Anyways, I’m writing this piece is not to praise the movie I watched just now (in which I did), but I’m typing this because it concerns ME and YOU..!!!!
And why is that you may ask. Every movie tells an elaborate tale
of adventure, or very extraordinary event. Movies or tales will always be about
someone achieving something of great lengths, failing and rise like fell
giants, or how dwarfs are mightier than trolls. They show how hard it is a
struggle for a man to go and fly all the way to France from the US for his daughter’s
salvation from Albanian kidnappers (from the movie Taken). Or maybe the how
many walls a patriot had his face smashed on, how many bullets he took, how
many punches and kicks from high-class thugs and elite hostiles his body
accepted, how any deaths of the people that matter to him he have to hold grief
for the sake of his country’s safety (from James Bond series starring Daniel
Craig). Or just simply how a group of expressive teenagers have to act and think
a way to save the slumps they call home from corporate Armani-suited guys
destroying those slumps into more 5 star resorts in Miami (from Step Up 4
Revolution).
It never is about an
ordinary kid or lassie waking up in the morning, brush their teeth, and face
some glowing screens namely television, smartphones, not-so-smartphones,
laptops, desktops and laze around the whole day, accumulating fat under their
skins.
Or maybe you may say “What about the movies they claim to be
about ordinary people?” Well yes, I agree, there are movies about ordinary people
like ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ but aren’t the ordinary people were doing the
extraordinary? Isn’t that what the movies of these ORDINARY humans are building
on, developing them into blockbusters? Ordinary people with extraordinary tale
doing what most others do not and don’t have? It’s the adventure the essence of
a movie. It’s the struggle, the pain, the process, and the outcome that makes a
movie. Would you go to a movie that shows just only a guy waking up, having
breakfast, go to work, and sleep at night? Raw, plain, and simply nothing to it
right?
Yes, I do say much about movies, and yes you got my
point there, but where are we since I wanted to put us in the picture? Well, it's all down here.
Have you ever thought, what if a producer comes to us
personally and say “I’d like to make a biographical movie about YOU” what do
your life has to offer to audience? Is your life an adventure? Was there
anything you did that the world would value if it’s in front of them?
So, my call to everyone, and myself, is go out and have an
adventure. Go and do something that you can be proud of yourself and use it for
the greater good. Make YOUR OWN adventure and YOUR OWN movie (maybe not
literally, but it’ll be great if you want to) and YOU as the main character,
and YOU write your own script (within the limitations that God permits).
It’s OK if it is just about how you can cook, that’s what
Ratatouille is all about. It’s OK if it’s just about how you just wanted to
move your body to the rhythm; Step Up has 4 movies about it.
JUST DO IT
Trust me, it’s worth the effort, and it’s a long way. That’s
why movies are normally more than half an hour.
