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!