Thursday, October 06, 2005
The "Fairytale Ending"
All who know me, know that I love the movies. I love new movies, old movies, black & white, B movies, C movies and some that are so bad they go quietly direct to the bottom shelf in the video store. Movie snobs would say that I am (insert loud echoing stentorian tone) NOT A TRUE MOVIE BUFF, because I don't really see all the "AWARD WINNING "Meaningful" Movies".
I say, "So what! Who cares? !"
I go to the movie theater for the entertainment. I go there to meditate, to get to know myself and those that move about me in my life. Movies are my escape from reality. People need to learn to let go of the real world & watch a movie where the good guys win. Why would I go to a movie where there is so much crying going on that you can't hear the movie? I get that every day in the real world - that is not entertainment. Give me the fairy tales, good bad & all movies in-between. Forget the fables with the didactic ending? Who wants to leave a theater thinking that the next move they have to make is to go tree sitting for a year?!
Cut the tree down, build a movie theater for escapists like me.
Give me the old movies, Stewart Granger, Greer Garson, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Van Johnson, Bob Hope. Who can't help feeling good after watching Bob Hope? After watching William Powell & Myrna Loy and their witicisms. Go see Hello Dolly again - see if you can't help but smile! Go watch Gone with the Wind - but you must finish it off with Scarlett for the happy ending. Go back to Abbott & Costello - they are hilarious. You can't help but smile & laugh.
Don't get me wrong. There are some great movies that are tear jerkers... thrillers.... mysteries.... but you have to finish it off with the good guys winning or at least on the winning end, with the scales tipped toward good. I can get through another day being positive in a negative world. I can smile thinking about how the good guys will ALWAYS win.
"I have my prince, my little princesses and two guard dogs to watch over our castle. "
Give me the Cinderella ending every time!
I say, "So what! Who cares? !"
I go to the movie theater for the entertainment. I go there to meditate, to get to know myself and those that move about me in my life. Movies are my escape from reality. People need to learn to let go of the real world & watch a movie where the good guys win. Why would I go to a movie where there is so much crying going on that you can't hear the movie? I get that every day in the real world - that is not entertainment. Give me the fairy tales, good bad & all movies in-between. Forget the fables with the didactic ending? Who wants to leave a theater thinking that the next move they have to make is to go tree sitting for a year?!
Cut the tree down, build a movie theater for escapists like me.
Give me the old movies, Stewart Granger, Greer Garson, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Van Johnson, Bob Hope. Who can't help feeling good after watching Bob Hope? After watching William Powell & Myrna Loy and their witicisms. Go see Hello Dolly again - see if you can't help but smile! Go watch Gone with the Wind - but you must finish it off with Scarlett for the happy ending. Go back to Abbott & Costello - they are hilarious. You can't help but smile & laugh.
Don't get me wrong. There are some great movies that are tear jerkers... thrillers.... mysteries.... but you have to finish it off with the good guys winning or at least on the winning end, with the scales tipped toward good. I can get through another day being positive in a negative world. I can smile thinking about how the good guys will ALWAYS win.
"I have my prince, my little princesses and two guard dogs to watch over our castle. "
Give me the Cinderella ending every time!
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Very nice Sis - i can identify. B and I just got back from watching Flight Plan!!! Very good movie, but I'll take a Wayne flick anytime!!! Love Mattsky
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: 8:47 PM
HERE, here, cut downthe trees adn build another theater! I agree there is too much sadness inthe world already I don't need to be reminded on a 40ft. screent hat it is there.
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