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)


Go for broke :)

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[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?