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So, here it is my very first tl. Here is a simple introduction that points out the POD. A bit of foreshadowing. Please give me some critique.

The Eye in the Head of a Poet

"A film is never really good unless the camera is the eye in the head of a poet." - Orson Welles

UCLA campus late 1964
Captain Morrison had a reason to be pissed. He was paying for his son to go to a film school in L.A., a film school can you believe that. The Captain knew it was so his son's ass didn’t get drafted to Nam’. The Captain had been involved in the titular Gulf of Tonkin incident not too long ago. He was on leave in the area and had heard that his son didn’t feel interested any more in his pursuit in film. The Captain thought this was ridiculous and he was about to give his son, James, the scolding of his life. He walked briskly with his head up high across the campus. Bursting into Jim’s dorm room he found it bristled with music and movie posters. Drug paraphernalia decorated the floors, tables, bookshelves, and desks. And there he was his son the hippie film-maker, passed out half-dressed, and most likely hung-over clinging to his pillow. Jim's room-mate heard him and had got the idea; he threw on his clothes and was out the door. Jim wasn’t so lucky; the Captain poked him at first that wasn’t enough though. So, he grabbed the bottom of the mattress and flipped Jim through the air into the wall. Jim was awake now, his head was aching and with his eyes barely open he saw his father. Well he saw the fury that his father was displaying.

“What the fuck do you mean you are thinking of dropping out?” The Captain spit and pointed.
Before Jim could even finish, “Well”.
“I don’t care I knew it was a stupid idea sending you here,” The Captain interrupted. “You don’t stick to anything why would this be different,” he yelled some more, “fine quit this too. You do and I promise it’s the military for you. Don’t doubt me I can pull strings.”
With this the Captain made his exit, with his point made very clear.
Behind him Jim stepped out of his dorm, “you just wait I will be the greatest fucking film-maker, you just wait, you old fuckr’. Fuck you!”
The Captain now smiled widely he knew how to control his son.

Jim Morrison’s life would change drastically. He would focus all his talent and determination into becoming a successful film-maker. Jim would eventually be a founding member of the New Hollywood movement.
After this incident Jim would study harder and harder to hone his craft. He watched film after film and being an already avid book reader, he read a multitude of books on film. Already a writer of song lyrics, poetry, and short stories he found it quite easy to transition to writing screenplays. He spent his remaining tenure at UCLA experimenting with the film techniques and effects he read about. He would also meet a number of people who would become a part of a studio collective he would found a year after graduating. They would go on to contribute to the New Hollywood movement by the end of the decade and so forth....
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