Create Your Best Life Story, NOW!
“My grandfather, King George, he take-a-me walk-about. He teach-a-me black fella ways. Grandfather, he teach-a-me the greatest lesson of all; TELL ‘EM STORY!” -Nulla’s opening line from the movie, AUSTRALIA.
I love this movie! Movie Critics (people who cannot create) have given it a very hard time.
This movie has all the elements I enjoy in a masterpiece: epic drama, good guys, bad guys, romance, humor, historical and cultural references from each character’s point of view. More than a "chick flick" as some categorize it, the entire Three Act Play structure is fully developed for each of the main characters.
While critics have said it, “…goes on and on…” - I find myself enjoying that too. Why? Because you constantly get happy surprises just around the bend, and hope the story doesn't end. And, I love how a movie "wraps," begins and ends with the same premise. I won’t spoil that too much for you, though I hinted to it already.
Enjoy this film clip from You Tube:
We live in tough and turbulent times. Your life and mine is filled with drama, and sometimes epic in scope, it contains good guys and bad guys, romance, humor, and is based on our own individual historical and cultural elements.
The hero - “The Drover” played by Hugh Jackman - early on instructs Lady Ashby, played by Nicole Kidman, about how he has chosen to live his life simply, and without clutter when he answers a criticism with this:
"See, everything I own can be carried in this saddlebag here. At the end of the day your life’s story is all you own. I’m just trying to live a good one.”
As your personal life story continues on, that's something worth thinking about, pondering, and developing.
James Pratt
www.jmpratt.com
www.powerthink.com
Monday, April 20, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Great movie! I enjoy 'chick flicks'.
The thing about critics - and I'm a critical person - is that no monuments are built to honor them. We want to see movies and read books about heroes and people who overcome obstacles greater than themselves.
I've thought once or twice that instead of reading about people who succeed in life that I wanted to read about people who don't; people who just try to deal with what life throws at them but never really impact their worlds. The problem is - there are no books like that. You can't find them.
Perhaps the closest thing I can equate to that is the movie "There Will Be Blood". There was not one redeeming characteristic about the subject of that movie. It left me feeling disturbed because there was no justice served up in that story. More than that, there was no truth. In the absence of justice, victims at least expect truth. Only a sick mind can conceive a story where there is no truth or justice. It's not the American way:).
Blessings Jim. I'm still working on my own story.
Loved it!
Post a Comment