Marriage as a Witness
July 28th 2008 08:16
It’s intriguing to see how often there’s a search done for the short speech Susan Sarandon gives as the character, Beverly Clark, in the movie, Shall We Dance. (That’s the movie in which there’s an airbrush version of Jennifer Lopez, who, in spite of the fact that she looks like she’d break if bent too far still manages to dance very well.)
The speech talks about marriage being a witness to our lives, and I suspect people go to work looking for it to use as a quote for weddings, though I don’t have any stats to prove that.
It’s not often that a speech from a movie makes that kind of impact when you’re viewing the movie itself. Or maybe it just appealed to me because of its message. I know I went
searching for it on IMDB not long after I saw the movie the first time in order to make sure I actually had it written down somewhere. I still keep a copy of it on my noticeboard, in fact.
Here it is (the scriptwriter was Audrey Wells - pictured).
We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'."
Interestingly enough, on the Screenrush site they say about Wells: As an avowed feminist and politically aware writer and director, Audrey Wells has produced a body of work that delves deeply into issues that affect women.
This is interesting, because someone's view of feminist is different to the generally-accepted use of the word. Or perhaps it's a better use of the word, considering that Wells' female characters in general are more feminine than feminist.
The speech talks about marriage being a witness to our lives, and I suspect people go to work looking for it to use as a quote for weddings, though I don’t have any stats to prove that.
It’s not often that a speech from a movie makes that kind of impact when you’re viewing the movie itself. Or maybe it just appealed to me because of its message. I know I went
Here it is (the scriptwriter was Audrey Wells - pictured).
We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'."
Interestingly enough, on the Screenrush site they say about Wells: As an avowed feminist and politically aware writer and director, Audrey Wells has produced a body of work that delves deeply into issues that affect women.
This is interesting, because someone's view of feminist is different to the generally-accepted use of the word. Or perhaps it's a better use of the word, considering that Wells' female characters in general are more feminine than feminist.
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Comment by alt_ed
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Interesting post.. I think you're on to something here too!
The term feminist has so many undeserved negative connotations, that really belittle what feminism 'was' and to some point still is.
-It's not about castrating men at birth (although, like anything there's a few fanatics out there who may disagree).
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Comment by Mike Crowl
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Hopefully men are of use for a few functions, though...