Cameron Crowe - Where art thou?

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Now, back to the subject 'Cameron Crowe - Where art thou?' starring, well, Cameron Crowe in a powerful yet subtle performance that the world sat up and took notice of.... Whawastha? Who is Cameron Crowe you ask? Hell, if you don't know, you don't deserve to!

On second thoughts, if you don't know, it's my duty to tell you. More like my wish, actually, cos I'm kinda bored and this seems like a good time to talk about it :P

So, all I have for you are 5 words...

You had me at hello.

Ring any bells? That's right! Cameron Crowe is the writer and director of this new age classic that made Ray & Dorothy Boyd, Rod Tidwell and, of course, Jerry Maguire, household names. This movie should have started a movement. I don't know what for or what against, but there is something about it that embraces life is such an honest, open manner, that you (or atleast I) get the feeling that he's on to something, this Cameron guy... Like he's figured something out about life, simplified what seems as complicated as calculus.

I remember watching this movie the first time, and thinking, what is this about? What does Tom Cruise do exactly? And what is he writing? And why is he so freaked out when all his peers are done reading it? And why in the hell is he taking so much BS fom Cuba Gooding Jr.? I didn't get the concept of Sports Management, seeing as I was such a Sports Spaz, and still am. And it took me forever to understand what shop lifting the pootie from a single mom was! But I slowly lost sight of the details and immersed myself into the life of the struggling Maguire, who had basically screwed his life up over an epiphany. Or so he thought...

We get so immersed in doing what we do, being who we are and evaluating how much we can make for it, that sometimes, an epiphany is what it takes to make you see. Really see. I know we all claim to know this, but Jerry Maguire, was the first movie of it's kind to come out and say it in a manner that was hilarious, bittersweet, dramatic and subtle all at once. After all, it sort of qualifies as a romcom in a lot of ways. You don't expect so much from a romcom, do you? I didn't. And I was pleasantly surprised.