Emotions

  Watching your favorite movie or perhaps only hearing the “theme” song or just a few words of dialog can bring back to your mind a flood of emotional feelings.  It almost seems strange and contradictory how a scene can reach into your heart and manipulate your feelings from excitement to anxiety and then almost immediately to a despair that you can’t imagine how low you begin to feel.

     This is the power of the words used in screen plays coupled with the tremendous acting ability of some men and women to put those words into an emotional roller coaster ride of feelings.  In almost an over simplistic statement Sean Stephenson (a professional copywriter) said:  “Speaking is easy.  Make the audience laugh.  Make them cry.  Change their lives.”  He almost makes you believe that just by opening your mouth you are able to change the lives of those who listen to you.  And in some cases this is exactly true!

     At times it’s not the great box office hits that provide the emotionally charged dialog that actually motivate a change in someone’s life.  Occasionally it’s that “quiet” movie that just plays on a basic emotion and twists your heart into a different direction.  I’m going to share one of my “emotionally moving” movies with you and I think you’ll understand what I am talking about.  If you ever get a chance (if you haven’t already) PLEASE watch this movie.

     First I’d like you to ponder what comes to your mind when I mention the actor Sean Connery?  Most of you (if you are of a CERTAIN age) will probably say:  James Bond!  And by many groups and individuals he is THE James Bond.  Of course, I’m sure you realize that he has appeared in many other wonderful productions:  Murder on the Orient Express and The Hunt for Red October, which are two of my favorite non-Bond movies.

     But for this discussion I am going to mention his appearance from a December, 2000 release of the movie “Finding Forrester.”  This is the story of the relationship between a sixteen-year-old, Jamal Wallace (played by Rob Brown) and a famous, but reclusive author William Forrester (played by Sean Connery.)  The development of this relationship goes from a defiant resentment to a heartwarming real love and affection between these two characters.   

     Forrester knows that Jamal has been offered a full academic scholarship from a prestigious private school, partly for his basketball skills and partly for his test scores.  Jamal learns that Forrester is the famous author of, “Avalon Landing” and that he has never publisher another book since that one.  As the movie unfolds Jamal is helped through several trials by Forrester and Forrester is helped by Jamal to rekindle in himself his desire to live.

     In the concluding scenes from the movie Forrester has decided to revisit his native land of Scotland.  About a year later Forrester’s attorney (played by Matt Daman) informs Jamal that Forrester has died of cancer.  The lawyer gives Jamal the keys to Forrester’s apartment, a package, and a letter of thanks from Forrester.
     The emotional ride of this movie is truly one that exerts a moment for thought upon anyone who watches it.  Sometime after I had seen this movie I began to desire to return to one of my former loves: that of writing.  When times passes and you find yourself enjoying putting pen to paper, even when there is NO financial gain, you realize that this is something your heart desires to do.  Then you realize that there truly is a great power that can be found in words.

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEMS

"Don't let a day go by without letting your 

family know how much you love them."