Love Is In The Air – Episode 17
August 21st, 2009
Dedicated to all my friends and everybody else who got or is getting married and/or expecting a baby, as well as to all couples that stick together like glue and anybody else who is still looking…even for those who don’t believe in love. This is to EVERYONE! I hope you have the time of your life.
Tags: father of the bride, french kiss, my sassy girl, sometthing's gotta give, the wedding singer, wedding crashers
Sassy girl,oh i love the movie so much.. you know ,if you’re really destined to be with each other, no matter how long does it take its really gonna happen.. this is what we called FATE.. 5 otters..
Close to this movie is ’serendipity’.. 5 otters
hey tomas!! agree on your movie selection! you actually picked all the fun movies that i like, too!
call me a patriot but the best one is “my sassy girl” just like you said because it includes all the parts in perfection to be a good movie!
hilarious at one time, very sad and serious when you need to come down a little from all the laughter!
@athenayesha: agree on “serendipity”. i thought this movie was a real clever love movie that moved me…yeah sounds cheesy but yeah it did:)!
Captain Corelli’s mandolin also is a nice feel good movie! should check that out.
@ibby: thank you ,you didn’t sound cheesy to me coz i know you believe in destiny..
@ibby: and i believe it too..
@athenayesha: do i know you…? i don’t even know if i believe in destiny myself…currently i am doubting everything!
@tomas: whats up with the hat?! i suggested different glasses each episode but that’ll do it as well:)
@ibby: you like the hat? Thought a suit would be too much so I chose my Zebra hat…helps to think like a Zebra when I brainstorm ideas. But that’s it for hats for now. They itch! Destiny…hmmm….personally I think it’s all about believe, timing and luck. If you really want something with all your heart and mind, you see opportunities and create chances. Control what you can control…the rest is up to the universe. (sound of a gong comes in here)
As someone married over 20 years, I’d recommend a few for the after marriage perspective. Try “She’s Having a Baby” for the newlywed version and “The Story of Us” for the long haul. However, my favorite is again, “What Dreams May Come” because it is such a perfect love. The “I’d rather be in Hell with you than alone in Heaven” part gets me every time.
I don’t think everyone is fated for someone in this life but occasionally you get lucky and find them. And sometimes it’s when you’re 15 years old and you get to spend the rest of your life growing with them.:) Thanks again Tomas and loved the hat!
“I tried to love you; I thought I could
I tried to own you; I thought I would
I want to peel the skin from your face
Before the real you lays to waste
You told me I’m the only one
Sweet little angel- you should have run
Lying, crying, dying to leave
Innocence creates my hell
Cheating myself; still you know more
It would be so easy with a whore
Try to understand me little girl
My twisted passion to be your world
Lost inside my sick head
I live for you but I’m not alive
Take my hands before I kill
I still love you, I still burn
Love, hate, love”
Alice in chains
It always asks me that feels to kiss to a man with a mask on the face.
The other day I saw a scene of the film “Eyes Wide Shut” of Stanley Kubrick where two people with masks kissed and I think me die. Because… a thing is a mask covering half with the face and another one very different one that covers the whole face. The mask cut to means I believe that it even express the necessity of the person owns who it to live, like a desperate necessity to even live although the death is approached, however a complete mask is the absolute death. It is too deep. The camara putting that uses Kubrick to not seems me the appropriate one for the take, but the concept, the image of two people kissing itself with a mask is fatal.
You are showlooners going to have to excuse my pessimistic glance towards the love and the marriage but, good films exceeds it, even excellent I believe that are:
- “Match point” Woody Allen. (Tragedy to the best Dotoievsy style)
- ““Eyes Wide Shut” Stanley Kubrick.
- “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” Woody Allen.
- “Broken Flowers” Jim Jarmusch
My absolute devotion towards “Match point”, incredible Jonathan Rhys Meyers with its black leather gloves.
I love the final risk of “Match point”, that a personage chooses the his un-happiness for maintaining estatus social is brilliant. In Hollywood never they show that to us. It operates it, the ordinary cotidianidad, the beauty that is touched but sera is known not lasting, is too deep this film, too much. And the personage of Jonathan Rhys Meyers goes beyond the time, is human, but he goes beyond everything, it is as well a visionary luck who can see beyond the things and he is anticipated there to the events that in the time seran inevitable, where podrà never knows to be happy, are anticipated to the time and destroy what can will to be their true love with the personage of Scarlett Johanson and destroy, assassin to their own son.
Like will say Gaspar Noé, “the time destroys everything”. I agree.
Also I believe that there is to separate the love or the marriage of the films standars “garbage-comedies” of Cameron the Diaz, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan etc etc, who make apology of the consumption, the materialism and the stupidity any more moving away of the love. Another great film is “Broken flowers” (2005) with Bill Murray film directed by Jim Jarmusch, even memory the face of fright of my sister when it saw the end.
GREAT GREAT END!!!.
@Tomas: If you look for to marry with that hat, you go by a wrong way. Perhaps you`re married, in that case if you go to your home with that hat in the head is probable that your wife deceives with another man ja ja.
I recommend to you something with more elegance and sobriety, for ejemple a black hat or a Venetian mask. There is no any more disturber that to listen to somebody speak with a mask in the face.
“I tried to love you; I thought I could
I tried to own you; I thought I would
I want to peel the skin from your face
Before the real you lays to waste
You told me I’m the only one
Sweet little angel- you should have run
Lying, crying, dying to leave
Innocence creates my hell
Cheating myself; still you know more
It would be so easy with a whore
Try to understand me little girl
My twisted passion to be your world
Lost inside my sick head
I live for you but I’m not alive
Take my hands before I kill
I still love you, I still burn
Love, hate, love”
Alice in chains
Siempre me pregunte que se siente besar a un hombre con una mascara en el rostro.
La otra vez vi una escena de la pelicula “Eyes Wide Shut” de Stanley Kubrick donde dos personas con mascaras se besaban y pense que me moria. Porque una cosa es una mascara cubriendo la mitad del rostro y otra muy diferente una que cubre el rostro entero. La mascara cortada al medio creo que expresa aun la necesidad de la persona que la posee por vivir, como una necesidad desesperada aun por vivir si bien la muerte se avecina, en cambio una mascara completa es la muerte absoluta. Es demasiado profundo. La puesta de camara que utiliza Kubrick no me parece la apropiada para la toma, pero el concepto, la imagen de dos personas besandose con una mascara es fatal.
Van a tener que disculpar mi mirada pesimista hacia el amor y el matrimonio pero, peliculas buenas sobre ello, por no decir excelentes creo que son:
-“Match point” Woody Allen. (Tragedia al mejor estilo Dotoievsy)
- ““Eyes Wide Shut” Stanley Kubrick.
- “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” Woody Allen.
Mi devocion absoluta hacia “Match point”, increible Jonathan Rhys Meyers con sus guantes de cuero negro.
Lo que mas amo de “Match point” es el riesgo final, que un personaje elija la infelicidad por arriba de su felicidad por mantener un estatus social es genial. En Hollywood nunca nos muestran eso. La opera, la cotidianidad ordinaria, la belleza que se toca pero se sabe no sera duradera, es demasiado profunda esta pelicula, demasiado. Y el personaje de Jonathan Rhys Meyers va mas alla del tiempo, es humano, pero a su vez va mas alla de todo, es una suerte de visionario que puede ver mas alla de las cosas y se anticipa a los sucesos que en el tiempo seran inevitables, ahi donde sabe nunca podrà ser feliz, se anticipa al tiempo y destruye lo que podria ser su verdadero amor con el personaje de Scarlett Johanson y lo desruye, asesina a su propio hijo.
Como diria Gaspar Noe, “El tiempo lo destruye todo”.
Concuerdo.
Tambien creo que hay separar el amor o el matrimonio de las peliculas standares “comedias basura” de Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan etc etc, que hacen apologia del consumo, el materialismo y la idiotez nada mas alejado del amor.
Otra gran pelicula es “Broken flowers” (2005) con Bill Murray pelicula dirigida por Jim Jarmusch, aun recuerdo la cara de espanto de mi hermana cuando vio el final. Gran gran final.
Pd. Si buscas casarte con ese sombrero Tomas, vas por mal camino. Tal vez estes casado, en ese caso si vas a tu hogar con ese sombrero en la cabeza es probable que tu esposa te engañe con otro hombre ja ja
Te recomiendo algo con mas elegancia y sobriedad, un sombrero negro o una mascara veneciana.
No hay nada mas perturbador que escuchar a alguien hablarte con una mascara en el rostro.
Left me for dead
“Something in the air” D.B.
@juli: wow!!i like the poem!! really deep and kinda expressing how i feel…actually very irritating that it hit me that way…
i agree to tomas, too that it’s more like things being in your control or out of your control. you can control talking to a girl and ask her out. she might reject you but if you didn’t ask how would you know? you meet a girl/guy and either she/he blows you away or you give out a fake telephone number! love comes and goes and if you have it then you really should not take it for granted and maintain it like an old engine that you need to keep going!
love is the most beautiful thing in the world as long as it is good to you.
love is the worst thing in the world once it has turned its back on you!
@ibby: ah,i thought you believe in destiny..or maybe it didn’t happen to you yet(i supposed)..cheers!
there’s a saying,when you like someone give her or him a paper cranes little by little(or any pieces) until it reaches 1000..when the paper cranes is complete your true love will come true…i don’t know if this true,im just sharing..thanks anyway..
@Ibby: The poem is not mine, is the letter of a fantastic song of the band grunge “Alice in chains”. Painful, tragic, fatal. The singer Layne Stanley write that song after which his girlfriend died, which I trigger in a very tragic end which I end its life does few years. If you Can listen it is one of my favorite songs. Alice in chains is a amazing and very deep band, better of Nirvana in some things.
@athenayesha: I believe in the destiny. I believe in the damn or blessed luck of the destiny, in which it has the life of blessing you with something and kill you with another thing. Like in “Match point” , exactly that. If you are lucky in the love, you are not lucky in the game.
@juli: thank you for sharing the same thoughts,at least we believe in ‘destiny’..
@juli I guess I don’t see Match Point as having anything to do with love. He doesn’t love anyone but himself. He lusts after the social status of his wife and the body/thrill of the other woman but he loves neither of them. It is really the antithesis of love. Love is about wanting someone other than yourself to come first and he can put no one in front of his wants. I guess it could be a primer in how not to love. JRM is however an excellent actor. Cheers.
@Baxtelf: Yeas, is true Bax but I believe that is much more deep. “Match point” it does not speak of the greed, speaks of the tragedy of a man who is born with karma from not being able to love of the same form that the writer Fedor Dotoievsky who never could love a woman, in spite of to have had several wifes. When a man cannot love tries to satiate that emptiness with things, of there the origin of the greed. Erich Fromm speaks much about this, if you prune to read it if no longer write I recommend it to you is exquisite.
It is impressive what Woody Allen obtains with “Match point” … The personage of Jonathan Rhys Meyers lonly begins and but even he lonly finishes. The take (plane) that closes the film is… speaks by itself. The subject of the luck, ligature to the destiny, and this ambivalence than gives to the life on the one hand you to you the acquittal in another one is abysmally brilliant. I close the eyes, I show myself to the garden and I feel the pain of Chris Wilton in my soul.
Jonathan is amazing actor, the best of his generation, and “Match point” the movie of Allen.
I love so so so so much this movie, but… not more that “Se7en”.
Damn like the love ja ja
Juli- excellent point on greed. I’m going to pass it along if you don’t mind.
@baxtelf: A follow up for this episode is a good idea since the beginning (like in the movies chosen for this episode) is just the beginning, which is most of the time the easiest part.
@juli: Agree with baxtelf that your quote about ‘filling emptiness with material things which is the origin of greed’ hits the nail on the head for our times.
@ibby and athenayesha: how many times can one get burned by love and still believe in destiny? It’s very tough to believe. But I admire a strong believe and although I think we get hurt more easily when we letting our guards down but – I will use a football metaphor – it’s better being on the pitch playing and getting fouled than just sitting on the bench and watching.
@juli:
love is the strongest asset that exists in life. and just like a drug you need replacements if you don’t get it. either it’s partying, drinking, drug consuming, fighting, work out or prostitutes!
destiny is an excuse for people who cannot organize or take responsibility for there actions! and i am including me!
god…am i having a bad day…?
Amazing Ibby, the must honest like always
5 Otters for you! I gree.
Thanks T nice hat!
xxKyne
@Tomas:generally speaking, being in love and be loved, and being burned or hurt- this is the true essence of ‘LOVE’..
@Ibby:i respect your opinion and definition about ‘Destiny’ but im on the contrary side..by reading your sentences and the word ‘excuse’, i see more of yourself as a person.. my thoughts regarding with this as a whole,everyone are destined to be with someone we just need the right place at the right time with the right person or neither of us are destined to be alone all throughout..its a matter of choice actually..
There’s a saying, ‘if there’s a bullet that has your name on it, then it’s good to be shoot with that bullet’..
@athena: i am not trying o offend anybody with my words. but destiny is the contrary part of religion. either you believe in god or you believe in destiny. and i just don’t believe in destiny!
but i totally agree with you on the timing and luck part!
The love nothing has to do with the pain, people. Never believe in “Romeo and Juliette” , ” Romeo and Juliette” that does not speak clearly of the love this. I do not believe in God. I believe that the destiny exists like the bad luck. All we do not have the happiness to live 100 years or on being happy. I believe in the luck, in the destiny in the same way that I believe in the death. At the end of the day everything is reduced to ashes like the same life.
Siempre me negue al amor por terror a perderlo.
Jealous of the hat.
(The new album from Showloon Platoon.)
@ibby:speaking in behalf of me, it didn’t offend me…coz each of us are entitled to speak what’s in our mind and heart…so say it out dude..
Again,with due respect,i believe in ‘God’ and ‘Destiny’ so to speak..
@CJ: Good album title. Giving the hat a bit too much credit, though
I don’t know, Thomas. I think it could replace you if you’re not careful.
Tomas, even.
Yeah, about that…the hat suddenly decided to pursue a different career in Rio de Janeiro. The management is sad to see it leave but there will be no statement from the hat available.