This week the AFI (American Film Institute) announced their selections for movies they believe most inspire us. Roger Ebert has the list. Looking at it, I find that only two or three would I say really inspired me personally-there are others that I liked, but not that I would say really inspired me.
One I don't get why it's considered inspirational.
The few that did are "Star Wars," "The Black Stallion" and "Fiddler On The Roof". The one I don't quite understand why it should be inspiring is "Thelma & Louise." I still don't get that. But anyway, it got me thinking, what does inspire me?
It's nothing very shocking if you know me (and probably not even if you've just been reading my blogs for any length of time). Let's define the term, inspire:
To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion
To stimulate to action; motivate
To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence
What does that for me? Beautiful women, of course, represented here by Rebecca DeMornay. I've tried before, and I'll probably spend the rest of my life trying again and again, to get down what really happens inside a man when he sees a woman he thinks is beautiful. It is so much more than just the desire for seduction.
Then there's the best writers, like oh, say, Aaron Sorkin, who as chance would have it, had something to say about the above subject.
Jeremy: (voice over) One last thing: Dan finally got over his writer's block. He met Stacy Kerr at The Smoking Dog. Stacy plays on the women's professional beach volleyball tour. Turns out Stacy's a big fan of Dan's and was particularly taken by his writing....And in that moment, Dan was reminded once again why he wanted to write in the first place....It's for the same reason anybody does anything: to impress women.
-Sports Night, "Dear Louise," written by David Walpert and Aaron Sorkin
And then there is divine music. It is the gods among us, whether it's Kirsty MacColl or Cole Porter.
That's all, really. Not much, is it? Just all there is. Beautiful women, the best writing, divine music.
That's not so much to ask, now is it?
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