For my birthday, I invested in some books and movies. Actually I got four books for a dollar and 3 movies for like $23. I know, a bargain for my birthday. I am amazing, if only for this one day. Oh by the way, it’s my birthday today. I’m officially 25. Go Me!
Anyway, one of the movies I bought was “Romeo and Juliet”. The one with Leonardo DiCaprio when he got popular. Why…..why? Was DiCaprio and Claire Danes the only reason this movie was popular. (let’s face it, Claire Danes was just a bonus, everyone went to see Leonardo. And she’s blonde now. I don’t want her blonde. I don’t like it.) I texted my sister that I had watched “16 Candles” before that because that was appropriate the night before your 25 birthday and then I asked her why that movie was popular. Let’s face it, I think it came out in like 1996 and I was 8 then. What did I know about movies. Her excuse, heart-throb and the music. Eh. The music is okay. I do like that it was the original language, or the exact prose that it was written in. I just don’t like some of the camera techniques that they used. The 1968 version of this is way better.
My English teacher in high school had it so when we read something, we would watch the movie as well. I watched “Gulliver’s Travels” with Ted Danson, (I know love him as he was in the late 80′s, early 90′s) “Much Ado About Nothing” with Denzel Washington, (sooooo funny) and “Moby Dick”. And we watched both the versions of “Romeo and Juliet” that I mentioned. We watched other movies to, those are just a few. I also watched “Gone with the Wind”, “Roots” and I think we watched, if only part, “Wizard of Oz” in history class. (Don’t worry, I held it together, quite well.) And on free days in band, whoever was seniors made everyone watch “Saved by the Bell”. And one time I got to watch “Family Feud” in study hall. It sounds like I watched a lot of random stuff in high school and I didn’t. Really. I got a good education in high school. I promise.
Side note. I was looking up something on IMDB, like “The Princess Bride” (inconceivable, right?), and I was surprised how tall some of those actors are. Mandy Patinkin, especially. I thought he was a short man. No, no he’s not. I enjoy him by the way.
That’s all I wanted to talk about today. P.S. I’m still single. Someone want to give me tips?
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