Maybe I'm the wrong person to do this...

I feel it is now time to come take part is some of the assignments that I have been dreading. Not because of how uncomfortable they will make me feel or their difficulty, mainly it’s the fact that I can't draw. I have about as much talent for drawing as a duck would have for playing the didgeridoo or a toaster would have for managing your debts into one manageable piece. So it is at this point I arrive nervously at assignment number 32. Draw a scene from a movie that made you cry.

Now this really got me thinking. I’m not trying to come over a macho and hard man like because that, frankly, would be ridiculous but I can count the amount of times I've cried at a film on one hand and still have a spare thumb.

Now I remember the first film I cried at. That prestigious honor goes to the emotional roller coaster that was Homeward Bound where the older dog couldn’t escape from the ditch only to be reunited with his owner right at the end. Still makes me all teary eyed just thinking about it, and now it’s with added nostalgia.

But for this assignment I went for a more contemporary film and went with the last scene of a film that made me cry, one that appears in Wes Anderson's amazing The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Firstly if you haven't seen this film, stop reading now and go watch it and return later. Then once you've done, finish reading and watch the other brilliant films in the Wes Anderson catalogue Rushmore and The Royal Tennenbaums and thank me later. If you have seen it, hopefully you can guess which scene I'm talking about from my picture (and let me remind you that I admit I can't draw so be nice.



For those of you who are still a bit bemused here is the scene I have tried to recreate


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPMf8G8Pi5o
But like I said I insist you watch this movie, if just to see what your reaction to this scene is.

Now for one of my assignments (35. Ask your family to describe what you do, but more on that later) I had to ask members of my family for assistance. So I emailed my dear Mother, Father and eldest brother Alex to assist me. Alex, god bless him though I wanted him to also draw a scene in a movie which made him cry. His result is both astounding in the amount of effort he put in and shameful that his picture trumps mine in almost every single way, so here it is with his own explanation



'Ello

I've decided to draw the heart-breakingly beautiful scene from Beauty and the Beast, where the Beast (played in this piece by what looks like a giant squirrel in a dinner jacket) tells Belle that she can leave to save her father, thereby sacrificing what is perhaps his final chance to find true love. Sniff, it truly is a tear-jerker. I particularly like the use of perspective in this scene, while I found I really captured the Beast's pain in his face. Fantastic, if I do say so myself

I'm tempted to just let him do everything now purely based on this fine piece of work, and he didn't use none of this Photoshop business either, just a pure old school paint job.

I'm also curious now to see how assignment number 27. Take a picture of the sun would look if I asked Alex to do it too, I'm guessing he would produce something of such hilarity/beauty that it would completely overshadow my effort