Desert Island Movies #2

For me there has always been something special about movies. And it has become increasingly harder for me to talk to people about movies. Not because I don't want to but because I do, and people often times don't want to talk to me about them because I have such a strong opinion about them. And it's not that I mean to or that I am even down grading the movies that other people watch, but when you get into the world of movies and you start talking to people who really love them to you get a chance to see how these people have such big opinions on movies that the only way that you can keep up is if you get your own big opinions and really that is what I do know. Now on to more important business. What is the second movie that I would take with me?

2.) Shakespeare in Love. There are some movies out there that you have been in love with you're entire life. The movies that just live within you that you can always remember the first time you ever watch that movie, and how every since it has held a special place in your heart. This is not that movie. The last part of that statement is true for this movie, because it obviously holds a special place in my heart other wise I would not be talking about it right now, but the first part is definitely not the case. I feel like this movie happened to me at a very important part in my life. And yes it like a car crash or being mugged it most certainly did happen to me. I don't remember the exact day and all the little details like I do with some movies, but I do remember that I never really wanted to see this movie. I wasn't really a big Paltrow fan and I really just had not interest in it at all, but one day me and Cooper sat down and watched it and I remember when it was all said and done it took me almost a day to really soak in what I had just saw.

I say that is film came at an important time because it was right around the time in my life that I really committed my love to film and I began to be very critical of films and just what makes a movie great. Not just the feelings of nostalgia that you might get when you watch a certain movie or that it has funny lines and makes you laugh or that it has bananas special effects. I had just gotten into the entirety of it all. I'm talking the screenplay, the lighting, the camera work and the way it is cut, the costumes, the set pieces, the raw emotions that the actors give off. I had just jumped head first into film and this movie spit out what I like to think is a masterpiece of art. And more importantly it did it in a year where there were movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line which where masterpieces in their own rights, but Shakespeare in Love was the one on top, and I will always think deservingly so. It is so beautiful a love story I really can't even put it into words. And it is so sophisticated that it really just is hard to put into words. And it has something that I myself really think that all love stories should have, and this really is my own personal opinion and really not too many people out there agree with this fact but I love it when a love story has sort of a bitter sweet ending. It's not quite happily ever after but its not just pain and heartache. And I guess that it was said best in a movie that I saw a couple of years ago, and that is that, only unfulfilled love can be truly romantic. And that's how I feel about this move. It is romantic in the best possible way. So stay tuned for number #3.