[FM] Everything about wishes I've learned from Brendan Fraser
You find a magic lamp and free the Genie. What are your three wishes? You can not wish for more wishes.
I've seen this movie. Brendan Fraser, note he is weird about how he pronounces that damn last name, ends up playing various roles and trust me the best one is when he's the Columbian Drug Lord. "Que es esto? Azucar?" Come on! It's brilliant. Okay, that and when he's singing like a dolphin. The movie is great, a classic really, plus Elizabeth Hurley is in it, and there is this one scene when she walks behind the desk in that slit to there dress, and well... thank God for DVDs and the frame by frame option.
So three wishes always come with a catch, and as learned by movies like Bedazzled, you can't just make them all willy nilly. It's a matter of thinking it through and wording it exactly the right way. Details are always key in these sort of things.
Wish No. 01 - Martin Scorsese to win an Oscar for The Departed. Look I know it's odd, and not even a wish for me, but considering how many other times he's done amazing films and not gotten noticed? It's time. The Departed was an amazing film too. Plus I figure if I make the wish for someone else, that I don't even know? Hell less likely to bite me in the ass right?
Wish No. 02 - Look I'm not blind, even though I don't have any real plan of action to help them? I see what's going on. Or at least I hear about it. Faith, Angel, Harry... those kids of theirs... Buffy and Dawn, Kennedy, Alex and her brothers and her dad... pretty much everyone that I care about? They all need those Easy Buttons. You know from the Staples commercials? They just need the chance to make things the way that they need them without all the crap of actual living getting in the way. I figure the Easy Button means that they can use it at their own discretion because I know all about how life is surviving the struggle.
Wish No. 03 - Alex just met her Dad for the first time in her life, and while I have no clue what she told him about me, except what she told me that she told him... but well I am pretty sure Alex prefers to give me a heart attack rather than tell me honestly what happened. So the mention of her telling him that I'm trying to corrupt her... well I can take that with a grain of salt. Regardless of whatever she told him, didn't tell him... I want him to understand that I care about his daughter and that I won't hurt her. I'm sure it's hard for him to even get to an understanding point with the daughter he never actually knew... but I figure if I had a wish to use and I could just use it to ease his mind I'd do it.
So that's three and I didn't wish for more wishes, or wish for someone else to get three wishes, which actually crossed my mind for a moment. I did the selfless thing since I know anything I wish for myself isn't gonna end up going right. I mean let's look at my track record with those sort of things... wait let's not.
I've seen this movie. Brendan Fraser, note he is weird about how he pronounces that damn last name, ends up playing various roles and trust me the best one is when he's the Columbian Drug Lord. "Que es esto? Azucar?" Come on! It's brilliant. Okay, that and when he's singing like a dolphin. The movie is great, a classic really, plus Elizabeth Hurley is in it, and there is this one scene when she walks behind the desk in that slit to there dress, and well... thank God for DVDs and the frame by frame option.
So three wishes always come with a catch, and as learned by movies like Bedazzled, you can't just make them all willy nilly. It's a matter of thinking it through and wording it exactly the right way. Details are always key in these sort of things.
Wish No. 01 - Martin Scorsese to win an Oscar for The Departed. Look I know it's odd, and not even a wish for me, but considering how many other times he's done amazing films and not gotten noticed? It's time. The Departed was an amazing film too. Plus I figure if I make the wish for someone else, that I don't even know? Hell less likely to bite me in the ass right?
Wish No. 02 - Look I'm not blind, even though I don't have any real plan of action to help them? I see what's going on. Or at least I hear about it. Faith, Angel, Harry... those kids of theirs... Buffy and Dawn, Kennedy, Alex and her brothers and her dad... pretty much everyone that I care about? They all need those Easy Buttons. You know from the Staples commercials? They just need the chance to make things the way that they need them without all the crap of actual living getting in the way. I figure the Easy Button means that they can use it at their own discretion because I know all about how life is surviving the struggle.
Wish No. 03 - Alex just met her Dad for the first time in her life, and while I have no clue what she told him about me, except what she told me that she told him... but well I am pretty sure Alex prefers to give me a heart attack rather than tell me honestly what happened. So the mention of her telling him that I'm trying to corrupt her... well I can take that with a grain of salt. Regardless of whatever she told him, didn't tell him... I want him to understand that I care about his daughter and that I won't hurt her. I'm sure it's hard for him to even get to an understanding point with the daughter he never actually knew... but I figure if I had a wish to use and I could just use it to ease his mind I'd do it.
So that's three and I didn't wish for more wishes, or wish for someone else to get three wishes, which actually crossed my mind for a moment. I did the selfless thing since I know anything I wish for myself isn't gonna end up going right. I mean let's look at my track record with those sort of things... wait let's not.