Ten Things From the Movies I'll Never Get to Do

They say every man is living in his own movie.  I've never done anything remotely worthy of a Hollywood action flick.  The closest experience was to shout to American Air Force pilots over the din of a airport tarmac, "Welcome to Turkmenistan!"  It felt like it was a scripted line that was delivered by someone else. 

 

What are those things I've imagined doing if my life was really to be in movies:

1.  Crash a car through a sidewalk fruit stand while pedestrians scatter.

2.  Throw a cowboy through a plate glass window.

3.  Sword fight along the castle parapets.

4.  Arrest the bad buy and tell my back-up to "book this bozo."

5.  Tell the Warden that, "there hasn't been a prison made that can hold me."

6.  Defuse the time bomb with seven seconds left.

7.  Push the plunger that detonates the demolition charges.

8.  Start a pie fight.

9.  Play an impossibly difficult Rachmaninoff piano concerto leaving the audience in stunned silence.

10. Be told by a presiding official that, "you've made a mockery of these proceedings."  (preferably with my pet Macaque monkey, "Mr. Peepers" on my shoulder).

Reviews

[Tam Warink]

Heh! Well, if you're still vertical and sucking air then it's not too late. ...get with the program, cowboy! :) Of course, sometimes, it's just as fulfilling to simply write about those things, envision them in a way that others may experience them as well. There's the value-add of the feedback from readers and critics. While it makes for a few dull seconds in a movie there's the advantage of the little feedback loop in the authors head where they can replay the good ones for years to come.

[rutherford]

Bottle that attitude and sell it. (smile here). I think your comment captures it. I often see these scenes played over in my mind probably because they've become cliches. I end up putting myself in the scenes. I"m not ready for the credits to roll by a long shot. Thanks