The other Boleyn girl
I just finished reading “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory. It was a great book about English royalty in the 16′th century. And I love stories of royal families. It was a page turner and I couldn’t stop reading it. The story is about two sisters with different personalities, competing for the king’s attention and their family’s approval.
And for those of you who need a little more encouragement to read(!), it’s a very sexy book. The kind that makes you sit tight in your chair and hold your breath.
Since my husband wanted to watch “The other Boleyn girl” the movie, I watched it with him. Oh, man, it was a disaster! It was nothing like the book. They wanted to include all the major historical events of the book in the movie, so it ended up being a series of events that happened very fast, one after another. None of the characters were really introduced to the viewer. The king turned out to be a cruel man and the queen a miserable woman, (exactly in contrary to the book). It was so bad that at the end of the movie they had to write what happens to each character later. While in the book, these events form almost 1/3 of the story, it only takes you about 10 seconds to read them at the end of the movie.
So,
Read the book. It’s great.
Don’t watch the movie. It sucks.
Kung Fu Panda
Here is a quote from master Oogway (the turtle) in Kung Fu Panda movie:
“Past is history. Future is mystery. Now is a gift, and that’s why they call it present.”
I’ll write about this subject later. For now, go see the movie if you want to laugh and laugh and laugh. We had a great time last night watching it with our friends.
If these walls could talk 2
I watched “If these walls could talk 2” for the second time last night. I am not going to talk about the movie or its topic. What I want to talk about is my favorite scene of the movie, the very last scene, when the characters of Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGeneres are in the bathroom, reading a pregnancy test. After months and months of looking for a sperm donor, and months of trying to get pregnant, this lesbian couple find out that the test is positive and they are finally pregnant.
And then they start dancing right there in the bathroom. A happy dance. A dance of joy.
Oh my goodness, how much I love this scene! The prospect of a great pregnancy, a wonderful child birth and the life that follows that particular moment.
Not all pregnancies are discovered this way, you know. People have different reactions to a positive pregnancy test.
Some women start crying because they did not want to get pregnant. Because they face a very tough decision. And because they know what might happen next.
Other women are scared to tell their partners, because they are not sure how they would react to the news.
Some might feel ashamed because it’s shameful and not acceptable in their families or communities to get pregnant under certain circumstance.
There are others who are not supposed to get pregnant, because of a life threatening illness or disability.
And of course there are women who don’t get pregnant at all and don’t have a chance to experience that moment.
When I watched this movie the other night, right at that last scene, I got really emotional. And I wished that if and when I get pregnant some time in the future, my moment be the same as that. So joyful and exciting that we can’t help but dance, a happy happy dance.
The scene starts at minute 8:25 of the clip.
P.S. Not that I want to be a lesbian or I want to dance with Ellen DeGeneres. Although my husband might have wanted me to look like Sharon Stone. Men love her, you know!!
