Death Scenes...

I was watching a movie the other day and it had a very sad and moving death scene in it and it occurred to me that if a movie has a sad death scene, it makes it seem so much more real. The audience gets attached to the character and when they die, they feel like they've known them and it's like they have lost a friend of theirs. It seems like the movie grabs you even more when you actually see the character die. Watching them breathe their last breath. Some movies are so moving just because of death scenes. People win Academy Awards for dying in movies. At the end of the film "Saving Private Ryan", we see Tom Hanks slowly die as he tells his co-star, Matt Damon, that he needs to live his life to the fullest and earn the sacrifices that his friends made to save his life.That is one movie that can make any grown man cry. One of the saddest cowboy movies isn't actually a movie at all. "Lonesome Dove" was a TV mini series that was made in 1989.In that show, we see many men die. The characters' deaths grab hold of the audience and make them miss the character that essentially doesn't even exist. In the Oscar-winning film "The Untouchables", Sean Connery was shown covered in blood and gasping for air as he bled to death. Connery played a police officer named Jim Malone who gained the love of viewers immediately. As he died, we saw Eliot Ness's (Kevin Coster) pain in knowing that one of his best friends had just been killed. In a way, the audience felt as Ness did watching Malone die.They felt as if Malone had saved their lives countless times. I really don't know if it's a good or bad thing, but all movies seem to be made great by a good death scene.

Christian Reputations...

I like to watch the show "Law&Order" every now and then. It is full of convincing actors and suspenseful stories. But sometimes there are criminals on the show that are "Christians." These murderers claim to have killed because God told them to. Every single episode that I have seen with "Christian" characters ends with the "Christian" locked up in the end. The people say some things that make Christianity look like a disease. They make Christians appear as crazy people who kill others who refuse to follow God's law. I just recently watched an episode where a man killed his mother because he believed that she would be forgiven of her sins by dying. His pastor encouraged this and it was later revealed that the pastor had been telling children to kill those who aren't Christians. I hate to think that this is our reputation. To think that this is how the world sees us.

Summer...

Ah summer, we all look forward to it so. Yet when it comes, it's not as fun as we thought it would be. At least, not for me anyway. I never realized how hard it would be to get a hold of friends. I had plans to stay at my friend's house with other friends, but that didn't happen. One of the friends couldn't go, the other just didn't want to go, leaving just my friend and me. But then my friend got pretty sick, and now I'm left with nothing to do. Waking up at 1:00 everyday is NOT fun. Sitting at home on the computer in front of the TV is NOT fun. Without school, there is nothing to do. My neighborhood isn't exactly flourishing with people my age and I go to a VERY small church. But all is not lost, for I will soon get my driver's license and will be able to drive to and fro to be with my friends. Pray for my friend to feel better so that we can get together and do something soon, before I go MAD.

Twitter...

I've been hesitant to make a Twitter. There has never really been a reason for it, I suppose I was just too lazy. I'm sick of going from one thing to the next just because people are just getting tired of one set website. I had a Myspace, then people shifted to Facebook, and now it's Twitter. I waited as long as I could before I was forced to make one. However, in the first 5 minutes of my Twitter life, Twitter decided to mess up. I had to wait an hour before I could actually start anything. It just wasn't exactly the 'first impression' I was looking for.