Harmony Jones
If there’s anything we know about Clint, the guy that runs this website, it’s that he loves those music-fuelled, somewhat hip and motivational Cameron Crowe movies. Cameron Crowe is the filmmaker behind movies like “Say Anything…”, “Jerry Maguire”, “Almost Famous”, “Elizabethtown” and “We Bought a Zoo”. While I doubt Clint’s considering buying a farm or zoo anytime soon, I believe it’s clear why he so enjoys those other films of Cameron Crowe. I haven’t seen nearly enough of Mr. Crowe’s movies to testify to the fact, but I’m guessing – based on what I have – that it’s because he can relate to some of those movies (and, as we all know, he use to work in radio, so I’m guessing the funky music that usually floods Cameron Crowe movies is a win for him too?).
Let’s take a look at some of those films on Cameron Crowe’s Internet Movie Database page :
Say Anything
Quiet, ambitious “nice guy” – with a love of music and kickboxing – decides to take a risk and ask the prettiest, most intelligent girl in school out. And so begins the most unlikely of love stories… one that concludes in the sweetest of make-up movies. But I think everyone likes this movie, and enjoys this one’s theme of opposites attracting and defying the odds to make it, so it’s not just “nice guys” that ‘get it’. Here’s that moment :
Jerry Maguire
I knew one of the site’s former writers, and she swore black and blue that this movie was Clint’s secret biography. It’s the story of a caring agent for celebrities who, having had enough of seeing the bosses reap all the credit and also sick of seeing people treated like trash, decides to throw in the towel and form his own company…. And take them on. That’s very similar to what Clint did. He even took a couple of people with him and, like Jerry Maguire, managed to hang onto a couple of clients too. But there’s also the story at the center of the movie – Jerry’s relationship with the young child, and his bond with the co-worker, and how he nearly loses all that because he’s so invested in his clients. Here’s some of this movie’s cute moments :
Almost Famous.
Very Mr. Morris. A young boy, barely in his teens – what age were you when you started working at the radio station and in the Drive-In, Clint? 12? Hahahahaha! – gets his dream job of being a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. But then he also gets to go on tour with one of his favourite music bands. I can see why Clint likes this one so much. I don’t get the love so much – I think you have to know or have worked in this industry to appreciate it – but I can see how it might strike a chord.
Elizabethtown
I didn’t think much of this either (I’m going to be fired from Moviehole before I’ve even begun), but someone that likes Cameron Crowe movies is going to be into it, that’s for sure. It has all the same elements of his other films – the underdog who finds his way in the world, the coincidental meeting (Orlando Bloom’s character falls in love with a young flight attendant played by Kirsten Dunst, even though they’re at totally different stages in their life) that turns into a pivotal relationship for both involved, and the subject of overcoming grief – with music, dance, laughing and so on. This film starts off depressingly slow and somewhat bleak but turns into a very uplifting and quite inspiring tale of rebirth. SO… I get this one too.
Cameron Crowe has a new movie coming out, I see, that stars another great ‘opposites attract’ duo in Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone. On paper, you’d think those two wouldn’t work together, but just as Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence did in “Silver Linings Playbook”, I’m betting these two – and Cameron Crowe’s writing – will probably be quite fun on screen together. And the movie has all these other great actors in it too (by the way the movie doesn’t have a title yet; I’m not sure if that’s a Cameron Crowe-thing? Clint, is it? Does he wait until the last minute to name his movie? Is that even his job?) like Bill Murray.
I was reading in a forum that, although the movie has been delayed from this Christmas to next Easter sometime, the trailer is just around the corner. I’m guessing that it will be in cinemas around Christmastime – preluding something similar?
Looking at what’s coming up, I’m guessing the trailer for “Untitled Cameron Crowe” movie will be on :
“The Water Diviner”
“Jane Got a Gun”
“American Sniper” (it has Bradley Cooper in it)
“Foxcatcher”
But I don’t know. I’m just going on internet information.
I do hope to be at a movie screening preview with Clint when the trailer does come on, just so I can see the ‘excited kid’ look on his face when the words “A Cameron Crowe Film” flash on the screen.
