One of the movies that kept playing on HBO was "The Holiday". Although the movie is a year old, I watched it everytime its on tv. Not because I like the movie that much but I just wanted to write down this dialogue by Kate Winslet:
"You see I was seeing someone. He wasn’t in love with me like I thought. I understand the feeling as small and insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can ache you places you don’t know you can inside you. And it doesn’t matter how many haircuts you get or gym you join or how many hours you spend with your girlfriends, you still go to bed every night and wonder where you did wrong, how you could have misunderstood and how in the hell for that brief moment you could think you were that happy. And sometimes you can still convince yourself that he will see the light and show up at your door. And after all that and however long that may be you’ll get someone new and you’ll meet people that will make you feel worthwhile again. And the little pieces of your soul will finally come back and all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted will eventually fade."
Amen sistah! You have no idea how many multiple viewings I had to do to get all that only to realize that I can find it on wikiquote. Sheesh.
Anyway, one movie I watched twice in cinema this holiday season was Enchanted. I flove the OST. However have you noticed how James Marsden never seems to get the girl? If you have seen The Notebook, Superman Returns, The X-men, in which all of the four movies that dude just never got lucky. I guess he isnt a leading-man material you know. Always the supporting actor. Which makes sense. In The Holiday, Kate Winslet's friend said:
"In movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend."
Kind of makes me wonder which one am I? Somehow I always end up being the latter. Sigh. Maybe instead of going for the leading men - Patrick Dempsey, Ryan Gosling, Brandon Routh, Hugh Jackman, maybe I would fare better in relationships with the James Marsdens of the world. I mean supporting actors are cool too right? They are more low maintenance, less cocky, and they win Oscars too. Lead actors are overrated anyway.
I am now fantasizing the day a guy would say to me "Will you be my leading lady?" See how sappy Christmas makes you feel? ;)
Note to Zwan: funny you should mention 'the holiday' because I saved this post as draft before your comment. trailer director is now one of my career options should I fail to make it as an architect. hehe.
