Saturday, April 2, 2016
Movie Magic
The past few days I've been thinking about the power that movies have. You know when you've recently watched a movie and it keeps popping back up, or it can affect your mood for days (particularly the scary ones in my case), or when you randomly remember a quote from it years later, etc. Media definitely has an impact, and it was brought to my attention by watching a clip from Phantom of the Opera, and realizing that Raoul is Lynch from The A-Team. Kinda blew my mind a little bit. It's crazy that we can get so attached to the actors in their role that it perturbs us to see them acting differently to "how they are". When I first saw Maleficent, (which I feel is very well done and I enjoy) I saw that Murdock from A-Team was the evil idiot king and I was so sad because he's awesome in A-Team. Anyway, just impressive how much what we watch can really impact our minds.
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Scary movies will almost always give me nightmares or just jumpy feelings for several days after as well! When some SFL classes have shown clips from scary movies, I am always the girl that screams out loud in class haha.
ReplyDeleteHowever, on a positive note, after watching even just the trailer (and later the full film) of "We Bought A Zoo" I quoted the "sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage" in some of my talks for a while (topic was about faith). I like when someone can pull a gem of a principle like that out of movies and apply them to the gospel. So it can be good to sometimes have movies on the mind :)