(For Tuesday 5/17) Blast from the Past - 1999

I think this was the movie where I fell in love with Brendon Frasier. Or it might have been the one where I fell in love with Christopher Walkin. Either way - this movie has a lot of love to go around.

"Adam" is played perfectly by Frasier - a young man who has never been outside his state-of-the-art bomb shelter designed by his super-genius inventor dad. His mom taught him to love dancing - his dad taught him many foreign languages (Latin, French, German?!) and good 1960's family values were the center of his life. "Eve" is played by Alicia Silverstone and there's no question from the beginning that she's pretty worldly. Harsh language, rude behavior and cheating and lying are a big part of what she expects from other people. So when she runs into Adam, she's blown away by his naivete.

One of the most charming moments of the movie for me is watching Adam change from boy to man. He takes control of a situation and becomes an emotional strength for Eve - he leaves the boy behind and truly becomes the man. I guess I have always adored this movie because I find REAL MEN so appealing. Not boys who sit idly by and wait for women to do everything, be everything, create everything - no...one who can recognize and appreciate a woman but also freely take over in times of concern, crisis or emergency. The best man for the job isn't NECESSARILY a woman - and it's not a boy either. The best man for the job is one who has equal parts respect, love, kindness, appreciation, recognition, cooperation and understanding. Adam, in this movie, is my epitome "perfect man". Old fashioned, respectful, caring, intelligent, tender, wholesome, vulnerable, take-charge - someone everyone looks up to. Maybe that's why I love this movie so much - NAH. I think it's the uber cool underground lair. I mean, bomb shelter. :) I kinda wish I could walk in and live there awhile. Especially to cook in that super-cool oven that Sissy Spacek keeps using to make Pot Roast. :D

OH, one thought though - how did Brendan Frasier know to get chicken when he ordered the huge orders of food from the grocery store? They didn't take any chickens down with them - unless they ate CANNED chicken. ??? :) Either way, they wouldn't have had much experience eating FROZEN chicken. JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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