Yes, I do indeed know that most movies of this era were in black and white. But who cares, right? They’re equally amazing as movies today. Here are my favorites from this decade
1. Day of Wrath (1943)
2. Rebecca (1940)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. The Big Sleep (1946)
5. Great Expectations (1946)
6.The Lost Weekend (1945)
7. The Red Shoes (1948)
8. Uncle Silas (1948)
9. Mildred Pierce (1945)
10. A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Movies: 1940’s
Lately I’ve been watching a copious amount of movies and that got me to thinking, why not make a post of my all time favorite movies sorted by decade? It might seem a bit extreme but hopefully I’ll convince someone out there to become an avid movie watcher as I am.
Movies
STRFKR - Atlantis
Change doesn’t happen over night and sure as hell can’t happen without any motivation. When you go through a rough patch in life, this is when you’re really being tested. You may not know it, but there are people around you that are waiting for you to fail. They want you to give up and result to cutting, starving, or even killing yourself, the most extreme of them all. Don’t be that percentage of teens that lets these parasites get under their skin. Be that percentage that rises above and realizes that they are so much better than a scar that will be inked on their skin forever. No, life will not always be an easy breeze. You WILL go through rough times. The important thing is that you walk through the storm and make it to the other side because guess what? There’s a rainbow full of vibrant colors waiting to greet you.
Change.
"If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads."
- Robert Pattinson
Since the January has introduced itself into my life and a new year is ticking by…I’ve been really reevaluating things about myself. Every year people make resolutions for new years like losing weight or becoming a nicer person, and as cliche as it sounds, for once in my 17 years of life, I’ve actually made a resolution that I’m surprisingly passionate about. I know some of you may not be the least bit interested in what my resolution is, but I really wanted to share it. Being a teenager in high school I look around and see people, my peers pretending and regretting, and in 2012 I became regretful quite a bit. When I was in eighth grade my expectations for high school were kind of unrealistic and maybe a bit ridiculous. I expected everyone to be nice and to find my place on the very first day. I wanted my crush to look like Troy Bolton and I expected there to be a soundtrack to everything. I basically wanted high school to be an 80’s movie (Preferably 16 candles). My first day of high school was nothing like that. This year I’m a junior and it took me 3 years to realize my problem. I was pretending to be someone I really wasn’t and I didn’t take risks. On January 1st I promised myself I would be who I really wanted to be. I want 2013 to be filled with good books, adventures, achievements, and plenty of great music. I want to write and draw more and most of all, I want to feel that at the end of the day I’ve done my best just simply being me. You can’t all ways expect everything to be the way you imagine it to be, but that’s alright. You take what you’re given and make the best of it…seriously. I want each and everyone one of you to feel that each day hasn’t been wasted and ultimately you feel happy. Be who you want to be and when you have something on your mind, voice it. Treat people nicely and be that fresh breath of air that brightens someone day. Take risks. Be you. I’m pretty excited about 2013 because I finally for the first time in my life feel genuinely happy with who I have become to be. And that is a more than wonderful feeling. Make your own soundtrack to life and never feel regretful of something that makes you happy. And remember that you are important. No one is merely put on earth to simply exist.
New Years
