OK - maybe it is just in my southern jeans but, I love the movie, Steele Magnolias. (Drink your juice, Shelby!). There isn't another movie that can make me feel so many emotions in one story. I laugh hysterically and I cry just as hysterically - not to mention all the emotions in between.
It makes me reminisce of when I was a kid spending weekends in Cleveland, MS with my nanny and aunts and uncles and cousins. Easter egg hunts, weddings... just life. We sat around listening to the grown folks gossip about so-and-so and what so-and-so did and had watermelon seed spitting contests. We even went "shootin" (firing a rifle, shot gun or other firearm at cans, trees, buckets, etc. Not to be confused with hunting in which you shoot at something living for a purpose!) and all the other redneck activities that southerners are made fun of for.
I think everyone would agree that the best part in that movie is after Shelby's (Julia Roberts) funeral the women are comforting M'Lynne (Sally Field). M'Lynne goes into a rant - "I can run from here to Texas and back but my baby can't! She never could! It makes me want to scream! I just want to hit something!" Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) shoves Ouiser (Shirley MacLain) in front of M'Lynne and says "Here! Hit Ouiser!! Punch her lights out!" This gesture makes all the women go from the bottom of the barrel, heart wrenching tears to crazy, doubled over laughing AT A FUNERAL, NO LESS! Nothing gets me to going so fast that this scene in this movie. I cry like nothing else matters and then I laugh right along with the cast as if I am really there experiencing that moment with them.
I think that scene was priceless. I often find myself telling my friend's to "hit something!" when they tell me about their bad days. I realize that Steele Magnolias is where I get that from.
I think we all need a Ouiser in our lives. If you can get a modern day whipping boy, by all means, go for it! But, I mean that we all need that one thing or person that can lighten our mood when things get too serious. Even if it is the most serious of events and the most inappropriate time. I am hoping that that's what life is really about. Those priceless, if not inappropriate, times where we are at the brink and something pulls us from that jumping off point. It doesn't have to last too long for it to be a defining moment and for you to remember it for the rest of your life!
It makes me reminisce of when I was a kid spending weekends in Cleveland, MS with my nanny and aunts and uncles and cousins. Easter egg hunts, weddings... just life. We sat around listening to the grown folks gossip about so-and-so and what so-and-so did and had watermelon seed spitting contests. We even went "shootin" (firing a rifle, shot gun or other firearm at cans, trees, buckets, etc. Not to be confused with hunting in which you shoot at something living for a purpose!) and all the other redneck activities that southerners are made fun of for.
I think everyone would agree that the best part in that movie is after Shelby's (Julia Roberts) funeral the women are comforting M'Lynne (Sally Field). M'Lynne goes into a rant - "I can run from here to Texas and back but my baby can't! She never could! It makes me want to scream! I just want to hit something!" Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) shoves Ouiser (Shirley MacLain) in front of M'Lynne and says "Here! Hit Ouiser!! Punch her lights out!" This gesture makes all the women go from the bottom of the barrel, heart wrenching tears to crazy, doubled over laughing AT A FUNERAL, NO LESS! Nothing gets me to going so fast that this scene in this movie. I cry like nothing else matters and then I laugh right along with the cast as if I am really there experiencing that moment with them.
I think that scene was priceless. I often find myself telling my friend's to "hit something!" when they tell me about their bad days. I realize that Steele Magnolias is where I get that from.
I think we all need a Ouiser in our lives. If you can get a modern day whipping boy, by all means, go for it! But, I mean that we all need that one thing or person that can lighten our mood when things get too serious. Even if it is the most serious of events and the most inappropriate time. I am hoping that that's what life is really about. Those priceless, if not inappropriate, times where we are at the brink and something pulls us from that jumping off point. It doesn't have to last too long for it to be a defining moment and for you to remember it for the rest of your life!
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