Inspiration
Okay so I busted chops about what inspiration meant and so forth. Well I have done some concentrated study of that medium I love so well and I pulled together a list of 5 films that watch all the time and ons that have inspired me in different ways. They are as follows:
Usual Suspects: This movie is inspirational because it demonstrates a very important truth that two musical groups I like have put into song. One was Extreme and their album III Sides to Every Story: Yours, Mine and the Truth and B***Hole Surfers with their song Pepper and the lyric in the song "You never know just how you look through other peoples eyes..."
The point is this, you can construct yourself anyway you want, but in the end it all amounts to lies. Think of that a while and you'll be inspired to constantly examine your life for hypocricy and inconsistancy.
The Shawshank Redemption: This movie is very inspirational to me because when I get into a period of depression from realizing my state created in the movie above, this one clearly presents a message hope.
As is written over the gates of Hell: "Abandon all Hope, ye who enter here." For Andy, his hope and salvation lied within the pages of the Bible. So does mine.
A Few Good Men: I am inspiried by this movie because I have a habit of not finishing anything. I can plea bargin myself out of anything (to a point). McAffe learns the value of persistance and courage when all hope is lost.
I am inspiried to pursue my oft and outlying arguements and thinking because it just may catch somone off guard, and I might make a difference in someones life because of it.
The Devils Advocate Inspires me to learn my Bible. 'Nuff said.
and lastly for this list
Tin Cup: "The critical opening phrase of this poem will always be the grip. Which the hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger. Lowly and slowly the clubhead is led back. Pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body which turns away from the target shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. Tempo is everything; perfection unobtainable as the body coils down at the top of the swing. Theres a slight hesitation. A little nod to the gods. That he is fallible. That perfection is unobtainable. And now the weight begins shifting back to the left pulled by the powers inside the earth. It's alive, this swing! A living sculpture and down through contact, always down, striking the ball crisply, with character. A tuning fork goes off in your heart and your balls. Such a pure feeling is the well-struck golf shot. Now the follow through to finish. Always on line. The reverse C of the Golden Bear! The steel workers' power and brawn of Carl Sandburg's. Arnold Palmer! And end [in] the unfinished symphony of [Pale Horse]."
Now that is the perfect blend between Eastern and Western thinking. It's alpha and omega. It's Old Testament and New...it sums up all of the movies listed before it and it does it in a entirely fun way.
