My boyfriend and I have very few movies and do not actually have cable at all. To be perfectly honest we don’t have a lot of time to sit down and watch too much television anyway, but when we do, it is usually one of a select few movies that we own or something we have borrowed from the library. Our movie collection is varied and eclectic and comically corny at some points from Coyote Ugly to Labyrinth.
Some that Mark, my boyfriend, gets a tickle out of though are the “Bill and Ted” series of movies. There must be about three or four of them now. I don’t know for sure. I know that I have seen at least one of them because we own it and he watches it from time to time because it cracks him up completely. He doesn’t find the jokes within the movie itself all that funny, he is more like me. He picks it apart and finds the mistakes and inaccuracies within the making of the movie. The stupidity that was popular in the target audience that made it so popular is also another of his favorite discussions, but that is a whole other topic.
I came home from work the other night to find him watching it and sat down to finish it with him. It’s the one where they die and have to challenge the Grim Reaper. Once they win they go with him to heaven to find a scientist or something to help them, but they have to answer a question before they get in. They are told that only the most learned and “enlightened shall enter” and yet when asked “what is the meaning of life?” their answer… “Every rose has its thorn…” gains them entrance. This got me to thinking.
These two idiots (sorry Bill and Ted fans but that is what they are and that is what they are marketed as) are allowed entrance into heaven as enlightened individuals for answering one of life’s “toughest” questions with the lyrics from a rock-n-roll song? Isn’t that just ironic? I know that was the point the writers were making… or at least a joke they were intending but what if it really was that simple. I’ve always assumed things really were just that basic but to see it put out on a movie known for stupidity style jokes and stunts was even more interesting to me.
To tear apart this movie on a level deeper than just the comic relief that was basically marketed there is more there than may have been originally intended. We may have more answers than we realized in the ramblings of two empty headed buffoons.
Every rose has its thorn!
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