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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#234 "Antz".... colonies are just like corporations
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#232 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".... or do they?
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#231 "Rebel Without A Cause"... for you James Dean
September 02, 2010 12:53AM
#230 "The Bucket List".... time to fulfill it
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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
Hugh Grant Films: Music and Lyrics; Did You Hear About The Morgans; Nine Months; Bridget Jones's Diary; About a Boy; Mickey Blue Eyes; Notting Hill; Sense and Sensibility; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Love Actually
Early Classic Movies: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Rebel Without A Cause; The Graduate; Swiss Family Robinson; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Wizard of Oz; Downhill Racer; It's a Wonderful Life; A Streetcar Named Desire
Movies of the last decade: The Bucket List; Crazy Heart; Something's Gotta Give; Once; Leap Year; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; Forgetting Sarah Marshall; The 40-Year-Old Virgin; Couples Retreat; Meet The Parents; The Family Man; Gladiator; The Break-Up; How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days; Lost in Translation; Black Hawk Down; Remember the Titans; The Dark Knight; The Devil Wears Prada; Ocean's Eleven; Almost Famous; Walk the Line; Moulin Rouge!; Miracle; Blades of Glory; RENT; The Notebook; Transformers; Wedding Crashers; The Great Debaters; Sideways; Akeelah and the Bee; The Invention of Lying; The Hangover; 50 First Dates
70's Movies: All The President's Men; Dirty Harry; The Longest Yard; The Godfather; Star Wars
80's Movies: Dirty Dancing; The Blue Lagoon; Three Men and A Baby; Pretty In Pink; Field of Dreams; Fatal Attraction; Scarface; The Neverending Story; Chariots of Fire; Dangerous Liasions; The Color of Money; The Great Outdoors; Hoosiers; Ghostbusters; Uncle Buck; Sixteen Candles; Say Anything; E.T. The Extra Terrestrial; National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation; Caddyshack; Raiders of the Last Ark; Revenge of the Nerds; Rainman; When Harry Met Sally; Wildcats; Risky Business; Planes Trains and Automobiles (1); Planes Trains and Automobiles (2); Back to the Future; Top Gun; Bull Durham; The Goonies; Rocky; Good Morning Vietnam; The Breakfast Club; Ferris Buellers Day Off; Cocktail; Wall Street; Footloose
Tom Hanks Films: The Terminal; Catch Me If You Can; Sleepless in Seattle; Toy Story; Apollo 13; Saving Private Ryan; Big; Forrest Gump; Road to Perdition; Splash; Bachelor Party; That Thing You Do!; Charlie Wilson's War; The Polar Express; Angels & Demons; The Da Vinci Code; The Green Mile; A League of Their Own; Cast Away; Philadelphia; You've Got Mail; Turner & Hooch; 14 days of Tom!
Airplane themed films: The Terminal; Con Air; Flight of the Phoenix; Flightplan; Airplane!; Air Force One; Up in the Air; 7 Days of Airplane films
Kate Winslet Films: Sense and Sensibility; Little Children; The Reader; Jude; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Heavenly Creatures; Hideous Kinky; Revolutionary Road; Titanic; Finding Neverland; 7 days of Kate!!!
Johnny Depp Films: Finding Neverland; Chocolat'; Blow; Once Upon a Time in Mexico; Edward Scissorhands; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Don Juan DeMarco; Benny & Joon; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Platoon; What's Eating Gilbert Grape; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Week of Johnny Depp
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APRIL 21, 2010 12:56AM

#192 "Finding Nemo"... life's a BIG ocean

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"I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food."

Bruce

Finding Nemo

2003

Life does remind me of an endless ocean. It comes with its depth, its ebb and its flow, and its opportunity to see great and beautiful things. The ocean is constantly moving, the ocean is constantly evolving. Life is enabled and its life below the surface is ever enchanting.

To be a fish in a pond of wonder is like being a fish in a sea of sharks.

It can both be intimidating and real, or it can be exceptionally imperfect. I look to the water for answers. I look to the water for advice. Will it move me in the right direction? Will it offer me some sort of solitude from the storm?

Life is about finding that wave of resistance, and being true to one another. Life is about friendship and going beyond the call of nature to define it. Finding Nemo was just that. Friendship, bravery, comrade to comrade psyche. We must exude a power to find our friends when our friends have always given us directions.

Nemo was a character in search of the grander scheme of things. Nemo was a character in search for the unknown. When time, trials and tribulations enlist such a reality that often we might over assume and under achieve, we find that somehow we are testing ourselves and of course testing the waters in which we wade.

I often at times imagine a world of the underworld above the sea. This chain of hierarchy, this stack ranking of power and perception, even the sharks with whom we meet.

What if the world was as evolving as the sea and the life in its own environment? Has the sea become the answer to the core in each one of our souls? Has the sea got this all figured out to begin with?

Finding Nemo wasn't just about exploration of ones desires and soul...it was about exploration of ones endless optimism.

If we all can see the ocean as half full, are we only seeking the ideal that perhaps we are somewhat half empty?

Animation brought us more than this film and its story. Animation gave us an image to the question we all seek to answer... can one be content in their own ocean, can one be content in their own skin?

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So, so Beautiful, Movie Jordan!! Love the Ocean, the ebb and flow, the Beauty and evolving, the enchanting -- Love the whole thing! I, too, always look to water and find Peace there!! And I Love Bruce's "I must first change myself" -- Gandhi with fins!!

JulieShanti

April 21, 2010 01:06 AM

Very good stuff. Sorry I haven't been around, I've been a little busy. I think the answer to everything could be in the ocean. Most of it has never been explored. I saw a docu where they found flowers growing in the ocean floor, with no oxygen. Amazing!

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April 21, 2010 02:52 AM

Finding Nemo marked a milestone in our family. It was the last animated film we could all enjoy together before the kids felt they'd outgrown "cartoons." It was beautiful, funny and God bless Ellen.

My wife hasn't outgrown them - she's coerced me into going to see an Israeli claymation called "Mary and Max" at our local art cinema this weekend. Which reminds me: write about Wallace and Gromit, will ya?

Cranky Cuss

April 21, 2010 09:42 AM

Thank you Julie... love the "Gandhi with fins" concept. Totally awesome observation.

ScanMan.. Even if you don't comment, I know you read. You are a great guy!! That is awesome about the flowers on the ocean floor and no oxygen. Great realization.

Cranky Cuss...Seriously.. I was so shocked with Nemo.. our family adores it too. Ellen was so vibrant and funny. Wallace and Gromit?? Never seen it. Wonder why?? I have to check it out. I'll put it in the queue. Thanks!