November 22, 2005

Sisyphusian ghosts

Ghosts are always scaring people in movies and in real life, so I like the possibility of turning the tables on ghosts. In this scene, which I thought of while reading a biography of Benjamin Franklin in 2002 (hence the Franklin reference within the scene), a living character gets to mock the dead for their apparent Sisyphusian curse.

Guy watches as a group of old timey ghosts rehearse a show about the rise and fall of Ben Franklin. He laughs about it because they spend all this time rehearsing and then just when they are about to put on the show, they suddenly start rehearsals from the beginning again.

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