Yesterday’s answers. Thanks to Pat’s and Connie’s research there were two numbers associated with Hitler. I was going for 888, they found that 555 was also related to him. Sides on a stop sign. 8-10 depending on you calculate it. Squares on a checkerboard. 64. Pints in a gallon. 8. Passing go on Monopoly. 200. The Devil. My brother’s post office box in his address, 666. Today’s who am I appears at the end of today’s blog entry.
In my opinion 500 Days Of Summer is this year’s Slumdog Millionaire. An independent film with fairly unknown actors and actresses that takes audiences by storm. The only thing that will keep 500 DAYS OF SUMMER from winning an Oscar is its to early release date. Historically films released late in the year have a better shot at Oscars because often the voters forget about really good films that came out earlier in the year. The synopsis from Moviefone: “This is a story of boy meets girl, begins the wry, probing narrator of '500 Days of Summer,' and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true-to-life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man's no-holds-barred love affair. Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the boy, still believes, even in this cynical modern world, in the notion of a transforming, cosmically destined, lightning-strikes-once kind of love. Summer (Zooey Deschanel), the girl, doesn't. Not at all. But that doesn't stop Tom from going after her, again and again, like a modern Don Quixote, with all his might and courage. Suddenly, Tom is in love not just with a lovely, witty, intelligent woman - not that he minds any of that - but with the very idea of Summer, the very idea of a love that still has the power to shock the heart and stop the world. “
Marvelously directed by basic unknown Marc Weber (Three Doors Down, Jesse McCarthy - Up Close), quirkily and expertly written by relative unknowns Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (both of Pink Panther II fame), and wonderfully acted by former child actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt,(Third Rock From The Sun, River Runs Through It), the beautiful daughter of Oscar nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel (Almost Famous) and a great supporting performance by Geoffrey Arend (Killing Zelda Sparks).
There was a lot to like about this movie. Its real take on a love affair. Its true to life ending. The cinematography. The amazing off the charts musical soundtrack. But my favorite was a split screen scene where Tom is going to reconnect with Summer and on one side of the screen is how he is expecting the meeting to go, on the other side of the screen is how the meeting really went. Inventive and right on.
Two footballs for the music. One football each for Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschannel. And Geoffrey Arend. One football for the cinematography. A minus one football for to much drinking in the movie. Total five footballs.
Today’s Trivia:
On a late night in 1978 I was murdered. I was discovered bludgeoned to death with a weapon that was never found (but was believed to be a camera tripod). Although one suspect was tried and acquitted, my murder remains unsolved. Born July 13, 1928. I went on to become an American disc jockey and Emmy Award-nominated actor. I dropped out of high school in 1946 and became a drummer, performing with dance bands and a symphony orchestra. That same year I enlisted in the Army Reserve. I was a colonel and a hero on TV if not in the army. My acting ambitions led to my subbing for Johnny Carson on the daytime game show Who Do You Trust? and appearances on The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and General Electric Theater. I went on to star in a TV series from 1965 to 1971, a series that finished in the top ten in ratings its first year on air. Greg Kinnear played me in a movie about my life and murder. Who Am I?
Do you believe like Tom from 500 DAYS OF SUMMER that you aren’t complete until you find the one? Or do you believe like Summer from the movie, that true love doesn’t exist? Or are you somewhere in the middle?
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I'd put me somewhere in the middle. Yes, I believe you find completion when you find the other half of yourself. OTOH, you have to figure out who you are, before you know what the other half is. Is there a one and only? Yes, but there can be more than one, depending on circumstances.
I always believed in true love, but I had an excellent example in my parents. Probably why I was 35 before I married my first husband, that combined with needing to know who I was and what I wanted/needed. I made some short term relationship mistakes prior to that, but it was part of the learning process. When Walt died, I never planned to marry again. Hadn't factored in Himself (wry s).
I truly think you need to learn to know and be comfortable with yourself and, maybe, be able to live with only yourself comfortably, before you're ready/able to find the other half of you, the one who completes the picture or adds in the missing pieces. As I've said before, I've been extremely fortunate. Then again, maybe part of it was knowing who I was and what I needed and not playing games (back to Ugly movie). They (Walt and Himself) knew what they were walking into and, mostly, so did I. Being "in love" is glorious, but liking and loving has been the long-term "secret" to my marriages. (Says the woman who's preparing to call it a night, while her husband and mother watch the Cubs go through extra innings in a game I could care less about)
I'm somewhere in the middle, too. I definitely believe that it's possible to be complete without the "one". I also believe that there's more than one out there for almost everyone, though when/if you find the first "one", there's no reason to look for another. Well, assuming you're the "one" for your "one, too.
Entirely too many ones in that paragraph.
Oh, and let's not forget that 666 is also some kind of numerical total of the letters in the name Hitler. He has all kinds of numbers associated with him, even the one usually considered the Devil's.
Hi DR
I would have responded sooner but I was watching the Dodger game.
I'm somewhere in between too. I think we can lead a very productive life alone but I do think if you have someone to share the higher and lower moments then things can be better.
I also have an example in my parents. I think we had the same parents. After sixty years of marriage my parents still held hands when they walked.
Bill
Hi Pat
That makes three of us in the middle.
Hitler was definitely the devil. I got my 888 from researching white supremacists. I actually followed the trial of a Neo-Nazi where the testimony for an expert on hate groups testified about the numbr 888 and its relationship to Hitler.
Bill
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