Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Adventure to Inspiration Part 1

Oh, inspiration! Come out, come out, wherever you are!
I have a love/hate relationship with inspiration. Sometimes it will give me the best story ideas, or it will refuse to come visit me. It seems like there is no in between. When my inspiration tank is almost on empty I like to try a few things.
The first thing on my list of inspiration ideas is I like to watch some choice movies. Movies make me way too happy. I am notorious for having movie marathons with my friends. So of course there are some movies out there that make me inspired to start writing,


One of these movies is Midnight in Paris.
This movie is all about Paris.
Paris in the 1920's.
Paris and the 1920's. Two things, by themselves, can make my heart skip a beat. But put them together and I am in full swoon mode. Paris is dripping with charm. It just might be the prettiest and classiest of all the cities in the world. This movie never fails to get my inspiration going because it's no secret that I was born in the wrong time. I should have been with those Flappers doing the Charleston. Also every thing within me wants to travel. Plus, this movie has some of the greatest writers known to mankind. Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Who doesnt want to spend an hour and a half in the company of some of America's finest writers in one of the most beautiful cities in the world?

I first fell in love with Midnight in Paris within the first few minutes of the film. And you will see why. If this doesn't inspire you, I don't know what will.





The next movie on my inspiration list is none other than... Singin' In the Rain!
Arguably the best musical the world has ever seen. It is also set in the 1920's...I'm sensing a pattern here. This film has the charismatic Gene Kelly. The scene where Gene Kelly dances and sings in the rain, represents how love should be. So happy that it could be the stormiest of nights and you would think the sun is shining. This song makes my old fashioned heart sing!



I could go on about the movies that inspire me, but I won't because I don't think you all have the rest of your lives to hear me ramble on about amazing movies. So in conclusion I will leave you with a clip of a Disney movie. Disney is really the only way to go. Walt Disney is the king of imagination and creativity. All of his movies inspire me and make me smile the entire time I'm watching them. Especially during this scene...


Enough rambling for now!

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