Bethylene's Top Ten Most Excellent, Most Romantic Films of a Favorite Nature

Owing to the homework of which Bethylene is doing not now, the list is continuing itself with the installment of most romantic favorite films and serials. The films which are listed below are set in times or cultures which are not belonging to the most rambunctious Bethylene, leading to the supposition that Bethylene may not be considering interactions in her own culture as being conducive to romance. (See also Gone with the Wind.)

Casablanca
The ending of this film, in which Rick does not get Ilsa and instead sends her away with her husband, is being much more romantic than other romantic movies in which the hero is getting the girl in the end.

North & South
North & South being a television serial instead of being a film, it is still continuing in a romantic fashion and is containing large amounts of sexual tension. The kiss that has been in the end of the serial is most excellent, in which they are not eating each other's faces. The book North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, in which Mr. Thornton's thoughts were being examined, is also being most romantic despite the romantic scenes all being much different from the serial. Thus reading the book and watching the serial together is capable of bringing two romantic experiences which are being separate but equal.

Moulin Rouge!Moulin Rouge! is being a champion of love, in which it is the most maybe romantic movie that was ever being made. "Like a Virgin" is being horribly disturbing in this film and sometimes is giving Bethylene nightmares to herself.

Pride & Prejudice
Although the most gracious Bethylene is knowing that other persons, especially Debylene, will be disagreeing with this choice of hers, it is the opinion of that most astute person that the 2005 film Pride & Prejudice was being more romantic than the 1995 television serial Pride and Prejudice.

Arranged
Arranged is being a film that is being focused on a relationship that is not romantic, in this case being the friendship which is between Rochel Meshenberg and Nasira Khaldi. However, the romances of the small variety between Rochel and Gideon and Nasira and Jamil are also being most romantic. Arranged has been demonstrating that arranged marriage is capable of being romantic also. Arranged is also giving the most gorgeous Bethylene the wish that her marriage could be arranged.

Sense & Sensibility
Again, it is the opinion of the most illuminated Bethylene that the 2008 television serial Sense & Sensibility is being much more romantic than the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility, owing in great part to the larger amount of manliness that is being given to Edward and the greater number of reaction shots that is being given to Colonel Brandon, despite the fact that Colonel Brandon is appearing to be the only major character in the novels of Jane Austen to never have been given a name of the first variety. Mr. Willoughby, that is being seen in the picture, is also being more of a person of the horrible variety, due to his possession of more character development. The possibility that ampersands improve Bethylene's impression of all types of films is also being under consideration.

Kal Ho Naa Ho
Despite Shah Rukh Khan's most excellent performance of "Pretty Woman", it is the opinion of the most scholastic Bethylene that Saif Ali Khan is still a much more appealing choice. This film is also offering many comedic moments, such as Kanta Bhen's mistaken belief that Aman and Rohit were being lovers and the song, "It's the Time to Disco".

The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom is being a murderer, nevertheless in spite of such it is hard for the most advantageous Bethylene to understand how Christine could leave him. This conflicted feeling is a much important reason for this being on the list of Most Excellent, Most Romantic Films of a Favorite Nature. Gerard Butler has also been causing obsession in Bethylene, in which she wishes he were in films which were better.

Dear Frankie
Gerard Butler is not participating sufficiently in Dear Frankie, owing to the fact that it is about Frankie and his mother, Lizzie, and not about a romance between Gerard Butler's unnamed character and Lizzie. For the aforementioned reason, Bethylene is being forced to be watching the film on many occasions in order to catch Gerard Butler's few lines in his native Scottish accent.

Persuasion
Persuasion is being the third film or serial that is being based on a novel by Jane Austen on this list. This is due in part to the fact that Jane Austen's novels are tending to be over-romanticized while they are being adapted into films and serials. The ITV television film Persuasion is one of Bethylene's Top Ten Most Excellent, Most Romantic Films of a Favorite Nature owing mostly to Rupert Penry-Jones, but also to the film's most excellent pacing and to Anthony Stewart Head.

Mentions which had been of an honorable nature: Pride and Prejudice (serial, 1995), Sweet Home Alabama, Gone with the Wind, Jane Eyre (serial, 2006), Chocolat (in which chocolate itself is the romantic lead), Vanity Fair (serial, 1998), Amélie, To Catch a Thief, The Shop around the Corner, Far from the Madding Crowd (TV film, 1998).

Bethylene's Top Ten Most Excellent, Most Favorite Films of a Comedic Nature

The limiting of the list of top ten most excellent, most favorite films of the most esteemed Bethylene was very difficult to itself owing to the many large and important films which Bethylene has been watching in the past. To separate the films by genre and to create a list of top ten most excellent, most favorite films in each genre were considered. Furthermore and moreover, the films which Bethylene is watching on more occasions are not all the time similar to the films which Bethylene considers to be the most excellent of all the films. An example is Paradise Now, which Bethylene has been watching on five occasions and which Bethylene considers to be a better film than Sixteen Candles and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, both of the two of which Bethylene has been watching on many more occasions. The inclusion of BBC serials was also an article of contention as the BBC serial is fundamentally different from the cinematic film; nevertheless, it was the opinion of Bethylene that the inclusion of these serials was necessitated by their definitive excellence.
To end this internal debate without further argument, the illustrious Bethylene had been choosing to present in this post only the top ten films of a comedic nature which are considered by her to be the most excellent and most favorite.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
This particular film was chosen because watching this particular film is having caused in Bethylene an extreme fit of giggling which makes it difficult to her the breathing.

Sixteen CandlesSixteen Candles is a most excellent, most favorite film of the honourable Bethylene, may her star always twinkle, owing to the fact that it combines elements of hyperreality with elements of fantasy. The Dragnet theme associated with the Farmer Ted is most excellent indeed.

His Girl Friday
The highest and most elective Bethylene, may her phone always ring, is considering this film to be a most excellent, most favorite film of a comedic nature owing to its potential to evoke dreams of emulation from herself.

The Importance of Being Earnest
The writings of Oscar Wilde being most excellent, it is not a surprising event that The Importance of Being Earnest should be being considered as most comical.

The Road to Hong Kong
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are having most extreme enjoyment of the robotic tickling in their monkey spacesuits in this most excellent film.

Better Off Dead
The most delicious and desirable Bethylene is in laughter at the portrayal of a suicidal teenaged youth who is in most exquisite agony for a girl by the beautiful name of Beth. John Cusak was also being a very important addition to comedies of the eighties teen variety. The dancing clay hamburgers are only detracting a small amount from the excellence of the film.

It Happened One Night
The Most Glorious Bethylene is having extreme admiration for the assertion of this film that "the limb is mightier than the thumb."

Hairspray
Hairspray is being a most excellent and most favorite part of the list of Bethylene's Top Ten Most Excellent, Most Favorite Films of a Comedic Nature owing to its large hairdos and its perpetuation of the cultural perception that our society is better than the society of 1960s Baltimore for a variety of veritable explanations. Also most excellent is the fact that this film is being a 2007 film adaptation of a 2002 Broadway adaptation of a 1988 film set in 1962 that were also being called Hairspray. Tracy's song about the bells is being most inspirational.

Bride & Prejudice
Bride & Prejudice deserves a placing on this list owing to the many times the most effervescent Bethylene has watched it and to "No Life without Wife." It is not being too romantic of the mushy nature due to the fact that Lalita and Darcy are not being on the screen together many times and that the kissing of the lip-to-lip variety is being absent from this film.

Twelfth Night
As is being noticed in Hairspray, cross-dressing is always humorous.

Mentions which were being honorable: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Napoleon Dynamite, The Philadelphia Story, The Princess Bride, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Awful Truth

An Example of a Poor Prompt, from a class entitled, "The Teacher and the Social Order"

Choose 3 important points from the reading and explain how they relate to: realizing the world is not how you thought it to be and the effects of that realization.

Also, this book, The Flight to Objectivity: Cartesianism and Culture, has very little to do with the departmental objective of the course.

I can get into the OED online again!

This makes the whole college thing worth it.

Plan Readjustment

So I just found out from my adviser that I'd have to take so many courses that I'd get sick again if I were to try to start my student teaching in winter 2011. That means that unless I were super rich and could travel to Australia to do my student teaching, I have to wait until fall 2011 semester, which ends in January 2012, to be a certificated student teacher. Two years.
By the way, it is so weird that people in this area have to thank the bus driver every time they get off the bus just to show that they consider him an equal and not an inferior.

First College Paper in Two Years

Wish me luck.

Das Unheimliche

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the
wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
—from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham, 1919

Scene 2

A small, state-run university in the Pacific Northwest. Outside the windows are gray skies and lots and lots of trees. On the roof, strangely, are solar panels.
Enter Bethylene, wearing her new-to-her jeans donated by a kind friend and her yellow "Never Judge a Book By Its Movie" t-shirt. Her hair is longish with scraggly ends.
Bethylene: (to herself) How the heck did I end up here?

First Thoughts of 2010

1. I can't believe it's freaking 2010! Just a second ago we were ushering in Y2K!
2. Ow. (I was shakin' my bootie and dancing like a maniac, and my lungs, knees, calves, and feet were really starting to feel it.)
3. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.