"Hey XXXX Summer's going great! I'm watching a bunch of Wes Anderson movies, and trying to learn French and ASL tongue emoticon How're things with you?"
22/06/2015 18:36
"Ramadan slows down the entire middle east, I think tongue emoticon Sorry XXXX, you must be fasting too, right? :s Is it okay to talk about movies at this time? With you, I mean? French, I've ALWAYS wanted to learn, but never found the time to. ASL, I was on a plane (don"t remember which one) and you know the safety instructions? They had a person translate them to ASL on the corner and I realized, wait I should be able to talk to non-speakers too! Thus, ASL ASL is the easiest of the sign languages to find online classes on, I feel. I dont even know WHAT the other sign languages are! Sooo the Wes Anderson movies are because of the Oscars I've hardly found time to watch anything at all during the sem, so all I watched were trailers And if I had time to spare, I watched a few tv shows here and there and maaybbbee a movie or two. I realized I waa waaayyy out of the movie scene so I made a list of all the movies that I need/want to watch and out of all the Oscar-nomimated ones this year, the Grand Budapest Hotel really caught my eye. Funny thing is, I still haven't watched Grand Budapest I Googled Wes Anderson movies because his story-telling and visual direction seemed really cool; it reminded me of the story-telling concept that Pushing Daisies had. So I started off with Moonrise Kingdom instead because I had heard the best stuff about it, and it was AWESOME. 5 tweets later, XXXX, a fellow UOWD student (and friend) was all, "Wes Anderson is this real deal!" and we proceeded to talk about his other films and I realized that I what I REALLY wanted to do was watch all of his movies (which I was going to anyway, because I really liked Moonrise Kingdom, but now that there was someone else fuelling this show, I HAVE to watch )"
22/06/2015 18:41
"I watched The Darjeeling Limited then, because it was set in India and that was sooo lovely too! I saw The Royal Tenenbaums today, and... well, you know how every movie experience is not just the movie itself, but what state of mind you're in, and how well you're able to connect to the film from your own life experiences? So I feel like I missed a lot of stuff in this movie even though I watched the whole thing in one sitting. I need to rewatch it."- 22/06/2015 18:43
"To Anderson's credit, this is the first ever time I have felt like I needed to rewatch something because I felt like I didn't get all the details in one sitting. Usually, I don't rewatch it, I just put aside and forget about it, but this... I feel like I will enjoy it more when I watch it a second time. Movies that make you feel diff things at diff times in your life are the BEST kind of movies." - 22/06/2015 18:4
"Hahahaha sorry XXXX! I'm glad you're open to reading this long ramble!" - 22/06/2015 18:50
"Juno was actually a movie that also made me feel diff things at a second viewing. The first time I saw it, I disliked Jennifer Garner's character a LOT. I cried (happy tears) for Juno and Michael Cera's character (as you can see, I remember names amazingly well). But the second time I watched, the star of the whole movie WAS Jennifer Garner for me. I was much more open to her, and I could perceive the cracks in her marriage to that guy she was with and I cried for HER. I was older and wiser And my priorities and fears as a person had gone from "finding love" to "keeping a marriage intact." My fear IS STILL long-term committment/making a marriage/relationship work because though I know it's possible to be married forever (no one I personally know is divorced) I also know it's easy to get bored of a person. I GET BORED OF PEOPLE EASILY, XXXX D: But theennn I realized wait hold on, if I'm married then we'd have kids and then the kids always pull a family together and now I have a much more optimistic view and I'm SO hungry for movies about the "after happily ever after". You know what I mean?"
22/06/2015 18:52
"And like, XXXX, the same guy, told me about Linkalator(?) and this guy made these movies called Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight
And they were released in 1993, 2003 and 2013, and they follow a couple's relationship with a 10-year gap
LIKE HOW COOL IS THAT?
He"s the guy behind Boyhood! Another Oscar movie of the year
So yeah "
"The one thing I hate about myself with stuff is that *I* want to do stuff. And I say that is a bad thing because often I want to be the performer and not just be performed at. I want to PUT UP events in uni, and not just attend them. I want to SING and PARTICIPATE, but not when it comes to films like these. These, I just want to see and enjoy, and see them again and enjoy them again, but differently."
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Wes Anderson and Movie-Watching
"The one thing I hate about myself with stuff is that *I* want to do stuff. And I say that is a bad thing because often I want to be the performer and not just be performed at. I want to PUT UP events in uni, and not just attend them. I want to SING and PARTICIPATE, but not when it comes to films like these. These, I just want to see and enjoy, and see them again and enjoy them again, but differently."
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