Today's topic is "Living in a movie", and you will ask yourself why did I choose this. Well, every time somebody in Argentina asks me about Austin, Texas or USA the only thing that comes to my mind is: MOVIES. If I have to describe this three weeks in Texas I easily can compare them with a few movies. For example, if I think about my first time in the Cafeteria one scene of Twilight appears in my mind.
If I think instead about my first time at the campus or in the building "Mean Girls" or "Legally Blond" replace "Twilight" (I know the first one takes place in a High School but it was the first thought that came to my mind). Big corridors, full of students with different styles: nerds, mean girls, athletes, cowboys, handsome guys, foreigners, punk, etc. UT campus is a real melting pot!!
Let's talk about the fraternities and sororities, guys in one side girls in the other, lots of greek letters, beautiful houses, initiation ceremonies and parties!!! That sounds like "The House Bunny" or "Monsters University".
If we think about party at the I-House "Proyect X" and the typical american movie with the red cups suddenly appear. Beer pong, music, people breaking a house down, and red cups is all you need to party before the 6th street in Austin.
When we went to watch the Spurs' game in San Antonio I thought about the scene of "How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days". People going crazy, thousands of T-shirts with Spurs'and Lakers' name printed in them, hotdogs and cups with coke everywhere.
What about going to The Domain, Bartons Creek Mall or any other of the millions malls in Austin? Don't you feel identified with "The Girl in the Green Scarf"? "I'm going just for a pair of boots”, yeah sure. Then you come back with tonnes and tonnes of bags and a hole in your credit card.
And if you didn’t go to San Antonio yet, you will miss the chance to feel like in “Miss Congeniality” watching the Miss USA beauty pagement or in “Selena” when she sings at The Alamo or her boyfriend proposes her in the famous bridge.
While drinking a coffee at Mozart’s Bar, looking at the river and leaning in the fences remember me the landscape of the movie “The Lake House”, having a coffee at a Starbucks or similar coffeshops automatically takes me to the “Central Perk” in the famous TV serie "Friends". That kind of peaceful and inspiring places are perfect for spend a winter evening either doing homework, reading or sharing time with friends.
Think about music videos and tell me if ten minutes before the end of the Writing class you don’t feel like Britney Spears in “Baby One More Time”. I am pretty sure you do.
Last but not least, you have probably seen that thousands of movies where there are two cheerleader teams that compete for winning a National Championship. Now, think about the cheerleaders in the Longhorns' basketball game or in the Spurs' game and you will understand how I felt.
Of course we all know that Hollywood is inspired in USA people’s life, but for someone that doesn’t live here to experience that kind of life style is a chance of a lifetime.
It's as though everything is a big déjà vu! It feels as if we already know the different features of the city and UT. Surely, because we've watched many yankee movies as you showed in your post Sofi. I liked it!
ResponderEliminarjajajaj I liked the movie pictures you use in this post. I think that reallity is very different from movies and society struggles with different issues. I really like your point of view, though
ResponderEliminaryour post is really funny!!! I like it very much. I feel indentified with "The girl in the green scarf" and I am sure that you too!
ResponderEliminarI think that real cheerleaders are better than the ones we watch in films!!!
I have to recognize your ability to write such original post! In my case, I thought this experiencie it would be more like High School Musical. I know that we are in college, but the fraternities, the rivality, the sports... So fun!
ResponderEliminarI loved this post! Very creative and ingenious. I liked the movies you chose and the comparisons. However, I think you forgot an important movie: Man of the House. Much of the film was shot in Austin on the University of Texas, so you can watch in the movie the same places where we are living.
ResponderEliminarGreat post Sofi! I felt the same way you did with american movies and TV shows, although those weren't girl movies. It is like every detail you see you have seen it before somewhere. Like Kiyan said: a dejavu.
ResponderEliminarPS: great photos and material