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Georges Méliès: “If you’ve ever wondered where your dreams come from, you look around...this is where they’re made.”

Georges Méliès: “My friends, I address you all tonight as you truly are; wizards, mermaids, travellers, adventurers, magicians... Come and dream with me.” What do these quotes teach us about the connection between the cinema and dreams?

In the first quote we are told that the dreams we dream up every single day and night are created and formed by the world around us. What is being said is that things in the world that are reality can be taken in many different varieties of ways, creating a sort of new world and dreams for the thinker. The quote shows that the world is not only a place of realism where everyone is forced to think the same, but instead think freely, dream feely, and live freely.



In the second quote Méliès is trying to get the point across that people don't have to simply be what society wants them to be. People can be whatever they want. The quote encourages the idea of dreaming and being your own unique person rather than following the crowd. Méliès also shows through the before stated quote that one will be not only more successful in life if they dream, but also much more happy.


Photo: http://sensesofcinema.com/assets/uploads/2012/07/Fig-6-Clement-Long.png