What You’re Doing for Thanksgiving (if you live in a movie script)
November 25, 2008
1.) Playing touch football more happily and with more shenanigans and stripey sweaters and scarves than you’ve ever played touch football before.
2.) Sleeping with the mysterious, movie-star attractive, single, same-age-as-you guest your brother/sister brought home, whom they’ve never mentioned to you even though they’re best friends.
3.) Announcing your engagement/pregnancy/terminal illnes at the dinner table.
4.) Getting cursed out by your foul-mouthed, racist grandma.
5.) Getting a new perspective on your midlife crisis/divorce/smack addiction from your wise, worldly, young-at-heart grandpa.
6.) Arguing with your mom while doing dishes about either having too many babies to leave town and make something of yourself or having no babies because you left and made something of yourself (ladies only!).
7.) Realizing you’re a big city asshole and that you should move back to the small town where you grew up and handcraft some furniture in order to achieve true happiness.
Note: if you don’t live in a movie or screenplay, numbers 1-7 will probably have a lot more to do with eating, watching television, napping and, if we’re being really honest here, some farting.
Happy Thanksgiving!
word and for real. there is something truly das unheimliche about Danksgiving. don’t you experience a terrible sense of something lurking behind a lot of these scenes? for example, watching the movies Home For The Holidays, Scent of a Woman and White Palace are very difficult for me to do, yet I do them on a regular basis - asking myself “what is it? what is this horror of this otherwise bearable movie? it’s as if…..it isn’t Christmas, but it is Christmas…or it could be Christmas and they won’t allow it to be.” i can’t explain.
As an aside: Hannah and Her Sisters is the only Thanksgiving movie I’ve seen that needs to be Thanksgiving: it was too secular. Even Mickey’s fear of death and spiritual pondering was a sort of “pilgrimage” that begins with him producing television and ends with him watching a movie. By far the best Thanksgiving flick I’ve ever seen.
i spent thanksgiving in a tent out in the desert in Saudi Arabia! Great experience…
I really have never seen any Thanksgiving flicks, except the CHARLIE BROWN Thanksgiving special, I think. oh, and that hilarious Thanksgiving skit done by Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams in “The Addams Family Movie”