Live a Little
Information:
- Source: The Wonders of Music
- Key: C Major
- Measures:
- Parts: Cello and Piano
- Duration: 2:58
- Pages: 4 Pages
“My life is like a movie, except without Kate Blanchett"
Hello,
For more than a century, pictures in motion; or what we simply called movies had captivated audiences, and inspired artist from around the world, making it one of the most popular forms of entertainment. However, films represent more than mere recreation, in fact; film making is a complete form of art that it is to be consider the 7th in line behind dance, music, painting, poetry, also architecture and poetry
Growing up back in the 80’s, I remember “fantasizing” about being a movie director, or a cameraman, I thought that being part of the whole “behind the scenes” process of putting together the motion pictures was a prospect so exciting that, even though, I did not know anything about how movies were made, it allowed my whole existence move to a point where I learned how to dream. And who is not _ at one point or another in their lives _ a little bit happier pretending being someone else?
I did not become involved in movies, but I kept dreaming. The excitement of going to a movie theater stayed with me, and to this day, I feel like a kid in a candy store every time I go out to see a movie. My taste in movies, as years passed by, has changed noticeably. Once upon a time, I even enjoyed being scared a little bit. In my local cinema, every Thursday was “scary night”, and as it was expected, they featured horror movies.
Who can forget The Exorcists, a movie that used surprising special effects resulting in one of the scariest movies of all time, and Rose Mary’s Baby, a world acclaimed, very disturbing, but unforgettable psychological movie.
We all know that movies not only entertain, they could also educate, and they definitely inspire in a variety of subtle ways. They can make us think and potentially could change our lives; because they target our full- length gamma of emotions, and by using all kinds of audiovisual techniques that it is impossible to ignore, we, then, find ourselves being affected by the final product.
I’d made a list of SOME movies that had stirred emotions in me so profound, that for so many different reasons, occupied a special place in my “book”; as a consequence, had caused a portion of my existence to be moved. It is not a complete list, forgive me!, but it is just impossible to do so.
The Piano
Dangerous Liaisons
Amadeus
Gorillas in the Mist
Stand by Me
August: Osage County
In and Out
To Wong Foo, Thanks for everything! Julie Newmar
The following quotes from my short list of favorite movies, trigger a nerve in my system; wether is an utter agreeable feeling of joy and wonder, or could be a repugnant ideology that comes out of the mouth of the character that could challenge my opinions and the way I see the world; nonetheless, it will give you a faint but fair idea of the strange excitement taking hold on me.
The Piano:
“I am thinking of the piano. She does not play the piano like we do, Nessie. She’s a strange creature. And her playing is strange, like a mood that passes into you. Your playing is plain and true, and that is what I like.
To have a sound creep inside you is not at all pleasant.”
KERRY WALKER - Aunt Morag
Dangerous Liaisons:
“When I came out into society, I was fifteen. I already knew that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while, under the table, I stuck a fork into the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit.”
GLENN CLOSE - Marquise de Merteuil
Amadeus:
“Sire, only opera can do this. In a play if more than one person speaks at the same time, it’s just noise, no one can understand a word.
But with opera, with music… with music you can have twenty individuals all talking at the same time, and it’s not noise, it’s a perfect harmony!”
TOM HULCE - Mozart
Gorillas In The Mist:
“If I see or hear or smell you anywhere near my gorillas, you’ll be writing with your other hand and I’ll have a new ashtray.”
SIGUORNEY WEAVER - Dian Fossey
Stand by Me:
“It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.”
RICHARD STEPHEN DREYFUSS - The Writer
August Osage County:
“Thank God we can’t tell the future, we’d never get out of bed”.
JULIA ROBERTS - Barbara Weston
In and Out:
“Was there, oh, ANY OTHER TIME YOU MIGHT HAVE TOLD ME THIS? I’m wearing a wedding dress, which you picked out! I highlighted my hair because you said I needed shimmer, I loved you and I believed you and pretended not to notice the Streisand thing. I thought you were just creative, I thought you were just smarter than me and more sensitive and more interesting. I thought you were the most wonderful man who ever lived. I… I thought you could just change my life and… and show me the whole world, and teach me about art and life and magic. I thought you could make me feel like a beautiful woman… instead of the girl nobody wanted.”
JOAN CUSACK - Emily
To Wong Foo, Thanks for everything! Julie Newmar:
“I didn’t ask to come on this trip, did I? No, I don’t think so! Did I ask for you to be making me over, jump through all kinds of hoops like some kind of circus poodle? No, I don’t think so! And do I want to go to jail because of some cop killer? No, I don’t think so! So as soon as we get to the next town, I’m jumping on the first man and I’m riding him all the way to New York City and away from you two puckered up stuck up PUTAS because this trip sucks! It sucks!”
JOHN LEGUIZAMO - Chi Chi Rodriguez
Therefor, think of the last time you went out to see a movie at the theater, didn’t you feel the great excitement in the air as you walked through the doors?. There’s nothing remotely similar than to venture out, and see a movie on a big screen, with speakers of uncompromising sound that made the whole building tremble when, or rather because; for example: Meryl Streep is saying her lines with such conviction.
I’ve written a piece of music, yet again, for piano and cello, perfect in the key of C Major, a signature that instantly captures peoples attention, as some composer might reason that C Major represents the child in all of us.
When I play the piece, I close my eyes and I would remember myself as a younger person happily going to the movies. Although, one definitely does not need to be a child to enjoy going to the movies. Having said that, with this piece I invite you to live a little, laugh out loud, be a kid again!
Enjoy!