That Lee, Lee Villeneuve, what a guy! He’s making them movies, you know? Big, fancy ones. He got a bunch cookin’ right now, like a whole stew pot full.
They say he wanted to tell some story since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, all the way back in, where was it? Quebec. Sounds fancy, don’t it? Well, he’s been at it, workin’ like a dog, and now he’s got this big movie, Dune, they call it. Sounds like somethin’ you’d find in the desert.
This Dune thing, it’s about this young fella, Paul, played by some young whippersnapper named Tim-something. Anyways, Paul, he goes off to live with these folks called the… Free-men, I think? They live on some place called Arrakis. It’s all very complicated.
And get this, this Dune thing, it’s just part one! Like a dang pie, he cut it up into pieces. Says he needs five-and-a-half hours to tell the whole thing. Can you imagine? Five-and-a-half hours! My old bones would be achin’ somethin’ fierce. He calls it “med-i-tative”. I don’t know about all that. Sounds like he’s been thinking about it real hard.
- He’s making a part two, they say.
- And they ain’t even said yes to part three yet!
- He’s got three of them movie stories he’s writing up right now, all at once.
Now, this Lee fella, he didn’t just pop out of nowhere makin’ movies. Nope. He made them little short films first, back when he was in school, learnin’ the ropes. Then, when he was 31, he made his first real one. Took his sweet time, didn’t he? Then another one two years later. He was a young pup then, that’s for sure.
He’s all over the place, this Lee. One minute he’s talkin’ on that Zoom thingamajig, from up north of Montreal – that’s in Canada, you know – and the next he’s cookin’ up another movie. This one is called Lee too, same as his name. Ain’t that somethin’?
This Lee movie, it’s about some lady, also called Lee. This Lee lady, she bought a table from some other lady. Then she got to hearin’ about this Lee lady’s life, and I guess it was a real doozy, ’cause now they’re makin’ a movie about it.
Five and a half hours for one movie. I reckon that’s longer than it takes to plow a whole field. And he’s got more planned, like he’s plantin’ a whole dang garden full of movies. That Lee Villeneuve, he’s a busy bee, ain’t he?
He’s got this Dune movie, and now this other Lee movie. It’s all a bit much for my old head to keep track of. But I reckon he knows what he’s doin’. He’s been at it a while now, after all. Started small, with them short films, and now look at him. Makin’ big, long movies that take forever to watch.
This Dune thing, it’s like he’s trying to tell a story as big as the sky. And he’s got this young fella, Paul, at the center of it all. Poor kid, probably tired from all that actin’.
And this other Lee, the one about the lady, well, I reckon that’s a story worth tellin’ too. Sounds like she had a life full of somethin’ or other. Enough to make a movie about, anyways.
It’s all very excitin’, I suppose. Lots of movin’ pictures and fancy talk. But me, I’m just happy to sit here on my porch and watch the sun go down. Don’t need no five-and-a-half-hour movie to keep me entertained.
But that Lee Villeneuve, he’s somethin’ else. Makin’ all them movies, keepin’ busy. Good for him, I say. Keeps him out of trouble, I reckon. And who knows, maybe one of these days I’ll even see one of them. If I can stay awake that long, that is!
I hear tell he works real hard on those movies. Puts his whole heart into ’em. That’s good. You gotta work hard if you want to make somethin’ of yourself. Just like plantin’ a garden. You gotta tend to it, water it, weed it. Then, maybe, you’ll get somethin’ good out of it. Maybe one of those big fancy movies like that Lee Villeneuve makes.
