\n\tI DO NOT LOVE ALL MOVIES\n<\/p>\n
\n\tContinuing with the previous post…..\n<\/p>\n
\n\tIn the first part of this post, I described my love affair with movies. Let me clarify that point a bit.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tI do NOT love or even like ALL movies. The kids say I would watch the washing machine go around, but that is not actually true. It would HAVE to at least have a good soundtrack.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tBut there are movies and genres I just do not much care for: soap operas and slasher movies would top that list – though there are some movies that would break even that rule, making the grade despite their parentage. I confess to the guilty pleasure of Titanic<\/em> in the first case and the novelty of the concept behind Freddie Krueger in the case of the original Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> in the latter case. (One of the Elm Streets was definitely enough, however.)\n<\/p>\n \n\tAnd when I watch movies I try to remember something a friend of mine – a little known writer\/producer named Phil Kirksey – told me about 30 years ago: "NO one sets out to make a bad movie."\n<\/p>\n \n\tEven the poorly made ones I have to, on some level, admire. At the very LEAST those people had a vision which they carried out.\n<\/p>\n \n\tI have been on a number of sets. I have written and tried to write a bunch of screenplays. I have participated in a few amateur film shoots and a couple of professional ones. It's NOT a cake walk. Even the simplest, dumbest pieces of dreck have to be planned, scripted, costumed, lighted, filmed, edited…not to mention convincing a bunch of other people to: act, give permission to film on their property, lend you props, bring or lend expensive often delicate equipment. The actors have to be: transported, fed, kept safe and comfortable, provided with potties. Need I go on?? It's not easy and it takes commitment. And anyone who can get ANYTHING up on a screen, whether professional or for the local film fest, I have to give them some respect.\n<\/p>\n \n\tWHY WATCH MOVIES??\n<\/p>\n \n\tBut WHY do I watch movies? My husband often teases me: wouldn't you rather (fill in blank) than watch someone else do it? The answer is — well, that depends. Yes, I would rather eat a piece of chocolate cake than watch someone else eat it. Yes, I would rather rock my own baby than watch someone else rock theirs. Yes, I would rather take a nap than watch someone else sleep. But the topic of a film does not usually revolve around the kind of mundane activities most of us mortals engage in on a day to day basis.\n<\/p>\n \n\tOn the other hand, I would rather watch someone else run away from a 60 foot Tyrannosaurus Rex than actually do it myself. I would rather observe someone else's technique for surviving the sinking of the Titanic than put that to the test personally. And as for comedy – well, think of the Three Stooges. Yeah, more of a spectator sport if you ask me.\n<\/p>\n \n\tDo I choose to watch a lot of movies? Yes. Do I choose to watch ANYTHING? No. Of course not. But, the $64,000 question remains —— WHY?\n<\/p>\n \n\t…………..To be continued………..\n<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I DO NOT LOVE ALL MOVIES Continuing with the previous post….. 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