One movie line at a time...

Life is a movie, its yours to make, make it stellar.

N. Jordan

Location: California, United States
Birthday: December 31

Title: One Movie Line At A Time

Bio: Growing up loving movies, and quoting infamous lines, N. Jordan is about taking life's given competition and embracing it through movies quotes. Each posting reflects a personal understanding on how movies effect people, our lives and our fake realities. If life is a movie, why do we compete in so many ways? Sports, love, relationships, family, business, money, career, kids, etc. Its time to see who is keeping score. Because... life is sometimes an altered reality, just go at it one movie line at a time. My real name is Michelle Keifer. But, I've always wanted to talk about life through a guy's perspective. Just seemed so fitting as I've always been just one of the boys. Go New England Patriots!

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#231 "Rebel Without A Cause"... for you James Dean
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Animation in film: The Lion King; Beauty and the Beast; The Little Mermaid; UP; Happy Feet; Cars; Ratatouille; Monsters Inc.; Finding Nemo; Bee Movie; Madagascar; The Polar Express; Toy Story; The Incredibles; A Bug's Life; Shrek
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FEBRUARY 4, 2010 1:42AM

#117 "Moulin Rouge!" ... love triangle, not pie squared

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moulin rouge

"When will I begin to live again? One day I'll fly away... leave all this to yesterday. Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends."

-Satine

Moulin Rouge! - 2001

I haven't touched quite on the musical, Broadway, entertainment spectrum of films like Moulin Rouge yet, but, I felt compelled to enlighten your minds today with a little thematic appeal. I think about why I left out this genre; maybe its due to hesitation in rebuttal; or observation of hopeless romanticism and fear that you would doubt my credibility in musical appreciation. However, I don't know why I chose to ignore such genre; but, just sit back and enjoy. I mean ,come on and sing with me a little song; dance with me a little beat; and love out loud, to those in which someone you peak.

Ok.. that was a little over-the-top lyrical poetic justice...to say the least.

As I take a little glimpse into the drama that ensues the stages of love, lust, even love triangles; I relate the passion through music, poetry and creativity in the message behind Moulin Rouge. While relating life in theory to choosing the ones we love.

Do we compete our choices when we think we know what love is?

Love is as I quoted in many postings before is:

Lack of Virtually Everything... seriously... it is.

I think its safe to say we let our guards down when we are told we are loved. I believe that people fall accustomed to fairy tales and stories with happy endings. Yet, when I think of love; I am not thinking of Romeo and Juliet as star-crossed lovers that can't embark on the world a part; I am thinking of the time spent for people contemplating when to say it. Why is there such a delay when you know its right in front of you?

Well.. two things:

1. Love is often at times confused with lust; and lust is just a love affair.

2. Love is used so frequently that people underestimate its meaning and say it as part of their routine.

We are raised to believe that love conquers all. Is it true that when in love, we realize that nothing else matters? If so, when does love fade, or fail you? Moulin Rouge had a lot of hidden meaning and premonition in regards to love triangles. I have to admit I only saw this once; but, it was complimenting of the time and place in my life, where nothing could stop the feeling of being in love; or the hunt to chase the reciprocation of love.... and NO, I was not in a love triangle (just for the record).

When I was thinking about films today, I pondered the many movies that house underlined themes with some sort of catalyst to being in love, finding love, falling out of love or ooh my god I want you right now love. There is some life altering event that draws two people (with whom most movie freaks can identify off the bat) to an anticipated hot, clothes drawing match of anticipation, that knocks your pants off, type of juxtaposition of two leading characters.

If love is like a song and dance; isn't love just a lyric to a beat? Or is love a feeling when words can't describe the emotion that creates the sensation when the heart goes pitter patter?

"She said you make her feel "like a virgin." - Zidler
"Virgin?" - The Duke
"You know, touched for the very first time." - Zidler

and...

"I'm the Green Fairy... The hills are alive, with The Sound Of Music." - The Green Fairy

and...

"Love is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!" - Christian

We as humans want to be loved. We as people need to feel loved. When there is a distance between love and the perception of love; we have to get creative and share our interpretations of it through mediums that kinda soften the appeal that love is all we need.

Moulin Rouge is one of those films that identifies the satires in love, and its perceptual image that allows us to interpret love on different calibers...

I am not against love; I just don't know what the hype is all about. Shall I change my thinking from Lack of Virtually Everything to Lust on virtually everything because it teases everyone's soul? Wait, that would be LOVE BITES...... no.. that doesn't fly.

Ok... I will conclude with this: Love alot; Live more; Embrace the lyric; Capitalize the dance, and remember....

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I hadn't looked at the film that way but yes, I can see that. Interesting that you say we let our guard down when we're told we are loved. Very thought provoking. R

Dear reader I married him

February 04, 2010 11:16 AM

Thanks Dear reader I married him... I was trying to see the flipside to a film about women in the nature of the presumed brothel type enviornment. I appreciate your feedback! Thanks,

N. Jordan

February 04, 2010 11:40 AM

Right on the money. Very clever.
Rated.

Thoth

February 04, 2010 05:52 PM

"Moulin Rouge" is a guilty of pleasure of mine, although I think you need to drink two or more glasses of absinthe to get entirely into the spirit of the thing. One thing I appreciate about the film, and find profoundly ironic, is how all the "undying love" is expressed using the most vulgar of recycled clichés, namely the wording of contemporary pop songs. I doubt most viewers catch the joke, but it's a scary notion when you think about it and this arguably contradicts the ostensible premise of the movie, "love conquers" all. It's more like "kitsch conquers all," and that's really quite a scary thought...