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08/20/2006: "A Few Good Men"
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A Few Good Men ranks among my top favorite movies. It's on TV all the time, and if I happen to flip past it, as I did tonight, I can never turn down the chance to see it again. I can't figure out what it is that's so brilliant about it, although the names attached to it may explain some of it. Aaron Sorkin wrote it, and The West Wing was my favorite show for years, and Rob Reiner directed it, as he did two of my other favorite movies, The Princess Bride and Stand By Me. If only trials in real life were this gripping, I'd jump at the chance to litigate. Unfortunately, I don't think I've ever sat through a trial where I didn't nearly nod off at least once.
I'm also not sure how I still manage to love law-oriented movies and television shows when I'm completely burned out at school. Maybe it's because law in entertainment is stripped down to the dramatic moments and the brilliantly executed lines of questioning that lead to an "ah ha!" moment. I'm always acutely aware of the brief moments of screentime when a lead attorney hands a box of documents or security tapes to a nameless grunt and tells them to find something, or asks them to track down some fact or relevant caselaw, because I've been the grunt who does the research. It's not fun, it's not glamorous, and if it were given screentime in proportion to the time it takes in real life, there would not be five hundred Law & Order spinoffs trying to satisfy everyone's legal procedural hunger.
Only one week left before I have to stop pretending I'm not a law student. I'm so ready to be DONE.
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Princess Bride= AWESOME= Cary Elwes good days= Hawt. :-PShannon, Wednesday, August 23rd