One of my and my family's favorite past-times is watching movies together. We pop several bags of popcorn and amazingly all agree on one film to watch. It's an incredibly fun bonding experience, and it usually leads to some type of double feature with all six of us congregated in our living room for hours on end.
Watching these flicks, I sometimes wish my life could be like them. Not anything extreme like "Demolition Man" or tragic like "Titanic," but a good, solid, non-cheesy, possibly RomCom type of motion picture.
However, I also know that reality very rarely matches the cinematic universe. Still, it doesn't stop me from at least thinking about the fake movie of my life. Here are five reasons I would like a movie-life and five reasons why reality is what I have to work with.
1. Think of the soundtrack!
Do you ever think, "This would be an amazing song for an opening credits scene." or "This is totally a fight scene song." when you hear a particular song?
No?
Well, I do, and quite often. In fact, while I don't plan on including a fight scene, I already have a few songs to suggest to Disney when they option a movie of my life.
. . .but music from nowhere?
As odd as I know I am, I feel like it would be odder still to have music spontaneously play. While music as a whole is incredibly vital to my day-to-day routine, I'm usually the one controlling it.
I'm just out here trying to live my best life, and I don't need an invisible Ed Sheeran serenading me, telling me I'm perfect, while I'm eating cereal or something else completely mundane.
2. Dance movies are the bomb-diggity.
I once read somewhere that any movie would be improved with a dance number, and I wholeheartedly agree. It's one of my dreams to be in a flash mob in the real-life, so it's only fitting that I would also want one in my movie.
. . .but I'm really bad at dancing.
As hard as I try to be a good dancer, I'm just incredibly, inconceivably not a good dancer.
Whatsoever.
It's not for lack of trying, though. I dance quite often on the reg. However, I either use too much hip or not enough hip, and I can't follow any type of beat, despite almost a decade in a band.
3. A celebrity love interest would be a-MAZ-ing.
Now, I'm not going to name names *cough, cough* Zac Efron *cough, cough*, but I know exactly who my love interest in my life movie would be.
Think: my celebrity crush would be my actual crush! And we'd end up together in the end for realsies! Wowsers!
. . .but Zac Efron doesn't know who I am.
As much as I insist that, if my celebrity crush walked through the door right now, I would calmly walk up and chat casually with them, I know the truth. I don't walk calmly anywhere, much less causally chat.
Honestly, if Zac Efron walked in the door right now, I would emit high-pitched noises only heard by dogs and faint. Or I would ask him why he's in Kansas after midnight, and then I would faint.
Regardless, I end up unconscious and definitely not kissing a former "High School Musical" star.
4. There's the bumpin' social scene.
Think of basically any movie ("Mean Girls" is a good example). Do any of them wear the same outfit twice? No? How about the food they eat? Is it ever just PBJ?
No. Because, in movies, especially teen RomComs, money is this magical thing that everyone seems to have. No one ever goes to an ATM or even uses a credit card. They just live a carefree life, paying in smiles.
. . .but I don't got dem dolla billz.
I'm a broke college student. My idea of splurging is buying $30 shoes. While I like to sometimes believe my bank account is bottomless, the reality is that I have to be smart with my finances.
Unfortunately, that doesn't include a daily visit to the mall or club.
5. Life would be solved in two hours or less.
Most movies are honestly pretty predictable. They introduce the characters and all their various issues. Something, in particular, goes terribly wrong about an hour in, and the characters somehow fix it and come out better people as the credits flash.
If I could wake up every day and know that any problem would be resolved by the time I hit the pillow again, I would wake up much easier.
. . .but life isn't all sunshine and roses.
If I've learned anything in my almost 22 years of life, it's that reality is messy. Sometimes it's a good messy like you just finished baking cookies and now get to lick the bowl. Sometimes it's a bad messy, like when you accidentally give yourself food poisoning from those cookies and projectile vomit.
However, this unpredictability of life is the best part, even if it's sometimes the scariest. While it's cool to dream about flash mobs and Zac Efron's adorable blue eyes, I know that my real life is pretty darn awesome, and I'll keep dancing and jamming until the credits roll.
