Author Depiction

Writing about an author and how they are portrayed in today's media: well that's most likely going to be in a romantic sense. Most movies want the audience to see where the author gets his or her inspiration from. My paper was on Finding Neverland. This movie is about J.M. Barrie who wrote Peter Pan. It shows who was his muses to write such a story. Barrie found quite an attachment to Sylvia Llewelyn Davie and her sons.
Barthes argument would have said that Barrie attached a lot of his life into the story. Peter one of the sons was the main character. The need to believe again was the main story (and the magic in the imagination). Many readers and viewers can see how Barrie uses his real life to write his stories. Barthes would of never agree to the idea of putting one's (the author's) life into the story. It would make the reader believe that this is the author's meaning and message. Barthes wants the reader to find his own meaning and for the story to have multiple meaning without having the author present to explain what it is.