[FONT=Georgia, serif]What are some of the life lessons you've learned from the movies? They can be comical or serious. 
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Movie Life Lessons?
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Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
This one's kind of weird; this movie got a lot of criticism for this message when it came out, but I think it's important. It meant a lot to me.
Monsters University taught me that sometimes you have to accept failure.
Now, I didn't think MU was the greatest; I enjoy it but it was a pretty pointless prequel.
In the movie, Mike learns that he doesn't cut it as a "scarer" - his dream job. He tried his best, but that simply wasn't good enough. He was never meant to be a scarer, and the movie ended with him accepting that.
This may sound depressing, but it's realistic. Sometimes you can't achieve your goals and you have to reconsider them. Our society today teaches kids that as long as you try your best you'll succeed. That isn't how life works. Sometimes things just don't work out.
Monsters University taught me that sometimes you have to accept failure.
Now, I didn't think MU was the greatest; I enjoy it but it was a pretty pointless prequel.
In the movie, Mike learns that he doesn't cut it as a "scarer" - his dream job. He tried his best, but that simply wasn't good enough. He was never meant to be a scarer, and the movie ended with him accepting that.
This may sound depressing, but it's realistic. Sometimes you can't achieve your goals and you have to reconsider them. Our society today teaches kids that as long as you try your best you'll succeed. That isn't how life works. Sometimes things just don't work out.
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Movie: HARVEY is both a Pulitzer Prize winning 1944 play and a 1950 film about Elwood P. Dowd, a mild-mannered, pleasant man, who claims as his best friend a Pooka, in the form of an invisible 6-foot, 3-and-a-half-inch tall rabbit (6-foot, 1-and-a-half-inch tall white rabbit in the play). Elwood P. Dowd is played by Jimmy Stewart, my favorite actor. The Pooka is played by...well, I'm not going to tell; you'll have to watch the movie.
Elwood P. Dowd: Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
Elwood P. Dowd: Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
Dr. Chumley: This sister of yours is at the bottom of a conspiracy against you. She's trying to persuade me to lock you up. Today, she had commitment papers drawn up. She has your power of attorney and the key to your safety box, and she brought you here!
Elwood P. Dowd: My sister did all that in one afternoon. That Veta certainly is a whirlwind, isn't she?
Elwood P. Dowd: Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
Elwood P. Dowd: Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
Dr. Chumley: This sister of yours is at the bottom of a conspiracy against you. She's trying to persuade me to lock you up. Today, she had commitment papers drawn up. She has your power of attorney and the key to your safety box, and she brought you here!
Elwood P. Dowd: My sister did all that in one afternoon. That Veta certainly is a whirlwind, isn't she?
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What About Bob? - Baby steps!
When you don't know how to start just take baby steps. It's okay, you'll get there.
When you don't know how to start just take baby steps. It's okay, you'll get there.
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2001: A Space Odyssey- I think it proves that cinema is the most powerful medium we have
The Graduate- Brilliantly satirizes the counterculture and "free love" crowd as shallow and running away from real feelings.
Exit Through the Gift Shop- You should create art for the experience of doing it, not for anything that comes afterward or for other people
Andrei Rublev- The church saved Western civilization in the dark ages/middle ages
All the King's Men- If the state "buys" the public there can be no accountability.
Ninotchka- A brilliant satire of the conformity and sameness that inevitably comes from socialism under the guise of a romantic comedy.
Dr Strangelove- Making peace should be more important than ego or settling personal scores
The Soloist- I really thought it was a wonderful explanation of the act of faith, I could also add any number of Ingmar Bergman films in this spot.
The Outlaw Josey Wales- "I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another. "
"It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life."
The Graduate- Brilliantly satirizes the counterculture and "free love" crowd as shallow and running away from real feelings.
Exit Through the Gift Shop- You should create art for the experience of doing it, not for anything that comes afterward or for other people
Andrei Rublev- The church saved Western civilization in the dark ages/middle ages
All the King's Men- If the state "buys" the public there can be no accountability.
Ninotchka- A brilliant satire of the conformity and sameness that inevitably comes from socialism under the guise of a romantic comedy.
Dr Strangelove- Making peace should be more important than ego or settling personal scores
The Soloist- I really thought it was a wonderful explanation of the act of faith, I could also add any number of Ingmar Bergman films in this spot.
The Outlaw Josey Wales- "I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another. "
"It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life."
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