It's a fun movie "Elf." I look forward to watching it every holiday season, for it's a sweet holiday movie where a grown man is happy and very innocent. He was raised as an elf while not fitting into the rest of the north pole, finding out that his real father was working in New York, he goes out into the world doing good and embracing life fully!
He is an inspiration to everyone around Christmas when most people are stressed or distracted from the real meaning of the holiday.
It's a perfect movie that I could relate to very much in trying to get my husband to like Christmas those first 5 years we were married, I was just like Elf. I think I always will be actually...
It's the lights, the music and the season of wonder, of magic and of joy!
Once we realize the crowds of people will be apart of the experience, then no matter where we go we can delight in it like Buddy the Elf.
This song is perfect for the scene in the movie as Buddy has no idea he is intruding on her personal private time. The pure sweetness of their friendship grows into the movie as a nice side note as Buddy learns to adapt to the real world while holding on to his joy, his wonder of all things good!
I can relate so very much in my own self, maybe we all can.
It's hard to grow up realizing if you don't make time for Christmas it will pass you by in the blink of an eye, it can take more money then you ever realized to bring it back to life from your childhood memories but as I think over the my favorite Christmases were always the simplest ones. Singing "Baby, it's cold outside." always made me laugh as it tells the story of a man wanting a woman to stay with him while it's winter outside, they are drinking, flirting and smoking together as they sing the song of back and forth banter, of equal attraction to one another yet the song has references to bad weather being the reason they should be together, while the man and woman discuss going or staying the part I always chuckle at is when she sings "There's bound to be talk tomorrow..." Women are always worried about how it looks to others because they are always judged harshly for it, while men move in and out of the situation more in admiration. It's not fair at all, both people are equal in their choices to cozy up together on a snowy winter's night yet society judges the women far more harshly, the debate right now is that this song isn't equal at all and shouldn't be sung anymore as the woman is being pressured to stay with the man. In the song I feel that it is a mutual desire, however the man is stating his case and his desire with all the snow out there, with the cold outside to his advantage. It represents a time in society when a woman couldn't be so bold as a man in this way, the amusement I have always had for this song is still there after all these concerns and debates about it being unsuitable for society anymore.
It's captured in one of my most favorite holiday films to enjoy, to sing along with and to simply smile at.
For there's something special about the cold, about cuddling up in the winter together.
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