Why English

Who decided English was such a great language? Why do expect people to learn this rediculous language? Stupid, i after e accept after c and don't forget to underline those pesky one letters. Who thought up these rules!!!!! I can't make up my mine if English is for smart people or for people that just like to to make rules, oh and rules that go against rules GRRRRRRR. Does knowing all this stupid rules make you smart or just dumb enough to think rules make smart people! I will be the first person to say I am not good at English, editing or spelling but how is it possible to remember not just rules, but all the exception! Stupid English Editing Test, stupid 20 year olds, or is it twenty-year-olds, thinking they are so smart for memorizing dumb rules, stupid school for hanging my graduation over my head if I don't pass this test, and stupid A grades in all but one class to make me think I'm finally good at school. This post is dedicated to all the lack of editing, spell check, and grammer used in in all my post especially this one because I refuse to even try.

Entertainment

Excuse me as I step up onto a soapbox.

About a month ago I rented Pan's Labyrinth at a Blockbuster Video and the sales associate stated "You know this is a foreign film, and there is no English?" I was very irritated that he would look at me and make a judgement call as to my movie preference and/or my artistic ability to digest a movie that was more intellectual. "Yes I did, thank you," I said, but I wanted to say, "You think I only watch chick flicks, don't you?" I hadn't thought about it after that, until tonight. I was renting another movie and the other person in line was about to rent the same movie and again a different sales associate advised the customer the same way. GRRR. Granted Pan's Labyrinth is an odd movie. Oscar winning movies create hype and it gets people to watch. I could understand that there would be a large amount of people that would pick up the movie for the hype it's gotten instead of a real interest in either foreign films or artistically creative visions, but still it was the way the employee address both the other customer and me. What I'd like to say to those employees is "You don't know me or this other customer. Furthermore you've made no attempt to understand why we have picked up this film." It would be completely different if the first question was "Do you like foreign films?" or even "we've had customers disappointed with this film because it's in Spanish." When I brought the movie home and Katie (who doesn't like strange, foreign films) saw me watching it, she just rolled her eyes as if to say "here's another strange 'Liz' movie". That was an appropriate response. :)

All of this to say that I like my entertainment to engage me. Not in a "lets guess the plot" way, but in some sort of creative, thought provoking way, so that when I walk away from the movie my brain starts to work. I've been recieving tutoring for school the last week and one of the student tutors was reading a book about how entertainment dumbs us down. What peves me about my Blockbuster expiriance is that dumbing a person down was exactly what the empolyees did; theycould have taken 30 seconds to educate us about the movie and possibly encourage us to make better more artistic or provoking choices, but instead the question "You know this is a foreign film, and there is no English?" only makes a person worry they're wasting their money on a movie they won't enjoy or understand.

In response to Celeste's newest post

Please read Celeste's http://ecglassel.blogspot.com/2007/06/anime.html post first before you read my post.

Moral threads are so important to me in my entertainment. Don't get me wrong, I like mindless cute stories, and often I get involved with pop culture that isn't the most moral, but as a whole the literature, movies, fairy tails, etc that are my favorite usually contain some sort of moral story to them. Specifically my favorite is self-sacrifice. My most recent is the newest Pirates of the Caribbean, I'm not going to give the story line away, but there's a huge sacrifice. Other big ones are in Sense and Sensibility when Elinor Dashwood gives up her heart for the honor of Edward Ferrars or Superman protecting humanity buy sacrificing a normal life or Sam Gamgee following Frodo at all costs. There is nothing that shows love more deeply than self-sacrifice.