They make it look so easy in the movies
The strong silent types... the ones with the tortured insides... the ones fighting their inner demons... It gives them a kind of beauty, doesn't it?
They know what to say when the time comes. And even if they don't, the young woman who loves them doesn't care. She accepts him and wants him despite (because of?) all his faults. She doesn't give up. Neither does the audience, because the camera angles are always good, his hair and pecs are always well-crafted, and the infinite moments of the day-to-day are glossed over or just not filmed.
And when the camera is on, the anti-hero drowns his demons in alcohol or violence and the girl stands by him. Eventually he finds his humanity.
Except I've never fought a war, or had a loved one die in my arms. I have no romantic cause or great tragedy in my life to focus all my ubiquitous angst on and which gives color to my anguish.
I don't have the brilliant well-crafted lines and there's no audience. My delivery is heavy-handed, my character doesn't follow a linear plot-line and the heroine hasn't shown up yet. But the demons are still there and the humanity is just as elusive.
And the humanity is just as elusive.
They know what to say when the time comes. And even if they don't, the young woman who loves them doesn't care. She accepts him and wants him despite (because of?) all his faults. She doesn't give up. Neither does the audience, because the camera angles are always good, his hair and pecs are always well-crafted, and the infinite moments of the day-to-day are glossed over or just not filmed.
And when the camera is on, the anti-hero drowns his demons in alcohol or violence and the girl stands by him. Eventually he finds his humanity.
Except I've never fought a war, or had a loved one die in my arms. I have no romantic cause or great tragedy in my life to focus all my ubiquitous angst on and which gives color to my anguish.
I don't have the brilliant well-crafted lines and there's no audience. My delivery is heavy-handed, my character doesn't follow a linear plot-line and the heroine hasn't shown up yet. But the demons are still there and the humanity is just as elusive.
And the humanity is just as elusive.
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If there's one thing I've learned from watching Bubba Ho-Tep is, you don't need a heroine, an audiance, or working legs to kick a cowboy mummy's butt.
Or as Lee said in Monster, "all you need is love... they HAD to tell you SOMETHING."
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Dottie!, at 7:36 PM
beauty is found in conflict. find your cause. the girl will come, she's just a little tentative right now. you wont find humanity though. give up on that part of it now. thats the fake part of the movie. when you've completed the romantic quest, you may be different, but the world is still the same.
you're a beautiful man, haagy
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Il Duce, at 8:27 AM
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