" Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived."
- William Parrish, Meet Joe Black.
One of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite movies of all time. I first watched it when I was 12 and of course I had no fleeting idea of what it was about. I just remember that this was one of the first movies I saw Claire Forlani in and completely fell in love with Brad Pitt while he was licking peanut butter off a spoon. So.. recently I decided to watch it again. And again.
Inspired by a film in the 1930s called "Death Takes a holiday", Meet Joe Black presents a pleasant example of irony where Death decides to see what it is like to be alive. Then there is a twist which involves taking out the obvious haunting morbidity that a story of death entails and turning it into life affirmation and discovery of love. All of that was coupled with the captivating performance by Hollywood's heavyweight, Sir Anthony Hopkins, and the undeniable on-screen chemistry between Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani. I also appreciated the picturesque set-designs, especially the interior of the triplex penthouse apartment, the elaborately decorated gazebo at the birthday party and the magnificent (albeit computer generated) fireworks display at the Hudson River.
I took such a long time to draft this post and still I can barely find the right words to describe this movie. So if you haven't seen it.. go buy the dvd, borrow it from me.. or download it from somewhere. Even if its just to see Anthony Hopkins in non-silence-of-the-lambs mode... watch every bit of it, multiply it by infinity and take it into the depths of forever, then only will you have a glimpse of what I am talking about. Quote and unquote.
- William Parrish, Meet Joe Black.
One of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite movies of all time. I first watched it when I was 12 and of course I had no fleeting idea of what it was about. I just remember that this was one of the first movies I saw Claire Forlani in and completely fell in love with Brad Pitt while he was licking peanut butter off a spoon. So.. recently I decided to watch it again. And again.
Inspired by a film in the 1930s called "Death Takes a holiday", Meet Joe Black presents a pleasant example of irony where Death decides to see what it is like to be alive. Then there is a twist which involves taking out the obvious haunting morbidity that a story of death entails and turning it into life affirmation and discovery of love. All of that was coupled with the captivating performance by Hollywood's heavyweight, Sir Anthony Hopkins, and the undeniable on-screen chemistry between Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani. I also appreciated the picturesque set-designs, especially the interior of the triplex penthouse apartment, the elaborately decorated gazebo at the birthday party and the magnificent (albeit computer generated) fireworks display at the Hudson River.
I took such a long time to draft this post and still I can barely find the right words to describe this movie. So if you haven't seen it.. go buy the dvd, borrow it from me.. or download it from somewhere. Even if its just to see Anthony Hopkins in non-silence-of-the-lambs mode... watch every bit of it, multiply it by infinity and take it into the depths of forever, then only will you have a glimpse of what I am talking about. Quote and unquote.
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