My mom just came with a plate of blueberry pancakes at 9:00 at night. I love her. Mothers are really amazing things
I saw a movie today. The theater was cool in the hot summer sun. We settled back into our seats as the lights dimmed, our eyes darting from image to image expectantly. The same old story and I've heard it all before. Boy meets girl. Boy goes after said girl but something gets in the way. We smiled and the sardonic remarks started to flow. But I started to think. It's natural to start to nitpick the seemingly stupid mistakes of the characters of stories. Some call it hindsight, but doesn't the character know that the bad guy is going to come and to jump off the freakin train?? And yet the hero stays and gets caught. We sigh and fidget at their stupidity. And yet what if the hero left at the first sign of trouble. "This guy looks like a villain, I better hightail it out of here" might be what we urge the hero to say, but if he did the story wouldn't continue. And what if the hero wasn't awkward. Would the lady fall for him then? Isn't his gawkiness and awkward behavior what humanizes him and draws the lady towards him? What if the two lovers had run away and hadn't stayed in a nearby hotel? Then they wouldn't have achieved the happily ever after they so yearned for, complete with elephant. I think the point is that the mistakes we make might actually lead us towards our happily ever afters. Think about it.
I disagree
ReplyDeleteHow, exactly?
ReplyDeleteThat movie was a heinous attack on a perfectly good book! It ate shit. It ate shit so bad it made me feel like I was eating shit. The characters were all wrong, half the scenes were fabricated, and the other half were thrown about at random parts of the storyline.
ReplyDelete-Angie ( I dont know how to post a comment as anything other than anonymous)
oh....ok Angie...thank you for your opinion lol. I was actually just talking about the theory of mistakes in any book or movie but if we are grading the movie I agree that the characterization was neh. I really liked the imaging though. I thought that what's his face was not Edward and so I could sit through a movie watching him. At least he didn't stare cryptically at anything that moved. He did however make himself extremly akward. but I didn't read the book. Was it good?
ReplyDeleteI have the book. you should borrow it :)
ReplyDelete-Angie
I WILL borrow it. I need a book to read at work.
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