Sometimes I am just plain weird.
I suppose I was just in a Julie Andrews mood this weekend. I watched two of her movies: Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.
There's this scene in Mary Poppins where all the nannies are flying from the line and all of a sudden, Jane says "Michael Look!" and Mary Poppins is floating down from a distance. For some reason, I began to cry.
I think it was because I couldn't figure out how they got all those nannies to fly and I couldn't see strings and CGI wasn't used yet. I was just so amazed.
I cried two more times: When she is taking stuff out of her carpet bag (I still don't know how she does it) and when Dick Van Dyke was dancing with the penguins-- his talent is unsurpassed and now I will never be able to witness it again in another movie.
Further, Mary Poppins was when I thought Disney movies were cool. I was all over "Return to Witch Mountain" and "Bedknobs and Broomstocks"..now my brother's generation is subjected to "What a Girl Wants"..I mean c'mon.
On Sunday, I watched The Sound of Music and AGAIN, I began to cry.
Now let me explain something: I NEVER CRY. It's extremely rare. I think the last time I cried was about a year ago when I guy told me "I am not supposed to experience love with you" and "You are not the one" ...I mean, ouch, man. However, before that, I cried like 2 years ago when I had a really bad day at work and a customer had her wallet stolen and a cop yelled at me in the span of an hour. I think before that I cried because I might not graduate college because I had no health insurance.
Basically, I cry in very extreme circumstances. And I NEVER cry because of MOVIES!
So, this was such an anomaly for me. I began to cry when they sang and danced to "I am sixteen going on seventeen"; I cried again when the father was singing Edelweiss; I cried when I saw this BEAUTIFUL shot; I cried when they were doing the do re me montage; and I finally cried when the father got the telegram saying he had to join the Third Reich (and he decide to escape)
What I think made me so emotional about that movie was the fact it is SOOO good when I saw it when I was younger (and I didn't understand the political ramifications) and it's even better now that I am older. I mean, I guess because a lot of films that I liked when I was younger, (i.e. Ghost) I don't like now--but The Sound of Music, it gets better each time I see it and after my film training, I see how brilliant it really is.
On the movie note, I saw Drumline today..which I have to say impressed me more than I thought.
It totally made me feel better about being in band (I played clarinet for 5 years and was on the high school Drill Team for a year) and it made it look cool.
My friends want me to make a movie to glorify and make engineers look cool.
it's a challenge...
But there is only so much magic I can create.
