The something’s and nothings they say

Yesterday, boredom struck me like a rather animated piece of lightening, so as any teenage girl would, I lent for my movie box...and out came, an all time classic...well actually 2 all time classics: (I am as decisive as a small child in a sweet shop) Casablanca and Funny Girl. Now, these films are, in my humble opinion, 2 of the greatest films to ever come out of America...and they both have 2 things in common, romance and also loss (and the ability to tug at the very toughest of heart strings).

I don’t want to give away too many spoilers, as if you have not seen these films yet, you really must (not doing so would be a crime against humanity). But, they do both feature an extremely handsome man trying, in Casablanca’s case, to win back the heart of a once loved lady (Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart) or, in funny girl’s case (Omar Sharif tries to) win over a beautiful girl (Barbara Streisand) with a voice that could steal the hearts of the nation. But it’s the way that these men do this, I think, that restores women’s faith in the male species and there propensity to do slightly unromantic things. They don’t just whisper sweet nothings, and the women don’t come out with expressions like “it was something and nothing”, no...They go all out, they take them out on dates, Omar Sharif acquires the ability to ALWAYS turn up at the right time (an ability I refuse to believe is just coincidence) and steels her heart away with the extravagant flora gifts and dates, Bogart performs great deeds to prove his love for Berman (admittedly not quite as difficult as the 12 tasks of Hercules but there not easy), although he does not truly realise his love for until quite late on. Both men lose their lady, Bogart tells her to go (another act of love) with the famous line “your gunna get on that plane Elsa” as the rain personifies his mood all around, and Sharif, well he turns out to be a bit of a (for want of a better word) numpti, but Streisand doesn’t stop loving him (her ending song says as much). Both men leave lasting impressions the size of yeti’s foot prints on these women, and didn’t get that by whispering something’s and nothings!

 So, to conclude, anyone with a spare hour and 38 minutes watch Casablanca or funny girl and make sure you have an ample size of tissues, and any boys or girls out there, DO SOMETHING, sweet something’s and nothing’s aren’t going to leave your loved one with a yetis footprint, it will leave then with something more along the lines of a squashed ant.

Thanks for reading.