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There’s usually a reason behind why people are obsessed with death.
For True Blood creator, Alan Ball, he blames his fascination with death on a horrifying childhood experience -- when he watched as his sister was killed in a car crash. The writer has tackled the macabre in all of his film and TV projects, including American Beauty, funeral parlour drama Six Feet Under and vampire series True Blood. He insists death has stayed with him since the adolescent tragedy.
Alan Ball, 52, explains to Entertainment Weekly, “When I was 13 years old, I was in a car accident with my sister who was driving the car. It was her 22nd birthday and she died. She died in front of me. She died all over me.
(Death) stuck its big old ugly face in my face and my life changed. That’s why death seems to be a theme that appears in all my stuff.”
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
True Blood / Alan Ball : Fascination For Death
True Blood in Dallas: True Blood / Alan Ball : Fascination For DeathTweet this! Posted by " Dallas " at 4:58 PM
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4 comments:
I know how he feels,i have a 13yrs
old grandson like that he is always
worried his mom and dad is going
to die while he is young.But he is
doing some better.
Amazing AB has been thru some tough stuff in his life, and he is still a VERY positive person.
I like that Alan Ball doesn't wrap things up in neat bow. His personal tragedy has most profoundly effected him and his work (American Beauty, 6FU) as he mentions this incident in certain interviews. I would think he was probably precocious 13 yr. old but that does not better prepare you for an unexpected and horrific death of a family member.
I like the fact that he channels his experiences into his work.
It makes his work seem much more real added with a touch of genius.
really well said layla
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