Friday 5 for August 8: I Saw It At The Movies (done on Aug 10)

In Citizen Kane, the main character’s last word before dying is “Rosebud,” which is discovered later to be the name of a favorite childhood sled. The idea is that this rich, powerful, hated man, in his last moment, finds himself thinking of happy, innocent times. If the film were about your life, what word might you utter in similar sentiment? Zippy (a capucian sp? monkey that lived a few doors up the street from me.) OR UltraMan.

In Groundhog Day, the main character is forced to live the same day again and again until he has learned to love others and to love himself. If you found yourself in an endless loop, living one day repeatedly until you learned the lesson that was holding you back, what would that lesson be? finding a good balance between being a doormat and being overbearing.

In Freaky Friday, a mother and daughter who have difficulty understanding each other find themselves each living the other’s life (occupying the other’s body and everything!). If this were to happen to you for similar reasons, whose body would you wake up in? my MIL. I TOTALLY do not understand her craziness.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones has to jump into an underground room filmed with the one thing that freaks him out: snakes. “Why did it have to be snakes?” he asks. If the movie were about you, what would you see in the underground room? spiders, snakes, and my Ex

In Sideways, the main character is asked to explain his love for wine made from a certain grape. As he describes the grape, we realizes he is also describing himself, saying that it must be carefully tended and that it is easily damaged. If the film were about you, what passion (hobby, food, collectible, or activity, for example) would you describe and how would you describe it so that you were also describing yourself? Star Wars. In order of production: It starts with a farm boy from a podunk planet that finds a greater purpose, faces an awful truth, overcomes impossible odds and saves the universe. Then a slave boy is taken from his sad life and liberated to become so much more. He still makes mistakes but his children end up being the best thing he could have ever given the galaxy.