Showing posts with label Despicable Me. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Despicable Me. Show all posts

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Smiling all the Way From A to Z -- V

We are nearing the end of the Blogging From A to Z April Blogfest. Continuing forward, the things starting with the letter V that make me smile are...

VIDEOS

Last month, I shared for Alex J. Cavanaugh's Top Ten Movie Countdown Blogfest a bunch of videos I love. In order not to repeat that post, I'm going to tell you my favorite cartoons. I'm a kid at heart. The cartoons that make me smile are as follows:

Madagascar
Emperor's New Groove
Kung Fu Panda
Ice Age
Chicken Run
Up
Despicable Me
Bolt
Over the Hedge
The Incredibles
Toy Story

Oh, how I am smiling just thinking about all of these flippin' awesome movies.

What are some of your favorite cartoons videos? And let me know something starting with the letter V that makes you smile.

Writing Jewels

PS: Refer to the blurb on the very top of my blogs sidebar to know why I am posting about what makes me smile. Go forward and smile!

Monday, March 18, 2013

Top Ten Movie Countdown Blogfest


The awe inspiring author and blogger extraordinaire, Alex J. Cavanaugh is hosting this pretty nifty blogfest. I decided to join in by sharing my top ten favorite movies. My twist to this blogfest: I'm sharing my favorite quote from the films.
 
Here they are (counting down to my absolute favorite):
 
10. The Prestige: This movie was mind blowing. I left the theater speechless, still mulling over the film.
      Quote:
      Cutter: "Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking for it. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled."
 
9. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - This is a laugh every second from the very beginning movie until the end.
      Quote:
      Ford: "If you want to survive out here, you've got to know where your towel is."
 
8. Despicable Me - Can I say hilarious? Well, I just did or rather typed it.
      Quote:
      Agnes: "It's so fluffy, I'm gonna die!"
 
7. Powder - Just a superb masterpiece of a movie that twists my heart every time I see it.
      Quote:
      "Lindsey: Your father. Your father hurt you a long time ago. You're so sad, he made you so sad. He thought you were ugly, and he kept saying that you weren't... I'm sorry.
       Powder: Do you? Do you?
       Lindsey: Do I what?
       Powder: Do you think I'm ugly?
       Lindsey: I don't know what I think when I look at you. But sometimes I think, I think you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
 
6. Sherlock Holmes - Wow, talk about amazing and the music by Hans Zimmer rocked my world.
      Quote:
      "Mrs. Hudson: Oh, he's killed the dog. Again.
      Watson: What have you done to Gladstone now?
      Sherlock: I was simply testing a new anesthetic. He doesn't mind."
 
5. The King's Speech - Amazing!
      Quote: (Pardon it's vulgarity)
      "Lionel Logue: Do you know the 'f' word?
      King George VI: Ffff... fornication?"
 
4. Madagascar - I chuckle every time I see this one, and I've seen it many, many times.
      Quote:
      "Mort: King Julian! What are they? What are they?
       Julian: They are... aliens! Savage aliens! From the savage world!
       Maurice: They've come to kill us! And take our women! And our precious metals!
       Mort: [begins weeping]
       Julian: Get up Mort! Do not be near the King's feet, okay!"
 
3. The 'Burbs - This is definitely a King Family favorite. I still chuckle every time I watch Tom Hanks eating the sardine and then he blows his nose in the newspaper and it sounds like an elephant.
      Quote:
      "Ricky Butler: Mr. Officer, wait! I mean, there's these people and they're in my parents' house and they're eating all their food."
 
2. Waking Ned Devine - The scene at the end dealing with the old woman and the phone booth gets me laughing to tears every single time.
      Quote:
      "Annie O'Shea: Have we won?
      Jackie O'Shea: No, but it got my apple tart brought in now didn't it."
 
1. The Italian Job - What can I say other than THIS MOVIE ROCKS. Music rocks too! My favorite line in the movie is brought to you by Mos Def and Mark Wahlberg.
      Quote: (pardon it's French):
      "Left Ear: This dude got dogs. I don't do dogs... I had a real bad experience, man.
       Charlie: What happened?
       Left Ear: I had. A bad. Experience. Damn it. I'm deaf!"
 
So there you have it, folks. My top 10 favorite movies. What are yours?
 
Writing Jewels

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Light Bulb

Get this: I sluggishly entered my bedroom. Flicking off the light, my feet felt their way to bed, then I flopped down on the mattress. I snuggled up into my chilled blankets, hoping they'd warm up super fast. Finding a comfortable position, my mind started its usual jumping from one thing to the next. Then...

*BAM* *POW* *POOF*

One word popped into my head. I'm not gonna tell you which one, though. Yeah, yeah. I'm mean. But a writer has to be secretive. Anyway, this one single word sparked an idea for a book that made my mind start exploring all of the different ways I could develop a story upon it. One vein of thought led to the next until I was writing down what was spewing rapidly from my mind. 

Afterward, my heart raced fast and my brain felt like it wanted to pop right out of my skull to figure where this book could take its journey. With such intensity filling my chest to all four of my limbs, I got up to write a post about my experience. 

This leads me to share some wisdom which I found incredibly important during this whole creative process. 

That being: Write out your thoughts the moment (yes, the very second) you have an idea. Yes, even if it's only ONE word that triggers something you get so excited about you could run a marathon. Ok, that's taking it a little too far. But, you know what I mean.

Writing out your thoughts may help you develop that simple word into something miraculous. Of course, the next step is to actually draft out a plot, world, and characters to fill up the lines of the page. But folks, the brilliant IDEA is alive.

Gah! This has been such an exhilarating and creative opportunity I just couldn't pass up writing a post about. I hope my meager advice is helpful.

Now, what is your advice to find ideas to build a story upon?


Writing. Jewels.