Personal Growth

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One of my favorite movie scenes is from The Witches of Eastwick with Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Michele Pfeiffer and Cher. Jack Nicholson, in a perfect bit of typecasting, plays the Devil. The actresses play women who try to best him with their own experimentation in the black arts.

For me, Jack Nicholson's character represents the ego in its purest form: fear turned inside out projecting itself into everything it sees.

My favorite scene, one that I often show in my workshop is one where the Witches discover that laughter can stop the effects of fear right in its tracks.

It's the scene toward the end where the devil has been attacked by the Witches through a voodoo doll. He comes looking for them in an intense rage. His fury blows them forcefully down a long corridor and Susan Sarandon's character falls from balcony. As she tumbles through the air to certain death, her friends Michele Pfeiffer and Cher call down to her instructing her to "laugh".