I can’t sleep. So while I wait for the latest episode of “How I met Your Mother” to download, allow me to practice my Acceptance Speech for winning best adapted screenplay (preferably a Tamora Pierce Novel adaption) at the Oscars, on you.
“Well…… this is unexpected (audience laughs because I had all five nominations). I’d like to thank the two most beautiful women in the world (camera pans to my two beautiful sisters……. Audience gasps) for never letting me doubt my own beauty (audience snickers as Joke falls flat), my friends for encouraging me to follow my dreams and being true to myself (audience goes awwwwww……..) and lastly my parents for making me who I am.
Thank You for making me the Girl who thought books meant novels and only novels. That a book was not a book, unless it had a story, non-fiction and textbooks being in a category unto themselves. The Girl who did a double take because the text books outnumbered the fiction books in her senior school library. The girl who never understood the families who proudly displayed their entire book collection consisting of a row of untouched Encyclopaedias in their Drawing Rooms.
And Thank You most of all from teaching me to learn from stories. . Thank You for treating a good story with the respect it deserves no matter what the medium. For treating movies and books the same (Movie Making Audience Cheers), the stories they tell and the lessons you can learn from them being the important thing (Clapping Starts). For treating serious and frivolous alike – for you can always find something to be learnt.
Thank You for making me the Girl who thought books meant novels and only novels. That a book was not a book, unless it had a story, non-fiction and textbooks being in a category unto themselves. The Girl who did a double take because the text books outnumbered the fiction books in her senior school library. The girl who never understood the families who proudly displayed their entire book collection consisting of a row of untouched Encyclopaedias in their Drawing Rooms.
And Thank You most of all from teaching me to learn from stories. . Thank You for treating a good story with the respect it deserves no matter what the medium. For treating movies and books the same (Movie Making Audience Cheers), the stories they tell and the lessons you can learn from them being the important thing (Clapping Starts). For treating serious and frivolous alike – for you can always find something to be learnt.
I learnt everything from my Values to my Geography from Movies and Books. These Stories have served as the starting points of Deep Introspection into weighty issues like "Is True Love never Having to say Sorry?" and have jumpstarted Extensive Research on Trivial Bits of History such as "Schindlers List" which might have otherwise gone unnoticed.
This is the reason I do what I do (adapt screenplays) I’d like to thank the Academy for recognizing my genius at it. ( Orchestra starts playing, is drowned out by the Standing Ovation, somewhere in the audience George Clooney starts to fall in love with me)”
Thank you for your patience, I am off to learn How Ted Mosby met his Children's Mother.
6 comments:
too bad ur not going to learn that at least not this season
that speech would be funnier if you actually said the parenthetical statements out (ote; tip of the hat to ms scherbatsky and the land of ice hockey) loud, but then, which speech wouldn't?
:D :D I was so confused when I entered my school library and saw a handful of novels and volumes and volumes of dusty textbooks... And I was always flabbergasted when my peers would display childcraft encyclopedias and 2 nancy drews as their entire book collection.. Me who had a huge bookshelf filled with novels when I was 7 :D
This is word to word what I think about books, right down to the non fiction part. Except for the whole screenplay thing of course. And it would be Keanu Reeves falling in love with me ;)
first things first: you will never learn how ted mosby met his children's mother.
and what about non-textbook non-fic, eh? Bill Bryson and all that?
its only in college that I have grudgingly come to accept that non-fiction can also constitute books.
I've begun reading Bryson, Indian History, the works. But I will still resolutely defend the novel (because it gets attacked by idiots, "you keep reading novels.... read a book for once") and stories (books and movies) are still my preffered method of learning.
kinda non sequitor - but i love fairytales ( i think that's why i loved Enchanted)
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