Life is...

So....

Life....

Yeah....

....

Life is.... what? 

That right there is THE hardest question that I have even tried to figure out. When you're young life is... Simple. When you're a teen life is... Dramatic. When you're a young adult life is... complicated. When you're an adult you think life is... easy. As you get older you seem to come across a few things. 

Life is.... not what you think, Life is... not you always wanted, Life is.... not what it appears to be. 

Now before you freak and think that I am some depressed girl letting her angst out behind a computer keyboard. I am not. I am not jumping off the deep end, I am not saying that the world sucks, and this is not some crazy cry for help. 

What I am trying to say is Life is... Now.

 I am 23, worked at the same place for the last 7 years, spent four year getting a two year degree, failed a whole semesters worth of classes earlier this year, retaking those same classes again. Home life is currently a total wreck with no hope on really changing anytime soon, and I have no means to move out on my own, AND have no idea what I am going to do after I graduate.

Life in the now is really all I have... currently Life in the now.... Sucks.

Now I am not saying this because I am going to do anything rash.. I am saying it because until today I did not realize just tonight how much I was just going through the motions of life. 

I knew that I was not fully here but I did not realize how much I checked out just so I could survive through some temporary stuff. I have no idea when in the last year that I stopped putting my heart into things. I have no idea when I stopped caring as much as I did. I know that this was gradual, that I didn't just wake up one day and say "I give up I don't care". 

Funny thing is I learned how much I stopped by doing something I always do.... Watch NCIS: New Orleans. King said something that was my "Wake up call" if you will he said "Don't let a bad situation define who you are". 

It's funny how something that simple can sum up a whole mess of a year. This year has been bad for me. Losing people I love, incorporating new people, work drama, home drama, failing school, transitions at work, looking for a way out and not seeming to find one. 

It's like Marilyn Monroe said "sometimes good things fall apart so better think can come together".

Things are not going to get better right away but I believe that they will soon. 

I turn 24 next week and it's already looking better than 23... simply because.... 23 will not be the year that defines the rest of my life.

Best Picture of 1927/1928: Wings

I will have to say that I was really wary of watching this film. I love old movies, I love the artistry, however, I have not exposed myself to a whole lot of Silent Films in my movie watching experience.

I am glad that I did decide to do this challenge because it's going to make me watch movies that I might not otherwise watch. Wings  being one of them. 

Now in the title I know that it says that it was the best picture of two different years. Well when the first few years of the Academy Awards they did it by non-calendar year. So, the first few of these movie are not going to be for one year. Also, in the first few years of the Academy Awards they only allowed five films to be nominated. We are used to there being ten nominated films because the rules were changed in 2009 to have between five to ten movies nominated.

But I digress.

Wings was produced by Paramount, Main producer was Lucien Hubbard, and was release August  12, 1927. The film had a 2 Million Dollar budget, and that was money in 1927 equivalent to about 26 Million Dollars today. It is one of two silents films to win the Best Picture Award (the other surprisingly is The Artist which was released in 2011). The film also won Best Effects, Engineering Effects at the Academy Awards that same year. The Effects were done by Roy Pomeroy. The film was thought to be lost until 2012 when it was found, restored, and redistributed for a limited time in the movies. In 1997 it was officially put into the National Film Registry for being the first film to win Best Picture.

Wings was in contest for Best Picture agaistn Howard Hughes's The Racket (1928) also with Paramount, and William Fox's Seventh Heaven (1927) from Fox.

The Movie is about two young men, who are in love with the same woman, going off to fight in World War I. The stars of the film are Clara Bow, who plays Mary Preston a young girl infatuated with a Jack Powell. Charles "Buddy" Rogers plays Jack Powell he is the "boy next door turn war hero" of our story. He thinks he is love with a girl named Sylvia, Jobyna Ralston, but in reality he is in love with the idea of her. It takes the whole film for him to realize where his heart really lies. Jack starts off hating another young man from him hometown, reason is because this young man is in love with Sylvia too. This wealthy, and handsome, character is named David Armstrong who is played by Richard Arlen. The plot of this movie is how these two men form a true friendship, despite them loving the same girl, during the struggles and tragedies of the war.

Once you see the film you quickly see why this film won best effects. The Director, William A. Wellman, wanted to make a movie about the war as realistic as possible. This is the film in which all war movies would be compared to. This was the film that changed how action sequences were shot to begin with. A lot of thought and preparation was put into the film. During this time when films were shot in about two months, this film took nine months to shoot. Wellman wanted everything to be as realistic as possible. Since he was an aviation pilot in World War I himself, it was something that he was passionate about. He wanted part of the film to be shot up close in the cockpit of the aircraft.He had the actors trained to fly a plane and then he mounted a camera on the plane for the close up shots.

He only needed to have one of his stars trained. Along with Wellman, Richard Arlen also fought in World War I and was also an aviation pilot. So, when you watch and think that the effects of them flying look very realistic for the time period it was made, that is because it is realistic. When they are up there flying around and acting in front of the camera they really are!

As visually stunning as the film is there are some who did not care for the film that much. One of them was star Clara Bow. She says "Wings is... a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie". She believed this because the film was rewritten so Paramount could put her in the film, because she was the number one box office draw with Paramount at the time. Despite some of the negative reviews the movie ran for an astonishing 63 weeks before it was moved to second run theaters. Seeing that some movies today are beginning to be pulled after the required two week screening contacted by movie theaters (Jem and the Holograms anyone?) and this film lasted a year before it got to a bigger audience. I would have to say that that is an overwhelming success! 

Since I have not seen the other two movies that were nominated that year, I can not whole heatedly say I would agree with The Academy or not. However, watching this film and all the accomplishments it has had and the work put into it I can see why it was nominated. The film to me was visually stunning and slightly scandalous. It was one of the first films to show brief nudity. I was shocked to see this because most of the films that I have seen were under The Motion Picture Production Code, which prohibited nudity. However, with further research I leaned that censorship  was trying to be enforced during this time is was wildly ignored. The very strict Motion Picture Production Code would not be really enforced until 1934. It will be interesting to see what Hollywood was "getting away with" in these first few films before that code was enforced.

This movie is not going to be very high on my "must see" list but it do believe it will be on of my most memorable for the visual effect and the innovation of war films.

With all of that being said 1 down 86 to go!

You're Doing Fine Oklahoma!

So it has been a while since I have updated but I started back to school so fun stuff is out the window but I wanted to add this update because I felt like I needed to.

Now if I haven't already stated this, but really I shouldn't because It's kinnda obvious, but I am not a writer. I am just a girl who likes movies and wants to record her own thoughts. If there is anyone out there who is actually reading my inner nerd then welcome to what I call the hope post.

For whatever reason that last few weeks I have been in a bad slump. Like I have no energy to do anything. Like I don't want to hang out with friends, I don't want to go to work (I really do love my job so for me this is weird), and I don't want to do anything really. I have never been diagnosed with depression but how I imagine what it feels like this would be it. Since I don't want to proclaim that I am depressed I am just going to call it my slump.

However, I feel like I see a way out of the slump. I think that I need to do is just make myself do things. I know that sounds weird but it's the truth. If I get myself to do some things that I don't want to do I start to feel better. The reason that I am saying all of this is because today I was really excited about doing something but it kinnda feel apart...

One of my all time favorite movies is the Classic Rogers and Hammerstein hit Oklahoma. Now, if you are a fan of the movie the title of this post makes a little more sense. Anyhow, I found out a few weeks ago that They were doing a 60th anniversary theater release of the movie in a few cities that the city I live in was one of them. However, it was not in the normal theater that they do this kind of stuff in and it wasn't really advertised. Truly if I did not catch the post of facebook I would have totally missed it.

Well, I buy the tickets and my excitement to see this movie gets interrupted, I got some bad news. No one died or anything but it just was not good news.  So, my excited movie watching experience turned into a good movie watching experience we this slight constant worrying in the back of my mind.

However, leave it to movies to give you the very thing that you need to hear right when you need to hear it.

See as much as I love the movie I haven't seen it in almost a year and a half. So some of the finer lessons that come from this movie I don't remember. In the movie Laurie is the girl of Curley's dreams. They have a really playful relationship that I really love! Toward the middle of the movie Laurie turns to her Aunt Eller and asks her why do things need to change. She wants everything to stay the exact same that it is right now. Well, before the bad phone call came that is what I wanted everything was good and I wanted it to stay that way. How the movies go it didn't stay that same for very long. Laurie marries Curley, Judd tries to kill them, and Curley ends up accidentally killing Judd and all of this happens on the wedding day. While they are taking Judd to the Dr. (before he died) Laurie and Aunt Eller start to talking. Laurie asks why did this have to happen? Why do bad things have to happen to happen at all? Aunt Eller then says something that I really needed to hear.

She tells her goes something like this. That you can't account for bad things to happen. What you can do is look at all the good on one side and the bad on the other and say "well ok" to the both of them. I was shocked that really that's the way to look at life. That things are going to happen and after they do that only thing that you can do it look at everything and go ok that happened what now.

Life is really just rolling with the punches and make some choices. Not making choices and rolling with the punches. Right now everything is kinnda sucks. However, I know that this is not going to last forever and I will be ok. I just have to look at both good and bad and find the balance.

The Avenger in Us

Yeah I know it's a lame title but I can't think of anything else to call it.

I went with my best friend to go and see the Advance Screening of the new Avengers movie last night and I have to say that it's SO much better than the first movie.

Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with the first movie! It's was really good, fantastic writing, my only complaint is that they waited too long to bring Thor in, but still really good. This movie was better cause it seemed more like how a team would intact with each other rather than the uniformed team that just fights and secretly hates each other..... but I digress.

I didn't really want to write this blog to do a review of the movie, cause I would totally spoil the whole thing if I did, but I did realize some cool stuff as to why the movie was so popular to begin with. The characters are totally relatable.

A Chance at Heaven

Have you ever been in one of those moments where you think "I know that is wrong, and I know that this isn't going to end well, yet not matter what I say or do it's going to happen anyways and I can't do anything to stop it"?

Today was one of those days...


Today was supposed to be one of those moments that you dream of, one of those moments that you share with you kids and grandchildren. Yet, I know that this story will be told but not in the way they will want to. It will be a sad story, that will eventually get a happy ending, but this start is a sad one.

Right now is her "Chance at Heaven".

For those of you who don't know what that movie is, the movie stars Ginger Rogers and she has been dating a man, a good guy, for two years and right before he is going to propose this high and mighty girl swoops in and marries him before Ginger can.

Now before you think that my life is the one person is Ginger and her man was taken away, it's not quite like that. See the man in this story is the one not to be trusted. The person sees the man as a Change at Heaven for getting that love that she feels that God so wrongly deprived her of. Really God was trying to work to get her to a place where the real love of her life can come in and they fall in love. I am Ginger Rogers, and no my man was not stolen either, I don't even have one of those yet (hint hint God lol). No I am Ginger Rogers watching this story unfold and knowing that it's not going to end how she wants it too. Knowing that it's she that is going to be left instead of he. Knowing that all I could do is just try and be there for her when thing eventually all fall apart. Her Chance at Heaven is really going to be her own personal hell of earth. That alone is enough to make you go crazy.

I also know that, that the movie, everything has it's own way of working out. That this is going to last forever and she is going to be a better person because of it.

Knowing the God can take this hell on earth and really turn it into a great chance at heave later on is enough for me to keep going and praying for that fact that it's all going to be just fine.

Beginnings

When we watch a movie there is always a beginning. Sometimes it's a flashback, sometimes a birth, it can be a song, setting up for a house or city the characters live in, or it can start with a simple "Once Upon a Time".

All of the character's stories start and end at the same time. They all follow along the same timeline. Wrapping everything up in a seemingly perfect bow.

But in life.... stories are never consistent.

There is never a true clean beginning and ending to the different stories in out lives. Even the birth and death of us are right in the middle of other stories being told.

It's funny to think where I think a new start happens and different from where someone else says that same start happens. A great example is this past weekend. My best friend got to have a great new start in her life, she went on her first date with the amazing guy. I know that she thought her beginning was after they announce the graduating class, and I got to hug her and she whispered to me "I'm Free". However, I don't believe that that was her start..... I believe that was her transition.

Remember I said that not all stories Start with "Once Upon a Time".

I believe that her start to that new story was when her and her new boyfriend made that first left out of the parking lot of the church and driving down the rode and out of site. It's was one of those rare moments in my life that I realized that I was witness the beginning of one of the greatest love stories ever recorded. So far their stories, both individually and together thus far, is something that could have only been written by film writer.

So far it's a crazy story of love, loss, hurts, healing, long lost family members, struggles, stress, separation, longing, desire, and it's only the beginning of the story.

If I had to pick one movie that their life most relates to, at least in the crazy emotional roller cost it put us on, would have to be The Princess Bride. No other tale has the crazy feeling of  "you are so close to being with each other BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO GET IN THE WAY!" I am not even in the relationship and I am dying!

I guess I am going to have fun watching the rest of the story unfold huh?

Recording Stories that are Already Being Told

So, if I haven't already told you I will let you know now.... I am a HUGE Once Upon a Time fan! This is the only TV show, thus far, that I have watched every week since the first week that it has come on. The writers are fantastic and you never know what they are going to do next! It takes me DAYS sometime for me to get over the shocks and twists that they do. However, they do have some really great lessons in there.

If anyone is even really reading this blog I will do a courtesy and give out no spoilers. So, I will be a vague as I can. However, if you have NOT scene Season 4 episode 17 that premiered on Sunday March 29th, you may not want to read the rest of it. I am being vague but even if I am I might give something away.

There was a lot of crazy stuff that happened tonight on the show, however, the part that touched me the most was when Gus was talking about the Author. The Author is who people seems to be, as we all know it's Once Upon a Time NO ONE is who they seem to be! Yet, we find that the Author records the stories as they are happening, not writing them as he goes. They even give a nod to Walt Disney being an Author, I won't give all that away August put it in a much more elegant way! August says that as the Author it was their job to Record their stories, not change them.

Because I thought that was so wonderfully put I started thinking... what if Once Upon a Time was real? What if Walt Disney was an author set out to record stories? How could that be cause he wrote some of the greatest ones!

Then I realized that just because you are the author doesn't mean you don't have a story of your own.

See if Disney were really an author, and set out to record the stories are they are currently happening, doesn't mean he doesn't play a part in the story.

Walt Disney has played many parts in my story, and still does to this day. I am only 23 but I know he will be playing parts of my story, and my future family's story, for years to come. I mean I have never been to Disney World so that will be a future story to tell. I mean the Disney Empire is one giant recording of not only Walt Disney's life on us, but the life we in turn have given him. He wanted a place where families could come and enjoy the time together without the stresses of everyday life, some place magical. We gave him the inspiration and he gave us the outlet.

See even though he would have been an author, doesn't mean that his whole life is at a stand still. He still would have been making movies, not hiding in the shadows. He would have made, or again if it were real, making movies all the while recording stories as they happened. Which means that Disney did change the stories of people but not interfering with them. If he weren't the author my story would still include Disney and his movies.

I guess this touched me so much because I like being an author myself. No I don't make up movies, scripts, heck I know that by me typing this stuff I am making a huge amount of errors. My way of recording is pictures, and home made movies.

The wall of my room help to write my story, you can walk in an instantly know where my loyalties lie in my passions, and in the people I love. I know I am living in a time in which recording history is not limited to writing it down. It's in the music I play, the pictures I take, the videos I shoot. It may not be the stories that will be in history books but it's the stories I will pass down to the next generation of my family because without my stories they wouldn't even be possible.

One of the coolest things I get to do on a weekly basis is be the Volunteer Baptism Class Coordinator at my church. My role is to get kids signed up to go to this counseling for baptism and then if they are ready get them signed up to be baptized. The coolest part is that milestone is something I choose to be a part in! Weather or not I am there makes no difference if they get it done or not, but I choose to be there and it's one of the smallest times you see your actions in a person's life pays off!

I guess that is what is really cool about life. Sometimes we are the ones living life, but in even more precious times we are the Authors recording the stories that are being told everyday.

Last Night was the Night

I felt like I was in a slap stick comedy yesterday! Mama and I started off the day going to Sam's Club and Kroger. While we were at Sam's mom saw this HUGE inflatable to take out on the lake and she wanted it soooo bad. Then she started asking me if there were any single guests that are under the age of 35 that make good enough money to have a house by the lake she she could visit....

I told her about the guy that Nikki says "flusters me" cause I do think he is cute and he is here all the time, but I would never date him! Mom kept telling me that i needed to get myself "gussied up" so the next time he comes in he can sweep me off my feet... I don't think I will be doing that anytime soon. 

That was the whole conversation through Sam's and Kroger we were just in and out buying some stuff and she still telling me to get a rich man! What am I going to do with her?

When we got home we found out the our heater in the house no longer worked. So the whole house was freezing! Since I live in the basement my room was the coldest so I ended up upstairs the whole day playing flow on my Ipad watching tv with my mom and dad. However dad feel asleep on the couch so we started to watch The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014) which Started Robin Williams. I liked what I saw of the movie but it felt weird watching Williams character trying to kill himself by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. Not only that but the movie being made in the same year that he did pass was a little too close to home. I loved the ending when everyone was screaming and cussing out the Captain of the boat. It was weird seeing Peter Dinklage in the film cause I am used to him playing in Game of Thrones... it kinda through me off a bit but he was still fantastic to say the least!

After that mom and I watched The 50th Anniversary Special of the Making of the Sound of Music with Diane Sawyer! I learned so much from this special about the movie it's crazy! Like the opening scene of the movie was shot in 20 mins with a helicopter in 9 takes! I also learned that they shot on location, which seems rather odd for a movie in which they were not guaranteed a success! However, these places are still around and you can visit them! I WANT TO GO NOW! Mom made fun of me cause when Diane Sawyer was on the fountain she asked other to join her to make the scene and I told her I would totally do it!

Then dad woke up and we had to watch basketball, which he was getting mad at the Lady Vols cause they were behind a lot! However, he went to bed and they won so go figure. Then mom and I watched a movie!

The movie is called This is the Night from 1932 Staring Thelma Todd, and the very first movie the great Cary Grant was ever in. I found out the Grant was not very keen on making this movie because he did not want to be type cast as the "Good looking stupid character". Of course he never was cause he played in so many different types of movie as so many different types of characters.

I like how that some of the scene have a blue tint to them. The only ones that this tint are the scene when you are seeing the places in Venice so it makes it seem like a dream, which for the main character Germain who gets caught up playing the "wife" of another character and they get caught up in a whole mess!

This was an interesting movie because it was filmed in the Pre code days. Which means there are more "Risky" stuff in the movie from the 30s than others. Like one woman's clothes keep falling off and how they are looking for a woman who's "Torso Talks". Which is probably the most original way of saying how attractive a woman is!

When Characters Come To Life... Kinnda

Working with Nikki day and always an adventure, we could make millions if we were able to put about work security cameras on youtube. I mean we have so much fun and we do so much random stuff that you can't help but laugh with us.

There is always a roller coaster of emotions, even though she isn't much of a fan with those. We always talk about the latest celebrity stuff, work stuff, tv, movies (of couse), and life in general. 

To give you a taste of what she is like, cause you will be hearing more about her, I will get you a story of what happened last night. 

So, where were wrapping up all of our work and Nikki went to go check on the pool. When she emerged from around the corner, to had a glorious Beach Ball that someone had left behind. When she brought it back to the desk we put it on the ground and, because we are adults, started to kick the ball behind the desk. I kicked it too hard and we ended up sending it flying over the desk into the lobby. We laughed until we could not breathe and then put the ball in the back office.

It did last too long before she came into the office and started to throw the beach ball at my head. then we started to throw it at each other which then in turn knocked over Nikki's opened Dr. Pepper on the desk. We said Jesus had to be with us because it fell to where it poured out on the floor instead of on the computer. 

I did have a nerd moment when I went to get an oil change today. We have a new mechanic shop that just opened up near my house, and my mom went to get hers changed the other day and said they were really quick on getting it changed. 

Well, the signs says that it Ladies Day on Tuesday and you get $5 off the service. So when I went and I was talking to the guy while he was changing my oil and then I finally looked at the name on his shirt, His name was Oz....

Really?! Only I could be the one one to pull into a random place and have the person working on my car be named Oz.

When he was checking my tires he saw the signs on the back of my car (one says "Don't Make Me release my flying monkeys, and the other "Don't make me drop a house on you) and he got the point that I love that movie. When he came back around to my window he said "Thanks for being a fan of mine". 

You can't write stuff like that people, you just can'!

Millie and Mayhem

Sunday was the day of rest. For my mom and I that mean a day for movies. Mom and I had tickets to go and see Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 movie Rear Window in the movie theaters for the 60th anniversary celebration. Knowing us when we are board, and when dad is not watching tv with us cause he doesn't like out movies sometimes, we watch a movie that has been waiting for us to watch for way too long.

So yesterday was the viewing "Thoroughly Modern Millie". The movie is from 1967 staring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moor, and Carol Channing. I haven't laughed so hard at a movie in a while. I LOVED IT! It's based out of the 1920s and it's about a girl named Millie, played by Julie Andrews, who wants to be "modern" and get a job. However, the only reason that she wants a job is to marry her boss, aka a rich man. Which I guess if you look at both the 20s and today you can see where that is more "modern thinking" however I still find it a silly reason to get married in the first place. 

This costumes were lovely Millie's outfits were very sharp, clean cut, and drastic to show the modern 20s feel, Miss Dorothy's (Moore) were very pretty and soft in comparison showing that she was not the dominating character but one to be reckoned with.

Channing's character served as more the moral compass of the cast, but she does it HILARIOUSLY! She is always doing something singing, dancing, being used as a human yoyo. She does deliver the best line of the movie though.

She is talking about her late husband, who was a rich man, and about a piece of jewelry that he gave her. When she had gotten engaged to him she did not know he was a millionaire. He gave her a piece of "green glass" jewelry as a present when she found out it was really real emerald she thought he stolen the piece. That's when she finds out he is a millionaire.

The then tells Millie:

"While I prefer Emeralds, I really do, we could have made it on green glass".

The movie, Rear Window is always a treat! I love that movie. However, I have never seen it on the big screen.

So that was the best part about it! The movie theater I was in there were like maybe 10 people coming to see the movie. Yet, it's still an audience that is free to laugh and experience it together.

That is something I have come to realize in the last year when we go and see old movies at the theater, that no matter how big the audience is, and not matter how many times we have seen the same movie, everyone is always playing off each other.

Sometimes we become numb to the funniness of a movie because we expect it, cause we have seen it  a ton. However, when watching a movie with an audience someone might think that "drab" line is very funny and then you start laughing and it's like you are rediscovering the whole joke all over again!

That is watch this movie did to me. I made me fall in love all over again because I watched it with other people.

There is also something about the movie theater that makes it creepy to watch. I knew going into this movie I wasn't going to be scared. I knew the ending, I know how everything would turn out. However, I almost had a heart attack when I heard those footsteps! I don't think I have ever been so scared in a movie in my whole like... AND I KNEW THE ENDING!

I think the best part about this movie was spotting something new. In the scene where Lisa and Jeff are talking to Doyle about how they think Mr. Larson killed his wife.

If you see on the picture behind him in that scene there is a picture on the wall of five people. Three of them are pointing to one man, that one man has his hands on his head, and the last people is blindfolded with the gun. I geeked out when I saw it cause I was thinking at this point if you have people watching this movie they are already siding with Jeff and Lisa but you know it still speculation at this point and you don't know why you are siding with them.

IT'S THAT PICTURE! The Picture with the three people pointing is Stella, Lisa, and Jeff. The man with his hands on his head is being arrested is guilt, the blind man with the gun is Doyle who doesn't believe that he really did kill his wife but he can't see it yet!

Just goes to show that sometimes that answer is right in front of you right!

That is what I love about movies. You can watch them a million times and still learn something new!

Best Picture Challenge

Like I said in the last post I would tell you the challenge that I am going to do in this post.

The challenge is the Best Picture Challenge!!!

When I was watching the 87th Annual Academy Awards last month I got really inspired. Especially when Birdman won best picture. I really wanted to see Birdman, not because of the plot line or the actors, but because of the way it was filmed. For those of you who don't know Birdman was filmed in one continuous shot, so the camera never cuts away at any point in the film.

Which I wanted to see because I wanted to compare movies. See, the only other movie that I know of that does this same filming technique is the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock movie called Rope. It was an extremely captivating movie, and memorable because of the way it was filmed. When I was thinking about comparing the two movies I stated to think how different the subject matter would be handled just because of the time periods they were filmed in. It would be really interesting to see the evolution of filming, actors, character development, and content.

Then it hit me....

Why not see the evolution of pictures overtime by watching the best of the best?

It was then, while watching Neil Patrick Harris show his predictions to the world of what would happen at the Oscars, that I decided I would watch every single one of all the 87 Best Pictures in order and literally watch that evolution unfold.

I will also write a post about every movie with a plot summary, with no spoilers because how rude would that be, what I thought was most significant about the filming, and any other fun facts or funny quotes I liked.

What my goal is after all of this is to be way more educated about movies, and how maybe social convention, or anything really, shaped how the film was made.

Even though I will be doing this for my Best Picture Challenge I will also still right about everyday life how I see it, and also about any movie I see in between.  

Anyways I do need to get off the blog now cause I am at work and really shouldn't be on here.

Happy Viewing!

Movies Speak for Me

I am not always the best with words. I don't struggle with saying things that I to totally believe to be said, but sometimes trying to describe how I feel, or what a situation feels like, is hard. However, 99% of the time when I am in a mood, or situation, a scene from a movie comes into my head. It's not something I have knowingly trained myself to do it's something that has just happens.

When something big, small, and seeming unimportant happens I almost always relating it to a movie. Whether I am stuck at work for days on end begging to click my heels and say "There's no place like home" or when I lost my uncle a few years ago and did not listen to the little voice in my heart saying "Hug him and tell him you love him before he leaves". I didn't and he died two days later. I felt like I was Rick Blaine telling Ilsa Lund Laszlo "We'll always have Paris" letting go cause it's better for them but also having to live with the regret of what could have been on the table.

I am a movie nerd that lives in a hugely music era. When my best friend Alaina, who is totally musically orientated, needs to get feelings out she listens to music that either matches her mood, or will cheer her up. I play the movie roles in my head. I know that sounds totally crazy but I have yet to meet someone who relates more to movies than to music.

The more I watch the more addicted I become but the easier it is to get people to understand how I feel. I love music, don't get me wrong, but each song is so very limited to one feeling. Anger, happiness, love, sadness, for just a few minutes. Movies you have more freedom. I mean when you look back on your life do you look at a song list or living working pictures you replay in your head. You look back and you can see how all emotions play out to that one scene, or how if one part of the story was different then the emotions and the plot line could be very different too.

Just like every journey of your life teaches you something so does every movie.

I don't know if anyone is ever going to read this blog, but I think I will enjoy writing about life how I see through movies.

This post is more of a reason why I want to do this, the next post will the the crazy challenge I have put upon myself!