Shall We Dance is such an amazing movie. Its feel good without being unrealistic. Everybody has a day when their life, as they are living it, looks them in the face and asks if you are happy. It happens to all of us. In case of kids, the pangs are long gone with the presence of a new toy. In the case of adolescence, the finding of a new companion or the reiteration of a friend and confidante. At 20, to start something new. And there on forth, to relish spontaineity, to not lose focus, to live evry minute, to not regret( I am hoping that these are all you have to deal with! ).
And here you find Mr.Clarke (the gracefully ageing Gere), looking for a laugh when all the world around him is in a hurry. when all the people around him are caught up in their individual lives (thats something i've always wondered about, the individual lives in a family...but i'll save that for another post). And when he realises that, he tends to notice more about the people around him. The strangers around. And thus does he happen upon Paulina(Jennifer Lopez...and i have to say she is beautiful). Somewhere a lost smile.
So then we have a Mr.Clarke joining Ballroom dance classes. I don't know what it is about the movie, but it makes you smile. Its touches you and its a happy-happy story. The oh-so-nice relationship of the clerkes. The is-there-any-chemistry-here between Paulina and John. Miss Mitzi. Bonnie and Link. And M-ya doing a guest bit. The movie is so real. No frills and no stunts. Nothing out of the ordinary and such amazing camers work.
There are few movies that boast of having the camera affect the audience the SEabiscuit or Shall We Dance does. Camera work can be ostentatious, larger than life but rarely poignant and telling. That is the beauty of stills. Still pictures are alive in a whole new meaning, unlike videos and moving pictures.So rarely is the clarity and countenance.
The movie makes you want to dance. To want to feel the music. To move. To try Ballroom Dancing. To go latino. To hang up your inhibitions and to wear those dancing shoes and go tap tap tap.....
One of the OSTs of the movie is by Peter Gabriel...and it so fitted the situation and i loved the lyrics...so i found them and here they are...its called The Book Of Love
The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancing
But II love it when you read to me
And you
You can read me anything
The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb
But II love it when you sing to me
And youYou can sing me anything
The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we're all too young to know
But II love it when you give me things
And youYou ought to give me wedding rings
And II love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
And II love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
You ought to give me wedding rings
13 comments:
hey gal...hows life??
Me here 4 de first time!!! Thtz really a nice Lyrics u got out der!! ;-)
So you liked Shall We Dance! :-D. I couldn't stand the DVD cover itself. :-P
I don't mind Richard Gere, though he is forever an apostle of India's biggest embarassment. But Jennifer Lopez! Like someone famously (or not-so-famously) said, if her talent were anywhere near as good as her a$$, then we would have been in a parallel universe.
(Besides, did you ever expect me to admit I like romantic comedies too? ;). And be labelled a sap for life! :-O)
Hey where u..u Alive ?
hey anish...i'm still around...a teeny weeny holiday..kinda...actually training...at shasun dugs and pharma at pondy...now i'm back!!!
venks..buddy..me just got back...no one's yet been able to see through their murder designs on me!!! ur back yet??? hear from u when ur back!!!
siddhu..a guy who likes romantic comedies is not bad u know...its a pretty weird kinda endearing thing...just so long as it isnt hindi sap or tamil comedy thats ur cuppa, its cool!!!
and i well and truly loved the movie..jlo doesnt act exactly but she does a bit with facial expressions thats a semblence..so...
and richard gere is up there with the likes of sean connery and anthony hopkins...ageing heartthrobs!!! they are prolly me granddaddy's age...but wht the hell!!
pound registered...i'm sorry..i dont have a clue wht ur nick stands for..but thank u!
if u liked the lyrics u should listen to the song!! its fabulous!! and welcome to moi blog!!
thanks krishnan..but see..i wouldnt call watching the movie on the first day a risk..really, if u guys are truthful enough..u'd tell me exactly wht u watched it for(though i already know that!!) ...
nice post...thinking of downloading the movie next... u rite damn well!!!! keep riting
hey rambler...thank u...hope u like the movie too..
Hmmm...My favorite line of the movie is when Gere tells Paulina, "When I saw you standing there at that window, you looked on the outside what I felt on the inside".
Nice movie and I will be damned if I don't learn to dance like that; esp the waltz and the quickstep :-)
thts how i feel saraansh...me wanted to learn to glide across the dance floor too...but doing engineering fourth year can leave u pretty gone at the end of the day....and then u have to think of wht gonna happen when u walk out a year from now...it is stress beyond belief...i didnt think i'd actually be here!!!
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