Immortal Love and Timeless Classics

Does love have to be doomed to be deemed immortal? You can decide if this is a pertinent question or not. Lets take a look at some of the love stories that definitely make the Eternal Romance/Timeless Classics list and take it from there shall we.

Close your eyes and think of 'aeonian romance' and list out the stories/movies that come up in your mind. This is the list my mind bore from this exercise:

• A walk to remember
• Love Story
• Titanic
• Romeo and Juliet
• Tristan and Isolde
• Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
• The Notebook

More than half the list is tragic. One would also probably include Wuthering Heights (though not my kind of romance), Casablanca, Cleopatra and Antony, Gone with the wind, Orpheus and Eurydice, Lancelot and Guinevere etc etc.......Even Bella had to die in order to be with Edward forever (thou its a happy ending of sorts but its still tech dead)

So what is it about heartwrenching tragedies that make love iconic and etch a place in our hearts, the likes of which cannot be competed by stories with more warmer, happier notes.

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic" once quipped Oscar Wilde. Why?

Is it because true love, often perceived as something so pure and rare, is infact too good to exist? Or is it because the shocks caused by such tragedies leave a more sizeable impression in our minds and hearts that they remain for a longer time than happier memories (something akin to us humans remembering the bad more than the good)?

Whatever be the reason, be it in words or on celluloid, an enduring tale of love lost always, always, has struck a more lasting chord in our hearts and our history.

- KPR

My favourite movie quotes of all time - Part 1

You notice how these days everything I write about comes in parts???? Is it because there are so many wonderful things that make up numerous moments at various points in our bleach stretched lives or Is it because we are like children in Toys-r-us who might want something today but another thing tomorrow, not ready to commit permanantly to one set of things and hence in order to avoid appearing fickle minded we'd like others to think we have infact pre-thought everything and have this grand plan which we shall reveal in due course of time and ofcourse in parts :D Well this is a discussion for another post another day but for now here are some memorable lines according to me.




"Destiny is the bridge you build to the one you love" - My sassy girl


"I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" - Notting Hill


"Look, I guarantee that we'll have tough times. And I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us will want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine I'll regret it for the rest of my life. Because I know in my heart, you're the only one for me." - Runaway Bride


"If I forget to tell you later, I had a really great time tonight" - Pretty Woman


"Kevin: What about you? You don't have any needs? Jane: No. I'm Jesus." - 27 dresses


"People wait their whole lives to see an ex when things are going really good. it NEVER happens. You could make relationship history! " - Music & Lyrics

"Kat Ellis: You know what pisses me off? I've been spilling my guts all weekend and I don't know a thing about you. Nick Mercer: I'm allergic to fabric softener. I majored in comparative literature at Brown. I hate anchovies. And I think I'd miss you even if we never met" - The wedding date


"I'd rather fight with you than make love with anyone else." - The wedding date


"You're like the Yoda of escorts. Getting you on the phone was harder than getting into college" - The wedding date


"Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people" - The Painted Veil


"Fester Fester Fester, Rot Rot Rot" -  French Kiss 
(While on the topic of French Kiss, I must pause to elaborate that this line is definitely not the most memorable in the movie but it gets the mention as it is the most accessible one to write. Makes sense in a way doesnt it coz otherwise I'd have to write the whole damn screenplay over here as everything about this movie is memorable.)


Right, So I guess we'll make this part concise..Leaves a path for more parts doesnt it! (Snigger Snigger)


~ KPR