Friday, 10 March 2017
So how do you give it Juice
So how do you give
it Juice? ©
By Michael Casey
I’m sat here
writing with the family watching tv in the other room, I was wondering what to
talk about and I can hear the dramatic music from the film, Salt is the film
and we’ve all seen it before but it’s a Friday night so its film night in our house. Pause for breath that sentence was far too
long. But it does illustrate a point, how Music is used to make Drama more
exciting.
New paragraph, or a
lick of my lips, for dramatic effect. You give a film or a drama juice by
adding music, or by changing the tempo. Slow slow quick quick slow, just as a dance
moves across the dance floor so does the action in a film. The pace or the lack
of pace in a film can make or ruin it. The music makes it, or the style of
filming, or even the actors and the acting. It’s a very complicated business
and when you have seen as many films as we have in our family then you are
little film buffs.
But what would you
do to give your own life a bit of juice.
How would you score and direct your own life, would you pause and give
long lingering looks into the eyes of the bus driver as you spill your change
into the box to pay your fare on the No.11 bus. Would you move like a crouching
tiger or leaping dragon as you make your way to your seat on the bus.
Would you whip your
handkerchief out with a Shakespearean flourish and clean the seat before you
sat on it? Would you bow to the girls and say “your humble servant” and would
you spit in the eye of any man that dared to look you in the face? Would you
kiss the biggest and baddest of men you meet on the No.11 bus, let him explain
that to his crew, as you blow kisses to him and you slide off the bus.
Then you run like
hell, you know you have just risked your life with that stunt, but you have
injected Drama into your life. Or you may just kiss the biggest and fattest
woman on the bus just for fun, but instead of slapping your face hard she just
grabs you in a vicelike grip, she’s gonna suck the life out of you.
You thought you
were having a laugh on the No.11 bus but you can hear the Jaws theme music
screaming in your head, and she is the shark. She is having the kiss of her
lifetime and you are like fish food sprinkled into the goldfish bowl, but she
is the Orca beneath and the Jaws music plays on and the whole of the top deck
is laughing at you. Finally you faint and bang your head on the rail, blood
pours from you, only them can you escape. Come back I know first aid screams
Doreen after you.
There are many ways
to add drama to your life, but paying for a pensioner’s shopping in the
supermarket is the nicest thing you can do, it makes them feel there still is a
God in today’s world. And you never know who is looking, and not just God, that
girl who would never give you a second look will give you a look long look
because of your simple act of charity.
She saw you pay for
the pensioner’s shopping, and it reminded her of her old dead grannie and you
just helped that pensioner. So without any mood music you have plucked at her
heart, she’ll go for a coffee with you in the supermarket café. So next time you
are about to walk by, don’t, be a little charitable instead, and you could just
meet your future wife or husband, it works both ways you know. The music swells
in your hearts, as you stir your tea and look loving at each other. The
supermarket radio blares in the background, Can I Touch You There sings Michael
Bolton, and need I say any more.
So life is Drama
but with the boring bits taken out, there aren’t any fiddlers on the roof
adding musical emotion to the daily events, there is a fiddler next door but
that’s our neighbour. Music and your heart have beats and when they mix and
merge that’s when you are having a good life, just make sure you tick when you
tock and not tock when you tick.
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