My Muse: Movies

Blog posts about films and television collected from my two blogs, "My Muse: Movies Music and Books" and "God Beauty Perfection Love :: Synonyms".
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two women in leather outfits one with blonde hair and the other without
Normalizing Celebrity ~ On the beauty of being vs. the glamour of fame.
Normalizing Celebrity ~ On the beauty of being vs. the glamour of fame.
the word serenity written in chinese on a black background
The first rule of flying ~ Firefly, Serenity & Love | God Beauty Perfection Love :: Synonyms
The first rule of flying ~ From "Serenity" :: Know what the first rule of flying is? Love. You can know all the math in the ‘verse but take a boat in the air that you don’t love? She’ll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughtta fall down…tells you she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens…makes her a home. -- A great scene
Matches and the eternal sunshine of the spotless soul ~ Lawrence of Arabia :: Matches and fire: an exploration of these as metaphors for spirit -- soul -- in films and novels. Rauch Fotografie, Lawrence Of Arabia, Eternal Sunshine, Blue Flames, Fire And Ice, Enjoy Life, Lava Lamp, Color Me, Colorful Backgrounds
Matches and the eternal sunshine of the spotless soul ~ Lawrence of Arabia
Matches and the eternal sunshine of the spotless soul ~ Lawrence of Arabia :: Matches and fire: an exploration of these as metaphors for spirit -- soul -- in films and novels.
a man is talking to another person in the dark with his hand on his face
Fugitive Peace
Fugitive Peace :: Fugitive Pieces is one of those rare marriages of literature and film which succeeds by allowing both word and image to conspire, together, as central elements of the story. Anne Michael's book is hundreds of pages of tone poetry. A banquet of lush word images. The film adaptation is itself a tone poem of image, lushly realized in both production design and cinematography, but does not forget the words. Spoken in voice-over, in dialogue. Sumptuous. Here are two brief moments.
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To Kill a Mockingbird: the courage of Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird: the courage of Atticus Finch :: In this still from the film, the verdict has just been read: guilty. "Jem, I don’t know if it’ll help, but, I want to say this to you. There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them." It's not a burden they seek so much as their character thrusts them into the thick of it whenever thick comes a-callin'. When they find themselves there, they do not shrug the burden.
a man holding a lit match in his right hand
The trick … is not minding that it hurts ~ Lawrence of Arabia
The trick … is not minding that it hurts ~ Lawrence of Arabia :: I bet you never thought of Peter O'Toole as a buddhist or daoist, right? But in this most famous of scenes, when Lawrence snuffs out the match which burned him, and is instantly transported to the desert, he shows the depth of his immunity to suffering. (No man is immune to pain.)