Yes, my Jackman-ia is not yet over, and I’ve spent the past days researching about him and downloading his pictures to use as my laptop’s wallpaper and watching his movies. I watched X-Men 1 and 2 online and found a DVD of Kate and Leopold in the library on the day I got retrenched. Let’s just say that watching this film kept me from crashing. Hugh is my shot of Morphine – he makes me forget reality, which probably explains why I still haven’t shed a single tear till now, which I’m pretty sure isn’t normal.
Anyway the film is about this duke from the 18th century who accidentally lands in the 21st century and meets a modern woman who makes him fall in love for the first time. So he shows her how a gentleman courts a woman, and she returns his affections, but then things get complicated and he has to return to his time. In the end, she follows him there.
I suppose the movie has a lot of plot holes, but I forgot all that and got mesmerized by Leopold. It’s not just because of the way he looks, but his personality. If a guy with that accent and chivalry and romance ever came to court me, I would do exactly as Kate did in the movie – throw away my career and the life I know just to be with him.
I’ve always told my friends that I’m glad I haven’t been in a relationship in a while because if I had, I wouldn’t be where I am right now because I would be stuck wherever my heart was. I’m a heart girl. Always have been. That’s why I’ve been so careful not to give it away, because I know that the rest of me will follow.
But you know what, if I gave it away to a Leopold during a magical night at a rooftop, I wouldn’t mind at all. No, I really wouldn’t mind at all.
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| Kate and Leopold balcony scene |
Favorite Quotes:
Leopold: Marriage is the promise of eternal love. As a man of honor I cannot promise eternally what I’ve never felt momentarily.
Leopold: Otis always told me love is a leap. Lamentably, I was never inspired to jump.
Charlie: Don’t you think it’s time you told me who you are. I mean, don’t get me wrong, doing the Duke thing with you 24/7 is a blast, but really. Who are you?
Leopold: I’m the man that loves your sister.
Leopold: Ah yes, you mock me. But perhaps one day when you’ve awoken from a pleasant slumber to the scent of a warm brioche smothered in marmalade and fresh creamery butter, you’ll understand that life is not solely composed of tasks, but tastes.
Kate: I’m not very good with men.
Leopold: Perhaps you haven’t found the right one.
Kate: Maybe. Or, uh… maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we’ve been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.
Stuart: Maybe the reason I was your guy was so I could help you find your guy.
Stuart: It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don’t see colour. Just like we don’t see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can’t see it. It’s just like a blur. It’s like we’re riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you’re sitting in. Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. And that’s it; it’s that simple. That’s all I discovered. I’m just a… a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. I’m that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me.