Another Question Meme

[qos]

Snitched from the intriguing lordandrei

Ask me a question about each of the following:


Friends

Sex

Music

ETA: Movies (I took "drugs" off the list, and my musical interests aren't particularly revealing. "Movies" is a much more fruitful topic.)

Love

LiveJournal

Other (open ended)


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[professor-mom.livejournal.com]

Ok,I'll bite: What are your top 5 favorite movies and why? Why are movies more relevant to your life than songs?

And what have you told your daughter about movies such as Pretty Woman where the main character is a prostitute who marries a rich and powerful man.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Movies are more relevant to me than songs because even though songs can be quite powerful, the story element of movies goes deeper with me. Stories illuminate and challenge and entertain in ways that songs don't.

Selecting just five is tough, and I'm not putting these in any particular order, but. . . .

1. Star Wars -- I was 12 when it came out, and in addition to the sheer exhileration of the story, Princess Leia completely blew me away. She became my first real heroine. (http://jsh32.tripod.com/heroines/id2.html)

2. A Passage to India -- I saw this movie during my sophomore year of college, and that night I experienced the onset of my existential crisis, lost my faith, and came to believe in my own mortality for the first time. It initiated a period extreme pain and spiritual transformation.

3. The Lord of the Rings trilogy -- for sheer storytelling brilliance, the heroism (of the creators as well as the characters)

4. Moulin Rouge -- it blew me away with its theatricality, passion, and music. Even when I was in the midst of my romantic cycnicism, it made me believe in love.

5. The Philadelphia Story -- What's not to love about this witty script, with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant as former spouses who re-discover love?

[qos.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't own Pretty Woman, so that specific one is a non-issue for the time being.

Every so often something happens in an otherwise good movie that I want to make sure my daughter notes as being something I disagree with, or don't want her to do, or whatever.

For example, I really like Much Ado About Nothing, and I think it's a great intro to Shakespeare for young people. But I usually find myself pointing out to my daughter how quickly the passionate young man is willing to assume that he is being betrayed, how easily manipulated he is. He goes from proclaiming his love for Hero to completely condemning her, without bothering to try to determine the truth. (That's just one that leaps easily to mind.)