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| Jennifer Aniston and Jay Mohr at Picture Perfect. Image credit: grantland.com. |
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No, I just lied. I was hoping that I could make an attention-grabbing opening line. But I couldn't. Because my life currently is not in a state of either complete joy or deep sorrow--they say you have to be in either state in order to make great arts. I'm not even making arts.
Truth is, I quit my job because in a way I feel like I need to.
I'm counting down days to my graduation ceremony--15 days from now--and to my flight home--17 days from now. What can I do beside packing up my stuffs? Watch movie.
That gives some validities to that opening line.
So aside from watching movie, another thing I can do is writing. And so 15 minutes ago I thought, why not making a movie journal until I find other proper job or interesting works to do?
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So my first movie after resigning is "Picture Perfect" a 1997 romcom starring Jennifer Aniston.
Romcom is my go-to genre whenever I feel like I need a light, classic entertainment. I typed "romcom 90s" on Google and found a list of must-watch 90s romcoms including "Never Been Kissed", "She's All That", "Sleepless in Seattle", well, you get the idea.
And that list includes "Picture Perfect", a movie that the article writer dubbed as underrated.
Here's my version of 3 interesting things on the movie:
1) The lead female character, Kate (Jennifer Aniston) is a talented creative at an advertising agency. She believed she deserves a promotion, but eventually failed to get one. Her boss' reason was "You can leave the company any time, because you have no debt and no family."
What's interesting: is it really happening in business, or ad industry in 1990s specifically? Do bosses prefer "stable" employee with family and mortgage? Honestly I just heard that people can use that kind of reason to not give someone a promotion.
2) The lead female character has had a long crush on her co-worker, Sam (Kevin Bacon). But Sam was never really interested in Kate because for him Kate is such "a good girl". But when Kate started dressing up as an ad executive at her age should (previously he pretty much dressed like a college student), Sam started to notice her and they had an affair.
What's interesting:
Men do notice women from the way they dress. Men's preferences on women are affected by how the women dress.
3) When Kate pitched her idea to her co-workers about an ad, she started by explaining the print ad concept first.
What's interesting:
The ad industry is very much changing now. I don't know how it goes inside a real ad/creative agency, but I bet they start from a hashtag or anything digital now, instead of starting from print.
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I hope I can be consistent with my movie journal, posting 3 interesting things about every movie I watch every night.
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