What are you thinking? (Part 2)
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CT: Why does my voice nearly break when I try to sing the high passages of the song "Let It Go" from Disney's Frozen, especially towards the end? I can sing songs that go higher than that with little effort, but this one somehow causes me trouble. My voice also sounds different than usual when I sing that particular song. Mysterious!
I think people need to stop trying to write sequels and "tie up loose ends" in Gone With the Wind. The book was beautifully written and an adventure on its own, it needed no follow-up, it needed no closure. There were no loose ends, there was nothing to tie up and there was no need for closure because everything was "closed" as Scarlett vowed to return to Tara and lick her wounds.
I think what confuses people is that this wasn't a romance. It's often cited as one but it's truly not - unless the love affair in question is between Scarlett and the red dirt of Tara. The book isn't about a couple, though the movie does seem to give that impression. The book is about Katie Scarlett O'Hara and it is her story not some journey of love. People tend to forget that the story centers around Scarlett and her struggles not Scarlett and Rhett and their struggles.
We don't need to know how things ended for the Butler's because it's not important.
What is important, however, is that we know Scarlett is going to be okay despite everything. Her personal struggles and tragedies are no match for her strength and everyone who has read the book knows that every time Scarlett returns home she comes back a thousand times stronger than before.
I think what confuses people is that this wasn't a romance. It's often cited as one but it's truly not - unless the love affair in question is between Scarlett and the red dirt of Tara. The book isn't about a couple, though the movie does seem to give that impression. The book is about Katie Scarlett O'Hara and it is her story not some journey of love. People tend to forget that the story centers around Scarlett and her struggles not Scarlett and Rhett and their struggles.
There be spoilers ahead, maties.
Stop calling Ashley Wilkes honorable. He led Scarlett on, led her to believe that he loved her.
I also think that people need to stop painting Rhett Butler as some knight in shining armor, some hero or saint just because he professed to love our beloved, hard as nails heroine. Rhett is flawed, heinously flawed, and deserves just as much blame for the destruction of his marriage with Scarlett as she does. There were so many times that she tried to reach out to him before the end and he ignored her in favor of turning their daughter into a brat or ruined the moment with scorching words and pride.
Scarlett was hard-headed, ruthless and a bit of a bitch but he knew that before he married her. He also knew she did not love him before he married her as well so any heartache he received during the course of their marriage is his own fault. When things did not go as he had expected them to right away, he shut down and closed himself off to her. Was that supposed to make her love him? Once she did love him, was she supposed to reach out to him while he was verbally cutting her down and feigning indifference to her very presence? Yes because that shouts: "I LOVE YOU PLEASE TELL ME YOU LOVE ME TOO!"
I understand that there are characters we come to love and care about very deeply and we truly want to see the good in them - hell I love Rhett too! - but please stop painting him a hero.
There is no hero in Gone With the Wind because our heroine needed no hero. She was her own hero.
This was no great romance, it was a terrible train-wreck-tragedy. The Butler's may have loved each other but their pride and serial misunderstandings led to nothing but heartache and pain. They couldn't even support each other through losing both of their children because they only saw the worst in each other; because they only brought out the worst in each other.
I also think that people need to stop painting Rhett Butler as some knight in shining armor, some hero or saint just because he professed to love our beloved, hard as nails heroine. Rhett is flawed, heinously flawed, and deserves just as much blame for the destruction of his marriage with Scarlett as she does. There were so many times that she tried to reach out to him before the end and he ignored her in favor of turning their daughter into a brat or ruined the moment with scorching words and pride.
Scarlett was hard-headed, ruthless and a bit of a bitch but he knew that before he married her. He also knew she did not love him before he married her as well so any heartache he received during the course of their marriage is his own fault. When things did not go as he had expected them to right away, he shut down and closed himself off to her. Was that supposed to make her love him? Once she did love him, was she supposed to reach out to him while he was verbally cutting her down and feigning indifference to her very presence? Yes because that shouts: "I LOVE YOU PLEASE TELL ME YOU LOVE ME TOO!"
I understand that there are characters we come to love and care about very deeply and we truly want to see the good in them - hell I love Rhett too! - but please stop painting him a hero.
There is no hero in Gone With the Wind because our heroine needed no hero. She was her own hero.
This was no great romance, it was a terrible train-wreck-tragedy. The Butler's may have loved each other but their pride and serial misunderstandings led to nothing but heartache and pain. They couldn't even support each other through losing both of their children because they only saw the worst in each other; because they only brought out the worst in each other.
We don't need to know how things ended for the Butler's because it's not important.
What is important, however, is that we know Scarlett is going to be okay despite everything. Her personal struggles and tragedies are no match for her strength and everyone who has read the book knows that every time Scarlett returns home she comes back a thousand times stronger than before.
Haha. :happy:
I want one too! Meg, your snowman seems to have had a melting accident so feel free to grab one of these.
Don't say such things about my snowman!
He's fine. But having a pusheen is good too. ^^! Although, mine looks like this:http://www.heychickadee.com/products/pastel-pusheen-plush-toy-mint
That pusheen is adorable!Don't say such things about my snowman!
http://www.heychickadee.com/products/pastel-pusheen-plush-toy-mint
You know there's going to be questions and speculation when your snowman don't show up in the winter. They need to get out you know. One day the Snowpeople Protection Service will be knocking on your door!
Today is so nice. Hard to believe it's going to be down to eleven tonight.
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OMFG WHY DOES QUICKSILVER LOOK LAME IN THE NEW X-MEN MOVIE!!??
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Okay so I've waited for like...forever for Quicksilver to hit the big screen and the fact that he looks like a total dork just ****es me off.
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OMFG WHY DOES QUICKSILVER LOOK LAME IN THE NEW X-MEN MOVIE!!??
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Okay so I've waited for like...forever for Quicksilver to hit the big screen and the fact that he looks like a total dork just ****es me off.
That and the fact he was never an X-Man to my knowledge. He should be in an Avengers movie.
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The movie "Bernie" was amazing...I just watched it, and I was in tears. I've always loved and respected Jack Black, as a musician, actor, and family man. In this movie, he does all of that, and does it so tastefully. I really recommend this movie...
I can't afford anxiety to ruin the the quality of my life yet again.
I'm also tired of being jealous of other people. Grrrrr...
I'm also tired of being jealous of other people. Grrrrr...
It's funny how your first impressions of people can be entirely wrong. I'm fast learning that I should get to know people a little better before I form an opinion.
LOL I happened to see a part of a TV documentary of some sort. A woman tried out a ball with remote controlled vibration. She drove her car to a grocery store, parked, and found that she had lost the remote control so she couldn't turn it off. It was so funny to watch her struggle to keep normal while shopping. :lol: But she managed to stay relatively normal and perfectly quiet. :tongue:
CT: There are many kinds of people that I detest and have only just realised:
1) People that hold footballers/other sportspersons in such high regard that they moan and cry when they retire/move onto a different club.
2) People that lack empathy. This includes psychopaths, chavs and individuals that claim that their illnesses inhibit empathy (merely lies).
3) People that you haven't seen for eons yet as soon as they hear that you're coin better than them, they enquire as to how to leech off of you (contacts, job, money, etc.).
4) People that are so ignorant that they can't be bothered to learn how to spell/pronounce something properly.
Social isolation drives me crazy! On the road to recovery soon, have appointments with various doctors so I should be in good health by May or June!
1) People that hold footballers/other sportspersons in such high regard that they moan and cry when they retire/move onto a different club.
2) People that lack empathy. This includes psychopaths, chavs and individuals that claim that their illnesses inhibit empathy (merely lies).
3) People that you haven't seen for eons yet as soon as they hear that you're coin better than them, they enquire as to how to leech off of you (contacts, job, money, etc.).
4) People that are so ignorant that they can't be bothered to learn how to spell/pronounce something properly.
Social isolation drives me crazy! On the road to recovery soon, have appointments with various doctors so I should be in good health by May or June!