What Movie is Your Love Life - Part 3
In parts 1 and 2 of What Movie is Your Love Life we looked at what qualities to avoid and incorporate of every film genre from Old World Dramas to Surreal Fantasies. In Part 3, we’ll continue with action movies and animal flicks:
Action Blockbuster
If the movies that drill into your heart are “Rambo” “Commando” and “Die Hard” then these are the stunts you should be looking to perform:
Qualities to Incorporate: A great action movie is a simple look at a complicated situation and lead character. Be direct with what you are feeling, no matter if it makes any sense. Also be active – by its very definition, action movies have a lot of action.
Qualities to Avoid: Bad action movies are half bodybuilding show, half dancing between bullets ballet. Heroes do not escape good action movies unscathed – do not be unpenetrable and lay off the working out if you’re beginning to scare little children.
Animal Movie
If “Lassie” “Homeward Bound” and “Babe” get your soul singing, then this part is for you:
Qualities to Incorporate: Great animal films almost always have a few things in common: an innocent main character, a crazy cast of characters and a strong sense of community/family. Be open to the wonders of life and the value beneath even the most bizarre of human characters.
Qualities to Avoid: Bad animal movies are thinly veiled moralistic shlock. The plots are often between evil plutocratic businessmen and poor creatures just trying to live. You are a human, do not side with animals and hide in an emotional cave.
Musical
If we said favorite movie and you said “Evita” “Singin’ In the Rain” or “Chicago” here are the numbers for you:
Qualities to Incorporate: A great musical gets your toe tapping and your heart soaring. A big thing to remember here is that a good musical number moves the story along – do not become a diva, singing just to sing. Emotions go somewhere, let yourself go.
Qualities to Avoid: Bad musicals are chewing gum re-hashes of the same dances, same costumes and same songs we’ve all heard for the last century. Do not become a broken record and as a sidenote, the 50s have been over for officially more than 50 years now – enough already.
Read Part 4 of What Movie is Your Love Life for what to take and what to avoid from more movie genres including documentaries and quirky little indie pics.
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