Every once and a while the backstory of a movie is as interesting as the movie itself. Such is the case for “Hustle and Flow.” It turns out that movie was inspired by a down-on-his-luck writer finally getting the nerve to follow his dream.

He doesn’t look like it, but Craig Brewer is DJay, the street-wise Tennessee pimp who finds redemption in rap in the film “Hustle & Flow.”

Only Brewer’s not a rapper, he’s a writer and director. And he’s not black, he’s white. But he knows what it is to be poor and struggling in the South, clinging to a longshot dream that looks like the only way out. source

Kudos to S. Cohen for expressing that so well. It got me to thinking about how the retelling of one’s life often gives way to fantasy. If I wrote the screenplay of my life, would I be caught in a love triangle with Brad Pitt and Samuel L. Jackson? Would I be a nightclub singer struggling to make it big? Or a human activist fighting for the rights of women in Africa? Who knows? The fantasies seem to be endless…
So how would you write the screenplay of your life? What you do? Who would you be?