and hera.

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[–] DrLibertyBelle 13 years ago

Just FYI, you made a very common mistake-schizophrenia is not split personality. That is schizoid (dissociative identity disorder). Schizophrenics do sometimes hear voices (that they attribute to outside sources)and are psychotic (have a warped reality) but they do not actually have multiple personalities. Its hard to keep track because films and people have made that mistake for years.

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[–] mathmaniac 8 years ago

She provided inspiration for whomever she became attached to. So she was a Muse.

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[–] filmbuff1974 15 years ago

I'd like to believe that the doctors were her parents. But even if they weren't, she was still a muse, fully vetted by at least three successful directors who came to see her. And, of course, it is Hollywood!

Live Long and Prosper!

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[–] Geijutsu12 14 years ago

I think the whole idea is actually that you could after all create your own muse.

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[–] sevenseas 8 years ago

What a fabulous idea! I love it!

Cocoon: Art Selwyn: "Men should be explorers, no matter how old they are".

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