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Loved him Time Traveler's Wife (Wondering if I helped inspire the Author


Loved his character in Time Traveler's Wife. Such a wonderful film.I could relate to this because it was kind of metaphor for a relationship I had and kind of similar to how my mom had to wait around for my dad too because he traveled alot, similar to the author's true experience with how her mother had to wait around for her dad because he was a traveling salesmen.

I attended the same college as the author who was also a professor at the same college I attended that wrote the book Time Traveler's Wife.

I am kind of curious if one of the professors I had showed her my writings and was inspired by a piece I wrote about traveling through time in my dreams and also a an unconventional format I tried out, where you hear different perspective of same story and you hear as the story goes and you get a glimpse into what's going on in the mind of two female characters who happen to be both Asian American, One Chinese American and other Korean American, and polar opposites in personality. The author of Time Traveler's wife used similar technique in which you read about the same story from different point of view, one from the Wife's perspective of their love story and another from the husband's perspective of their relationship and love story.

In another course I wrote about a homeless person and my professor actually thought I experienced homelessness and was real worried about me, he thought I wrote about an actual experience. That was real interesting compliment, when you write fiction and people think it happened for real and can really feel the emotions of the character and feel like they've actually experienced it through your writing.

Same with actors, I think if you emotionally connect and relate and to feel the emotions of what the character goes through in film then you know the actor or actress is real talented and good at their work.

Back to Eric. It's wonderful story and film the Time Traveler's Wife. I really fell in love with his character. I haven't seen his break out role as the Chopper but I've heard Brad Pitt saw him in the role and was real impressed that he recruited him to play the part in Troy.


I've seen Eric's comedy Variety Show where he does skits in a character he plays a really hilarious character with a heavy Australian Accent with Mullet. He is soooooo very funny. He should do a comedy for his next film! He's only done serious dramas I would love to see him do a comedy film!

Search on Youtube Eric Bana Variety show or Just search Eric Bana on Youtube and you'll see the Variety TV Show he had in Australia when he first started out in acting. It's really one to watch, it's pretty funny stuff.

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