My family likes to play the game in the car where we list things. Movie scenes came up recently and here were some of mine.
Everyone remembers the story of one of the first roommates of different color in the NFL. Brian Song is a wonderful movie about Gayle Sayers and Brian Piccolo and how their friendship developed in the face of Brian Piccolo’s cancer fight. And there is not a man in the world that doesn’t get misty when that music plays. I try and leave the room......“I need to go get some duct tape.” There is something powerful about Best Friends.
Most of you know that I love Notre Dame, so I can’t share movies without talking about Rudy. If you have never played team sports then you have really missed out some great learning’s. The movie Rudy teaches us great leadership lessons on how to model teamwork around the office, in the neighborhood, in your church. I love the Servant Leadership quality about laying down your uniform, your position, and your success so your teammate can have the honor. For me it is all about modeling that authentic Christ like relationship to those people around you.
I am a little embarrassed to say this but I loved Forrest Gump. I especially loved the scene where he is talking to Jenny, the girl he has always loved and he tells her about the beauty of the Sunset as he ran through the desert, and the way the reflection of the Rocky Mountains looked on a this lake at sunrise, and the way the stars looked on a clear night when he was in Viet Nam. Jenny looked up at him and says that she wished she would have been with him, and Gump says, “You were.” Have you ever loved someone so much that you took them in your heart everywhere?
Dreamer is a movie about how the re-training of this injured horse brings together a father and his young daughter. The daughter (Dakota Fanning) writes this story for school. The daughter says it’s a stupid story about a stupid king. And Kurt Russell says I like the stupid King and the girl responds I love the Stupid King. Right there in the movie theater I busted out crying and grabbed Ryanne and she about punched me in the nose. Kids are so real. I need to learn to listen to mine more.
And my fifth movie is Freedom Writers. Don't you just love those movies that give you HOPE. When you can take a young person who thinks they have absolutely nothing to live for and just give them hope.
These make me sound like such a putz! Next time I will talk about Cool Hand Luke, The Maginificent Seven and The Bourne Identity.
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