Best Picture
by Alex Andy Phuong
There is the classic saying
that, “a picture is worth a thousand words.”That
was on the mind of Emma after learning that Moonlight
won the “Best Picture” at the
Academy Awards on Sunday night after the epic La
La Land snafu. She thought it was funny that
her first name is the same as Emma Stone’s
even though she is just a college student
majoring in Film Studies. She absolutely adored
cinema ever since the first time she saw Mary
Poppins a very young age because she felt
transported to new worlds filled with enchantment
whenever she watches a motion picture. On Monday,
though, her perspective on reality changed
forever. She was in her Argumentation and Debate
class when her professor delivered a lecture on
“The Greatest Movie of All Time.”The
professor discussed classic and contemporary
films ranging from Gone with the Wind to Titanic,
but only promised the class that he would say
what film really is the greatest one of all time.
After lecturing for a whole hour, the professor
said, “The debate about the greatest movie
of all time is one of the most pointless debates
ever because a movie is just a movie!” After
hearing that revelation, Emma felt shaken to her
core. She realized that her love affair with
cinema that began after watching Mary Poppins was
a waste of countless hours of her life. From that
moment on, she promised herself to strive to
create art through writing and other visual
mediums (like painting and sculpture) instead of
worrying about celebrities. She also realized
that just because a film receives the “Best
Picture” Academy Award does not make it
special. Therefore, she took the lessons that she
learned from Emma Stone’s Oscar-winning
performance as Mia, and vowed to create art for
the sake of creativity. Why worry about famous
people when she could create beauty through her
talent and imagination? Emma promised to never
stop believing in the power of creating. Here’s
to the fools who dream!
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