Spring Break Journal 4

    Today my parents and my brother are working so that leaves me home with the dog all day. So on days when everyone has the car and I have no where to go, I do what I always do, watch movies and draw (or at least try to come up with something new to draw to increase my skills and portfolio). So this journal is going to be another self observation.  From watching many movies this week and my dvds, I have notice the reaction I get from watching them, just like in our Social Interaction class book. As mention in that chapter, when we see a reaction or emotion on that actor or from that scene, our face copies it. It's funny that after going to see so many movies over the years and now learning why I always get these feelings towards them, I thought it was just me.

   This week the movies i saw with my aunt were Beastly, Just Go With It (starting Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston), and the dvds that I watched was Megamind (with Will Ferrell, Tina Fey), and my all time favorite The Phantom of the Opera (staring Gerard Butler), different categories of film but they all gave me a reaction towards them. Just Go With It and Megamind are both comedy films and I love it when the characters/actors make me laugh. Their is something about them and their silly and crazy stunts that makes me smile and laugh, and it's that comedic charm that always gets people's attention and wanting more. In a animated movie like Megamind, it's easy to read their emotions on their face and listening to the actor's tone in their voice helps bring that character to life and makes them believable. Every time I see this movie, their is the one scene that gets me every time. When the character Roxanne Richie is tied up to a building by this new villain and just when all hope seems lost, something is happening in the sky. The clouds become darker, lights are flickering in the clouds and with in the clouds is the siloutette shape of Megamind's head and he's calling out to this new villain and says "Who dare's challenge Megamind". When the screen goes back to Roxanne face (a close up shot) and she has a sign of relif and joy on her face that he came back for her. When I see her smile, I feel me face start to smile to at seeing Megamind. It was after watching that part of the movies that I remembered what we learned in that Social Interaction book.

    The movie The Phantom of the Opera, is my all time favorites that touches my heart and I fall in love listening and watching both movie and the play over and over again. You would think with any movie that someone watches over and over that they would get tired of it, not me and not with this movie. Their is something magical about this movie that gets me every time, maybe it the actors, good story, great music, who knows. But what I know for a fact is that this movie has inspired me to draw this kind of theme, the theme of a mask mysterious stranger and a girl being the only light in his life and the only one to open his heart. And he brining something new and exciting to the girl that no one else could come close to give. I may have mentioned something similar to this in my other blog journal, but I think that just proves how strong this movie has it's hold on me. I think anyone who is a fan of this movie (or who isn't a fan, but has seen the movie) can easily relate to how strongly this movie, and the character The Phantom draws you into this world.

 

     When I watch the character The Phantom (Erik), I'm drawn to his mysterious and sad look in his eyes (through the mask). Relating back to our class book, I think there was a chapter that talks about how we are drawn to people's eyes. I always believe that the eyes tell the truth than words. Towards the end of the movie, the Phantom has his mask off revealing his deformed side of his face and he watches his only love of his life leave him for another. In his eyes there is so much sadness that it hurt to even watch, sometimes I don't watch the end of the movie, just so I don't feel bad about him being heartbroken and alone again. So that in my mind he gets the girl (and she should have stayed him with, if you ever get the chance to watch the movie or see the play, you can easily see that they love each other) and he's never alone again. I think another reason why I feel a connection to this movie and that character is because I can easily relate to that longing for love and to find someone that understand me and does care about the outside appearance.  That is the kind of love I hope to find one day or that someone will find me and show me something that I never see or experienced before. 

   This is what happens when I'm alone in my house watching movies, I think to much. But I can't stay away from watching movies because it's not about who is playing the roles, how great the special effects. It's all about the story and the flow and movement of those characters that help bring the story to life and make it something special and rememberable.