Family of Four

Overture,Intermisssion & Exit Music

Interspersed between the overtures, the intermissions and exit music is the movie itself. The movie is of longer duration; and usually epic in proportion.

I remembered using intermissions for the required pee-breaks and also to dash out for drinks, ice-creams, groundnuts or pop-corn. When the intermission music ends; the movie continues.

The movies with such formats include Ben-Hur, Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, Ryan’s Daughter and many more.

We no longer have such epics these days. Today, movies are better edited and they seldom bother with artistic aspects.

Except for Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments, Sound of Music and My Fair Lady, I slept through most of the other epics. I snoozed off particularly in Cleopatra, Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, Spartacus and Ryan’s Daughter.

It was only with the advent of DVDs that I rediscovered and started appreciating Dr. Zhivago, Ryan’s Daughter, Lawrence of Arabia and Gone with the Wind, thanks to subtitles. These were beautifully crafted movies.

Take some afternoons off. Put on the DVD machine and enjoy these classics.

See and feel Rosy Ryan in her passionate fling with shell-shocked Randolph while spiderwebs glisten and dandelion puffballs flutter away in the soughing winds; the handsome Dr. Zhivago and the enigmatic Lara locked in warm embrace amidst the icy waste of the Siberian tundra and the love-hate relationship between Scarlett and Rhett Butler in civil war-torn America.

Immerse yourself in these movies. You won’t regret it!

Quote of the Day:

“Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.” Unknown

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