{"id":3139,"date":"2018-04-12T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2018-04-12T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:24:28","slug":"wowed-by-the-art-of-the-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2018\/04\/12\/wowed-by-the-art-of-the-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Wowed by the Art of the Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Paige<\/em> — What\u2019s it like to sit down in a theater and see your story on the silver screen?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said he was only taking notes and he put actual things I said in there!\u201d Patti McCrory Harbaugh laughs. \u201cI didn\u2019t want anybody to know I\u2019d really said those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The he in question is writer\/director Russell Harbaugh<\/a> \u201906. Those notes led to Love After Love<\/em>, a movie that looks at how a family deals with the loss of its patriarch, an experience Harbaugh knows well. The story is loosely based on the passing of Russell\u2019s father, Glenn, and how his mother, Patti, learned to carry on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a story Russell has been tinkering with for 12 years, a span that covers the time since graduating from Wabash. And now that the film has been released to critical acclaim<\/a>, there are questions being answered for Patti as well.<\/p>\n

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Russell Harbaugh ’06 holds his script for “Love After Love,” complete with his notes scribbled in the margins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHe spent literally 12 years dealing with it,\u201d Patti says. \u201cAt first I couldn\u2019t imagine why. I was slow to catch on, but that\u2019s the way he was getting on with his life and mourning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patti talks of her own struggles with moving on, feelings of betrayal, and making connections. She also found comfort in her son\u2019s ability to take a nugget of their conversation and turn it into a scene in the movie. Not a direct link, but certainly an emotional one.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story really does veer from our family, but there were times when I felt like I didn\u2019t fit one place, and I didn\u2019t fit another,\u201d she says. \u201cI couldn\u2019t understand when Russell and I would talk about it, how he could connect that activity in the film with our conversation. I understood things better seeing it as a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patti, a longtime costume designer and member of the theater faculty at the University of Evansville, is proud that her son embraced the power of art, and remembers fondly when that power might have been unleashed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all started at Wabash when someone put a camera in his hand and said, \u2018you gotta document this trip,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cSuddenly he had a reason for looking. We do that as artists. We try to process what we are experiencing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Love After Love<\/em> opens nationally Friday. After a dozen years of conversation, of tinkering, of finding just the right voice, it\u2019s now a story to share broadly. Patti sees her son at ease with the attention the film has brought. She sees it as a gift.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s brilliant,\u201d she laughs, \u201cI\u2019m his mother, so I can say he\u2019s brilliant, right? I\u2019m wowed by the art of the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was something really visceral about it, but I wasn\u2019t caught off guard because he took me along in the process,\u201d Patti says. \u201cThat\u2019s a gift, too. He could have gone off and just done it, but it\u2019s felt like we\u2019ve been connected the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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