The Neverending Story
I got to thinking about this Neverending Story movie lately, drawing cartoons about all this to pass time. Unlike the movie E.T. which I probably only watched a couple of times as a child and never thought of again until nearly 2020 when I started piecing all this together, I watched the Neverending quite a lot when I was younger. Digging into the history of this movie, it’s based off a book written in Germany at the time my parents got married. The timing and the names in the book are too coincidental. I get the idea this guy had insider foreign spy type information on my dad in Houston (this is only 20 years after U.S. occupation of Germany from World War 2), and he was getting married to a Mexican (who looks dressed in native American clothing on her passport from the 70s, Pocahontas). Used this as inspiration for the names Bastian/Atreyu and included the word “Story” in the title, similar to the last name of a fam that married into the Terry fam at some point at my Grandfather’s line. I get the idea the author was forecasting, dad’s getting married. Native American kids, maybe soon in the likeness of Bastian/Atreyu to appeal to younger audiences. With racial undertones… a blackness that’s taking over with dark aggressive creatures. Places focus on a child Empress that the boys have to cure from an illness to save everyone from the dark black nothingness. Then right after I was born, the book gets turned into a movie.
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I think about this some more, and think NASA had landed people on the moon a few years before this so Houston was probably a focal point on foreign surveillance espionage. So not only did the U.S. occupy NAZI Germany, the moon landing happened. This is all recorded on black and white television, so it’s easy to think of it as something that happened so long ago, it doesn’t effect things nowadays. Then my dad, a blonde with German heritage, is running around and marrying present day Pocahontas in the 70s, a few years later in Houston… and whatever’s left of Nazi Germany picked up on this story equivalent to the opposite of Hitler’s idea of German ethnic purity