Happy Ending

So I gave the whole idea of the "Hollywood happy ending" more thought after I wrote last night, and I must say that our society should be thankful for films that do this. The country has had major events occur in last decade that seeing good and happy ending on screen would provide that escape feeling. I will say that many times people get caught up in the whole reality of the happy ending in real life. Unfortunately, real life does not always provide that happy ending, but that is why we can turn to film. Besides the happy ending, many viewers sometimes get caught up in how moments occur in real life, such as a first kiss. In many movies, the first kiss is built up, with music, correct lighting, and the moment when it did not seem possible that it would occur. That is a film's portrayal, but in real life, the kiss would happen more spontaneously, in a random setting. There are many on screen examples of the notion of people getting caught up in this make believe phenomena. There are two particular examples that pop into my mind. The first is in an episode of That 70s Show. In that episode, Fez becomes intimate with a girl for the first time, and any fan of the show knows how long it took for Fez to make it that far. After the event takes place, Fez returns to tell the gang how it went. In his depiction of the event, he said things along the line that there was no music so I hummed. He ends up describing how he thought this event should have happened like a Hollywood film. Another example of this is in Woody Allen's film, The Purple Rose of Cairo. The movie ultimately is about how a character from a film within in the film comes out into real life. And many events happen, and all he can say is, this isn't how the movies portray it. And that is true, film is fictitious, real life does follow the same guidelines. If you haven't seen The Purple Rose of Cairo I highly recommend it. It stars Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber) and is also one of Woody Allen's best films in my opinion. It may seem as though I am against the happy ending and film's way of dramatizing life's events at this point in my post, but that is not the case. I love the happy ending, I love how film's portray events. Look at it this way, films have to stylize events because there not as special on screen as they are in real life. Film/cinema is over a 110 years old now and there is no chance anytime soon that films will stop stylizing events the way they have been doing for decades. So enjoy films for what they are and keep some of these thoughts in your mind while viewing one. So again I will sign off as I typically do, so long to all, may your dreams come true.