Writing and Reading

I’m feeling a little patriotic here. Big surprise. I do love my country as some of you might know.

I’m coming close to the 1-month mark on my blog here, and I still haven’t lost any steam. I still have plenty to say. I still have a lot about writing to celebrate. In fact, this post will kick-start a brand-new category, and it revolves around something I’ve always been fond of, something I always had an extremely frightening talent at assimilating into my mind ever since I was a kid.

Any of you readers out there have favorite quotes from films or even books that you could remember? Speeches? Bits of dialogue that just stuck with you for the longest time? It’s what makes writing last forever, I tell you. For whatever reason. The genius in the writing shows. And the actors who speak it make it shine as well as show.

I stress film mostly because, at least for me, it’s pretty difficult to remember certain bits of dialogue in books simply because of the preponderance of countless words, words, words we end up reading. But there’s something about film that makes it easy to remember some of those memorable scenes. I mentioned ‘patriotic’ at the beginning of my post here because what I’m going to show you will have a bit of patriotism in it.

These are only some of my favorite speeches, scenes, from some of my favorite films. These scenes alone have touched me greatly on a literary level as well as an emotional level. Some made me laugh. Others made me cry. There are even some that made me seethe with anger. But that’s what makes them memorable, too.

But that’s not all. I have a little surprise for you as well at the very end. It might shock you! And that’s a good thing. But again, I stress–I’m coming up to the 1-month mark, and I feel the need to surprise you readers out there. So sit back, relax, scroll down, watch each of these, or some of them, or one of them at different times of the day. Absorb them. Collect them into your consciousness. Remember them. It’s beautiful writing. And believe me–there’s more out there, too, so this won’t be the only post about the topic. Believe me. Here we go, clip number one is….

“Good Will Hunting”

“Armageddon”

“Spaceballs”

“The Devil’s Advocate”

Like I said, there will be more. Plenty more. But here’s one last surprise for you!

Happy reading….

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