…actually
today was just down right crummy outside….well actually I loved it…I wanted to
just sit inside and do nothing but watch tv all day long and nap, but I figured
I can do that in america….so I slept in, took my time getting ready for the day
and went off to the National Cinema Museum….i don’t know how I haven’t made
time to do this until 2 weeks before I am leaving, but I finally did….and it
was really super cool….that is after I spent over an hour waiting in line…in
the pouring down rain….that was an adventure….also, I realized that I have
earned a hole in my Hunter Rain Boots….really just a slit, so its fine as long
as I don’t step in any really deep puddles….but its kinda ok, those boots have
literally survived everything and been all over Europe JJ…..
….but
once I got inside it was wicked cool….the whole first level was just the
history of how people got from making shadow puppets to film and absolutely
everything in between….it was really interactive too which was fun…it really
explained everything from how they use different pictures moving a certain way
to trick how your brain sees things to how certain types of lenses can flip a
picture….everything even how certain colors must be made by lenses not put in
the images because your brain wont see it….it was incredible….
…the
funny thing is after they got to making actual films they kinda just moved you
to the second level which skipped right to the golden age of Hollywood….it was
kinda funny, no evolution of film really….but what was cool is they had old
movies playing on big screens in the middle of the floor with tons of lounges
to sit back in and watch all around the central lift going up to the top of the
Mole J…it
was really great….but then all around the outside of this floor was broken into
sections…horror, animation, romance, sci-fi, comedy…with each section looking
further into the biggest movies and the evolution of those genres…then after
walking up a spiral exposed staircase, there was an entrance to the next floor
which briefly explained the basics of putting a film together, shooting,
sounds, editing…then there was a costume section with some really cool
costumes, like the darth vader helmet from one of the episodes and scarletts
hat from gone with the wind…and tons of other stuff…then there was also a hall
of old posters…super cool J it was fun to try
to translate the ones in italian to figure out what it was J….and
then finally was the exhibit that changes throughout the year, from may to
august it’s the “Oscar for Best Actress”…
…this
was my most favorite part actually….it was on this walkway that spiraled around
the whole outside of the central great room, it just went up and up and looked
at all the great female actresses in chronological order…it was really cool too
because after 7 or 8 women that they would have inscriptions about there would
be a tv with clips from the movies they won the award for….soo cool everyone
from Audrey Hepburn, to Jane Fonda, to Haley Berry (who was the first black
woman to win Best Actress or even receive a nomination, which I didn’t know) to
the great Meryl Streep to Jenifer Lawrence and everyone in between I spent a
good hour to an hour and a on this exhibit alone, it was great….then it
finished downstairs with some of the dresses from the different women….loved it….
….then
afterwards, I had wanted to also go to the automobile museum but by the time I got
back to this side of town, I was cold and wet and tired…so I came home, grabbed
some lunch, and relaxed for an hour or so and then started to pack…because well
I need to make sure all of this stuff is gonna get back to the states J
….so I packed up all of the gifts for people back home, and everything I didn’t
think I would need for the next couple weeks and already got one back to 49.4
pounds…..
…when
I didn’t think I could pack anything more, I went out to actually hang out with
my family and ended watching Frozen with Giacomino before dinner J…dinner
was nice tho last night too because Simone was home for it and they made me
only speak Italian at dinner…because when Simone is home I usually just speak
English to him because he speaks so well, that he says that I never speak
Italian at the house thankfully Ely spoke up for me the other day and told him
that I pretty much always speak it to her J….but they made me last
night so that was good J….perfect ending to a cozy full day J
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